October, 2020

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How AR Menus Promote Craveability

Modern Restaurant Management

The food and restaurant industry has been steadily moving toward greater visualization of menus options. Plain text evolved into beautiful food photography and video boards. The next phase in the advancement of food imagery will be in the application of 3D and Augmented Reality (AR) menus. AR technology enables the customer to use their own smartphone to display immersive 3D models onto a surface in front of them.

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10 Simple & Effective Social Media Ideas for Restaurants

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Four Loko to Launch the Quibi of Getting Absolutely Shitfaced

EATER

Photo: Four Loko. Plus, Burger King’s questionable Halloween stunt, and other news to start the day Four Loko releases new flavored shots because nothing matters. After a brief foray into the intersection of wellness and apocalypse with the release of a Four Loko hard seltzer last fall , the brand whose boozy energy drinks were once known as “ blackout in a can ” has returned to its dirtbag roots with a new line of flavored, bottled shots.

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Local Marketing Strategies to Increase Diners

Restaurant Engine

Tap your local area with creative strategies to increase revenue. You’ve spent time, money, and a lot of effort to get your restaurant off the ground. Every day you go to work hoping and expecting to see more actual diners inside your restaurant excited to sample your menu. But even though you have great food and superb services, the people just aren’t there.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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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7 Must-Have POS Features to Boost Bakery Sales

The Restaurant Times

Even with the perfect ambiance and tasty delights, your bakery business may not flourish until you have invested in a robust bakery management system. Choosing the right bakery POS system is essential for your business to deliver the perfect customer experience. By implementing a robust bakery management software, you can optimize and automate the entire bakery operations and increase the shelf life of your baked delights without having to compromise on the quality.

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6 Stage Design Tips for Livestreamed Events

BizBash

Production pros discuss what color schemes work best on camera, tips for spacing presenters apart in a natural way, why proper lighting is crucial, and much more.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

7 Shifts

Diners are turning to online ordering in increasing numbers because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on on-premise dining. According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. This rise in digital interactions has made it critical for restaurants to have well-designed websites.

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When It Comes to Indoor Dining, Restaurant Workers Face the Greatest Risk

EATER

It all has to do with ventilation, aerosols, and the fact that restaurant workers are stuck in the same air for hours while working indoors Outdoor restaurant dining is perhaps the closest we’ve come to a return to normalcy since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Sidewalk and patio setups offer a familiar service while, if approached responsibly, mitigate risk.

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Off The Menu – Is Your Online Menu Turning Away Customers?

Restaurant Den

During 2020, the internet has, without a doubt, been the savior of the restaurant industry due to the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the government slammed the doors shut on dine-in customers, a huge number of restaurateurs turned to food delivery in order to keep their businesses afloat. Thankfully, this has been made easier […]. The post Off The Menu – Is Your Online Menu Turning Away Customers?

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7 Challenges Faced by Food Delivery Services and How to Address Them

The Restaurant Times

With consumers shifting away from the dining-out trend towards home delivery services, technological growth has paced up in the sector. Food delivery services are currently leading the online marketplace. According to statistics, the online food ordering marketplace’s total revenue is expected to grow at 8.8% until 2024. Food delivery businesses are continuously acquiring a substantial number of new customers each day.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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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10 Benefits of Having a Great Food Truck Website

Restaurant Engine

Highlight and advertise your food truck with your website hub. Whether you’re just starting your food truck, or you’ve been around awhile a website is a pivotal piece in your marketing arsenal. It’s the central hub for all your food truck marketing, and not only does your food truck website need to be mobile friendly, it also must be user friendly and provide all the necessary information.

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Delivery Dominance Starts with a Few Simple Questions

Modern Restaurant Management

As consumers expect more convenient ways to get their favorite meals – even more so than ever before amidst the pandemic – adding delivery has enabled restaurants to meet those demands and grow digital sales. In fact, delivery has become mission critical. According to William Blair , delivery is projected to have a 25 percent CAGR over four years, growing from about $25 billion in 2018 to $62 billion in 2022.

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Publish Your Website with These Best Restaurant Website Builders

7 Shifts

Did you know that three in four customers will visit a restaurant's website before dining at that restaurant? In an era when enabling online ordering is essential to running a restaurant, having an online presence for your restaurant is critical. However, relying on your restaurant's Facebook page or Instagram just won't cut it. These social networks don't have the capabilities your restaurant needs to become an online business.

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Chicago Backslides, Re-Bans Indoor Dining

EATER

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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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Fall Tabletop Inspiration: See This Harvest-Inspired Micro-Event for Jewish Holiday Sukkot

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Boston-based TYGER | Event Design + Production created a modern take on the traditional holiday—while also offering design inspiration for small events of all types.

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6 Common Social Media Mistakes Restaurants Make and How to Avoid Them

The Restaurant Times

An active social media presence is a must for all restaurants. It not only provides potential customers an inside look into your restaurant but also helps in building relationships and creating top-of-the-mind recall value. According to an intricated report on the Restaurant Industry & Market Evolution, restaurant operators said that they received 43 percent of online orders via direct channels out of which 22% chose social media channels like Facebook, Instagram for direct ordering.

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New spaces, more voices: OpenTable’s new restaurant content hubs

OpenTable

OpenTable launched the Open for Business blog in 2015, with the goal of sharing best practices among hospitality professionals and tips for success in a notoriously challenging business. Since then, this platform has given space to interviews with leading chefs, how-tos from the kitchen to the dining floor, and insightful data from OpenTable’s unparalleled network of diners. .

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features hot fall flavor trends, pandemic dining habits, National Coffee Day winners and what Gen Z audience wants. What Customers Want. People are dning out, according to a study by The Manifest, a B2B research firm. The contradiction between people’s claimed fear about in-restaurant dining and actions is a likely result of access to outside dining options during the summer months.

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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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4 Tools to Better Communicate at Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Efficient communication between managers and employees is key to restaurant success, especially during the unprecedented times of 2020. Many restaurant owners understand that proper internal communication leads to increasing employee productivity and trust. By improving communication efficiencies, you can create better connections between your employees, regardless of their role.

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I Own a Coffee Shop in a Small Town. We’re the Only Business That Requires Masks.

EATER

Akerri /Shutterstock. People didn’t believe COVID would affect our remote community in South Dakota, but my cafe can’t take that chance This is Eater Voices , where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. I was raised in Philip, South Dakota, a small rural community located 80 miles from the nearest big-box shopping center.

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Radisson Hotel Group opens new 206-room hotel in India

Hotel Management Network

Radisson Hotel Group has announced the opening of the new 206-room hotel in Mumbai, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The post Radisson Hotel Group opens new 206-room hotel in India appeared first on Hotel Management Network.

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How Saudi Restaurants Can Drive Higher Efficiency and Customer Delight with Smart Restaurant Billing Software

The Restaurant Times

Billing is considered to be one of the most crucial parts of the restaurant business. Presenting the wrong bills to customers or miscalculated amounts on the bills can not only damage your restaurant’s reputation but also prove disastrous for your revenues. Hence, one must take the utmost care to guard against billing errors at restaurants. This also explains why an efficient restaurant billing software is necessary for a successful restaurant management strategy.

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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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Restaurant Ad Campaigns that Worked During a Recession

MBB Hospitality

If you own a restaurant , you have more than likely taken a massive financial hit during this pandemic. With people not allowed to be out and about, they probably won’t be spending any unnecessary cash, maybe because you lost your job. Or maybe because you are trying to prepare for an even worse lock-down that looks like it is in its way. Working anywhere right now can lead to a serious health problem for some.

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Five Ways Hospitality Benefits from Payment Automation

Modern Restaurant Management

For years, hospitality businesses including restaruants have faced the challenges of using a paper-reliant process for both domestic and international payments. Here are five ways that the hospitality industry can benefit from an automated back office. 1. Limit Paper Use and Multiple Payment Efforts. The “paper problem” is usually what instigates businesses to begin looking for alternative payment methods.

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The State of New York Restaurants in 2020

7 Shifts

As the Head of U.S. Operations for 7shifts, I have been based in the New York technology and hospitality space for years (including a leadership role at Yelp for nearly a decade). Never before has our local market experienced such a massive disruption to the restaurant industry as we are experiencing with the Coronavirus pandemic. Every restaurant has been forced to adapt their operations in order to survive and ultimately grow for the future.

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Ice Cream Bars Formerly Known as ‘Eskimo Pies’ Are Now ‘Edy’s Pies’

EATER

Photo: National Museum of American History, Archives Center. Plus, Amazon employees are storming Jeff Bezos’s barricades, and more news to start your day The brand is one of several to change its name after confronting its racist connotations. In June, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream announced that the Eskimo Pie, a chocolate-coated ice cream bar, would soon have a new name, as “Eskimo” has long been considered a derogatory catch-all term used by non-natives to describe populations of the arctic region

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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.

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IHG signs management agreement for two hotels in Thailand

Hotel Management Network

IHG has signed a management agreement with K W Group to bring both the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands to Phuket’s Kata Beach. The post IHG signs management agreement for two hotels in Thailand appeared first on Hotel Management Network.

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Why it is Critical for Restaurants to Implement the Right Restaurant Food Safety System   

The Restaurant Times

With the outbreak of COVID-19, consumers have become more aware of the importance of health, hygiene, and food safety which will play a huge role in how restaurants operate in the new normal. A recent report on Restaurant Industry and Market Evolution highlights an interesting fact: more than 80% of restaurant operators feel that food quality and safety will surpass price as a decision-making factor for cost-conscious customers.

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Six Important Tips to Keep in Mind When Rebranding Your Restaurant

MBB Hospitality

You finally did it, you bought the restaurant of your dreams and it is performing very well. You’ve invested so much time, money, effort, blood, sweat, and tears into this restaurant. It will come as no surprise that you won’t want to consider rebranding your restaurant , this project is essentially your baby and you will do anything to protect it. But what if rebranding is the only way to save your restaurant?

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Five Creative Ways to Use Digital Signage in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Digital signage screens are everywhere. Big restaurant chains such as McDonalds and Taco Bell use them to display their different menu items next to delicious looking images. But digital signage doesn’t just have to be used to display menu items. You can use it to lay out your menu items in a way that influences your customers to purchase more, increasing the average order value.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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.