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How AR Menus Promote Craveability

Modern Restaurant Management

The food and restaurant industry has been steadily moving toward greater visualization of menus options. Plain text evolved into beautiful food photography and video boards. The next phase in the advancement of food imagery will be in the application of 3D and Augmented Reality (AR) menus. AR technology enables the customer to use their own smartphone to display immersive 3D models onto a surface in front of them.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

7 Shifts

Diners are turning to online ordering in increasing numbers because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on on-premise dining. According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. This rise in digital interactions has made it critical for restaurants to have well-designed websites.

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Ice Cream Bars Formerly Known as ‘Eskimo Pies’ Are Now ‘Edy’s Pies’

EATER

Photo: National Museum of American History, Archives Center. Plus, Amazon employees are storming Jeff Bezos’s barricades, and more news to start your day The brand is one of several to change its name after confronting its racist connotations. In June, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream announced that the Eskimo Pie, a chocolate-coated ice cream bar, would soon have a new name, as “Eskimo” has long been considered a derogatory catch-all term used by non-natives to describe populations of the arctic region

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6 Stage Design Tips for Livestreamed Events

BizBash

Production pros discuss what color schemes work best on camera, tips for spacing presenters apart in a natural way, why proper lighting is crucial, and much more.

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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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Protecting Your Restaurant During the Pandemic When Employees Return from Vacation

Modern Restaurant Management

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, restaurant workers of all types need time off to rest, recharge, and hopefully return reinvigorated to serve your customers. How can management help those who head out on vacation to return healthy and keep them from possibly infecting other staff and guests? No matter where the returning employee works, as an employer, you must protect all of your employees, guests, and vendors.

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Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?

EATER

White-centered food narratives appear most often at major chains. It’s time to hold them accountable. I’m a professional chef, and up until three years ago, I had no idea what barbacoa really meant. I thought I did. I’d eaten my fair share of “barbacoa” at Chipotle, where its shredded-beef burrito was my splurge order. But on a tour of Xochimilco, a tapestry of canals and artificial islands that was once a major source of local produce for Mexico City, Paco, my tour guide, took me to his favorit

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Fall Tabletop Inspiration: See This Harvest-Inspired Micro-Event for Jewish Holiday Sukkot

BizBash

Boston-based TYGER | Event Design + Production created a modern take on the traditional holiday—while also offering design inspiration for small events of all types.

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What Marijuana Laws Mean for Your Restaurant Business 

Modern Restaurant Management

Although still illegal at the federal level, marijuana usage is becoming largely legalized at the state level. Some states have legalized marijuana for both recreational and medicinal purposes, while others have only legalized it for medical use. Whether in favor of or against these new marijuana laws, restaurant businesses that operate in multiple states need to be especially careful about how they approach marijuana in workplace situations.

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New spaces, more voices: OpenTable’s new restaurant content hubs

OpenTable

OpenTable launched the Open for Business blog in 2015, with the goal of sharing best practices among hospitality professionals and tips for success in a notoriously challenging business. Since then, this platform has given space to interviews with leading chefs, how-tos from the kitchen to the dining floor, and insightful data from OpenTable’s unparalleled network of diners. .

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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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The Skateboarding, Cranberry Juice-Sipping TikToker Was Given a New Truck by Ocean Spray

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Photo by MEGA/Getty Images. Plus, nobody wants to buy California Pizza Kitchen, and more news to start your day “Dreams” do come true (sorry). By now you’ve likely seen the viral TikTok of the blissed-out guy skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” while drinking out of bottle of Ocean Spray cranberry juice. It’s delightful and not only because it’s a feat of coordination that its creator, Nathan Apodaca (a.k.a 420doggface208) is treating like a walk in the park.

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4 Proven Strategies Operators in Saudi Arabia Must Know To Grow Their Restaurant Profit Margin

The Restaurant Times

One of the most common queries of restaurant owners across the world is how to measure their restaurant profit Margins and how to grow them. While there are many parameters to gauge a restaurant’s long term success, the net profit margin gives you a clear picture of whether or not it will survive in the long run. The average restaurant profit margin differs according to the different restaurant formats.

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Savvy Restaurateurs Reinventing as Grocerants 

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2019 it was widely reported that Americans were making less and less meals at home, and with that we saw the rise of grocery stores and retailers across the country begin to offer dine-in experiences to attract customers. In fact, restaurants have become one of the most successful ways for retailers to stand apart. Restaurants faced new competitors.

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Critical Tips to Help Restaurateurs Thrive

Modern Restaurant Management

Had you only looked at the foot traffic data for the first two months of 2020, you might have been tempted to declare—and not without good reason—that it was shaping up to be a banner year for brick-and-mortar establishments. In the last week of February, national in-store traffic was up 3.5 percent over the previous year’s figures.

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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 Does the Seasonal Transition Affect Produce Price and Availability?

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. Have you ever wondered how, despite changing climates and seasons, the same leafy greens you use in your menu items are available year-round?

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Three Reasons to Outsource Your Restaurant’s Accounting Services

Modern Restaurant Management

As a business owner or franchisee in the restaurant industry, accounting can be one of the biggest headaches you face. Whether you own one restaurant location or dozens, mom-and-pop business owners and franchisees are often forced to wear every hat, from CFO to HR officer. Even for the most seasoned, well-rounded restaurateurs, restaurant accounting is often a complex and intimidating new world.

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Payments in a Post-Pandemic World (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

No matter when the world regains a sense of normalcy after the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that “normal” will mean something different. The novel coronavirus has made people more aware of how diseases are spread and what they can do to help keep vulnerable populations safer. Whether the future holds long-term social distancing, more masks in public, a permanent transition to telecommuting or other safety requirements, it is safe to assume that life has changed.

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Best Practices for Tackling ‘Toxic Turnover’ in Restaurants (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

Turnover has long been a problem in the restaurant industry. Long before the term "gig economy" entered the lexicon. In this week's episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia speaks with ShiftPixy Co-Founder and CEO Scott Absher about how his company is helping provide turnover solutions.

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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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Meet the Hotel That’s All About ‘Female Empowerment’ — and Its Male Executive Chef

EATER

It’s unclear if anyone at Hotel Zena had a conversation about putting a woman in charge of the kitchen at the hotel’s Figleaf restaurant [link].

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With Indoor Dining’s Return, NYC Workers Must Choose Between Income and Health

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Getty Images. Despite fearing for their safety, restaurant workers say they have little recourse but to work without any new government aid in sight [link].

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Artisanal American Cheese Was Finally on Top of the World, and Then the World Fell Apart

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Shutterstock. Talking to Joe Berkowitz, author of “American Cheese,” about the United States’ blossoming artisanal cheese scene, and the challenges it faces amid wildfires and a pandemics it faces amid wildfires and a pandemic What do you envision when you think of American cheese? Probably not Wisconsin’s squeaky curds or an aged Vermont cheddar. Instead, you most likely see those melty, tangy, flat yellow squares, individually wrapped in plastic and paired with Wonder Bread or a fast-food chee

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The Meaning of Chuseok During a Pandemic Year

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James Park/Eater. During the pandemic, the whole world has been considering what the Korean holiday means — whether they realize it or not “Ajumma said she dropped something off,” my mother texts from work. “Check outside.” I do and soon hold a box heavy with gotgam, dried persimmons, before the sun has fully risen. Throughout the spring and summer this year, we’ve received deliveries from my mother’s friends’ (my ajummas) gardens, allowing us to stretch our grocery shopping to monthly runs whil

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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 an NYC Glassblower Makes Cups, Bowls, and Vases 

EATER

Elizabeth Lyons makes gorgeous cups, vases, and bowls out of molten glass at her studio “I think it’s sort of like a muscle. You do something enough times, it might even just be the way it feels,” says Elizabeth Lyons of the hypnotic rolling, pulling, blowing, shaping, and heating of glass at her shop, More Fire Glass Studio in upstate New York. “It’s kinesthetic as much as visual.”.

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This Japanese Ceramic Pig Lets Me Have a Patio Cocktail in Peace 

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Reclaim your outdoor space from mosquitos with this household item I’m always up for an al fresco cocktail on the patio. in theory. If we’re being honest, I much prefer to spend time sitting (inside) at the bar or enjoying my Manhattan in the temperature-controlled comforts of my own home. One of the main reasons for my outdoor wariness, especially on the home front: mosquitos, which absolutely plague our Northern Virginia yard.

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Breakout Star Claire Saffitz Parts Ways With the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen

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Claire Saffitz and Brad Leone | BA/YouTube. Plus, teens love Chick-fil-A, and more news to start your day Despite new leadership at Bon Appétit , Saffitz says her time there is over. On Tuesday, Bon Appétit test kitchen personality Claire Saffitz announced she would not be continuing her relationship with Bon Appétit or Conde Nast Entertainment. “I’m grateful to Bon Appétit and CNE for the opportunity to build my career on their platforms, but this opportunity was not granted equally to all,” sh

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Downtown LA’s Once-Unstoppable Restaurant Scene Now Faces an Uncertain Future

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DTLA became a cultural and dining hub from the mid-2000s, but now the area faces significant challenges [link].

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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.