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Forged in the Fire: True Hospitality Born from Camaraderie and Respect

Modern Restaurant Management

The reservation was made months in advance, and each course was designed with intention and artistry. As the couple’s anniversary dinner gracefully glides toward a sweet crescendo, the lead server strides into the kitchen to pick up a beautiful brulee, only to notice the rose-shaped garnish is missing — along with the pastry chef. After rifling through the walk-in, the server recognizes the dishwasher on duty as a potential savior in the search for strawberries.

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Do You Make Money Owning a Franchise?

Sculpture Hospitality

Franchising has been a popular business model for decades, with thousands of people investing in established brands each year. Owning a franchise offers several benefits, including a proven business model, established brand recognition, and access to training and support.

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How to Choose the Best Fonts for Your Restaurant Menu

Wasserstrom

Menu fonts are an important part of restaurant marketing and design because they impact the overall perception of your establishment. Therefore, choosing your fonts is just as important as choosing the right logo or location for your intended culinary demographic. Because fonts are visual elements that psychologically influence your customers, they are very useful tools […] The post How to Choose the Best Fonts for Your Restaurant Menu first appeared on The Official Wasserstrom Blog.

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Hiring and retention trouble? Invest in your people!

Fast Casual

A panel at Restaurant at the Franchising Innovation Summit discussed issues around hiring/retention and the value of investing in employees in pay, benefits alongside investment in them as professionals and as people.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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How To Choose the Right Tech for Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Digital transformation is no longer optional – it is required for restaurants to remain up to date, save costs and retain customers. Despite the importance of digital transformation, many restaurant owners are reluctant to adapt. The resistance to adoption can be attributed to several factors. Small-medium sized business owners may not fully grasp how important technology is due to a lack of knowledge and experience.

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Easily Switch to The Foody Gram Online Food Ordering System

The Foody Gram

Customers often prioritize convenience when choosing where to order food. If your restaurant still relies on phone calls or messages for online orders, you risk losing customers to competitors who offer a more seamless experience. Investing in a reliable online food ordering system , like The Foody Gram, can help you retain and attract customers. Advantages of Online Food Ordering and Delivery Platforms: During the pandemic, many restaurant owners signed up for online food ordering and delivery

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9 ways to combat increasing food costs

Fast Casual

John Moody, co-founder and chief strategist of Restaurant365 , reveals how to fight to rising costs of inflation and supply chain issues.

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New Food Traceability Final Rule to Improve Food Safety, Expedite Recalls and Protect Public Health

Modern Restaurant Management

How much information do you have about the foods your company handles in the course of business? If subjected to a food recall, would you be able to produce clear records delineating every touchpoint where the food was produced, harvested, processed or transformed, shipped, received, and used? How long would it take you to produce all that information when the FDA came calling?

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Ensuring Food Safety: The Importance of Risk Mitigation in the Food Quality Industry

SQF Institute

The food quality industry is responsible for ensuring that food products meet the necessary standards to be safe and suitable for consumption. Risk mitigation, the act of detecting, evaluating, and controlling possible dangers that could cause harm to consumers and businesses, is one way businesses accomplish this. Risk mitigation is essential in the food sector since it helps to avoid contamination, food-borne illnesses, and other problems with product quality.

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Food Shows 2023

IN Food Marketing

Food shows are a topic we’ve written about on a couple of different occasions over the years ( September 2016 and April 2018 ), but as we find ourselves in a mostly post-restrictions world, it feels fitting to reexamine some of the lessons and recommendations we’ve accumulated from past experiences. Plus, be sure to peruse our list of upcoming events.

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4 leadership tips from Donatos CEO

Fast Casual

CEO of Donatos shares leadership advice to Inspire Young Entrepreneurs

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What Is the Carbon Footprint of the Restaurant Industry and How Can You Measure Yours?

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is guilty of producing large amounts of carbon emissions in its quest to deliver delicious food and memorable culinary experiences for customers. From emissions released during the production of the ingredients, to the water used to grow fruit and vegetables, to the transportation emissions involved in the supply of ingredients – the carbon footprint associated with the resulting meal can be as much as eight kg of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Cellular Agriculture – Where are we heading to?

Forward Fooding

Cellular agriculture, also known as “cell-based” or “lab-grown” foods for the development of animal-based protein, is an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we produce and consume food, especially when it comes to meat, dairy, and fish. It offers undeniable benefits for the environment and the planet by allowing the production of these products without killing or exploiting animals.

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Earth Day and Every Day

Thomas Cuisine

Supporting Local and Sustainable Practices in Foodservice Sustainable food practices are a contributing factor to a healthier planet, and as a foodservice management company, we’ve prioritized local sourcing, sustainable operational practices, and cooking with the Earth in mind. We all understand the crucial role that food plays in our lives, and with each of the 22 million meals served each year, food becomes an impactful vehicle for awareness around the benefits of local sourcing, sustainable

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How A Growing Chicken Concept is Driving Results Through a World-Class Customer Experience

Fast Casual

Hosted by Networld Media Group, join Revel Chief Strategy Officer Chris Lybeer and PDQ Chief Operating Officer Eric Knott as they explore using technology as an accelerator to prioritize the needs of today’s fast casual consumer.

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What Is the FICA Tip Credit? Five Things for Restaurants to Know About an Often-Missed Tax Credit

Modern Restaurant Management

The FICA Tip credit (FICA stands for Federal Insurance Contributions Act) is a federal income tax credit that was enacted to offer financial relief to businesses in the food service industry that has employees who receive part of their wages through tips given by customers. The tax credit was originally designed to deter businesses from hiding or underreporting tip income and prevent an unintended financial burden on those businesses for their share of the FICA tax on reported tips.

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WATCH - RTN Member Voices: Insights From Bite

Restaurant Technology Network

RTN Member Voices is a video series spotlighting innovative restaurant technologists sharing thought leadership around our industry’s most urgent challenges - and opportunities. Give RTN Member Voices 10 minutes to supercharge your tech game!

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Highlights from the APAC Region

Hygiena

Hygiena’s APAC team took our One Health Diagnostics message to Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and hosted five highly successful events. The post Highlights from the APAC Region appeared first on Hygiena.

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Candidate Quality vs. Quantity: How Hiring Managers Turn the Dial to Optimize Applicant Flow

Fast Casual

Whether you’re looking to fill positions as quickly as possible or have more specific needs for your location, this guide explores how to optimize candidate flow and refine your recruitment strategy.

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Go Inside a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Bon Appétit positioned a series of cameras inside the kitchen at Michelin-starred New York restaurant Crown Shy. Executive chef Jamal James Kent narrates as he and the staff handle a typical dinner rush.

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The New Wave of Campus Dining: A Student-Centric Approach

LTI, Inc.

LTI sits down at the table with University of Massachusetts Amherst Dining Service’s Garett DiStefano and Alexander Ong At universities across the country, college students are progressively savvier and selective when it comes to the campus dining experience. The days of traditional university dining halls with drab old-school utilitarian cinderblock, boring meals and hard plastic cafeteria seating have fallen from the wayside altogether.

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Food Truck Equipment and Supplies Buying Guide

Chef's Toys

It’s easy to assume that designing and outfitting a food truck is less complicated than designing a restaurant kitchen. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The small size of a food truck poses unique challenges for operational efficiency and often influences what your truck can and can’t serve. Food truck equipment must be compact but capable of producing quality food quickly.

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Trustwell's 2023 State of Traceability Report

Fast Casual

Trustwell’s latest research explores the regulatory changes, consumer demands, supply chain struggles, and other factors impacting food traceability in 2023. Download the report to access insights from food industry experts, tips on building a successful track and trace effort, FSMA 204’s recordkeeping requirements, and more.

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Most Popular International Cuisines on Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

The experts at Chef’s Pencil has released its latest report on the most popular international cuisines on social media. This year, the team included TikTok data, as the platform has emerged as one of the most popular social media platforms for sharing food-related content. They found that what’s trending on one social media platform is not always popular on the other.

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The 2022 FoodTech 500: recap of the official unveiling event in London

Forward Fooding

The FoodTech industry is constantly evolving, and every year brings in new advancements, innovations, and breakthroughs. On March 1st, 2023, we revealed the complete ranking of this year’s FoodTech 500 at our Barcelona FoodTech Innovation Hub , in a hybrid event that was packed with insights and inspiration. For those who missed out, don’t worry – you can still catch up on the entire session here.

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Restaurant Automation

Lithos POS

Technology getting more advanced day by day. in the case of the restaurant industry technology plays an important role. So many tasks that are more complex to do manually become more simple by automating. Technology revolutionized the restaurant industry. It causes the advent of restaurant automation. Automation helps restaurants to reduce labor costs and enable an efficient workflow.

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How A Growing Chicken Concept is Reaping Results Through a World-Class Customer Experience

Fast Casual

Hosted by Networld Media Group, join Revel Chief Strategy Officer Chris Lybeer and PDQ Chief Operating Officer Eric Knott as they explore using technology as an accelerator to prioritize the needs of today’s fast casual consumer.

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Using food compliance data to protect your business

HACCP Mentor

One of the easiest ways to identify hazards is to review food safety compliance data. But where should you start? … Using food compliance data to protect your business READ MORE » The post Using food compliance data to protect your business appeared first on HACCP Mentor.

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Was that last 24 Hour “Bug” You Had Really a Foodborne Illness in Disguise?

FoodHandler

Within this blog, I have discussed many foodborne pathogens: E. coli, Hepatitis, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter. But we’ve somehow managed to omit Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). It isn’t that it is any less important than the others we have discussed. S. aureus causes a wide variety of infections, from skin infections to diseases that can be potentially fatal.

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Organizational unlearning: A risky food safety strategy?

Food Safety Chat

Our paper has just been published, do click on the link to read more.