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How Gift Cards Can Help Restaurants Cope with Inflation

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are grappling with labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation. According to the National Restaurant Association, restaurants are experiencing the most severe labor shortage in history, actually 70 percent higher than most industries. As of April 2022, restaurants were still down 794,000 jobs – or 6.4 percent pre-pandemic employment levels.

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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

7 Shifts

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. At some point when you were dining in a restaurant, you may have heard the BOH staff shout “86” and the name of a menu item to the waiters. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself.

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‘Jiro’ and the Impossible Dream of Authenticity

EATER

Lisa Kogawa/Eater. When “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” hit Netflix 10 years ago, Jiro Ono’s approach was fetishized as the pinnacle of “authenticity.” Looking back now, though, what did that really mean? At one point while filming Jiro Dreams of Sushi , the decade-old documentary about master sushi chef Jiro Ono and his three-Michelin-starred restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro, the camera’s focus wasn’t quite sharp enough on a prepared piece of tuna.

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Culture Reset: Strengthening Your Business from the Inside Out—Session Recap from CHART Austin

CHART

The breakout, Culture Reset: Strengthening Your Business from the Inside Out, was presented by Braxton Luzier at CHART Austin. Good culture drives engagement, performance, and retention, and is perceived by every guest who walks through the door. Here are the four phases of optimizing your restaurant's culture.

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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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Event Trends for 2022 (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

People booking events this year prefer to party on Saturdays, and the celebrations are focused on social occasions, according to new data from EventUp powered by Tripleseat. Highlights of the EventUp 2022 First Half of the Year Event Trends include: The average spend for events is $3,545. Top celebrations include birthday parties and baby showers. Saturday is still the most popular day to party.

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Building a Better Restaurant Bathroom

EATER

The bathroom at Detroit restaurant Union Assembly. | Gerard + Belevender /Eater Detroit. Restaurant bathrooms matter more than ever. But amid the quest for vibes and a good selfie mirror, where does function fit in? Going to the bathroom at Bluestockings, the worker-owned bookstore in New York City’s Lower East Side, was “an eye-opening experience” for chef Telly Justice.

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Promoting from Within: 5 Tips from a Panel of Experts—Session Recap from CHART Austin

CHART

The panel discussion, Train the Future: Attracting and Upskilling Your Top Talent, presented at CHART Austin, focused on best practices for creating career growth opportunities for hourly team members in hotels and restaurants. Here are 5 tips to create a structure of upskilling and promoting team members from within, along with developing the culture to support attraction and retention of talent in the hospitality industry.

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Three Ways IoT’s Physical-Digital-Physical Framework Helps Restaurants Enhance Operational Efficiency

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant management and operations personnel are always on the search for proactive ways to increase operational efficiency and reduce waste while complying with local regulations. Today, the sophistication of IoT technology available to the restaurant sector is at an all-time high. If leveraged within the correct outcome-based framework, these interconnected technologies have the potential to improve operational visibility in a way that impacts critical real-world results.

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Les Roches awarded ‘Excellent’ QS Star rating

Les Roches

It’s official, Les Roches is a 5 Star hospitality school. We’re proud to announce that after being assessed across at least eight categories and according to dozens of set indicators based on global standards and best practices, Les Roches has achieved 5 Stars overall (Excellent) in the QS Stars higher education rating system. Produced by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the world’s leading providers of analytics and insight to the higher education sector, a QS Stars score enables prospective stu

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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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Put Tomatoes on Your Ice Cream

EATER

Shutterstock. It’s the perfect, unexpected treat for the last days of the summer This post originally appeared in the August 29, 2022 edition of The Move , a place for Eater’s editors to reveal their recommendations and pro dining tips — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes weird, but always someone’s go-to move. Subscribe now. During a heatwave, my diet relies heavily on tomatoes.

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8 Ways to Increase Sales with Signage

Restaurant Den

The right indoor and outdoor signage can help your restaurant business attract customers, spotlight specials, and potentially increase sales. But it’s not just a matter of slapping up a sign and waiting for customers to come. You must be intentional and strategic about the messaging and placement of every sign, whether it’s an attention-grabbing sandwich […].

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How to Improve Your Restaurant’s SERP Rankings

Modern Restaurant Management

Search engine results pages (SERPs) are an SEO term that refers to how well your website and web pages rank on Google. Improving your restaurant’s SERP rankings can help generate more online visibility and subsequently more online sales. Six Tips to Improve Your Restaurant’s Local SERP Rankings. There are no cookie-cutter approaches to SEO.

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Meet The Team: Jackie, Business Development Manager, Malaysia

STAAH

With more than 10 years in the Travel & Hospitality space, Meet Jackie Jomieuce, Business Development Manager – Malaysia, STAAH. Tell us a bit about your career in hospitality/ technology and the journey to STAAH. I started my career in the Hospitality industry as a Travel Consultant at one of the Tour Agents in my hometown, right after I finished my degree.

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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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How NYC’s Double Chicken Please Makes Over 200 Sandwiches a Night

EATER

Chefs must plan days in advance to prepare chicken for the sandwiches due to the high demand Double Chicken Please makes one of New York City’s most popular fried chicken sandwiches, but that’s not how the restaurant started out. It opened during the pandemic, and quickly became one of the country’s most popular cocktail bars. But soon after launching its food menu, chicken sandwiches became the star — DCP now sells up to 200 of them a day.

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How to Inventory Liquor in a Bar

Sculpture Hospitality

Maintaining a bar inventory is critical to ensuring you have a fully stocked bar to meet customer demand while reducing wasted product. It also provides insights and data so that you know exactly how your bar is performing and where to make improvements.

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Investing In Digital Technology Is Investing in Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. Food safety is a significant concern since any cross-contamination, cross-contact, mishandling, or foodborne illnesses may sicken guests and become a PR disaster.

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NRN editors discuss Chipotle’s first union, Panera’s new drive-thru tech

Nation's Restaurant News

Plus, hear from Matthew de Gruyter about Next Level Burger and the future of food

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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 ‘Jiro’ Filter

EATER

Lisa Kogawa/Eater. Slow-motion pans over dishes, languid wisps of steam rising into the air, Philip Glass: How David Gelb’s cinematic style defined a generation of food documentaries Fish guts are not inherently a beautiful thing. But in Jiro Dreams of Sushi , as the camera pans over an eel, speared with a knife where its neck might be, a sous chef tenderly cleans away the viscera, and it’s hard not to find yourself a little awed at the sight.

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Marketing-Focused: Attracting Travelers Through Effective Advertising

Lodging Magazine Operations

In 2022, U.S. hotel room revenue is projected to surpass 2019 levels, according to the American Hotel & Lodging Association. But how can hospitality chains gain loyalty and win new business when there are so many competitors trying to do the same? One method that many large chains use is advertising on a national or global scale. Smaller brands can also participate on a regional or local scale.

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Decreasing Food Waste Through Advances in Cold Chain Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Globally, one third of the food produced for human consumption is wasted. Not only is this a loss of valuable resources, it’s also an affront to the 815 million people around the world who suffer from malnutrition. So, how can we both solve the food waste issue and ensure better food availability? Waste can occur anywhere along the food supply chain, which includes production, processing, distribution, and consumption.

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Tips To Increase Efficiency With A Commercial Restaurant Kitchen Layout

The Restaurant Times

As a restaurateur, you would love to see your restaurant kitchen bustling while your dining room is fully packed with guests. Now, imagine the worst thing that could happen to you on such a day – you hear the deafening sound of plates clattering on the ground, and you know it happened because of your crowded kitchen space that has caused one of your staff members to collide with another member.

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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 38 Essential Istanbul Restaurants

EATER

Dinner spread at Mahir Lokantas? | Mahir Lokantas? / official. From eggplant börek at a century-old spot that served Winston Churchill and Audrey Hepburn, to harissa lamb shank at a chic, modern oasis in the bustling city, here’s where to eat in Istanbul Few cities rival the immense character of Istanbul. Over centuries, it has been the epicenter of nations and home to many ethnicities and cultures.

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Q&A: OAG on why supersonic travel won’t take off

PhocusWire

In a Q&A with PhocusWire, John Grant, chief analyst with U.K.-based airline data provider OAG, explains why he thinks the future is bleak for supersonic commercial flights.

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Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge Debuts Renovation

Guides: Lodging Magazine

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge debuts a property-wide renovation that has revamped the hotel’s common areas and meeting and events spaces while introducing two new dining venues, including Paperback Tavern. The completed project ushers in a new chapter for the property, which sits along the Charles River. Operated by Davidson Hotels, it is for both business and leisure guests.

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How to increase sales in supermarket

Lithos POS

In the US market size of 2022, there are $811.5b supermarkets & Grocery stores. The retail industry is getting competitive day by day. Businesses like the supermarket are hard to survive in this competitive market. Growth depends on various factors like location, business model, customers, products, and other marketing strategies. For example, if your business is located with fewer customers, and you competing with an industry giant, probably you cannot survive.

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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.