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How Restaurants Evolve in the War for Talent in 2021 and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

As we continue to move past the fallout from the pandemic there will be a growing reliance on technology within every aspect of the operation and companies can be ready to take advantage, but they must start now or be left behind. Outside of adapting new technologies to tackle ordering and delivery, one area that is evolving and showing great promise is in the war for talent.

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s to take your grandmothers’ recipes to the masses. Maybe you want to share your love of tacos with the world. A place to call your own, perhaps? The dream of opening a restaurant is held by many, and it hasn’t been sullied by the pandemic. Despite the unfortunate closures, new restaurants are opening every day, and at rates close to what they were prior to March of 2020.

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Welcome to Flavortown, Population: Us

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Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images. Guy Fieri partners with Robert Earl, king of themed restaurants, on Flavortown ghost restaurants throughout the country Guy Fieri is the latest chef banking on ghost kitchens to expand his brand in the middle of the pandemic. Fieri, perhaps best known as the host of cross-country eating bonanza Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives , has launched Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen in 23 states and Washington, D.C., a delivery-only restaurant operating out of existing restaur

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Breaking Up With The Restaurant Industry Is Hard To Do

The Restaurant Manifesto

What happens when a career path in hospitality reaches a dead end? The post Breaking Up With The Restaurant Industry Is Hard To Do appeared first on The Restaurant Manifesto.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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Digital Marketing Tips to Attract More Valentine’s Day Diners

Modern Restaurant Management

The National Retail Federation estimates that 41 percent of consumers will celebrate Valentine’s day with a special dinner or celebration at home. Valentine’s Day is often a busy time for restaurants, but many are now dealing with various challenges amid the pandemic, like no indoor dining or limited capacity as well as more customers opting for carry out.

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Pizza Babka Is All Over Instagram Right Now. Bill Clark Is Why.

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Hunter Abrams /courtesy Bill Clark. The former MeMe’s Diner chef and co-owner explores whimsical recipes in his newsletter that makes cooking fun again If you were frantically searching through mentions and scrolling past videos of people making “pizza babka” a couple of weekends ago, you weren’t alone. It seems like everyone has suddenly been brushing garlic butter over golden-brown loaves stuffed with cheese and pepperoni: It’s a perfect viral dish, really, an effortless fusion of two comfort

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s to take your grandmothers’ recipes to the masses. Maybe you want to share your love of tacos with the world. A place to call your own, perhaps? The dream of opening a restaurant is held by many, and it hasn’t been sullied by the pandemic. Despite the unfortunate closures, new restaurants are opening every day, and at rates close to what they were prior to March of 2020.

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How to Schedule Social Media Ads to Run When People Are Hungry

Modern Restaurant Management

Facebook and Instagram are powerful advertising tools for any restaurant wanting to reach people in their community or tourists traveling through their area, whether to increase indoor dining numbers or, in today's climate, driving more pickup and curbside orders. With many options available to restaurateurs to advertise the social posts one option which is often overlooked or is simply unknown is what we call dayparting, the ability to schedule a post or ad to run on set days and within set

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6 Top Factors To Consider When Choosing A Restaurant Location in Dubai

The Restaurant Times

Dubai is considered to be one of the best cities to start a food venture in. Being home to over two hundred nationalities , Dubai widens the scope for restaurant owners who can cater to different audiences and cuisines. However, even in such a place, the restaurant location plays a vital role. A suitable location increases the success rate of a restaurant by attracting enough initial customer interest to being convenient to visit.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot company Chowbotics

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Salad vending machine company Chowbotics is now part of DoorDash. DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot startup Chowbotics, the companies announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently within DoorDash. “We have long admired the work that Chowbotics has done to increase access to fresh meals, with its groundbreaking robotics product and vision,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley T

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Long Live Digital Dining: How Consumers’ Appetite for Mobile Apps and Online Ordering Will Continue

Modern Restaurant Management

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. And more than 50 percent of consumers with restaurant apps use them at least once a week. What’s more, digital consultancy Mobiquity in June 2020 reported a 36 percent year-over-year increase in the number of restaurant mobile app reviewers who said it was their first time using such an app.

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Why Strong Beverage Programs Matter (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia discusses why restaurants need to think about their beverage lineup with Luke Emery, CEO of Tractor Beverage Co. Launched in 2018 by organic farmers, the company offers artificial-free, certified organic, and non-GMO sodas and drinks and is currently partnering with Chipotle, Pokeworks and Umami Burger, among others.

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Four Ways to Improve Your Gluten-Free Marketing Campaigns

Modern Restaurant Management

Demand for gluten-free products continues to grow, with 15 percent of consumers surveyed looking for gluten-free options when dining out, according to a 2020 report by market research firm Mintel. Heeding this demand, more than a quarter of US restaurants now offer gluten-free dishes, but many establishments aren’t promoting these offerings as effectively as they could.

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Win More in 2024: Your Guide to Restaurant Marketing Success

Your Guide to Restaurant Marketing Success Start maximizing ROI and doing more with less with Olo’s ultimate guide to restaurant marketing. In this guide: Strategies to level up in 4 key areas: data, audiences, content distribution, and loyalty Interactive checklists to help you track your progress throughout the year Tips for leveraging guest data across your entire business What you’ll learn: Level 1 | Beginner: Learn how to collect guest data, build a healthy subscriber list, launch personali

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My COVID Valentine

Modern Restaurant Management

Valentine’s Day, normally a busy time for restaurants, will no doubt look a bit different this year. A number of restaurants have brought their creative “love” juices to the table with unique promotions and they could benefit, because, according to SlickText’s “2021 Share the Love Survey,” 34 percent of respondents said their biggest Valentine’s Day spend will be at restaurants.???.

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Guy Fieri Is Operating Ghost Kitchens Out of a Handful of Boston Area Bertucci’s

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And diners can (predictably) order jalapeño poppers wrapped in bacon, and burgers topped with mac and cheese [link].

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Popeyes Is Hoping for Another Hit With Its New Cajun Flounder Sandwich

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Popeyes. If you hate it, the restaurant will give you a chicken sandwich instead — assuming you paid the 15 cents for sandwich insurance Aside from some real devotees to McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish (like Greg Kelly and devout Catholics ), fast food fish has never quite inspired the national fervor of a burger or a chicken sandwich, probably because most of the country is landlocked, so eating ocean-caught cod warmed under a heat lamp just doesn’t feel right.

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NYC Restaurant Industry Divided Over Return of Indoor Dining

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With days left to the reopening, the hospitality industry still remains deeply divided on whether it’s safe to restart indoor dining this week [link].

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Unlock Restaurant Success: Mastering 7 Vital Employment Laws

As a restaurant leader, your plate is full with responsibilities, from staff management to serving up delicious dishes. But amidst the hustle, there's a crucial area you can't afford to overlook – employment laws. In this comprehensive eBook, we'll unveil the seven essential employment laws every restaurant leader must master. We'll break down the intricacies of each law, showing you how it directly impacts your business.

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After Racial Reckoning, Aunt Jemima Rebrands as ‘Pearl Milling Company’

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PepsiCo, Inc. The newly designed products will begin appearing in grocery stores this summer Aunt Jemima finally has a new name, after announcing last June that it would be retiring the logo and 130-year-old name that had roots in minstrelsy and racist stereotypes. The Quaker Oats-owned brand will now be known as Pearl Milling Company, with duly repackaged pancake mixes and syrups hitting store shelves in June 2021, according to a press release.

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Michelle Obama’s ‘Waffles + Mochi,’ a Culinary Kids Show, Will Premiere March 16 on Netflix

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Michelle Obama’s new show stars herself and anthropomorphic creatures Waffles and Mochi. | Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix. The 10-episode series stars the former first lady as a friendly supermarket owner who embarks on food-inspired adventures with a couple of puppet friends Michelle Obama’s long-awaited kids food show has a new title and a release date: Waffles + Mochi will debut on Netflix on March 16, the former first lady announced on social media this morning.

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Doordash Kidnapping Victim Better Served by GoFundMe Than His Actual Employer

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Doordash’s CEO is a newly minted billionaire. Its drivers can’t afford child care. [link].

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Grocery Store Workers Feel Forgotten in Vaccine Rollout

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Kevin Chen Images /Shutterstock. Once lauded as heroes of the pandemic, grocery store employees now struggle for better pay and vaccine priority It feels like both just yesterday and forever ago that grocery stores were facing pressure to give their employees extra hazard pay for working through the chaotic checkout lines and heightened fear of the early pandemic days, when everyone who could stayed at home and outsourced their risk to minimum-wage laborers.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Smoking Trout at the Bottom of the World

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Gregory prepares her smoked trout recipe. | Adam Gibson/Courtesy Hardie Grant Books. A recipe for brown sugar-cured hot smoked trout from new cookbook “How Wild Things Are” by Analiese Gregory It’s not a stretch to say that many of us would like to be somewhere else right now. I felt this acutely as I flipped through Analiese Gregory’s new cookbook How Wild Things Are: Cooking, Fishing and Hunting at the Bottom of the World.

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Sweareth Thy Loyalty to Burger King or McDonald’s and Ye Shall Be Granted Rewards Points

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Shutterstock. Two of the largest fast food chains are launching loyalty rewards programs with the hopes of courting more digital orders Two of the country’s biggest fast food chains, McDonald’s and Burger King, have announced new loyalty rewards programs as a way to encourage repeat customers, and to capitalize on the growing number of digital orders in the pandemic.

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How 60,000 Metric Tons of Salt Are Harvested from One of the World’s Saltiest Lakes

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These harvesters take us through the taxing process of collecting salt from Senegal’s “Pink Lake” At Senegal’s Lake Retba, also known as Lac Rose or “Pink Lake,” harvesters wade into one of the world’s saltiest lakes — even saltier than the Dead Sea — to collect 60,000 metric tons of salt per year. Salt is much more abundant in this lake versus the seas, according to Lake Retba expert Ndongo Guéye.

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To-Go Cocktails Could Become a Fixture in California — But Not for Bars

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The state is considering making to-go cocktails permanent allowance for restaurants, but bars without food won’t be able to participate [link].

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Diving into Diversity: Decoding the Foundations of Inclusion in Hospitality Talent Acquisition

Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course

Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i