Goliath Consulting

MAY 13, 2025

How to Choose the Right Partnerships to Grow Your Brand and Fill Seats. Collaborations can be powerful, but only when theyre aligned with your brand, values, and audience. The right partnership can help you boost sales, grow brand awareness, introduce new products, or even break into a new market, as discussed in TouchBistro. Collaboration is a crucial tool for restaurants looking to expand their impact without losing authenticity.

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The Rail

MAY 12, 2025

By Angela Marshall, Contributor Reopening a restaurant in a new location can be both exciting and overwhelming. Whether upgrading to a bigger space, aiming for a better neighborhood, or rebranding your culinary identity, the process requires more than just packing boxes and creating a new sign. Reopening in a new location is a major milestone that demands strategic planning, emotional investment, and a deep understanding of what makes restaurants thrive.

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Black Box Intelligence

MAY 12, 2025

The Best Practice Awards 2025 Celebrating the Best Restaurant Brands in the Industry Every year, the coveted BBI Best Practices Awards (BPAs) celebrate the best performers in the restaurant industry. With a history of more than 20 years recognizing the greatest brands, they have become a coveted prize and are routinely mentioned in earnings calls and board calls, and have become a cause for significant internal celebration.

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Chowly

MAY 13, 2025

Key Trends How Independent Restaurant Operators Are Winning in 2025 Top tech trends from the 2025 Restaurant Technology Outlook Reportand how to take action If youre an independent restaurant operator, the question isnt if you should upgrade your technologyits how fast. The 2025 Restaurant Technology Outlook Report makes one thing clear: the restaurants growing fastest are using streamlined, all-in-one done-for-you platforms to cut complexity, drive revenue, and reclaim their time.

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Advertiser: Paycor

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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TastyIgniter

MAY 10, 2025

Discover essential strategies for maintaining safe street food operations through proper hygiene, temperature control, and contamination prevention. Learn how these practices protect customer health while helping you build a reputable, sustainable street food business that exceeds regulatory standards.

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The Eat Restaurant

MAY 15, 2025

Did you know that 60% of restaurants fail within their first year and 80% close within five years? Pretty sobering, right? While exceptional food and service are crucial, We've found that effective restaurant management plays an even bigger role in long-term success.

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Crunchtime

MAY 13, 2025

Welcome back to our series on driving restaurant profitability through smarter operations. In previous posts, we covered the importance of shifting focus to back-of-house (BOH) operations , controlling labor costs, and optimizing operations execution. Now, we turn our focus to one of the most impactfuland often mismanagedareas of a restaurants finances: inventory and food costs.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

Tech Check: Sales rumors, acquisitions and a nine-digit fundraise dominated the headlines, allowing some other developments to fly under the radar.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2025

For generations excellent meant complicated, intense, all-consuming, and sacrifice. Kitchens of great renown are staffed with dozens of talented young cooks, some even there as a stagiere working just to learn and build their resumes. Meticulously clean kitchens; pristine, starched chef whites; the very best equipment and ingredients from around the world.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

MAY 11, 2025

In a recently featured episode of the Restaurant Technology Guys podcast, Jeremy Julian sat down with Angelo Esposito, the innovative mind behind Whisk AI, to delve into the conception and evolution of Whisk, a game-changing solution for restaurant inventory management.

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Advertiser: Paycor

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Crunchtime

MAY 12, 2025

When you're running over 180 dining locations across theme parks, dinner shows, and aquariumseach with their own unique menus, vendors, and seasonal demandskeeping tabs on inventory and food costs can feel like a roller coaster ride. That was the reality for Herschend Family Entertainment, the worlds largest family-owned themed attraction company and home to Dollywood, until they teamed up with Crunchtime.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 13, 2025

Grupo Attie-Multifood Enterprises has agreed to open 12 of the fast-casual chain's units in Panama, with the first scheduled to open next year.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2025

As in the case with many professions, there is a process, sometimes built around tradition and often, proven effective over time. This process is methodically built on results and, as such, is acknowledged by those professions as being effective. The process is used in professional sports, in the military, in law enforcement, public speaking, writing, painting, carpentry, and dozens of others.

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SpotOn

MAY 12, 2025

San Francisco, CA – May 12, 2025 — Following the announcement of its Knowledge + Community = Profit campaign, SpotOn is unveiling its significant AI advancements, reinforcing its commitment to building intelligent, integrated solutions that improve margins, save time, and simplify decision-making. SpotOn’s AI vision is guided by empathy and real-world practicality.

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 12, 2025

In todays hospitality landscape, restaurant and resort operators face a unique challenge: balancing centralized control with the need for location-level flexibility. Thats where Squirrel Cloud Enterprise steps ina modern, cloud-based POS platform purpose-built for multi-location brands. Why Squirrel Cloud Enterprise? Squirrel Cloud Enterprise is designed from the ground up for restaurants and resorts that demand reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 14, 2025

Burrito-and-bowl chains Chipotle and Qdoba have long led the fast-casual category. Here are the rising taco-focused brands that saw growth last year.

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Margin Edge

MAY 15, 2025

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month we're supporting AAPI-owned and operated restaurants in our community with a handy-dandy gift guide!

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Sante

MAY 15, 2025

by Paul Sorgule The post Cook on the Run appeared first on Sant.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 12, 2025

In todays hospitality landscape, restaurant operators face a unique challenge: balancing the capability of their POS and centralized control with the need for location-level flexibility. Thats where Squirrel Cloud Enterprise steps ina modern, cloud-based POS platform purpose-built for multi-location brands. Why Squirrel Cloud Enterprise? Squirrel Cloud Enterprise is designed from the ground up for restaurants and resorts that demand reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 14, 2025

The fast-food chicken chain believes better-run restaurants are key to improving sales. So the chain has acquired more locations to show franchisees the way its done.

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The Salt

MAY 13, 2025

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

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The Eat Restaurant

MAY 13, 2025

In 2025, the best restaurant loyalty programs do more than just offer points or discounts. Successful restaurants use customer data to create loyalty programs that feel personal, timely, and memorable, helping guests come back again and again.

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Advertiser: Paycor

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

Chef's Resources

MAY 13, 2025

Alaska Plaice Flavor Profile Alaska Plaice Flavor Scale Flavor Oil Texture Alaska Plaice is one of about a dozen types of flatfish caught by commercial fisheries on the US West Coast, many of which are often marketed as “Sole” but. they are actually a flounder. The Alaska Plaice flavor profile has a mild, sweet […] The post Alaska Plaice Fish appeared first on Chefs Resources.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 15, 2025

The fast-casual chain is one of the last to report first-quarter results on Thursday. This traffic-tracking research firm says visits were up 20%.

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The Salt

MAY 12, 2025

When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta.

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Margin Edge

MAY 15, 2025

Master food cost tracking in your brewery with these essential tips. Learn how to save money, boost efficiency, and drive profits through smart tools and strategies.

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Advertiser: Paycor

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

Restaurant Business

MAY 15, 2025

Boerema replaces Joe Hummel as chief of casual-dining company Twin Hospitality Group, which went public earlier this year.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

With same-store sales weak so far this year amid a difficult economy, operators are boosting marketing, adding new menu items and turning back to what worked. Theyre also discounting more.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

The fast-food giant and its franchisees vow to hire 375,000 people this summer, which would be the most in years. It also plans to open 900 U.S. restaurants by 2027.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 14, 2025

The fast-food chain recently opened a 40,000-square-foot testing facility in Miami as part of an effort to improve operations and test new technology.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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