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Turning Tables with Video Testimonials: A New Recipe for Restaurant Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

If your restaurant hosts events, include a testimonial with the host talking about the event being a smashing success – thanks in part to your venue. For example, if you have a seasonal menu, consider sharing a testimonial featuring a customer enjoying the fresh spring flavors.

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Be Prepared: Cocktail and Beverage Trends for Events

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In order to pull off successful events and cater to their clients’ needs, event planners and their bar staff. Mixologists are experimenting with seltzer-based recipes and teas combined with fewer spirits. If there are leftover ingredients from an event, use them on the next day’s cocktail menu. Sustainability.

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How Restaurants Can Manage Food Costs During Disruptions

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Meanwhile, extreme weather events are likely to disrupt transportation routes, damage crops, and lead to shortages of key ingredients, resulting in price spikes that impact menus. Recipe Costing : Track ingredient prices, calculate portion costs, and pinpoint profitable menu items. percent annually.

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Best Concepts: Sampling event featured dietetic student recipes using ingredients from minority/woman-owned businesses

Food Management

“Taste and See” held at Loyola University of Chicago has been named winner of the 2023 FM Best Concept Award in the Best Special Event category.

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Is Galentine’s the New Valentine’s?

Modern Restaurant Management

Sally Davis said unique events like Galentine’s are great for boosting traffic, enhancing their overall brand and attracting new customers. And even if they aren't able to make it that day, it's a share-worthy event which helps to broaden our reach.” ” What Shes Having Cocktail. Russell and Sally Davis.

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Blending in with the Plant-Based Trend

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Our customers are chefs and foodservice companies who have found the operational benefits of using our 50Cut impressive- from maintaining and boosting flavor and juiciness of meat, to increasing recipe yields all while reaching their goals to cut down on carbon footprints. Risotto, pastas, flatbreads, quiche, dumplings, sky is the limit.

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Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on the Restaurant Industry

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Most compare the sales report of the previous year with the current year, but factors such as holidays, international events, weather conditions and location, affecting the sales are variable so this traditional process of sales forecasting can sometimes go wrong. Forecasting for Holidays and Events. Smart Inventory Management.

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