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Restaurant Payments Go from Cash to Credit to Contactless – to Cryptocurrency 

Modern Restaurant Management

The value of the cryptocurrency market almost tripled in 2021 , with digital currencies having the potential to achieve returns higher than the stock market. People use cryptocurrency for quick payments, anonymity, investments or to sidestep transaction fees charged by banks. As payments evolve, consumers adapt and restaurants must meet them there. Why the Crypto Craze?

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17 Awesome Ways To Motivate Your Restaurant Employees

7 Shifts

A restaurant earns its reputation primarily from two things: its food and its service. In order to deliver on both these accounts, it's critical to cultivate an environment where people — customers and staff alike — want to be. That's why it is important to learn how to motivate your restaurant employees. We are most productive and responsive when we are happy, so it makes sense to create an environment that fosters this kind of positive emotion.

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The Soul of Saugus

EATER

Sophie Park. A storied stretch of Route 1 in Massachusetts was once home to restaurants with over-the-top roadside attractions. Now, only Kowloon, owned by the Wong family, remains, and it’s unclear for how much longer. Every other weekend between 1988 and 1998, I became, as my fourth-grade teacher christened me, Miss Pan Am, jetting between Boston’s Logan Airport and LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal.

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Service Robots and AI: What impact on the future of Hospitality

EHL Insights

Would you allow a humanoid robot to greet a paying guest at your hotel? Would the hotel guest prefer the ease and convenience of service robots or the warmth and service of a fellow human being? There is no doubt that AI will create both challenges and opportunities for the industry. This article reviews the trajectory and impact of AI in the hospitality industry.

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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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Four Hidden Costs of Turnover and Tangible Strategies to Increase Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

For operators in the restaurant industry, facing all too familiar workforce pressures in 2022, greater retention should be this year’s focus. The sector is on the heels of what the Washington Post dubbed “the most unusual job market in American history,” compounded by a newly familiar list of challenges: supply chain woes bearing down on procurement, a broader shift from onsite food consumption to app-based food delivery services, and escalating arms race of compensations and b

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How Hamantashen for Ukraine Is Raising Funds Worldwide

EATER

Shutterstock. Hamantashen for Ukraine is the latest international bake-sale relief effort, just in time for Purim Laurel Kratochvila and her team begin the process every year around March. They roll out a thin, buttery egg dough and meticulously cut out as many circular disks as they can muster from it. Carefully, they add a sweet preserve filling to the center: Too much and the cookie will explode and leak out in the oven, not enough and the flavor disappears.

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3 Ways C-Store Owners Can Increase Foot Traffic

NCC USA

How C-Store Owners Can Optimize Business Operations and Increase Foot Traffic in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to industries across the board, particularly in the food and beverage sectors, including convenience stores (c-stores). From government shutdowns to safety mandates, c-stores have been struggling to keep business running as usual.

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Is Restaurant Reporting Key to Managing Costs?

Modern Restaurant Management

There’s no such thing as a crystal ball when it comes to helping you run a restaurant. As much as we might want a glimpse into the future, restaurant operators have to run with the next best thing – forecasting and reports. With the disruption that has swept across the restaurant industry in the last two years, many operators may feel overwhelmed as they work to bring food and labor costs under control, continue rolling out digital initiatives, and adapt to changing diner preferences

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Priceline creates hotel booking engine for Royal Caribbean

PhocusWire

Intended to provide travelers and travel advisors an easier way to book pre- or post-cruise lodging, the platform promises exclusive rates at hotels located near Royal Caribbean departure and arrival ports.

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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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Here Are the 2022 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Finalists

EATER

James Beard Foundation. The full list of nominees Today, the James Beard Foundation announced its slate of finalists for its 2022 awards. This short list of nominees honors the year’s outstanding restaurants and chefs — the first such list since 2020. In addition to the list of Restaurant and Chef Award finalists, the foundation announced chef and TV host Martin Yan as the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Grace Young as the winner of its Humanitarian of the Year Award for her work su

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The challenges of sustainable development in Hospitality gender equality

EHL Insights

Professor at EHL Hospitality Business School, Dr Sowon Kim is interested in questions of equality at work and sexual harassment. Her commitment to these issues was born after seeing an exhibition on EHL alumni in executive positions in the industry – all of them men.

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2022’s Hottest Cake Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Paris Baguette’s Yvette Castillo dishes on what cake trends to watch for this year. To help us wrap our mind around what cake trends are hot and what are not, we turned to an expert: Yvette Castillo, Senior Research & Development Manager at Paris Baguette. Castillo not only oversees all the exhilarating cake designs for the bakery cafés across the U.S., but also has a long history of cake decorating in her own right.

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Rethinking traveler experience for the loyalty land grab

PhocusWire

Optimizing the traveler experience isn’t just about getting travelers where they need to go but being empathetic to their unique situations and easing the stress and frustrations associated with travel.

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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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The 38 Essential Milan Restaurants

EATER

Bridge across the Naviglio Grande canal in Milan | Ventdusud / Shutterstock. Where to find saffron-infused risotto, prosciutto-stuffed fried pizza, anchovies in salsa verde, and ricotta gelato in Italy’s second largest city Milan may be Italy’s fashion and design capital, but the city known for creative style long played it a bit safe when it comes to food.

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The digital nomad’s hotels, lodging

Smart Brief Hospitality

The pandemic has changed the way many people work. Though some may be heading back to the office, many are still working remotely at least part-time, offering them a great deal of flexibility about where they work. Vacation rental and hotel automation technology company Operto has identified traveling while working remotely as a top trend, while multiple companies have referred to remote working’s continuation as travel’s “ greatest change-maker “ for this year.

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Win Big with Smaller Menus: How Tech Can Supercharge Limited Offerings On- and Off-Premise

Modern Restaurant Management

With wholesale food prices soaring 13 percent in 2021 and labor costs rising as worker shortages continue, many restaurants are looking for smart ways to lower costs and avoid passing them on to their diners. To mitigate these concerns, restaurants have gotten creative, looking for new cost-cutting measures. One such solution has been shrinking restaurant menus.

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Sounding Off: Go modular, or go home, when it comes to tech interfaces

PhocusWire

The industry can continue to at least hope that systems are built in a modular way that allow for easy integration when a software provider is unable to carry out every task that is required.

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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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Rising Gas Prices Could Force Food Banks to Scale Back Their Critically Important Work

EATER

New York City’s City Harvest is one of several organizations experiencing rising costs due to high fuel prices. | Lori Cannava/City Harvest. Amid supply chain challenges and rising food costs, fuel price spikes are yet another headache for food banks If you’re like basically everybody else in America right now, you’re feeling a serious pinch at the gas pump.

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Omni Hotels & Resorts Launches Omni Junior Chefs Program

Lodging Magazine F&B

DALLAS—Omni Hotels & Resorts has announced the launch of Omni Junior Chefs, a food and beverage program designed for children’s dining experiences while giving young hotel guests an opportunity to give back and help fight food insecurity. Kids upon check-in will receive an Omni Junior Chefs activities tote bag and special kids’ menus at Omni restaurants, along with the opportunity to donate a meal to those in need.

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Can Concierge Medical Services Work in the Restaurant Sector?  

Modern Restaurant Management

For several years we have been considering the viability of high touch healthcare concierge programs in the restaurant space. The market leaders in this field are several third party providers, although some carriers are also developing and offering these services. The attraction of the strategy is increased employee perception of the plans while reducing plan costs.

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The digital nomad’s hotels, lodging

Smart Brief Hospitality

The pandemic has changed the way many people work. Though some may be heading back to the office, many are still working remotely at least part-time, offering them a great deal of flexibility about where they work. Vacation rental and hotel automation technology company Operto has identified traveling while working remotely as a top trend, while multiple companies have referred to remote working’s continuation as travel’s “ greatest change-maker “ for this year.

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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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The Flavor of Beef Shines in This Recipe for Sushi del Chianti

EATER

YesChef. Buy a good cut of beef and some lemon and garlic for a simple and delicious Chianti-style “sushi” At Antica Macelleria Cecchini, Dario Cecchini’s butcher shop and restaurant in Panzano, Italy, the words to live by are “carne diem.” As he stands behind the counter slicing enormous sirloin steaks Florentine-style, Cecchini puts his philosophy plainly: “Eat meat and do not think too much to the future,” he says.

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Is space the next frontier for travel distribution?

PhocusWire

As Axiom Space prepares to send its first crew of private astronauts to the ISS, space tourism activity is picking up on many fronts, and travel advisors are creating services to sell these specialized experiences.

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Top St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails

Modern Restaurant Management

The top five St. Patrick’s Day cocktails are a surprising lineup this year, according to our worldwide network of bartenders. This Irish holiday’s flavors may be moving in a new direction. A new up-and-coming cocktail is taking a place on this year's list. Its refreshing flavor is a break from the St. Patrick’s Day classics. Irish Coffee.

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How To Formulate A Restaurant Manager Job Description

The Restaurant Times

It is next to impossible to think of a successful restaurant business without an incredible team. However, the team can only achieve the desired outcome if headed by a potent restaurant manager. Hence, a restaurant manager is an integral part of a restaurant business and plays a crucial role in steering its direction, which is why their job description must be adeptly formulated.

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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.