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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to Schedule Social Media Ads to Run When People Are Hungry

Modern Restaurant Management

Facebook and Instagram are powerful advertising tools for any restaurant wanting to reach people in their community or tourists traveling through their area, whether to increase indoor dining numbers or, in today's climate, driving more pickup and curbside orders. With many options available to restaurateurs to advertise the social posts one option which is often overlooked or is simply unknown is what we call dayparting, the ability to schedule a post or ad to run on set days and within set

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6 Top Factors To Consider When Choosing A Restaurant Location in Dubai

The Restaurant Times

Dubai is considered to be one of the best cities to start a food venture in. Being home to over two hundred nationalities , Dubai widens the scope for restaurant owners who can cater to different audiences and cuisines. However, even in such a place, the restaurant location plays a vital role. A suitable location increases the success rate of a restaurant by attracting enough initial customer interest to being convenient to visit.

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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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Pizza Babka Is All Over Instagram Right Now. Bill Clark Is Why.

EATER

Hunter Abrams /courtesy Bill Clark. The former MeMe’s Diner chef and co-owner explores whimsical recipes in his newsletter that makes cooking fun again If you were frantically searching through mentions and scrolling past videos of people making “pizza babka” a couple of weekends ago, you weren’t alone. It seems like everyone has suddenly been brushing garlic butter over golden-brown loaves stuffed with cheese and pepperoni: It’s a perfect viral dish, really, an effortless fusion of two comfort

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How to Create an Engaging Web Design for Your Restaurant 

Modern Restaurant Management

As a restaurant owner, you’ve put some serious thought into your interior design, menu development and ambience creation to make your guests feel comfortable and attract more people to visit. But have you thought about your website design? Your restaurant website needs to help your guests find you online, inform them about your menu and, possibly, help them reserve a table or order a delivery directly from you.

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Long Live Digital Dining: How Consumers’ Appetite for Mobile Apps and Online Ordering Will Continue

Modern Restaurant Management

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. And more than 50 percent of consumers with restaurant apps use them at least once a week. What’s more, digital consultancy Mobiquity in June 2020 reported a 36 percent year-over-year increase in the number of restaurant mobile app reviewers who said it was their first time using such an app.

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Rising Fraud Among Restaurant and Delivery Services (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

A fraud scheme where cybercriminals leverage the Telegram messaging platform to steal from restaurants and food delivery services was just identified by research and analysis from Sift’s Digital Trust and Safety Architects. The company discovered that bad actors are advertising their services on Telegram forums in order to purchase food and beverage orders at a reduced price, using stolen payment information on behalf of customers.

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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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Four Ways to Improve Your Gluten-Free Marketing Campaigns

Modern Restaurant Management

Demand for gluten-free products continues to grow, with 15 percent of consumers surveyed looking for gluten-free options when dining out, according to a 2020 report by market research firm Mintel. Heeding this demand, more than a quarter of US restaurants now offer gluten-free dishes, but many establishments aren’t promoting these offerings as effectively as they could.

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Why Strong Beverage Programs Matter (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia discusses why restaurants need to think about their beverage lineup with Luke Emery, CEO of Tractor Beverage Co. Launched in 2018 by organic farmers, the company offers artificial-free, certified organic, and non-GMO sodas and drinks and is currently partnering with Chipotle, Pokeworks and Umami Burger, among others.

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My COVID Valentine

Modern Restaurant Management

Valentine’s Day, normally a busy time for restaurants, will no doubt look a bit different this year. A number of restaurants have brought their creative “love” juices to the table with unique promotions and they could benefit, because, according to SlickText’s “2021 Share the Love Survey,” 34 percent of respondents said their biggest Valentine’s Day spend will be at restaurants.???.

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You Should Be Drinking Grower Champagne

EATER

Grower Champagnes are a little wilder and lot more compelling than your average Champagne If you’re fortunate enough to have a reason to reach for a bottle of Champagne these days — a time when the very thought of celebrating remains complicated by world events — you best make it count. But if the world of wine seems baffling (and it definitely can be), Champagne, with its high price tag and even higher expectations, is pure, unfiltered intimidation.

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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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DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot company Chowbotics

EATER

Salad vending machine company Chowbotics is now part of DoorDash. DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot startup Chowbotics, the companies announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently within DoorDash. “We have long admired the work that Chowbotics has done to increase access to fresh meals, with its groundbreaking robotics product and vision,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley T

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Don’t Fear the Broiler

EATER

Shutterstock. Once you get the hang of broiling, it will quickly become a cooking method you return to over and over again Welcome to Ask Elazar , a column in which Eater staff writer Elazar Sontag answers your highly specific and pressing cooking questions. I’ve always been sort of terrified/befuddled by the broiler in my oven, so I mostly just pretend it isn’t there.

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NYC Restaurant Industry Divided Over Return of Indoor Dining

EATER

With days left to the reopening, the hospitality industry still remains deeply divided on whether it’s safe to restart indoor dining this week [link].

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Popeyes Is Hoping for Another Hit With Its New Cajun Flounder Sandwich

EATER

Popeyes. If you hate it, the restaurant will give you a chicken sandwich instead — assuming you paid the 15 cents for sandwich insurance Aside from some real devotees to McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish (like Greg Kelly and devout Catholics ), fast food fish has never quite inspired the national fervor of a burger or a chicken sandwich, probably because most of the country is landlocked, so eating ocean-caught cod warmed under a heat lamp just doesn’t feel right.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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Guy Fieri Is Operating Ghost Kitchens Out of a Handful of Boston Area Bertucci’s

EATER

And diners can (predictably) order jalapeño poppers wrapped in bacon, and burgers topped with mac and cheese [link].

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After Racial Reckoning, Aunt Jemima Rebrands as ‘Pearl Milling Company’

EATER

PepsiCo, Inc. The newly designed products will begin appearing in grocery stores this summer Aunt Jemima finally has a new name, after announcing last June that it would be retiring the logo and 130-year-old name that had roots in minstrelsy and racist stereotypes. The Quaker Oats-owned brand will now be known as Pearl Milling Company, with duly repackaged pancake mixes and syrups hitting store shelves in June 2021, according to a press release.

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Michelle Obama’s ‘Waffles + Mochi,’ a Culinary Kids Show, Will Premiere March 16 on Netflix

EATER

Michelle Obama’s new show stars herself and anthropomorphic creatures Waffles and Mochi. | Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix. The 10-episode series stars the former first lady as a friendly supermarket owner who embarks on food-inspired adventures with a couple of puppet friends Michelle Obama’s long-awaited kids food show has a new title and a release date: Waffles + Mochi will debut on Netflix on March 16, the former first lady announced on social media this morning.

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Smoking Trout at the Bottom of the World

EATER

Gregory prepares her smoked trout recipe. | Adam Gibson/Courtesy Hardie Grant Books. A recipe for brown sugar-cured hot smoked trout from new cookbook “How Wild Things Are” by Analiese Gregory It’s not a stretch to say that many of us would like to be somewhere else right now. I felt this acutely as I flipped through Analiese Gregory’s new cookbook How Wild Things Are: Cooking, Fishing and Hunting at the Bottom of the World.

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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.