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Five Ways for Restaurants to Make Valentine’s Day Special in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

Valentine’s Day is coming up – one of the busiest holidays of the year for restaurants. According to SlickText’s “2021 Share the Love Survey,” 34 percent of respondents said their biggest Valentine’s Day spend will be at restaurants and 46 percent are prioritizing spending money at local businesses. Even with COVID-19 causing unexpected changes to your usual Valentine's Day plans, there are plenty of creative ways your restaurant can celebrate a day of lov

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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

7 Shifts

2020 was a year that the restaurant industry won’t soon forget. From a projected record growth at the top of the year to a decline of nearly $240 billion in sales and 2.5 million out of work, it was nothing short of devastating. Through it all, we emerge from the year as an industry in evolution—and our restaurants need to evolve with it. We’re not talking about just surviving the pandemic—but thriving through 2021 and beyond, and setting new standards.

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Welcome to Subway Where the Bread Is Cake, a Foot Is 11 Inches, and the Tuna Isn’t Tuna (Allegedly)

EATER

Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images. Eat fresh what exactly?? Earlier today, the Washington Post reported that Subway’s tuna sandwiches are actually made of a delicious sounding melange called “concoctions.” According to a lawsuit filed by Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the filling is “made from anything but tuna,” and is instead “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet hav

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How Daily Lunch Specials Can Drive New Patrons

Restaurant Engine

Bring a new group of patrons to your restaurants with lunch specials. More than 90% of American workers buy their lunch out at least once a week. This is a great target audience for your restaurant and a great way to build your business. In this article, we look at how daily lunch specials can drive new patrons at your restaurant. You’ll be more profitable if you can increase your lunch sales.

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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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Ways Restaurants Can Encourage Direct Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

COVID-19 has forced restaurants to rely on takeout and delivery sales to drive the majority of their sales. For some, off-premise already constituted a large percentage of their revenue, and they had the systems in place to pivot when dining rooms closed. Many others, however, had to build their off-premise operations from scratch to combat sudden dine-in closures.

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Kraft Is Introducing ‘Candy Mac & Cheese’ for Valentine’s Day, as if We Need More to Fear

EATER

Why? | Kraft. The special sweetened powder will also turn your mac and cheese hot pink You ever bite into a creamy, comforting forkful of mac and cheese and think that what it really needs is some sugar? No! You have not! But maybe Kraft is suffering from quarantine brain because that’s exactly what it’s offering this Valentine’s Day. “Candy Kraft Mac & Cheese is made with the same cheesy Kraft Mac & Cheese Americans know and love, but includes a candy flavor packet to turn the mac &

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Why you Need a Restaurant Management System in 2021

LimeTray

In the last few years, there has been a huge rise in online ordering. As social distancing becomes the norm, customers all over the world have switched to getting their food delivered straight to them instead of dining out. Today, restaurants need an effective system that lets them track orders easily while storing useful customer data too. The right kind of technology can make it much simpler to run your restaurant.

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How Restaurants Can Use Technology to Expand Outdoor Space

Modern Restaurant Management

If one thing is clear, it’s that outdoor dining is here to stay. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restaurants have had to rethink their spaces in order to accommodate additional outdoor dining capacity. All over the country, restaurants have gotten creative to reconfigure outdoor spaces into al fresco dining areas. It makes sense that customers are wary of the indoor dining experience right now.

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Pandemic Paves The Path To Reimagine The Future of Restaurants

The Restaurant Times

The pandemic is turning out to be a pivotal moment in how nations, companies, and people are responding to the crisis. Like no other event in history, 2020 has turned around economies across the world — transforming how people work, communicate, eat, and shop. Today, more than ever, restaurants and the foodservice industry are truly essential. The COVID-19 showed us how quickly consumer behavior changes and how resilient is the restaurant industry.

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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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Outdoor Dining Returns to San Francisco on Jan. 28 — But Curfew and Quarantine Rules Remain in Place

EATER

After nearly two months, the regional lockdown that restricted restaurants to takeout service only has ended, with caveats [link].

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Online Marketing Strategies for Restaurants in 2021

LimeTray

Online marketing is paramount for any business today. Before a customer even walks into your restaurant, he or she has already checked out your menu online, scrolled through multiple reviews, and glanced at ratings as well. Given the ever-increasing screen time of people all across the world, you need to engage in effective online marketing constantly if you want to keep bringing in new customers.

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Five Ways to Create a Safer Dining Experience and Workplace

Modern Restaurant Management

In response to the unparalleled challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis, restaurants are going to great lengths to adhere to countless hygiene protocols that will provide a safer, cleaner environment for their customers and employees. Whether it’s offering dining in, takeout or delivery, businesses are committed to keeping their employees safe and helping a cautious public feel more confident about eating out again.

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5 Food Presentation Tips UAE Restaurants Must Follow to Give their Dishes a Mouth-Watering Look

The Restaurant Times

Food presentation is the art of decorating, modifying, arranging, or processing food to enhance its aesthetic appeal. It evokes a positive impression in the customer’s mind as it showcases the standard of the restaurant. Customers can easily judge the hygiene standards , and quality, of a dish based on how the food is presented to them. Thus, along with infusing the right taste and flavors, presenting the food correctly is essential for the dine-in restaurant.

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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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Everything Bagel Seasoning Has Now Reached Ice Cream

EATER

Jeni’s Ice Cream. And no one at Eater knows how to react In 2019, Eater Young Gun Christina Nguyen (’14) of Hai Hai in Minneapolis espoused on the glory of Everything But the Bagel seasoning from Trader Joe’s, a combination of sesame seeds, garlic, onion, salt, and poppy seeds that becomes a delicious impetus to floss. “I think that any opportunity to make anything into an everything bagel is always good,” she said, and listed everything she’s put it on so far — hummus, avocado, roasted vegetabl

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Improving Restaurant Employee Accountability

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant owners scrambled to adjust to new laws, procedures and safeguards. For many, it meant shutting their doors temporarily or operating with reduced staff. If good help was already hard to find, then the pandemic exacerbated that challenge. Now that most restaurants have opened their doors, they’re realizing that the landscape has changed.

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Restaurant Modernization — It’s More than Customer-Facing Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

You may be tired of hearing it, but the restaurant business will never go back to the old way of doing things. Customer demand and hygiene anxiety has already made sure of that. Most agree that an integral part of moving forward is adopting new tech, and I am firmly on that bandwagon. Since the pandemic hit, most discussion has been around customer-facing tech like ghost kitchens, digital-only restaurants, and other no-touch processes.

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Yelp: Restaurants and Food Businesses Show Resiliency

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry and others could be on the brink of recovery, according to data contained in Yelp’s Annual 2020 Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. In fact, In the third quarter of 2020, YEA observed restaurant and food businesses open at pre-pandemic levels and data indicates the number of restaurant and food business openings approached and even surpassed 2019 levels in the fourth quarter.

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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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Rethink Your Restaurant Tech to Quickly Address Ever-Changing Consumer Demands

Modern Restaurant Management

As new challenges arise and consumers demand change, new technology solutions emerge to help restaurant owners keep up. The digital transformation will support restaurant owners in ways that may not have been previously possible. The speed with which the industry shifts is only increasing. As a restaurant owner, this means that you must learn how to evolve quickly to fit today’s standards.

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The Pandemic Dining Experience (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia talks about hot button restaurant industry issues such curbside pickup and delivery, outdoor dining and more with Buck Sleeper, Director of Retail and Restaurants at EPAM Continuum. Sleeper believes curbside is here to stay, but increasing human interaction is still a challenge.

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A Different Kind of Room Service

EATER

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Consider the presentation, he says, or how the staff feels like family. Then, of course, there’s the Chiang Mai duck carnitas.

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CA to Roll Back Stay-at-Home Orders, Meaning Outdoor Dining Resumes Today

EATER

There are caveats and questions regarding the expected announcement by governor Newsom today at noon. Here’s what to know so far [link].

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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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Chicago Chefs Prepare to Raise Prices If the Minimum Wage Increases

EATER

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The Pandemic Will Change How Restaurants Look in the Long Run, Too

EATER

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‘Great British Bake Off’ Brings in James McAvoy for a Stare Off With Paul Hollywood

EATER

The newest celebrity edition of the show will star James McAvoy, Kelly Holmes, Daisy Ridley, and Dizzee Rascal [link].

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New York Is ‘Not Contemplating’ a Return to Indoor Dining in NYC Even as Other U.S. Cities Reopen

EATER

The announcement comes on the heels of growing calls to reopen the city for indoor dining [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.