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Winterizing Your Restaurant: Navigating Challenges and Ensuring Sustainability

The Rail

Obtain adequate insurance coverage : Forecasting can typically warn business owners when a major event is on the way; however, even the staunchest storm preppers can’t protect from every possible type of damage. You can and should be proactive with your sustainability efforts, especially public-facing ones.

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Why are some coffee roasters switching to electric machines?

Perfect Daily Grind

However, with demand for sustainable coffee continuing to increase, as well as soaring shipping and energy costs , roasters are looking for new ways to appeal to consumers and reduce their spending. One example is the ever-growing demand for more sustainable coffee. One of these includes investing in electric roasters.

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Rebuild Your Restaurants In The Post-COVID Scenario With Small Loans

The Restaurant Times

Foodservice operators have also sought easy availability of working capital without major collaterals at low-interest rates, quick settlement of insurance claims against business loss, concessions on utility payments, and a direct tax holiday for one year. “Businesses have already defaulted, and operators cannot pay further salaries.

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How to attract and retain Gen Z talent in the restaurant industry

OpenTable

Though certain things—payment, benefits, company culture—are vital to people of all generations, there are some special considerations when it comes to Gen Z. Many in this generation are still currently supported by their parents or guardians’ insurance plans. Play up social awareness and responsibility.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

With products now cleared for consumer sale in both the United States and Singapore, the cultivated meat industry is moving from proof of concept and early-stage R&D to a focus on demonstrating scalability, sustainable unit economics, and consumer and customer demand. How was the food sourced or produced?

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Challenges of Implementing Entertainment Options in Bars

The Rail

This can be achieved by hiring DJs or live bands that specialize in various music styles -- such as jazz, rock, or country -- to appeal to a certain set of your patrons on given nights. And that works great if you’re a country bar in an area with enough country music fans to sustain the business.

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3 Eater Editors on Their Predictions for the Future of Restaurants

EATER

That is what economics is — they specialize in making good food and we’re hooked on good food now. These are all things that, hopefully moving forward, the restaurant industry will build back up because there will be demand, and it will build back up in a way that feels more sustainable for the people who are still in it.