Sling

MAY 25, 2021

Setting business goals is one of those concepts that all business owners and managers know they should work on, but very few actually do. In this article, the experts at Sling discuss some of the more common business goals and how to go about setting — and achieving — your own. Common Small Business Goals.

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Cheetah

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While large foodservice suppliers are maximizing revenue by accurately forecasting demand and supply needs, small businesses are still anxious about making a move. Many manufacturers, suppliers, and local restaurants are worried about the cost or difficulty of introducing demand planning into their business. Table of Contents.

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Small Business Supplies Food Supply Technology 78

Embrace the Suck

MAY 24, 2023

It's time to dust off your note-taking skills because we're diving into a four-step game plan to draw the crème de la crème to your restaurant, starting immediately. If your restaurant mirrors many others in your local scene, finding reliable staff is no small feat. No more despairing over an understaffed restaurant.

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Recruiting Coaching Hiring Customer Experience 336

7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

The restaurant business is one of the most competitive industries, and this shows in the fact that only 20% of restaurants succeed in the market. In this industry, one of the worst-case scenarios is running out of money. This can help you make proactive changes to ensure your business stays afloat in the long run.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 12, 2021

Mr. Foust explained the hiring challenge that is nearly universal for restaurateurs. Previously, to hire for open positions, Sweet Lou’s would post job listings on Craigslist and Indeed. The process was easy, and “setting up an actual career page is something that’s neat for small operators like myself.”

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7 Shifts

MARCH 31, 2023

“Take better care of your staff.” Some of us know that we should - but in between dealing with maintenance issues and hiring new employees, it can be hard enough to take care of yourself, let alone your staff. How can you encourage them to care about the business and invest time and energy into their role?

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Hiring Front of House Back of House Document 195

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The easiest way to get your food out there is by partnering with a third-party delivery app. While easy, this way ends up costing more in the short term, does not contribute to long-term growth, and can end up hurting your business. Native or first-party delivery doesn't rely on a separate service to take and send out orders.

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Online Ordering Ordering Customer Service Food Order 341

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There’s a reactionary movement that I keep seeing in restaurants; a movement that assumes the answer to the restaurant bottom line is to take more and give less or give too much to justify raising prices. This is compounded when a restaurant doesn’t even take bread seriously. Help them out. Do it right!

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

As you plan out your concept, location, menu, staffing, and marketing, take a read through the advice left by hundreds of restaurateurs to ensure you’re set up for success in 2020. Educate yourself If there’s one thing to know when opening a new business—especially a new restaurant—it’s that there’s no such thing as “too much research.”

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Sling

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Create a new hire checklist. New Hire Checklist. To start, give them access to your business newsfeed beforehand so they can get an idea of what goes on day-to-day in your business. To start, give them access to your business newsfeed beforehand so they can get an idea of what goes on day-to-day in your business.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 26, 2022

Hiring restaurant employees and retaining them is no longer just an issue for the HR team. As the staffing shortage continues to negatively impact profitability, you as a CFO must play a critical role in your restaurant group’s hiring and retention strategy. Addressing the hiring crunch.

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7 Shifts

JULY 8, 2023

Literally, I had been in the business for so many years, 25 plus years, and really I think the injustice of this industry is that we're kind of used and abused. You certainly didn't see a future working in the restaurant business per se, but I really wanted to change that. And you could take a person like myself at $4.13

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Hiring Back of House Take-out Training 273

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A restaurant business plan is one of the most (if not the most) essential elements in getting a new restaurant off the ground. There are a few reasons for this: A business plan is typically the first thing any lender or investor will want to look at. What is a Restaurant Business Plan? Restaurant Business Plan Sample Outline.

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Point of Sale Back of House Document Download 398

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

During the pandemic, many service workers either left or were forced out of the industry and never returned. When staff are unhappy, you lose more than just the cost of hiring and training. Guests pay for good service, and if employees have low morale or motivation, the business will suffer. You can: Write them a thank you note.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Here are six steps to take before opening any restaurant website builders. Restaurant website design: Taking a DIY approach vs. hiring a web development team Consider whether you want to build your restaurant's website or hire someone to do it for you. Do I have the budget to hire a web development team?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you have been in the restaurant industry for a decade or are just starting out, running a successful restaurant can be a stressful task. Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s an art to scaling any small business intelligently. KPIs lose relevance if unrealistic for teams execute across the business. Truly addressing annoyances guests don’t consciously convey or introducing dishes redefining what they previously considered possible take creativity and guts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2023

Small-medium sized business owners may not fully grasp how important technology is due to a lack of knowledge and experience. Digital transformation, while perhaps initially difficult for restaurant owners, specifically small to medium-sized businesses, is the only way to get ahead and survive.

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Front of House Back of House Small Business Technology 181

7 Shifts

JUNE 29, 2022

Some of the biggest restaurant businesses on the planet are franchises. Franchise compliance is one of the biggest considerations when entering into and running a franchise business, as failing to follow federal and applicable city/state laws could result in serious consequences. Tools For Supporting Franchise Compliance.

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Franchise Franchising Restaurant Law Document 370

Restaurant Engine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Hiring good staff is integral to your overall customer dining experience. With more than two and a quarter million waitstaff in the United States, competition is fierce, and hiring just the right team members can be crucial to your restaurant’s success. This is why hiring correctly and for longevity is crucial for your restaurant.

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Hiring Website Management Customer Service Customer Experience 65

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2023

Summer hiring is in full swing, and many restaurants are struggling to navigate one of their busiest seasons of the year while dealing with ongoing labor shortages and a volatile economy. Here are three strategies to set your business and team up for a successful, profitable season.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 22, 2023

From meager beginnings as a small artisan bread bakery, La Brea grew to become a national representative of the craft bread movement in America. When offered, it quickly sells out because people are always drawn to perfection. Elusive as perfection might be, so many chefs jump out of bed in the morning with their sights on the prize.

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Coaching Fine Dining Café Training 368

Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Your individual hiring decisions define your company culture over the long term, impacting both customer experience and employee retention. Short-term restaurant hiring challenges, like filling open roles because you’re understaffed, may seem like the most urgent day-to-day priority. The hospitality industry is in constant hiring mode.

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7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2024

Bookkeeping is one of the most essential aspects of any restaurant business. After all, a small, honest mistake can accumulate over time and turn into bigger operational problems— 17% of restaurants even fail in their first year due to mismanagement of finances. If that isn’t possible, then go for alternatives.

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Cash Management Inventory Employee Relations Beverage 222

Culinary Cues

MAY 17, 2023

We have become somewhat immune to what greatness is and what it takes to reach it. How do you jump out of bed in the morning and push yourself to be extraordinary, when extraordinary is pretty ordinary? You can pick this type of person or business out in a crowd – they stand out, they shine, and have magnetism.

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Small Business Café Take-out Definition 430

Clover - Restaurants

MAY 14, 2024

Determine the concept of your restaurant There are over 68,000 restaurants in California, so it’s incredibly important to determine a unique concept that could help you stand out. Thriving businesses usually have a strong mission statement–short and compact statements that focus on the heart, values, and main goal of your business.

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SpotOn

APRIL 22, 2024

The calendar year begins on the date of hire and runs 1 calendar year from that point. For example, if an employee is hired on July 1, 2023, the calendar year will end on July 1, 2024. The employer may take credit for the tipped employees' tips as long as the amount doesn't exceed 40% of the wages.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It seems that every time I check my email or flip through postings in social media – there is another restaurant, food business, or culinary school preparing to close their doors. It is heartbreaking to read of life visions dashed and even long-standing, viable businesses choosing to throw in the towel. Neither can exist in a vacuum.

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Social Media Education Email Marketing Healthcare 497

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I know how much time, energy, money, and heart goes into that first day when a proud operator and/or chef looks up at the front door sign that proclaims they are open for business. Donnie Madia and Chef Paul Kanan did an extraordinary job of bringing a relatively small restaurant into the Chicago limelight.

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Fine Dining Employee Relations Front of House Small Business 433

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2023

In the hospitality industry, the last thing you want is a phone call from the alarm company at an early morning hour about a fire, break-in or other disaster at your business. Taking proactive measures and having plans in place will allow your business to react quickly to help minimize the impact of an emergency.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Consider this – the menu is the most important component of a successful restaurant and once designed it can, and should, impact every other aspect of the business. Far too many times the menu takes a back seat to all other planning that will lead to serious miscalculations along the way. It is their business after all – right?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 20, 2022

million open jobs, with organizations challenged to hire amidst unprecedented competition for talent. Employees value knowing where they can improve, and how their contributions are helping the business. Consider investing in online courses, mentoring, or letting employees take on new responsibilities. Small Gifts of Gratitude.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 18, 2021

With a never-ending list of things to be done and decisions to be made, one of the greatest challenges we all face as business owners is knowing which of the many things on our plate we should prioritize in order to move our business forward and achieve our goals faster. Here’s the thing. The statistics aren’t pretty.

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Leadership Small Business Coaching Training 355

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

” Society Insurance has been working alongside business owners for more than a century, seeing first-hand the devastating effects a fire can have on the establishments that make communities great. Bar owners can mitigate these risks by hiring qualified professionals for installation, maintenance, and cleaning service.

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Bar Kitchen Safety Equipment Insurance 189

Embrace the Suck

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

All business problems are either people problems or math problems. It’s only good for the consumer, not the business. if you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business. If you don’t know who you are and what you stand for then why are you in business? Bad hiring is a disease.

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Coaching Email Marketing Communication Workshop 338

Get Beyond

JANUARY 4, 2024

For others, especially small business owners, the new year can be exhausting. Emerging from a busy shopping season, many of us are just finally coming up for air after the end of a busy year. But that doesn’t mean you can’t start implementing strategies for small business success in 2024 and beyond.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Whether they’re checking out your Google reviews, scrolling through Instagram, or browsing your site, high-quality restaurant food photography is essential to how diners experience your business online. Great images can also make your social feeds online listings, and marketing stand out among the crowd.

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Food Management Management White Paper 370