February, 2021

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How Restaurants Evolve in the War for Talent in 2021 and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

As we continue to move past the fallout from the pandemic there will be a growing reliance on technology within every aspect of the operation and companies can be ready to take advantage, but they must start now or be left behind. Outside of adapting new technologies to tackle ordering and delivery, one area that is evolving and showing great promise is in the war for talent.

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s to take your grandmothers’ recipes to the masses. Maybe you want to share your love of tacos with the world. A place to call your own, perhaps? The dream of opening a restaurant is held by many, and it hasn’t been sullied by the pandemic. Despite the unfortunate closures, new restaurants are opening every day, and at rates close to what they were prior to March of 2020.

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Is a Chicken Sandwich Taco Still a Chicken Sandwich?

EATER

Photo: Taco Bell. Taco Bell says yes Taco Bell is wading into the chain competitive cash grab known as the “chicken sandwich wars” with its own take on the item: a chicken sandwich taco. Made up of crispy chicken and chipotle sauce cradled in a folded flatbread, the so-called “taco” will be tested at select locations in Nashville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina, starting March 11.

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Breaking Up With The Restaurant Industry Is Hard To Do

The Restaurant Manifesto

What happens when a career path in hospitality reaches a dead end? The post Breaking Up With The Restaurant Industry Is Hard To Do appeared first on The Restaurant Manifesto.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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7 Creative Ways to Use Videos to Promote Your Restaurant

Restaurant Engine

Video is king this year, and you’ll reap its benefits. Video marketing is here to stay. In fact, video marketing is key to your restaurant’s success this year. What’s more, according to one study , 54% of consumers want to see more video content from a brand or business they support. And this holds true for your restaurant. Today’s digital arena is focused on interesting, catchy, and unique videos that draw customers in.

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AI, COVID and the Acceleration of Digital Transformation for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

According to The Enterprises Project , digital transformation can be defined as the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. It’s also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo, experiment, and get comfortable with failure.

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7shifts Audio Series 001: Preston Junger on opportunity for restaurants and the evolution of restaurant technology

7 Shifts

For restaurants, 2020 was a year full of challenges. In 2021, we are looking ahead with an eye towards growth, and evolution. We sat down with 7shifts' very own Preston Junger to chat about opportunities for restaurants and how restaurant technology is evolving for the inaugural episode of our interview podcast. Here are just some of the highlights from the full episode, available on Spotify , Google Podcasts , YouTube , and wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment

EATER

Not all children of immigrants grew up embarrassed about their food, but pop culture convinced them they should be “Booger-gi” is what the kids call Justin’s bulgogi in The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, a picture book published in 2013. Justin is new, and when the other kids make fun of his food and his chopsticks, Brian, a shy, lonely white boy who longs to be included by his classmates, decides to leave him a note, telling him he isn’t like those kids; he’d love to try bulgogi.

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How Restaurant Managers Can Create a Kid-Friendly Restaurant

LimeTray

Families have started to eat out more. Eating out still remains a top choice for families on holidays / weekends. This trend has important ramifications on restaurant owners and managers. Whether you operate a traditional fast food restaurant, fast casual restaurant, or sit-down restaurant, you need to be aware of the changing demographics of diners.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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8 Hiring Resources to Help You Find Great Waitstaff

Restaurant Engine

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. As the people your diners spend the most time with, your waitstaff is pivotal to the overall customer experience.

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What Does The Future Hold For The Restaurant Industry? Here Are The Top 6 Technology Trends To Watch

The Restaurant Times

The novel COVID-19 virus has transformed the restaurant industry like never before. Technology and automation, once considered an additional expense, has now become a necessity in the F&B industry. Technology and automation have helped restaurants transform in the way how they operate and thrive in the new connected and contactless era. Given the potential for increased revenue, restaurants today can no longer afford to miss the latest restaurant technology trends that are helping businesses

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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

Modern Restaurant Management

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion in revenue from April through September of 2020—compared with $2.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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Surprising Ways that Tech Can Help Evolve Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity for building a modern and future-proof restaurant. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Welcome to Flavortown, Population: Us

EATER

Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images. Guy Fieri partners with Robert Earl, king of themed restaurants, on Flavortown ghost restaurants throughout the country Guy Fieri is the latest chef banking on ghost kitchens to expand his brand in the middle of the pandemic. Fieri, perhaps best known as the host of cross-country eating bonanza Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives , has launched Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen in 23 states and Washington, D.C., a delivery-only restaurant operating out of existing restaur

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Restaurant POS Systems in the New Normal

LimeTray

Covid has brought out the unprecedented times in front of us. Every industry around the world has been affected due to it, restaurants a bit more. The restaurant industry has tried to cope with their operations, financials, changing consumer behavior, and value offerings in real-time to survive the situation. The significant facilitator for this transition is technology.

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Hotel Marketing Strategies: 10 Solid Steps to Success

Software Suggest

“Marketing is not about the stuff you make; it’s about the stories you tell”- Seth Godin. Some names now seem as old as time itself in the world of hoteliers, like the Hiltons, the Marriotts, the Hyatts, etc. But never have we wondered how and why they are so known across the globe. However, if […].

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5 Proven Strategies To Enhance Customer Loyalty Through Online Ordering System

The Restaurant Times

Online ordering has flourished with time and completely transformed the way restaurants deliver food. Customers are now seeking convenience and expecting timely and hygienic doorstep delivery options. Providing online food ordering is also considered a proven restaurant marketing strategy that tends to increase its revenue, sales, and profit margin.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Digital Marketing Tips to Attract More Valentine’s Day Diners

Modern Restaurant Management

The National Retail Federation estimates that 41 percent of consumers will celebrate Valentine’s day with a special dinner or celebration at home. Valentine’s Day is often a busy time for restaurants, but many are now dealing with various challenges amid the pandemic, like no indoor dining or limited capacity as well as more customers opting for carry out.

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How Beechwood Doughnuts Streamlined Their Operations to Make 10,000+ Doughnuts A Week

7 Shifts

Beechwood Doughnuts is a popular doughnut bakery in St Catharines, Ontario, which has been serving delectable doughnuts—from nanaimo to pumpkin cheesecake —to thousands of customers for six years. From paper schedules and lineups around the block, to 7shifts and delivery-only doughnuts, it’s safe to say that Beechwood has evolved a lot in recent years—mostly thanks to COVID.

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Mutual Aid Collectives Provide an Essential Lifeline for Dallas’s Unhoused Population During the Winter Storm

EATER

As governments fail Dallas’s unhoused population, a collective of organizers across the city worked around the clock to feed the residents of Camp Rhonda, an encampment for unhoused people that’s been under threat of shutdown [link].

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Products That Can Save The Environment

Omland Hospitality

Ever since the world was exposed to various environmental issues, biodegradable and eco-friendly products in general have been on the rise. It is important to understand the value of our planet and although Earth meets all the environmental conditions to survive, us humans have been killing it at an alarming rate. Unfortunately the lifestyle nobody wants to give up comes at the cost of hurting the Earth, which is why it becomes the responsibility for big industries to make a collective move.

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Business Automation in Hospitality: A New World

Dive into the transformative potential of business automation within the hospitality sector. This comprehensive overview showcases how innovative technologies can streamline operations, reduce costs, and elevate guest satisfaction. Discover the advantages of integrating systems like automated check-ins, CRM, and energy management to not only save on expenses but also to provide a seamless and personalized guest experience.

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HotelREZ partners with iWTX/Illusions

HotelREZ

HotelREZ partners with iWTX/Illusions. Drives Tour Operator and DMC revenues to HotelREZ members. HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s largest, quality driven representation and distribution companies and global partner of the technology company Sabre , has partnered with iWTX/Illusions to streamline distribution to tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs) using automation on a centralized platform.

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How Much Does It Cost To Open a Restaurant in the UK

The Restaurant Times

The restaurant industry is a lucrative one no matter where you are in the world, but it is booming particularly well in the UK. However, while it may seem that anyone can open a restaurant there and be successful overnight, the truth is a bit harsher. For one thing, the UK has countless large food brands that compete with one another and a new one is being opened almost every day as well.

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Why Restaurants Need a Sexual Harassment Policy

Modern Restaurant Management

More sexual harassment claims are filed in the restaurant industry than any other, with as many as 90 percent of women and 70 percent of men having experienced sexual harassment in the industry. On top of that, the #MeToo movement has brought sexual harassment to the forefront of many conversations about workers’ rights. As a result, more and more states are passing laws requiring businesses to have sexual harassment policies.

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How to Set Up Online Ordering for Restaurants

7 Shifts

If you weren’t thinking that much about online ordering before, you definitely are now. The habits of diners have changed, and our approach to off-premise along with it. 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.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.