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The Do’s and Don’ts of Restaurant Franchising in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

The trends around restaurant ownership change with time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated consumer and investor trends alike. Consumer expectations have been permanently altered, and there are some key features to look for when seeking to invest in a franchise that will keep up with those expectations. Concepts to Invest in. Investors have continued to invest in brands that have experienced slower growth or even struggled to grow in recent years.

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I Nearly Set My House on Fire Trying to Make the Lightning Mushroom From ‘Ratatouille’

EATER

My less-than-well-thought-out plan to recreate my favorite scene from Pixar’s rat-infested classic Because the opening of the Ratatouille ride at Walt Disney World on October 1 is as good a reason as any, here now, a week-long exploration of the 2006 rat-infested classic, Ratatouille. It is my opinion that ratatouille sucks. Not the movie, or Remy the rat of all my dreams , but the actual French vegetable stew.

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How Buffalo Waffles Cashed-in The Pandemic And Achieved 2x Growth

The Restaurant Times

Buffalo Waffles is a unique street-style waffle chain that serves waffles with meat, ice cream, and desserts. And the finger-licking goods are certainly a hit among youngsters. Thomas, a young entrepreneur from Chile, after finishing his major in organizational Psychology started his career in the city. Early in his career, he co-founded Maid Your House (a cleaning startup that failed after 2 years) and simultaneously Buffalo Waffles. .

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What is Biomimicry?

EHL Insights

'Bio' means living organism; 'mimicry' means to imitate. Biomimicry is thus the practice of imitating life and nature. Its aim is to draw inspiration from nature's engineering in order to solve the world’s most pressing challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all life on earth.

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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.

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How To Improve Your Restaurant Inventory Management Strategy

Modern Restaurant Management

Controlling a restaurant kitchen’s inventory is a key to proper restaurant management and can help avoid wasting food and space. When it comes to your livelihood, any gaps in inventory are more than mere annoyances — they could be hurting your ability to make a profit. Food waste and inefficiency are two of the biggest obstacles that could be keeping you from succeeding, and how you manage your inventory plays a critical role in avoiding them.

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5 Tools To Expand Your Restaurant’s Social Media Presence

The Restaurant Times

Social media presence is an important part of running a contemporary business, and it’s quickly becoming a popular restaurant marketing tool for attracting new customers and converting them into regulars. No matter how appetizing your food is, your efforts are going to go unnoticed if you’re not driving traffic into your restaurant. According to Social Media Today, 30% of millennial consumers deliberately reject restaurants that don’t have a strong Instagram presence.

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What is Biomimicry?

EHL Insights

'Bio' means living organism; 'mimicry' means to imitate. Biomimicry is thus the practice of imitating life and nature. Its aim is to draw inspiration from nature's engineering in order to solve the world’s most pressing challenges and ensure a sustainable future for all life on earth.

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Second Time’s the Charm

Modern Restaurant Management

Second-generation restaurant spaces are an increasingly popular and appealing option for landlords and tenants alike. The restaurant business is not for the faint of heart. It’s not exactly a secret that getting a new restaurant up and running is a significant challenge, with a high bar for entry that includes formidable logistical hurdles and financial obstacles.

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The 34 Essential Athens Restaurants

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Outside Geros tou Moria | Geros tou Moria. Where to find avocado tzatziki, fried seafood in a cone, mutton burgers, and octopus candied with tsipouro in the Greek capital Every year, tourists travel to the Greek capital to hike up the Acropolis, browse countless museums, and seek out tans at nearby beaches. They also come for Greek cuisine, which builds many meals from three key ingredients: olive oil, wheat, and wine.

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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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Cómo Buffalo Waffles aprovechó la pandemia y logró el doble de crecimiento

The Restaurant Times

Buffalo Waffles es una cadena única de estilo urbano que sirve waffle con carne, helado, y postres. Y los productos para chuparse los dedos son ciertamente un éxito entre los jóvenes. Thomas, un empresario joven de Chile, después de terminar su carrera en psicología organizacional empezó su carrera en la ciudad. Al principio de su carrera, cofundó Maid Your House (un startup de limpieza que falló después de 2 años) y simultáneamente Buffalo Waffles. .

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Students want to learn more about sustainability: Key findings from the PIR survey

EHL Insights

In January 2021, Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) participated in the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) created by students, for students, with the rewarding objective of contributing as a lever of change for transformation and improvement in business schools around the world. At EHL, the Sustainability Committee*, with the help of the student council, decided to launch the PIR survey, the first assessment of global business schools, to give students the chance to evaluate their own school on how it

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Can I Cut Costs Without Customers Noticing?

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q : What are some ways I can cut costs without customers noticing while still maintaining a high level of value?

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We Asked Science if Rats Can Actually Cook Like in ‘Ratatouille’ and It Said No But We Kept Pushing Anyway

EATER

You could probably train a rat to do this. | Disney/Pixar Creative Studios. In which an actual rat behaviorist reminds us repeatedly that “Ratatouille” was not a documentary Because the opening of the Ratatouille ride at Walt Disney World on October 1 is as good a reason as any, here now, a weeklong exploration of the 2007 rat-infested Pixar classic, Ratatouille.

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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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Strategies To Opening A Restaurant With Low Risk and Low Capital

The Restaurant Times

Thinking of opening a restaurant? If you’re one of those culinary wizards, the idea of opening your own place would have definitely crossed your mind. You surely have magic in your hands, but do you have a brilliant strategy to survive in the market or enough funds to plan out your dream? Fret not. You’ve come to the right place! . Running a successful business takes hard work and a lot of risks.

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What should recruiters check on LinkedIn when hiring hospitality graduates?

EHL Insights

LinkedIn, the largest professional social network with over 740 million members (and over 55 million registered companies), has become a phenomenal professional tool for vetting people. We screen the profiles of our bosses, peers and subordinates. We check the profiles of long-lost acquaintances and friends, new potential clients, suppliers, business partners, guest speakers in webinars we attend, co-authors we wish to collaborate with, and those candidates we (or recruiters) are about to interv

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From a Spark to a Flame

Modern Restaurant Management

Clay Murphy has always been bold. You can hear it in the way he talks nowadays — proud and declarative and maybe even a bit brash — and this confidence was certainly a trait he’d already picked up by the time he reached his twenties. So maybe it wasn’t all that shocking how one day, in 1986, Murphy boldly announced he was going to marry a woman a few minutes after laying eyes on her. “I just knew,” Clay says of first seeing Pam Weaver that day in Aisle 3 at St

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David Chang Is Pretty Jazzed About Fake Meat in His Upcoming Hulu Show

EATER

Hulu. On “The Next Thing You Eat , ” the chef and his celebrity friends take a more urgent look at exactly where food is coming from, and where it’s headed David Chang is pretty excited about the weird, robotic, fake-salmon future of food. Or at least that’s how it seems in the trailer for his upcoming show, The Next Thing You Eat. The six-episode docu-series, a collaboration with documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville (and produced by Vox Media Studios, part of Eater’s parent company) is set to

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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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8 Things To Pay Attention To Before Starting Up A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

Food truck businesses have never been more popular than they are now. In 2020, we saw a significant rise in the number of food trucks. After all, they let you change sites, keep menus short and focused, and create an exciting and dynamic small company on wheels since they are smaller and most importantly mobile, unlike a restaurant. Moreover, since the COVID-19 pandemic, many customers prefer to eat from food trucks rather than restaurants as they are relatively safer.

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What should recruiters check on LinkedIn when hiring hospitality graduates?

EHL Insights

LinkedIn, the largest professional social network with over 740 million members (and over 55 million registered companies), has become a phenomenal professional tool for vetting people. We screen the profiles of our bosses, peers and subordinates. We check the profiles of long-lost acquaintances and friends, new potential clients, suppliers, business partners, guest speakers in webinars we attend, co-authors we wish to collaborate with, and those candidates we (or recruiters) are about to interv

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Coca-Cola Research Reveals What Guests Want Post-COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Six major themes are expected to drive restaurant operator profitability and beverage attachment post-COVID, according to the Coca-Cola 2021 Fountain Foodservice Beverage Strategy Survey. The themes include: pent-up demand. off-premise growth. expectation for ease and convenience. need for reassurance. trust in fountain beverages. assortment optimization. "After more than a year battling the coronavirus pandemic, consumers have begun thinking ahead toward what life will look like post-COVID,

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I Rode the New Ratatouille Ride at Disney World Before Everyone Else and It Smelled Amazing

EATER

The Walt Disney Company. For anyone who ever worked in a real restaurant, it may also smell familiar. Because the opening of the Ratatouille ride at Walt Disney World on October 1 is as good a reason as any, here now, a weeklong exploration of the 2007 rat-infested Pixar classic, Ratatouille. A gig at Disney World must be a dream for set designers. Whether you’re stepping into Wendy, John, and Michael’s bedroom before boarding the Peter Pan ships, touring through a museum-level exhibit of yeti l

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No-Code Technology: The Key to Unlock the Future of Your Business

Global economies are reeling from recent upheavals—pandemic aftershocks, geopolitical conflicts, and a tech sector crunch. Mark Zuckerberg's 2023 "Year of Efficiency" ethos extends into 2024, with leaders seeking cost reductions without stunting growth. No-code technology emerges as a beacon of hope, fostering resilience and adaptability. Platforms like Make.com and Zapier empower even non-technical staff to automate and innovate, freeing IT for strategic tasks.

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Digital Ordering Is The Trick To Improve Your Restaurant Sales

The Restaurant Times

Every industry is scrambling to catch up with the advancement of technology. One of the most important things we have learned throughout this tech revolution is that online services are here to stay, and made life easier when the entire world was bottled up due to the pandemic. The COVID-19 invoked an enormous shift in the real world, igniting a gigantic leap in the digital world.

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Ahead of Fire Prevention Week – Is Your Restaurant Safe?

Modern Restaurant Management

As a result of the Great Chicago Fire that killed 250 people in 1871, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an annual week in October as Fire Prevention Week, now the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. Society Insurance has been working alongside restaurant owners for more than a century, seeing first-hand the devastating effects a fire can have on the establishments that make communities great.

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All the Michelin Stars Awarded to U.S. Restaurants in 2021

EATER

Celebrated French restaurant Pasjoli in Los Angeles received one star for the first time. | Wonho Frank Lee. After a year off for the pandemic, the tire company has returned with a vengeance but with many of the same predictable selections The Michelin Guide, the vaunted star-bestowing restaurant list assembled by a tire company, completed its reveal of its 2021 guides across the United States in September.

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José Andrés, Somehow Not Busy Enough, Is Launching His Own Media Company

EATER

ThinkFoodGroup [Official Photo]. José Andrés Media’s first show will be a six-episode docuseries set in Spain, and Andrés promises future projects will be “as creative, fun, inspiring and authentic as our restaurants.” During the countless crises that have colored the last several years, superstar chef José Andrés has become as known for his humanitarian work as he is for his restaurants.

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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.