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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. To tackle this pressing issue effectively, businesses must invest in staff training and development, vital for retaining and upskilling their existing workforce.

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Insights from an Alabama Restaurant Operator

Restaurant Engine

Although a small price to pay to keep people safe, it is a hefty cost for businesses with famously thin profit margins. She quickly focused on training her staff to prioritize printed tickets the same as hand-delivered tickets from in-person diners. The Peterson family started Yo’ Mama’s in 2014.

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Hold The Phone! 6 Tips for Converting Hotel Calls to Bookings

Revenue Hub

This 2014 (but still very relevant) article by Doug Kennedy of the Kennedy Training Network offers excellent advice about how to quote pricing effectively, including tips for handling rate objections. If they object to the price, reiterating the value of what’s included (parking, Wi-Fi, breakfast, etc.)

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QUESO: Non-Cheesy Values at Condado Tacos

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Joe Kahn opened the first Condado Tacos in 2014, a stone's throw from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. And what QUESO stands for is, quality is one part and it's quality in everything that we do, whether it be our food or training our people. Kahn: "It was kind of a no-brainer. How we do that? One is investment in people.

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Eater’s Guide to the Canadian Rockies

EATER

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. Prices start around $325. The railroad tracks around Banff are a favorite haunt of his.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Most chefs, however, have not been trained in cooking a plant-based diet, at least not on a heightened level. This new offering from Rouxbe comes at the right time, as there is a significant need for an industry-wide training option on the key fundamentals of plant-based cooking.” ” Presto's New Vision.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

The Humane Society of the United States, Oldways, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Health Care Without Harm and Meatless Monday are five nonprofits providing support, resources and hands-on trainings to hospital culinary teams to help them provide more plant-based meals. billion by 2024.

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