Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2023

Do you understand the seasonality of ingredients and how to adjust for less than stellar quality or substitute ingredients that will bring you close to the same result in a recipe? The chef must be able to speak the language, build the palate, and understand how this relationship works.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

So, I began to think about patterns and habits of this type and how my exercise goal might serve as a model for restaurants seeking to find a formula for success. How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? How much time and effort are placed on this?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Once you buy it, you still have to budget for ongoing maintenance and repair expenses that will come up as long as you drive the car. If you buy a machine that needs a bin, that bin will likely be sold separately. Now, do the math: if you stay in business 20 years, you can expect to buy an ice machine two or three times.

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Equipment Customer Service Small Business Point of Sale 189

7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

There are advantages and disadvantages to using each method: Pros Cons Service Charge Guaranteed percentage for every cover More control over how money is used for staff (e.g., If you’d prefer not to pay the service charge, let us know and we’ll remove it.” The assumption is that the tips they earn will bring them to the full minimum wage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

Make Sustainability The Mission (Literally) – Ganzler inspires companies to think through how their overarching goals are supporting or hampering sustainability efforts. I wrote You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime to show people how to make meaningful environmental or social change and get market credit for doing so.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 18, 2021

Starting a relationship, a decision to marry, buying a house or an expensive car, opening a business, and enrolling in college are all decisions that would be considered “monumental”. How we go about making those decisions is the real question. How we go about making those decisions is the real question.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

There are advantages and disadvantages to using each method: Pros Cons Service Charge Guaranteed percentage for every cover More control over how money is used for staff (e.g., If you’d prefer not to pay the service charge, let us know and we’ll remove it.” The assumption is that the tips they earn will bring them to the full minimum wage.

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FOH Front of House Customer Service Back of House 195

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s become much more common to see bad actors setting up “businesses” on social media platforms offering these discounted services, with the excuse that they pay less when they buy in bulk or that they can’t use the account themselves anymore. Why is fast food fraud on the rise?

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Food Loyalty Program Consumer Goods Customer Experience 203

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2024

Survey Question: How often do you dine at the following establishments? In fact, the market for non-alcoholic alternatives has seen consistent double-digit growth over the last five years and exceeded half a billion dollars in 2023, according to NielsenIQ. In Causeway Solutions’ April 2024 survey, we asked more than 800 U.S.

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Menu Fast Casual Beverage Social Media 88

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Suzi Tripp, VP of Insights at digital transformation firm Brooks Bell how restaurants loyalty programs are evolving and the importance of having a head of loyalty who understands why people buy, how they buy and how often they buy. Suzi Tripp.

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Loyalty Program Customer Experience Social Media Online Ordering 217

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2024

"This report dissects how different types of media engagement can deeply impact the effective reach of your advertising. While 91 percent of people use social media, the report finds that, among QSR brand consumers, nearly four in ten social users actually spend more time playing mobile games than they do on social media.

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Social Media Mobile Ordering Advertising Website Management 167

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 5, 2023

Google was still young, but they had a new advertising platform that used an old-fashioned but attractive buying strategy: The auction. It's kind of like buying group tickets to a concert or football game, but with every next ticket you buy, they raise the price because they know you'll pay – and the supply of tickets decreases.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

JeffBet analyzed 75 popular Super Bowl party foods, using more than 4,000 search combinations, such as ‘how to make ’ and ‘ recipe’ in order to find which gameday snacks are being searched for the most. 56 percent of diners said overall quality and taste matter most when choosing a restaurant to order pizza from.

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2024 Loyalty Program Food Order 2030 196

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 17, 2023

However, thanks to the growing prevalence of technology and online platforms in the coffee industry, it is now easier and more streamlined than ever to buy green coffee. To learn more about how green coffee trading has changed over the decades, I spoke with three people at Covoya Specialty Coffee.

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Technology Transportation Online Ordering Small Business 114

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There are many details to keep track of during the process of buying or selling a restaurant. Beyond the brick and mortar, there are many digital assets to manage during the transition phase. Part of what you’re paying for when purchasing a restaurant is the brand reputation and web history.

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Social Media SEO Online Ordering Website Management 181

Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 21, 2023

There are many actors involved in the coffee supply chain. From producers to traders to roasters to baristas, every industry professional adds value to the coffee sector. However, there are also a number of intermediaries in the coffee supply chain, including those who mill, transport, and export coffee in producing countries.

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Pricing Supplies Sustainability Communication 176

Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 31, 2023

These are legal agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a predetermined price on a set date. To better understand how fluctuations in the FX market influence the price of coffee, I spoke to an FX trader, a producer in Brazil, and a UK roaster. Read on for more of their insight. What is the foreign exchange market?

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Pricing Influencer Workshop 2022 172

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s fair to say that many specialty coffee brands base their marketing strategies around the idea that coffee consumers want to be more connected to farmers. These branding techniques largely revolve around disseminating more information about where coffee comes from , including the farmers who grow it. But why is this? But why is this?

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Consumer Goods Sustainability Email Marketing Café 144

Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 1, 2023

Customers who trust a company are far more likely to continue buying its products and recommend the brand to other people. In PwC’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series Survey on Trust , the accounting firm found that a staggering 91% of US consumers would continue to buy products or use services from a company that gained their trust.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Consumer Goods 2022 140

Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 20, 2023

Read on to learn about how ecommerce has become more prominent across the sector. You may also like our article on how digital marketing has evolved in the coffee industry. Ecommerce can be broadly defined as the buying and selling of goods over the internet. Between 2014 and 2021, global ecommerce sales grew by over 269%.

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Point of Sale Consumer Goods Online Ordering Customer Service 141

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 28, 2022

What actually makes a micro roaster different from medium and larger-sized roasters, and how do they operate? How small is a micro roaster? Naturally, the smaller size of a micro roaster raises questions about how they are different to home roasters. But what’s the clear definition? What about nano roasters?

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Definition Small Business Consumer Goods Equipment 173

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2024

With Wings being king—how can restaurants stand out from the competition and have a craveworthy product? In a few weeks, bars and restaurants will be filled with hungry and thirsty football fans celebrating their favorite team. Now is the time to get your plays in order to be a winner this Super Bowl Sunday.

Food Supply 208

Food Supply Point of Sale Back of House Inventory 208

EATER

MAY 6, 2024

Ask Google or Reddit how long one of these kitchen tools last, and you’ll probably be told somewhere between one and five years. Ask Google or Reddit how long one of these kitchen tools last, and you’ll probably be told somewhere between one and five years. How long do Microplanes last? “We How are Microplanes made? “A

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Recycling Food Truck Point of Sale Advertising 72

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 8, 2022

So how can a restaurant drive revenue without time-intensive and costly marketing initiatives? But how do you change customer behavior to guide the person from merely buying weekly drinks during Thursday happy hour to purchasing a meal? According to Cisco, 96 percent of customers prefer a business that offers free WiFi.

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Loyalty Program Social Media Email Marketing Point of Sale 187

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2024

How Restaurants Can Use Marketing to Drive Growth As restaurant work to drive growth through marketing, there are several steps that they should follow. This can be especially true going into the holidays. Small business owners should consider exploring options with their bank as well as these non-bank lenders.

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Employee Relations Small Business Advertising Customer Experience 193

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2022

At first glance, factors influencing where to grab a quick bite to eat may seem different from those behind buying a new pair of shoes. At first glance, factors influencing where to grab a quick bite to eat may seem different from those behind buying a new pair of shoes. Where to Go for What? Now, it’s the same with QSRs.

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Retail Customer Experience Online Ordering Point of Sale 189

A Wine Story

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

How Insights from Microsoft Can Help Your Winery Thrive – Wine Business Trends for 2020. How Insights from Microsoft Can Help Your Winery Thrive Click to Tweet. Buying Wine Online. Most of us are familiar with how Amazon quickly learns our preferences in literature and clothing. Machine Learning? Click to Tweet.

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Webinar Website Management Online Ordering Customer Experience 204

Lady Boss Blogger

MARCH 17, 2023

While buy now pay later offers the convenience of deferred payments for purchases, it also poses significant risks if used irresponsibly. In this article, you will explore the consequences of irresponsible BNPL usage and how to avoid them. The dark side of BNPL is a topic that has gained increasing attention in recent years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2024

As traffic slows, how do restaurant operators keep and capture customers? By Spend When analyzing the difference among buying habits, frequent QSR users (ordering from a quick-service restaurant at least 5x per week) ranked customization as a critical feature of an app while also valuing group orders and nutritional insights.

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Dine-in Loyalty Program 2024 2023 197

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

This tremendously enhances food traceability by capturing all the details about a product’s journey – where it has been, where it’s going, how long it has been in its current location, and other relevant facts that can be highly valuable, even vital. Since then, the practice has become ubiquitous.

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Information Allergens Food Supply Food 221

Lady Boss Blogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Buying a house is one of the biggest decisions of your life. The process takes weeks or months and involves lots of paperwork, inspections, and […] The post How To Speed Up The Process Of Buying A House appeared first on Lady Boss Blogger. It can be an incredibly exciting time, but it can also be very stressful.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2022

As I sat down to write this article, all I could think about was how the foodservice industry is so vital to our daily lives. As a Content Marketing Professional and restaurant advocate, I always think about how my work is hopefully making it to even one of those restaurant owners. Am I writing about the right solutions?

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Technology Information Inventory Take-out 215

Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To understand more about coffee consumption in Lebanon, and how it might evolve in the coming years, I spoke to two local roasters. To understand more about coffee consumption in Lebanon, and how it might evolve in the coming years, I spoke to two local roasters. Read on for more of their insight. A brief history of coffee in Lebanon.

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Front of House Café Back of House Beverage 166

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment.

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2024 Customer Experience Compost Loyalty Program 189

EATER

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

His is an approach that would also make any Thanksgiving dinner party seem that much fancier, so we spoke to Soares about how the amateur host can take a page from the Alimentari Flaneur playbook. Eater: How did you carve out your own niche in the food industry? Soares is part of a family of food industry pros. I just loved the ritual.

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