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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

7 Shifts

What is the key to success in the restaurant industry? While a delicious menu and an inviting ambiance are critical components of a restaurant’s success, staff are the lifeblood of a restaurant. The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Much like profit and loss, employee engagement is a metric that every restaurateur should be tracking regularly.

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Are You Marketing Your Coffee Shop the Right Way?

Modern Restaurant Management

Bright and lively. Crisp and sharp. These aren’t just adjectives explaining coffee flavors, but should also be terms that describe your coffee shop’s marketing campaigns. With more than 32,000 specialty coffee shops in America, marketing is no longer a plus but a must, especially since a lot of the fierce competition is coming from big-name chains such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts.

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The Advantages Of A Restaurant Mockup Web Design

Restaurant Den

In this digital age, websites are important for restaurants. Of course, if you’re a web designer or a restaurant business owner, you should prioritize creating an appealing and functional website. So, what can you expect from great web design? A great restaurant website is beyond aesthetic appeal. It should also be fast, reliable, secure, and […].

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Hotel SEO: The How to Guide

Dialed Labs Hotels

If you want to get bookings on your hotel’s website, you need people to visit your site. These people can come from different places, however one of the best sources of website traffic, are search engines. This is because people that find websites through a search engine are much more likely to use their credit card and make a booking. As someone wanting to market a hotel, you already know that.

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Planning Your Restaurants 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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13 Pop-Ups Providing Over-the-Top Holiday Event Inspiration

BizBash

Buzzy brands (think Target, Netflix, Buzzfeed, and more) and holiday haunts took festive activations to the next level with innovative-meets-Instagrammable pop-ups.

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BentoBox: Digital Dining Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are presenting healthier and more sustainable menu items, incorporating CBD and are turning to eCommerce channels to expand their brand presence. Those were among the insights revealed in hospitality platform BentoBox ’s 2019 Year in Review. Highlighting the latest digital trends for the hospitality industry, the data was gathered from more than 5,000 restaurants, 100,000 menu items, 117,000 online transactions, and 511 million website visits.

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How to Trademark Your Restaurant Name

Modern Restaurant Management

The name you give your restaurant plays an important role in the brand’s overall perception and growth: it’s the first element to represent your business in front of new customers. In order to make a good first impression, you must select a name that defines your business, is memorable (so it will be stuck in people’s minds), and has a unique zing to it.

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How Can I Build Sales Post New Year’s Eve Boost?

Modern Restaurant Management

MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Consolidated Concepts Inc. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q: How can I build sales post New Year’s Eve boost? A : New Year’s Eve, 2018, saw restaurant sales increase by five percent when compared to average December sales minus holidays, according to Toast’s New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day

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A Simple Step to Improve Customer Satisfaction and Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

Great service can make up for poor food, but great food cannot make up for poor service. It sounds cliché, but there is a lot of truth in that sentiment. Proper training is a necessary expense and it's important to remember that training is a never-ending cycle. Staff needs to be continually reminded of all essential training to set a clear expectation for all employees.

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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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What You Might Have Missed from This Past Season’s Benefits

BizBash

Here's a look back at the ideas for decor, catering, and more from fund-raising events that took place in the fall around North America.

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Golden Globes 2020: Event Design Ideas From the Weekend's Biggest Bashes

BizBash

Here's how Netflix, Amazon Studios, HBO, Disney, and more kicked off award season.

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Addressing Retail’s Unique Security Challenges

Modern Restaurant Management

As an ever-growing wave of technological innovations has continued to change the game for many retailers, in particular, restaurants, so has the possibility of technology failure. In order to stay competitive while catering to new generations of hyper-connected shoppers, retailers are being pressured to innovate constantly. Online ordering, in-store beacon technology, cloud POS, omni-channel retail platforms, and digital menus and signage, are part of the evidence of those innovations taking pla

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A Yum! Habit, Chasing DoorDash and BellaBot

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features Yum! Brands and The Habit, Chase and DoorDash, Waitr, Local Foods, C3 Signature, Pudu Tech, Southern Glazer's, Voodoo Doughnut, The Friendship Café and Digital Signage Expo. Yum! Beefing Up with Habit Acquisition. Yum! Brands, Inc. has agreed to acquire The Habit Restaurants, Inc., parent company of fast-casual restaurant chain The Habit Burger Grill, for approximately $375 million in a cash transaction.

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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