Sat.Jul 09, 2022 - Fri.Jul 15, 2022

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How To Do Restaurant Week the Right Way

Modern Restaurant Management

As Restaurant Week is returning across the country, and with that also comes fresh opportunity as diners are returning to restaurants with excitement and new expectations. The event celebrates another year of connecting hungry guests with discounted meals at restaurants all over the country, and 2022 is shaping up to be a different experience than in years past.

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Hotel Marketing Strategies For 2022 And Beyond

InnQuest

Recent times have seen modern, online marketing strategies revolutionize the landscape of the tourism and hospitality industry. While traditional marketing strategies still yield results, they have now become merely an auxiliary factor in the overall success of a robust hotel marketing plan. The digitalization of modern life has led to an enormous rise in the number of online bookings due to several factors, the primary ones being its convenience and cost-effectiveness.

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The Eater Guide to Alaska

EATER

It’s wildly delicious Food in Alaska has a certain magic to it. If it comes from nature — like blueberries, herring eggs, moose meat, or salmon — it’s connected to the vast, wild place. If it comes from elsewhere, as almost all store-bought food does, it has novelty and, often, mysterious origins. If it’s prepared following a method from a homeland thousands of miles away, it’s full of longing and nostalgia.

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Want to Improve Productivity? Make Sure Your Upgraded POS System Has These 7 Features

Restaurant Engine

You can improve productivity with the right POS system. You know that a point-of-sale system (POS) is great for your customers, enabling them to have a bit more control when ordering or paying for their meals. Did you know, though, that a POS system is great for managing your business and improving your efficiency? And do you want to improve your productivity?

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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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My One Piece of Advice For The Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

As I sat down to write this article, all I could think about was how the foodservice industry is so vital to our daily lives. When we don’t want to cook, we call our favorite restaurant. When we want to celebrate our wins, we gather at our favorite restaurant. When we want comfort in tough times, we order from our favorite restaurant. Some of our best memories include our favorite restaurants.

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I Have Beef With the Can Storyline in ‘The Bear’

EATER

The Bear | FX. Despite what ‘Bear’ star Jeremy Allen White was told, it’s highly unlikely for a restaurant to have a machine that seamlessly re-seals cans The final scene of the first season of The Bear — an eight-episode comedy-drama about what it’s like to be a smokin’ hot guy who also inherits a failing but beloved restaurant from your deceased older brother — ends with the entire kitchen staff jubilantly opening dozens of cans of San Merican tomatoes.

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J.D. Power: Overall Hotel Guest Satisfaction Declines

Guest Experience: Lodging Magazine

Hotel occupancy rates are on track to approach pre-pandemic levels this year as travelers get back on the road and in the air to make up for two-plus years of deferred vacation plans. However, according to the J.D. Power 2022 North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index (NAGSI) Study, the surge in demand and steadily climbing prices have not been met with a corresponding improvement in amenities or services.

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How Does a Single-Location Independent Operator Restaurant Compete with Chain Franchises?

Modern Restaurant Management

Even in the best of times, it’s mostly been an uphill battle for single location restaurants to compete with chain franchises. Differences in manpower, brand recognition, technology and marketing budgets have all presented significant challenges for single location restaurants to compete for market share. With the onset of the pandemic, the restaurant industry cratered after experiencing massive labor shortages and business loss, compounding the existing challenges.

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What is the earning potential of a properly running B&B business?

Bed and Breakfast Coach

Hello, I’m Yvonne Halling from Bed and Breakfast Coach.com and in this video I’m going to share with you the earning potential of a properly running bed and breakfast. So what is the earning potential of a properly running bed and breakfast? The first thing to establish is how many rooms you have and your average rate per night. Then decide how many days or nights per year you plan to be open.

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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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An Adobo in Every Pot

EATER

Mixed adobo and lumpia at the Valley Restaurant in Juneau, which serves traditional American fare but also Filipino foods like adobo and lumpia. Adobo’s long history in Southeast Alaska reflects the history of Filipino migration, the realities of what economies open to the Native Tlingit, and how the two communities came together “You Filipinos may have invented chicken adobo,” says Chuck Miller, a.k.a.

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Your summer vacation 2022: What to expect from the travel industry

EHL Insights

Many of us have hardly left our country of residence, if at all, in the past 2-3 years. This year, the headwinds have changed, consumers are craving to finally get away and the statistics are starting to reflect a strong determination to do so. To decompress from the past few years, a far-flung location is on the wishlist for many, but whilst the virus seems to have become all but a distant memory, the subsequent challenges it has brought are all very real and ongoing with regards to our summer

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How to Avoid Getting Ghosted at Interviews

Modern Restaurant Management

In today’s market, it seems that just about every restaurant is hiring. Job candidates have their choice of any number of open positions – and the most qualified applicants get snapped up fast. When they land a job, candidates often don’t contact the other companies where they have applied. Why? Sometimes they’ve lost track of where they have applied.

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Case Study: Managing Large Restaurant Venues

Eat Restaurant Management

Our latest case study takes a look at La Cuadra de Salvador , an exclusive American-style steakhouse restaurant, that recently opened a new location in the San Isidro district, located on Calle Santa Luisa con Tradiciones. The restaurant is well-known for using very high-quality meat imported from the United States as their main ingredient, attracting visitors from around the world.

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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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Netflix’s ‘Iron Chef’ Upsells the Glory of Winning a Cooking Competition

EATER

Claudette Zepeda competes on an episode. | Adam Rose/Netflix. “Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend” mirrors its Food Network predecessor but brings a deeper understanding of how a chef’s culture influences their food Ask anyone who enjoys TV cooking competitions what show’s their favorite, and they’ll likely have a different answer: It could be the stalwarts, Chopped and Top Chef ; new school streaming shows like Is It Cake?

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How a Restaurant Online Ordering System & Smart Strategy Add Up to Success

NCC USA

If you operated a table service restaurant before 2020, chances are your business looks a lot different today. Restaurant online ordering is on pace to grow from an $82 billion market to $200 billion by 2025. That growth has restaurants of all concepts and sizes wondering how to get a share of that revenue. Deploying the right restaurant online ordering system and adapting your business strategy can lead to continued success, even as customers change how they prefer to dine.

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Creating Opportunities for Ukrainian Refugees

Modern Restaurant Management

The team at Manifesto Market wanted to do something to support Ukrainian refugees by providing job opportunities. They began an initiative to support the opening of a restaurant by a Ukrainian chef or entrepreneur and offered space in Manifesto And?l for the first Ukrainian restaurant, which opened in three months time. Manifesto's investment is estimated at $40,000, including a six-month free lease and initial fit-out.

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Emerging Restaurant Technology Trends To Watch Out For in 2022

Eagle Owl

If not earlier, restaurants are now finally adopting technology to manage their restaurant operations. This has happened majorly due to the sudden jolt delivered by the global pandemic. But better late than never, because it was long due for restaurants to hop onto restaurant technology trends to survive the tough competition. ? Get your hands […].

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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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In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

EATER

In a town where most ingredients need to be grown or painstakingly shipped in via bush plane, everyone’s invested in eating well In March 2020, when pandemic stay-at-home orders had just started and everyone was figuring out how to get groceries and purchase in bulk for the next several weeks, I already had a chest freezer full of food and a pantry stocked with months’ worth of meals at my home in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Email marketing for hotels: Comprehensive guide

SiteMinder

Table of contents. What is hotel email marketing and why do you need it? Email marketing is one of the most viable and cost-effective ways for your hotel to reach guests and boost direct bookings. Marketing through multiple channels, both traditional and emerging, can significantly increase costs at your hotel. Email is a simple way to market effectively on a lower budget, and still drives great results.

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The Importance of Staying Up-to-Date on Liquor Laws and Insurance Coverage 

Modern Restaurant Management

The climate of the hospitality industry is forever changing. Based on completely unpredictable occurrences such as the COVID pandemic and societal realities such as violence at bars and restaurants, hospitality establishment owners have a lot to consider when it comes to their coverage. The most important thing new owners should know about insurance coverage is that it’s a vital part of running their business.

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How to design a successful new restaurant

OpenTable

Every restaurant owner needs to make many decisions about the design of a new restaurant between kicking off the project and opening day. Many are big decisions with big price tags attached, but they will ultimately create the look and feel of the space. So it’s important to get them right without breaking the bank. Before you get started, do the research and figure out where your money will make the biggest impact to get the most out of this investment.

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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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FX Orders Up a Second Season of ‘The Bear’

EATER

Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images. Get ready for more Carmy thirst, and hopefully an answer as to how they got all that money in those cans This summer’s breakout TV hit is, without question, The Bear. The FX series, starring Jeremy Allen White alongside a stellar cast of restaurant world personalities has been hailed as an authentic portrayal of the chaotic world of running a restaurant , and now it’s coming back for a second season.

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How to Win With Restaurant Training

Service that Sells

“There are three kinds of people in baseball: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.” Tommy Lasorda was talking about baseball when he said that famous quote, but the logic behind it applies to the restaurant business, too. So what sets those who make things happen apart from others? Simple — it’s training.

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Tips on Preventing Water Damage at Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Discovering water damage at your business can be a huge pain. It can result in structural damage, mold, expensive repairs, and loss of revenue. This is a concern in Texas where “nearly every major city is vulnerable to Gulf Coast hurricanes or sits in “Flash Flood Alley”, one of the most flash flood prone areas in the nation,” according to FEMA.

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7 Ideas de marketing para restaurantes de presupuesto cero que debería emplear

The Restaurant Times

Con los rápidos desarrollos e incidentes que se producen en la industria de F&B, las reglas del marketing de los restaurantes han cambiado. El marketing ha evolucionado a lo largo de los años y, con la llegada de “Internet”, el marketing para restaurantes se ha expandido a pasos agigantados. Hoy en día, el marketing para restaurantes no se limita a las modalidades online u offline, sino que requiere un enfoque omnicanal.

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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.