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Why Cybercriminals Target Restaurants and How to Protect Yours

Modern Restaurant Management

Running a restaurant today is a challenging undertaking. Some challenges, like crowded and highly competitive markets and shifting consumer demands, have always been relevant to restaurant owners. Now, as restaurants embrace new technologies, there’s another threat to consider: cybercrime. Cybercriminals are a growing threat to virtually every industry.

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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

You would think something as second nature to people as communication would be easy to manage in the workplace. After all, there are so many more pressing problems that need to be dealt with. Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again.

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Krispy Kreme is selling Xbox doughnuts

EATER

Krispy Kreme’s new Xbox doughnut. | Image: Krispy Kreme. Krispy Kreme has created an Xbox doughnut. The fluffy doughnut is a marketing collaboration with Microsoft to celebrate 20 years of Xbox, and will be sold at Krispy Kreme stores, cabinets, and online across the UK and Ireland between August 2nd and August 22nd. The doughnuts won’t come equipped with CPUs, GPUs, or SSDs, but you might be able to win that type of hardware in the form of an Xbox Series S.

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How to Price Daily Dinner Specials for Best Results

Restaurant Engine

You want to price your daily dinner specials just right for repeat business. One of your diners’ favorite lines to hear from their server is, “Would you like to hear about our specials?”. You know that offering your customers specials is a terrific marketing tool. It increases customer loyalty and retention. It’s also a great way to try out new menu items to see if your diners like them.

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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.

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Ambient Tech Is The Future of Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant technology adoption has accelerated throughout the pandemic, shifting digital tools from futuristic nice-to-haves into critical components of day-to-day operations. Adopting in-house technologies became necessary for restaurants to stay open throughout the pandemic, restart operations after temporary closures, and pivot services to maintain revenue while still following enhanced health and safety protocols.

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Half of LA’s Biggest COVID-19 Workplace Outbreaks Are at Restaurants

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Gourmet Tales Pioneers F&B Curation With A Unique Application of Food and Marketing

The Restaurant Times

Preet is an F&B brand conceptualizer, independent culinary tourism strategist & food curator for events, destinations, and food courts with more than 8 years experience of working in the hospitality industry. She has made a name for herself in the industry by creating concepts and strategies for multiple restaurants, bars, cafes, and food retail businesses.

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Hiring Professional Security to Protect Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Hiring a security firm can help protect your restaurant from disgruntled customers and crime, but which firm do you hire and what should you look for in a security team? When trusting someone else to protect your restuarant, it is important to find the right firm for the job. There are a lot of choices in security firms but not all may be the right fit.

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How Kaldi’s Coffee uses 7shifts to schedule and connect with 100+ team members

7 Shifts

Kaldi's Coffee was founded nearly 27 years ago in St. Louis and has been providing great coffee from all over the world to the masses ever since. And in those years, they've grown considerably, adding 12 locations across St. Louis and even into Atlanta, Georgia. Kaldi's has been with 7shifts since our founding year in 2014, one of our earliest adopters of the restaurant scheduling tools.

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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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How Lodge Has Been Making Cast Iron Pans for Over 100 Years 

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‘Dan Does’ host Daniel Geneen takes a tour of the company’s massive factory in Tennessee Cast iron pans are essential pieces of cookware and one of the most popular, widely available, and affordable brands comes from Lodge Cast Iron. On this episode of Dan Does, host Daniel Geneen takes a tour of the company’s massive factory in South Pittsburg, Tennessee to see how the over 100-year-old brand creates one of the most consistent and widely loved cast iron pans in American history.

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Applying the science of training to the hospitality industry

EHL Insights

Effective training in hospitality skills needs a clear structure: demonstration, practice, feedback, implementation and a solid follow up plan.

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Grilling Tips from a Professional Pitmaster

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant professionals have a lot on our plates. But who isn’t trying to broaden their skill set in the kitchen? I often say the heart of grilling lies in the technique, and, in my estimation, what separates the master grillers from the masses is that the true experts understand how to manage their grill. Seems simple, right? You’d be surprised.

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Restaurant Billing Software: Why You Need It & How to Choose

The Restaurant Times

Restaurant billing software is now indispensable for every restaurant format. With the expanding restaurant industry, it has become essential to enhance and automate restaurant operations. A billing software eases billing operations by automation and improves the overall customer experience. In the times post COVID-19, all restaurants want to sustain and flourish in the industry.

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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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Portland Restaurant Workers Want to Keep Cooking. They Just Can’t Afford To.

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6 Trends that Will Define the Future of the Hotel Industry

Software Suggest

With changes in decision-making and purchasing power, the future of the hotel industry looks bright. However, the only way to see solid success is to embrace the inevitable changes. Looking for Hotel Management Software? Check out SoftwareSuggest’s list of the best hotel management software solutions. So, what can you expect in 2022, 2023, and beyond?

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Collecting the Right Customer Data Points to Drive Restaurant Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

Over the last 16 months of the Covid- 19 pandemic, the industry that has arguably suffered the most is the restaurant industry. Most establishments were forced to shut down their operations intermittently or limit themselves to carry out or delivery services. As a result, consumers learned to become less dependent on outside sources for meals and became accustomed to cooking at home more often than ever before.

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Franquicia de restaurantes: amplíe su franquicia de restaurantes en 10 sencillos pasos

The Restaurant Times

Una vez que se ha establecido el restaurante y el propietario del restaurante obtiene ganancias, el siguiente paso para cualquier negocio de restaurantes exitoso es su expansión. Los propietarios de restaurantes recurren principalmente a la ruta de la franquicia para la expansión de restaurantes debido a la falta de tiempo y los recursos necesarios para ejecutar la expansión de su Marca de Restaurante.

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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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The Delta Wave Has Arrived: Here We Go Again

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Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. The highly infectious delta variant of COVID-19 is explosively spreading among the unvaccinated. Fears of breakthrough infections and efforts to stem the tide threaten to throw restaurant owners, workers, and diners alike into further uncertainty. For a few months, it seemed like the U.S. was on the path toward post-pandemic life, with constant mask-wearing and endless anxiety largely a thing of the past.

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Agritourism helps revive travel, hospitality sectors 

Smart Brief Hospitality

Global agritourism is on the rise, in part thanks to the pandemic, which has people seeking out more secluded destinations. The market is expected to expand by $4.33 billion between now and 2025, according to Technavio, and other driving factors of the trend include interest in local food and family-oriented activities. SmartBrief TravelPro reader Terry Reagan, a Chile-based travel agent originally from California, weighed in on our survey question “what made you decide on your travel specialty?

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Are Restaurants Ready for the Federal Minimum Wage Increase?

Modern Restaurant Management

The federal minimum wage may soon be $15 an hour: Here are three ways restaurants can leverage tech to minimize the impact on revenue and employee retention. The U.S. federal minimum wage is expected to increase to $15 an hour which will put more pressure on businesses—especially in the hospitality & restaurant industries which employ 37% of workers who earned the federal minimum wage in 2019.

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Página de Google My Business: cómo agregar su negocio de restaurante

The Restaurant Times

En la industria de restaurantes actual, la visibilidad y la capacidad de descubrimiento son los dos factores principales que deciden el negocio de su restaurante. Si sus clientes no pueden encontrar su restaurante, nunca podrán llegar allí. Y para asegurarse de que su restaurante aparezca en las búsquedas de Google de estos clientes hambrientos, debe agregar su restaurante a Google.

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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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The Saga of Chicago’s Iconic ‘Tamale Guy,’ Claudio Velez

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Agritourism helps revive travel, hospitality sectors 

Smart Brief Hospitality

Global agritourism is on the rise, in part thanks to the pandemic, which has people seeking out more secluded destinations. The market is expected to expand by $4.33 billion between now and 2025, according to Technavio, and other driving factors of the trend include interest in local food and family-oriented activities. SmartBrief TravelPro reader Terry Reagan, a Chile-based travel agent originally from California, weighed in on our survey question “what made you decide on your travel specialty?

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SBA Launching Streamlined PPP Direct Forgiveness Portal

Modern Restaurant Management

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is launching a streamlined application portal to allow borrowers with Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans $150,000 or less through participating lenders to apply for forgiveness directly through the SBA. This new change will help rush relief to over 6.5 million smallest of small businesses which has been the Administrator’s priority since day one.

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Secrets To Why Cloud Kitchens Are A Hot Business Opportunity For Entrepreneurs In Dubai

The Restaurant Times

The success of cloud kitchens or virtual kitchens has peaked in Dubai ever since the lockdown happened. Even though they existed in the pre-pandemic times too, it was March 2020 when the concept of cloud kitchens really took off here. Presently, there are over 400 cloud kitchen brands in the UAE, most of them are based in Dubai. . COVID-19 has fast-forwarded a trend that was already in place.

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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.