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Winter Is Coming: Make Sure You’re Ready by Planning Ahead to Boost Your Bottom Line

Modern Restaurant Management

Ongoing inflation, higher interest rates, escalating food prices, and a tight labor market across industries add to the uncertainty. Overstock on Cleaning and Sanitation Supplies. Now is the time to order cleaning supplies, etc. Consider scheduling early or late shifts to sanitize throughout winter.

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is still dealing with pandemic-related issues, including supply chain disruptions, new COVID variants and surging cases, labor shortages, rising prices, and a shift in consumer demand. Drivers should also sanitize their hands frequently, including after they touch doorknobs, doorbells, money, etc.

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Emerging Restaurant Trends Due to COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

In addition to offering a consistent menu of takeaway meals, a restaurant can help its regulars prepare for the quarantined and work from home week ahead by selling staples at a fair price. And your supply chain probably requires menu simplicity anyway. Your restaurant should be safe, sanitary, dependable, and transparent.

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The Viral TikTok Recipes Causing Food Shortages

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Supply chain disruptions were a theme of 2021, but thanks to viral recipes, some ingredients were hit especially hard I learned a hard lesson on a recent trip to my local Asian supermarket, Tan A. All that virality has a major impact on an already shaky supply chain that’s being affected by the pandemic.

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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

” He would never take them for granted with short-sighted decisions like cutting portions and raising prices, however tempting that solution may be. Outside of your four walls, it is imperative to work with your suppliers to keep supply chains and product substitution open. ”

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2021: A Year of Strategic Questions for Restaurants 

Modern Restaurant Management

We're sanitizing all surfaces—and people are still getting sick. Ultimately, that bill is not paid only by operators; it's paid by the people who eat there by way of higher prices. It may be that patrons feel like the efforts to make restaurants safe have already been done. We're checking temperatures.

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National Restaurant Show Canceled, Dog Haus Absolute, Pickup Pods and Melt It Forward

Modern Restaurant Management

A shift in production by Bacardi at the world’s largest premium rum distillery is helping supply ethanol required to produce the much-needed hand sanitizers that are in high demand as a result of COVID-19. units of 10-ounce hand sanitizer. units of 10-ounce hand sanitizer. Bacardi and Tito's Give Back.