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How QR Code Technology Can Help Restaurants Beyond Menus and Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants across the country are returning to pre-pandemic operations. Dining rooms are open, and tables are at 100 percent capacity in most states. However, based on the spread of the delta variant, shifting mask guidance from the CDC, differing local government regulations (such as Los Angeles County’s current indoor mask requirement regardless of vaccination status) and low vaccination rates in various states , restaurant operations are still far from normal.

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Restaurant Vaccine Requirements & Policies: What You Need to Know

7 Shifts

We're not out of the weeds just yet. Even as the availability of vaccines has allowed many restaurants to reopen fully, we are still far away from a world where restaurants can operate in a “post-COVID” mentality without some degree of restrictions. Just over half of all Americans are fully vaccinated (51.4%), The more contagious Delta variant has spread rapidly over the summer and makes up more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases, according to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control.

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I Don’t Think This Is What People Meant by ‘Three Square Meals a Day’

EATER

Madame, would you like an asparagus square to go with your salmon square? | Facebook/SquarEat. The startup SquarEat makes eating more efficient by turning your favorite foods into unrecognizably pallid squares Anyone else looking to make life less enjoyable right now? Good, good, I’m glad I’m not the only one. Thankfully for those of us devoted to denying ourselves simple pleasures like, say, meals with texture, a new kind of “food” is hitting the market.

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What is a distribution strategy?

EHL Insights

Distribution strategy helps to improve the way customers interact with your business, leading to customer satisfaction and repeat business. It can also help you streamline your business to make it more efficient. Through a more efficient business and improved customer satisfaction, this strategy can lead to higher profits.

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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 Ordering Scores with Customers (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Ninety-eight percent of consumers used digital ordering in some form in the last 18 months and 70 percent prefer to order digitally over in-person, according to results from a customer ordering preferences survey from Koala. The survey of more than 600 American consumers ages 18+ revealed similarities in preferred ordering mediums, indicating a profound dependence on convenience.

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The Centers for Disease Control Hopes You Can Enjoy a Boiled Charcuterie Board

EATER

Pretty, right? Trick question, don’t eat that! | Netrun78/Shutterstock. The organization warns that Italian-style meats currently carry a risk of Salmonella infection, which can be avoided by microwaving or boiling away the flavor and texture I have some bad news for Charcuterie Board TikTok : The CDC is currently recommending all “Italian-Style” meats be heated “to an internal temperature of 165°F or until steaming hot before eating,” if you are at high risk of complications from Salmonella.

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6 Tips To Rock Food Truck Branding

The Restaurant Times

Branding is one of the significant aspects of getting started with a food truck business. Good food truck branding draws customers by conveying the unique identity of the business. Only by communicating the food truck’s mission effectively, can you make a profit out of the Unique Selling Point of your business. In addition, your brand should be established enough to create good brand recall and compel customers to visit your food truck frequently. .

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Building a Winning CMO-CFO Relationship with Better Marketing Data

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s a business tale as old as time: the newly-hired CMO figures he/she can move a whole lot of product if they can just get their hands on enough budget upfront to build out savvy online ordering tools, an app with a strong loyalty program, and a delivery solution with order injection, alongside the budget to market the brand on tv, build a social strategy injecting maximum snark and fun into social media, drive push notification strategy against marketing goals, and hire influencers from

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How Four Restaurants Use 7shifts’ Announcements to Keep Their Teams Connected

7 Shifts

Do you feel like your team is disconnected? Does the lack of communication cause misunderstandings and make your restaurant less efficient? If so, you're probably not alone. Communication is tough in every restaurant, from a handful of team members to dozens across multiple locations. It's a tricky thing to get right, but with the right tools, it can be seamless.

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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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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Licorice

EATER

A guide to the most divisive and misunderstood denizen of the candy aisle What does licorice taste like? For me it’s sweet, earthy, herbal, sharp, wild, and dark, with a whole world opening up inside that flavor. But when I bite into some of the salty licorice that Scandinavians love, there’s a whole other dimension: the saltiness (which isn’t actually salt at all, but ammonium chloride) brings all the other flavors into balance, like an orchestra rising to a perfect hum.

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Saving Money With Square for Your Restaurant

Restaurant Engine

You can save money using Square to take money at your restaurant. Every day across the United States, people are using Square to run and grow their businesses. The same holds true for restaurants as many are using Square as their POS (point of sale) system and payment processor. Why are so many people using Square? It’s simply because Square saves them time and money.

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The New Order: Five Important Focus Areas for Greener Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

For restaurants, the official entrance into the ‘recovery stage’ is by no means a finish line. Still recovering from diminished margins, restaurateurs are facing heightened consumer standards in the new, post-pandemic market. And many of those standards involve responsibility in its many forms. Throughout the paused activity of 2020 and 2021, people everywhere were reminded of the delicate ecosystem that exists between individuals and their communities, as well as between people and

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The Top 10 Restaurant Podcasts to Tune Into

7 Shifts

The fast-paced nature of the restaurant industry makes it difficult for owners and managers to sit down, let alone read reports, restaurant magazines and blog posts to gain industry knowledge. The solution is simple: Podcasts! Podcasts are an effective way to stay up-to-date on industry trends, and get tools and resources to help you run your restaurant.

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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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This Feels Like a Threat

EATER

Look upon this menace. | PepsiCo. Why is PepsiCo. choosing such violence? Hey, c’mere. You like hot stuff, don’t you? I bet you do, tough guy. I bet you were the first one of your friends to crow about sriracha. You ever eat a ghost pepper whole and raw? You like Hot Ones ? You think Sean Evans is a “badass”? Yeah, you freak, I bet you’d grind up the blue Takis and snort them if you could, just to feel again, because by this point the regular s**t ain’t cutting it anymore.

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What you need to know about how diners book tables now

OpenTable

With every month that passes, more information about how we’ll live with the COVID-19 virus comes to light. And this is especially… The post What you need to know about how diners book tables now appeared first on Open for Business.

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Bringing in Staff During the Worst Shortage in 30 Years

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants and hotels worldwide have come out the other side of the pandemic only to stumble headfirst into the newest obstacle: a staffing shortage. But this isn’t just your typical staffing shortage. According to a survey conducted by the James Beard Foundation, 16 percent of restaurateurs consider re-hiring their staff to be a more significant obstacle to re-opening than getting their customers to come back or paying their vendors.

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[Data] The State of Restaurant Hiring in 2021

7 Shifts

The pandemic has backed many restaurants into a corner. Having been forced to close for weeks to months at a time due to lockdown protocols, restaurants are having a hard time finding staff now that things are opening back up. 7shifts , a team management platform for restaurants, found interesting insights into the types of job positions that restaurants are having a hard and easy time filling.

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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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A Gummy for Whatever Ails You

EATER

From adult vitamins to CBD and THC versions, gummies have come a long way from the candy aisle. But how did we get to this place? For every generation, for every affliction, there’s a gummy. Supplement brands like Grummies promise they can reduce inflammation (with 260-milligram doses of turmeric rhizome extract) or “detox and cleanse” (with 500 milligrams of apple cider vinegar) in a gummy product made without fillers, glucose, corn syrup, or gelatin.

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7 técnicas efectivas de gestión de inventario de restaurantes que los operadores deben conocer

The Restaurant Times

El inventario de un restaurante consta de todos los artículos o materias primas necesarias para preparar platos, y un sistema de gestión de inventario de restaurante le ayuda a realizar un seguimiento de cada ingrediente utilizado en la receta. Los sistemas de gestión de inventario de restaurantes integrados con el punto de venta del restaurante le permiten controlar y organizar todos los aspectos del stock, mantienen un flujo fluido de suministro y también lo ayudan a aumentar sus ganancias gen

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Every Employee Has a Role in Innovation

Modern Restaurant Management

The following principles are adapted from the author’s new book, Leading the Customer Experience. Innovation, the late Peter Drucker pointed out in his landmark book, The Discipline of Innovation, is the “effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise’s economic or social potential.” He noted that it’s different than other disciplines.

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What is a distribution strategy?

EHL Insights

Distribution strategy helps to improve the way customers interact with your business, leading to customer satisfaction and repeat business. It can also help you streamline your business to make it more efficient. Through a more efficient business and improved customer satisfaction, this strategy can lead to higher profits.

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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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Are you ready to eat your delicious nutrient square? Yum, yum, yum

EATER

It’s normal food, blitzed into a pulp, and compressed into 50 gram squares. | Image: SquarEat. Slap bang in the middle of a Venn diagram with two circles labelled “sincere tech startups” and “dystopian satires that are a little on the nose” you will find SquarEat : a company that you would swear is a joke if you weren’t already familiar with how the simulation we’re all living in likes to collide fact and fiction.

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Why An Online Ordering System Is The Key To Increasing Restaurant Sales

The Restaurant Times

From placing orders by phone to directly ordering via apps, ordering from restaurants has undergone a revolutionary shift, especially post COVID-19. In the pre-COVID times, online ordering was used to compliment the dine-in services of restaurants. However, since 2020, the scenario has been the opposite. Online ordering system has pivoted to new ways as restaurants adapt to the new normal.

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The Growing Appetite for Ghost Kitchens Will Influence Restaurant CX

Modern Restaurant Management

The way that the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the restaurant industry made consumer habits and preferences change significantly. In fact, according to a report from The National Restaurant Association , 52 percent of adults said purchasing takeout or delivery is “essential” to their lifestyle. Because restaurants were either forced to shut down temporarily or adapt the delivery model, ghost kitchens began making a name for themselves.

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6 Best Restaurant Waitlist Management Systems

Eat Restaurant Management

A fully-booked restaurant with people queuing up in the waiting line is what every restaurateur dreams of. It means that business is booming and customers are attracted to your restaurant. People are waiting in line to dine at your restaurant. But with a poorly managed waitlist, what comes next can turn into a nightmare. Crowds will start building up, your host and servers will be struggling to give accurate wait times and serve customers efficiently, and customers will be angry.

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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.