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The Do’s and Don’ts of Restaurant Franchising in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

The trends around restaurant ownership change with time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated consumer and investor trends alike. Consumer expectations have been permanently altered, and there are some key features to look for when seeking to invest in a franchise that will keep up with those expectations. Concepts to Invest in. Investors have continued to invest in brands that have experienced slower growth or even struggled to grow in recent years.

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In Protest of Bad Treatment by Corporate and Customers, Instacart Workers Consider Walk-Off

EATER

Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. The organization Gig Workers Collective is calling for a work stoppage on October 16 Gig Workers Collective, a grassroots organization fighting for better treatment of independent contractors, has announced planning for a walk off for Instacart shoppers on October 16. The group says shoppers will cease work until Instacart meets five demands, which include better pay and benefits.

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How Buffalo Waffles Cashed-in The Pandemic And Achieved 2x Growth

The Restaurant Times

Buffalo Waffles is a unique street-style waffle chain that serves waffles with meat, ice cream, and desserts. And the finger-licking goods are certainly a hit among youngsters. Thomas, a young entrepreneur from Chile, after finishing his major in organizational Psychology started his career in the city. Early in his career, he co-founded Maid Your House (a cleaning startup that failed after 2 years) and simultaneously Buffalo Waffles. .

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What is Biomimicry?

EHL Insights

'Bio' means living organism; 'mimicry' means to imitate. Biomimicry is thus the practice of imitating life and nature. Its aim is to draw inspiration from nature's engineering in order to solve the world’s most pressing challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all life on earth.

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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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Second Time’s the Charm

Modern Restaurant Management

Second-generation restaurant spaces are an increasingly popular and appealing option for landlords and tenants alike. The restaurant business is not for the faint of heart. It’s not exactly a secret that getting a new restaurant up and running is a significant challenge, with a high bar for entry that includes formidable logistical hurdles and financial obstacles.

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Restaurant Management Software: Everything You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

The restaurant industry is evolving at an incredible rate. Running a restaurant comes with long and short-term problems that will exhaust you if you don’t have any assistance or prior experience. Practices that were common in the restaurant business, only a few years ago are gradually being phased out in favor of more efficient and quicker methods of operating.

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What is Biomimicry?

EHL Insights

'Bio' means living organism; 'mimicry' means to imitate. Biomimicry is thus the practice of imitating life and nature. Its aim is to draw inspiration from nature's engineering in order to solve the world’s most pressing challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all life on earth.

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Do Restaurants Need Cyber Insurance? (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

You might not have thought that hackers would target the restaurant industry for cyber attacks, but think again. Given the recent high profile ransomware case at JBS meat packing where they ended up paying a hefty $11 million, those in the industry must be vigilant that they could be the next target. Food is a delicate supply chain and is essential to keep moving unfettered.

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What Is Huitlacoche — And Why Aren’t U.S. Diners Eating More of It?

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Shutterstock. Also known as “corn smut” or “Mexican truffle,” this corn fungus can do so much more than just fill quesadillas As the Aztecs expanded their vast empire in the Valley of Mexico in the 14th to 16th centuries, one of the biggest questions they faced was how to feed their millions of tax-paying subjects. The answer eventually came in irrigated terrace systems and chinampas , or man-made islands, which yielded enough food to sustain the growing population.

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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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5 Tools To Expand Your Restaurant’s Social Media Presence

The Restaurant Times

Social media presence is an important part of running a contemporary business, and it’s quickly becoming a popular restaurant marketing tool for attracting new customers and converting them into regulars. No matter how appetizing your food is, your efforts are going to go unnoticed if you’re not driving traffic into your restaurant. According to Social Media Today, 30% of millennial consumers deliberately reject restaurants that don’t have a strong Instagram presence.

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Students want to learn more about sustainability: Key findings from the PIR survey

EHL Insights

In January 2021, Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) participated in the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) created by students, for students, with the rewarding objective of contributing as a lever of change for transformation and improvement in business schools around the world. At EHL, the Sustainability Committee*, with the help of the student council, decided to launch the PIR survey, the first assessment of global business schools, to give students the chance to evaluate their own school on how it

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Outside the Four Walls: A Sudden Shift in Behavior

Modern Restaurant Management

In February of 2020, the restaurant industry was on a long, slow march toward digital sales growth. As a percentage of overall sales, digital averaged around five percen t. Some leaders, including brands like Wingstop, Chipotle, Starbucks, and others, as a result of early investments in the digital customer experience, were already experiencing well-above-average digital sales numbers, and were much better prepared for what came next.

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The 34 Essential Athens Restaurants

EATER

Outside Geros tou Moria | Geros tou Moria. Where to find avocado tzatziki, fried seafood in a cone, mutton burgers, and octopus candied with tsipouro in the Greek capital Every year, tourists travel to the Greek capital to hike up the Acropolis, browse countless museums, and seek out tans at nearby beaches. They also come for Greek cuisine, which builds many meals from three key ingredients: olive oil, wheat, and wine.

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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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Cómo Buffalo Waffles aprovechó la pandemia y logró el doble de crecimiento

The Restaurant Times

Buffalo Waffles es una cadena única de estilo urbano que sirve waffle con carne, helado, y postres. Y los productos para chuparse los dedos son ciertamente un éxito entre los jóvenes. Thomas, un empresario joven de Chile, después de terminar su carrera en psicología organizacional empezó su carrera en la ciudad. Al principio de su carrera, cofundó Maid Your House (un startup de limpieza que falló después de 2 años) y simultáneamente Buffalo Waffles. .

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What should recruiters check on LinkedIn when hiring hospitality graduates?

EHL Insights

LinkedIn, the largest professional social network with over 740 million members (and over 55 million registered companies), has become a phenomenal professional tool for vetting people. We screen the profiles of our bosses, peers and subordinates. We check the profiles of long-lost acquaintances and friends, new potential clients, suppliers, business partners, guest speakers in webinars we attend, co-authors we wish to collaborate with, and those candidates we (or recruiters) are about to interv

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How To Improve Your Restaurant Inventory Management Strategy

Modern Restaurant Management

Controlling a restaurant kitchen’s inventory is a key to proper restaurant management and can help avoid wasting food and space. When it comes to your livelihood, any gaps in inventory are more than mere annoyances — they could be hurting your ability to make a profit. Food waste and inefficiency are two of the biggest obstacles that could be keeping you from succeeding, and how you manage your inventory plays a critical role in avoiding them.

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We Asked Science if Rats Can Actually Cook Like in ‘Ratatouille’ and It Said No But We Kept Pushing Anyway

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You could probably train a rat to do this. | Disney/Pixar Creative Studios. In which an actual rat behaviorist reminds us repeatedly that “Ratatouille” was not a documentary Because the opening of the Ratatouille ride at Walt Disney World on October 1 is as good a reason as any, here now, a weeklong exploration of the 2007 rat-infested Pixar classic, Ratatouille.

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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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Strategies To Opening A Restaurant With Low Risk and Low Capital

The Restaurant Times

Thinking of opening a restaurant? If you’re one of those culinary wizards, the idea of opening your own place would have definitely crossed your mind. You surely have magic in your hands, but do you have a brilliant strategy to survive in the market or enough funds to plan out your dream? Fret not. You’ve come to the right place! . Running a successful business takes hard work and a lot of risks.

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What should recruiters check on LinkedIn when hiring hospitality graduates?

EHL Insights

LinkedIn, the largest professional social network with over 740 million members (and over 55 million registered companies), has become a phenomenal professional tool for vetting people. We screen the profiles of our bosses, peers and subordinates. We check the profiles of long-lost acquaintances and friends, new potential clients, suppliers, business partners, guest speakers in webinars we attend, co-authors we wish to collaborate with, and those candidates we (or recruiters) are about to interv

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Can I Cut Costs Without Customers Noticing?

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q : What are some ways I can cut costs without customers noticing while still maintaining a high level of value?

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David Chang Is Pretty Jazzed About Fake Meat in His Upcoming Hulu Show

EATER

Hulu. On “The Next Thing You Eat , ” the chef and his celebrity friends take a more urgent look at exactly where food is coming from, and where it’s headed David Chang is pretty excited about the weird, robotic, fake-salmon future of food. Or at least that’s how it seems in the trailer for his upcoming show, The Next Thing You Eat. The six-episode docu-series, a collaboration with documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville (and produced by Vox Media Studios, part of Eater’s parent company) is set to

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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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8 Things To Pay Attention To Before Starting Up A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

Food truck businesses have never been more popular than they are now. In 2020, we saw a significant rise in the number of food trucks. After all, they let you change sites, keep menus short and focused, and create an exciting and dynamic small company on wheels since they are smaller and most importantly mobile, unlike a restaurant. Moreover, since the COVID-19 pandemic, many customers prefer to eat from food trucks rather than restaurants as they are relatively safer.

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From a Spark to a Flame

Modern Restaurant Management

Clay Murphy has always been bold. You can hear it in the way he talks nowadays — proud and declarative and maybe even a bit brash — and this confidence was certainly a trait he’d already picked up by the time he reached his twenties. So maybe it wasn’t all that shocking how one day, in 1986, Murphy boldly announced he was going to marry a woman a few minutes after laying eyes on her. “I just knew,” Clay says of first seeing Pam Weaver that day in Aisle 3 at St

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Coca-Cola Research Reveals What Guests Want Post-COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Six major themes are expected to drive restaurant operator profitability and beverage attachment post-COVID, according to the Coca-Cola 2021 Fountain Foodservice Beverage Strategy Survey. The themes include: pent-up demand. off-premise growth. expectation for ease and convenience. need for reassurance. trust in fountain beverages. assortment optimization. "After more than a year battling the coronavirus pandemic, consumers have begun thinking ahead toward what life will look like post-COVID,

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Ahead of Fire Prevention Week – Is Your Restaurant Safe?

Modern Restaurant Management

As a result of the Great Chicago Fire that killed 250 people in 1871, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an annual week in October as Fire Prevention Week, now the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. Society Insurance has been working alongside restaurant owners for more than a century, seeing first-hand the devastating effects a fire can have on the establishments that make communities great.

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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.