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Hiring Quickly (But Safely) as Dining Demand Picks Up

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are filling up again, but hiring and retaining employees in the midst of a national workforce shake-up remains an uphill battle. There are several talent acquisition strategies you can apply to make your hiring process quicker and more efficient without compromising your brand, workplace culture, or the safety of your employees and customer base.

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Automation in the Hotel and Motel World

InnQuest

As automation becomes more and more prevalent in society, it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into the hospitality industry. In today’s fast-paced digital world, hotel and motel operators must be able to keep pace with the needs of guests on an individual basis. With the use of automated hotel management system , you can streamline your processes, improve operational efficiency, enhance personalisation, improve guest satisfaction, and improve employee satisfaction.

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Best Ways to Promote Your Hotel

Hotelogix

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Familia

CHART

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th through October 15th), Denise Morales reflects on the true meaning of familia, and suggests hosting a fiesta featuring Latin American food and music. Recognize the contributions of Latinos and Hispanics to our American culture, and celebrate Hispanic traditions and values this Hispanic Heritage Month!

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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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Five Ways Restaurant Technology Makes or Breaks Business

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the voluntary quit rate is 25 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels. With today’s labor shortage and record-high resignations, restaurants cannot afford to lose workers, and technology should not be a bottleneck for workers to perform their job. To maintain a healthy business and working environment, restaurant technology must enable ease and efficiency among employees and service staff as much as guests.

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How User Friendly Is Your Online Menu?

Restaurant Engine

You want a user friendly online menu so anyone can use it. Have you ever placed an order yourself on your restaurant’s website? Have you ever heard complaints about your online menu ? Most importantly, we pose the question, “How user friendly is your online menu?”. As more and more websites look toward website accessibility, one place that often gets overlooked is the online ordering system.

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I’m Finally Getting Rid of my Instant Pot, and I’m Not the Only One

EATER

Is the Instant Pot’s star finally fading? In 2018, I bought an Instant Pot, as one does when pressured by social media hype. I dreamed of unsoaked beans going from dried to delicious in a flash and of rich stews, whose shockingly short cooking times would be my secret. Four years and maybe a dozen total uses later, I have — finally — decided to part with the thing.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Increasing Role of AI in Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. *Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes. To get a receipt for your order, reply with Hi.

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Simple Ways to Attract Direct Bookings

Hotelogix

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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 To Improve Your Hotels Brand Awareness

Are Morch

As a business, brand awareness is one of the most important endeavors that you could. The post How To Improve Your Hotels Brand Awareness appeared first on Are Morch, Digital Transformation Coach.

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For Portugal’s True Must-Try Pastry, You Need to Head to the Beach

EATER

Claudinos at O Capote in Costa da Caparica. With the eggy cream filling of a pastel de nata and the puffy, ergonomic shape of an eclair, the claudino in Costa da Caparica is worth seeking out Many tourists visiting Lisbon never leave the city center, unable to tear themselves from the tile-lined buildings, charming cobblestone alleys, and — of course — the picture-perfect pastéis de nata served on every corner.

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Is the Breakfast Forecast Partly Sunny or Partly Cloudy? 

Modern Restaurant Management

QSR breakfast shows signs of recovery after a pandemic-induced decline over the past 24 months. The author notes that breakfast traffic has returned to positive levels. She’s right, but it’s worth digging a little deeper. As a global data analytics partner to private and public restaurant brands, we gather insights from many sources, including monthly QSR sales, traffic, average check and basket size.

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Why The Chef Can’t Make The Dish You Just Invented

The Restaurant Manifesto

Asking for something that isn't on the menu is like standing in front of a moving train. The post Why The Chef Can’t Make The Dish You Just Invented appeared first on The Restaurant Manifesto.

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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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Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Releases U.S. and Canadian Mobile Tipping Solution

Technology: Lodging Magazine

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey—Wyndham Hotels & Resorts released a portfolio-wide mobile tipping solution for its U.S. and Canadian franchisees. Developed and managed by Béné, a cashless tipping company, the platform enables guests to tip hotel team members digitally via their preferred mobile device and is now available for adoption by Wyndham franchisees across all brands.

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Nancy Meyers’s ’80s Rom-Com ‘Baby Boom’ Predicted the Artisan Food Boom of the Aughts

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United Artists. Before the picklers, before the craft chocolate makers, there was Diane Keaton making applesauce in Vermont Welcome to The Reheat , a space for Eater writers to explore landmark (and lukewarm) culinary moments of the recent and not-so-recent past. Baby Boom is a 1987 romantic comedy in which a yuppie businesswoman played by Diane Keaton inherits a baby from a dead relative and decides to leave her fast-paced life in New York City for a more bucolic existence in Vermont.

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Repurposing an Old Costume Shop into a Brewery

Modern Restaurant Management

Aline Architecture Concepts took on the challenge to transform an old yellow costume shop in Phoenix into a modern brewery without creating the waste that normally accompanies typical building demolition and rebuilds. The outcome is Roses By the Stairs, which specializes in “spontaneous and seasonal” farmhouse ales, according to owner Jordan Ham.

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The hospitality industry: Your complete guide

SiteMinder

A hotel business is built around hospitality, and generally spans across several sectors of the hospitality industry. Like all industries, the key to being successful starts with knowing the industry inside out. From industry fundamentals to the latest technology, trends and tips, here we run through everything you need to know about the hospitality industry today – all from your unique perspective as a hotelier.

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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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Choice Hotels International Announces New Owner Resource

Technology: Lodging Magazine

ROCKVILLE, Maryland—Choice Hotels International, Inc. released a free resource for its hotel owners: Your Key to Profit. Launching in Q4 2022, the new platform will centralize Choice’s proprietary tools in an on-demand, mobile-friendly system. “Choice Hotels’ award-winning tools, capabilities, and expert advice from revenue management consultants enable franchise owners to quickly execute the right pricing strategy and effectively reach our target customers, which is critical i

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Can Maine Scallops Go Mainstream?

EATER

Nicole Wolf. Togue Brawn is obsessed with Maine scallops. She wants you to be, too. Togue Brawn sits on cobblestones between two piers, preparing a makeshift picnic on top of a block of granite as dozens of seagulls watch unblinkingly from surrounding rooftops. She unpacks jars of salt and achar and olive oil and, finally, the meal’s centerpiece: a plastic to-go container full of raw scallops, hauled out of the ocean only yesterday.

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‘We Have Met the Enemy … And He Is Us’

Modern Restaurant Management

“There’s no such thing as a bad boy.” If you love old movies, you’ll recognize that quote from Boy’s Town, the 1938 classic about Father Flanagan’s work with underprivileged boys. Well, if Father Flanagan worked in the hospitality industry today, he might be saying, “there’s no such thing as a bad server” (or bartender or busser, etc.).

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Living in a cashless world

NV Hotels

The world is going cashless, and employees are receiving fewer tips. youtip provides a simple, fast, and secure digital tipping solution. Guests can tip employees by simply scanning a QR code or clicking a link — no cash or app download required. With youtip , everyone wins. Guests can reward employees for outstanding service. Employees earn more money and are encouraged to work harder to provide great experiences.

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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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Hotel SWOT analysis: Your full guide

SiteMinder

Strategic decision-making is crucial for hotels to continue growing. If you are wondering where to start, look no further than the traditional SWOT analysis for hotels: this tool is key to understanding your business, relative to the competition. Performing a SWOT analysis focuses your attention beyond immediate needs and enables you to take strategic action for your hotel business.

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How Amaury Guichon Became TikTok’s Favorite Pastry Chef

EATER

Amaury Guichon and a giraffe he sculpted from chocolate. | Courtesy Amaury Guichon. And what happens to his elaborate chocolate sculptures after they get millions of likes If, like the rest of us, you spend countless hours every week wasting time on TikTok, you’ve likely seen the intricate chocolate creations of pastry chef Amaury Guichon. The French-born, Las Vegas-based chef has amassed more than 250 million likes and 14 million followers on TikTok, plus another 9 million on Instagram.

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Behind the Scenes at Brunch

Modern Restaurant Management

The team at Bon Appétit placed 11 cameras inside NYC's Clinton Street Baking Company & Restaurant to highlight a typical morning rush at the popular eatery. Chef and Co-Owner Neil Kleinberg narrates the BOH action.

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Travel Trends to Adopt for Maximum Business Growth

Hotelogix

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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.