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Food Delivery and Service Robots: Changing Face of Restaurants Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

The development of robotics in the post pandemic scenario has changed the overall scenario for the industries, especially the restaurants industry. The prominence of food delivery and service robots has increased in the overall restaurant industry. This is owed to the uncertainties faced by the restaurants at the global level. In order to deal with these uncertainties, the top players had to work on bringing in technological advancements to survive and recover from the losses caused by the pande

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Franchise Compliance Guide: Laws + Agreements

7 Shifts

Some of the biggest restaurant businesses on the planet are franchises. They employ thousands of people and have served billions, and with so many people affected, it's understandable why there are franchise-specific laws and regulations in place. Franchise compliance is one of the biggest considerations when entering into and running a franchise business, as failing to follow federal and applicable city/state laws could result in serious consequences.

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Braum’s Is the Best American Fast-Food Chain You’ve Never Heard Of

EATER

Come for the burgers, stay for the ice cream. | Ken Wolter/Shutterstock. If you live within 100 miles of this ice cream and burger destination, you need to go There are few things about living in Dallas-Fort Worth that make me feel smug. It’s hot as hell here, there’s too much concrete, and the traffic is miserable. My city doesn’t boast the stunning natural beauty of San Francisco, or the hallowed cultural institutions of New York City.

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How To List My Hotel on Google

Soft Inn

Google is the most used and most popular search engine, approximately has 5 billion search queries in a day. That makes sense every business now should have one Google Business account. So, if you are opening a new hotel, let’s start to list your hotel on Google by following the below suggestions.

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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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Five Reasons Why QR Code Menus Aren’t Going Away

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant customers do everything from their phones. They may have discovered you from an Eater article, booked their reservation through OpenTable, or located you via Google Maps, and they will surely review their experience on Yelp — whether positive or negative — when their meal is complete. It’s not shocking that many restaurants are keeping with the COVID-bred tradition of QR code menus long after the CDC’s more conservative guidelines have softened.

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Feeding the Flock

EATER

A vendor at LA’s Buffet Guatemalteco, the Guatemalan night market where fried chicken is among the favorite dishes. | Wonho Frank Lee/Eater. Fried chicken is community. We asked five photographers to document the many ways the dish brings people together. Pizza is sold by the slice. Hamburgers are wrapped up one at a time. Tacos arrive in pairs or trios, twirled in foil or arranged like overlapping petals on paper plates.

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6 Ways To Grow Your TikTok Followers

Social Hospitality

Popular TikTok users didn’t use magic to gain millions of followers. They’ve done it through hard work. In addition to posting regularly, leverage current trends and post quality videos if you want to get more TikTok followers. When optimized properly, TikTok can be pivotal to business growth , especially if you’re targeting young demographics.

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F&B Brand App Growth (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s restaurant brands have to bridge the physical and digital divide, providing quality food and customer service while also meeting the needs of a digital-first world. When it comes to evaluating their mobile apps, a recent study by Digital Turbine and Apptopia put a spotlight on apps across a variety of categories, including Food and Drink, to show how these apps performed relative to their brand strength.

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[Podcast] The Anti Ghost Kitchen with Kristen Barnett

7 Shifts

Ghost kitchens are hot. But that doesn't mean they're for every operator. Kristen Barnett joins us on this episode of the Restaurant Growth Podcast. Kristen knows ghost kitchens well—and after a stint at Zuul, she went to found her own ghost kitchen, Hungry House. We get into: Ghost kitchen myths. When the ghost kitchen model is a good idea for an operator.

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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 Survive the Sriracha Shortage

EATER

Huy Fong isn’t the only sriracha brand out there. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. There are plenty of alternatives to Huy Fong As countless news outlets have breathlessly reported over the past week, a sriracha shortage is looming. Huy Fong Foods, the California-based producer of the country’s most popular brand of sriracha — the one with the rooster on the bottle — says that it will have to scale back production of this much-beloved hot sauce due to an “abysmal” spring crop of red jalapenos imp

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Why a recession would be a boom for vacation rental supply

PhocusWire

The growth of short-term vacation rental supply will not only be accelerated by individual homeowners, but also from an influx of institutional investors.

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Diving Deeper with Guest Data Through Direct Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

With close to two-thirds (63 percent) of Americans now ordering takeout at least once a month , and most of this group ordering online, restaurants are looking for unique ways to win guests through digital channels. The secret to success on these platforms, however, lies less in the unique new dishes restaurants promote but rather in the customer data they are able to collect.

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NRN editors discuss Denny Marie Post’s new job at Nextbite, value promotions amid inflation and the importance of marketing

Nation's Restaurant News

Plus, hear from Robert Maynard, CEO of Famous Toastery, on inflation

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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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A Four-Ingredient Fried Chicken Recipe With a Story to Tell

EATER

Clay Williams. Gullah Geechee cookbook author Emily Meggett’s version of the Southern staple is an essential When it’s time to make fried chicken, 89-year-old cook and cookbook author Emily Meggett always starts by grabbing a brown paper bag. A woman who appreciates simplicity, she relies on only four key ingredients: raw chicken, seasoning salt, vegetable oil, and White Lily self-rising flour.

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How AI can help the talent crisis in attractions and resorts

PhocusWire

Adopting the right level of AI technology can free staff to focus on the most crucial - and lucrative - customer interactions.

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Seven Common Challenges Food Delivery Software Can Solve

Modern Restaurant Management

Across every business, it has become imperative to incorporate technology into operations. Within the F&B sector, the pandemic has spurred the rise in online deliveries, prompting restaurants to upgrade their legacy systems, as a means of meeting customer demands. Whether we speak about a traditional restaurant, a chain of Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), or dark kitchens, there is a strong need to set up a website or app to accept consumer orders or collaborate with third-party carriers fo

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8 Restaurant Email Marketing Strategies To Win And Retain Customers In 2022

Eagle Owl

So many restaurant owners live under the impression that email marketing is not for the F&B industry. While word-of-mouth publicity and social media marketing do make a restaurant brand stand out from the crowd, restaurant email marketing is what helps retain customers. By the end of this blog, we will make it abundantly clear why […]. The post 8 Restaurant Email Marketing Strategies To Win And Retain Customers In 2022 appeared first on EagleOwl - Restaurant Management and Analytics So

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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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For Generations of Black Women, Fried Chicken Meant Financial Freedom

EATER

For Black women in America — especially in Virginia — fried chicken has always been a lifeline Of all the foods the South has given to the American culinary landscape, fried chicken is one of the most impactful. And for good reason. In the more than 300 years since the dish was first recorded in the American South, it has garnered international praise for the characteristic combination of textures, techniques, and flavors that go into it: Crispy, crunchy skin hides juicy and tender meat inside,

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More travelers embracing mobile, touchless technologies

PhocusWire

Air passengers are adopting technology more on some stages of their journey than others, according to a new report by SITA.

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How Mobile Digital Billboard Advertising Can Help Your Business

MBB Hospitality

Have you started a business and wondered which marketing techniques would work best for you? There are many types of marketing, but not all marketing is created equally. Some marketing techniques don’t work as well because they are not keeping up with modern times. The best way to market your business is to provide your potential customers with as much information as possible about the business.

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8 Maneras En Las Que deberías Usar Para El Marketing De Restaurante

The Restaurant Times

Twitter tiene 3,42 millones de usuarios registrados activos y 1,95 millones de usuarios únicos que visitan el sitio cada mes. Estas impresionantes cifras dicen mucho sobre el enorme compromiso de los usuarios del sitio de microblogging. Como restaurador, sólo tiene sentido aprovechar la amplia base de usuarios de Twitter no sólo para relacionarse con sus clientes actuales, sino también para llegar a otros nuevos.

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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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How ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook Groups Are Emerging as Sites for Mutual Aid

EATER

Kate Green/Getty Images. Alongside gifts of Ikea furniture and outgrown toddler clothes, some groups are becoming de facto food distribution networks This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Yulia Koudriashova is a single mom and teacher living with her two daughters in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood. Her parents moved in with them in March when they were evacuated from Kiev after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Where is the opportunity for travel startups?

PhocusWire

Speaking during Phocuswright Europe, investors explain what they’re looking for from startups right now.

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Case Study: Meeting your Guests Online and Growing Your Restaurant Brand

Eat Restaurant Management

Our latest case study takes a look at the Baron , Beirut located in Lebanon - best known for being Mediterranean influenced, European executed and entirely Beirut. The restaurant, above all else, aims to be creative and provide a welcoming place for guests to eat.

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How You Treat Your Employees Determines How They’ll Treat Your Guests

Service that Sells

It’s a crazy Saturday night. We’re barking at employees in the kitchen (“Taylor, why is Table 4 still sitting there with menus!?”), but when we slam out the swinging doors, we become a totally different person. We smile, laugh, nod, thank, and show all the customer appreciation we should while our team members watch and think, “What a fake.”. And who can blame them?

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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.