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The Complete Guide to Online Ordering for Restaurants

Take out and delivery have been the two leading revenue-generating options for restaurants looking to stay afloat during the pandemic. Here's everything you need to know.

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Marketing

How to Do Email Marketing for Restaurants

Creating an email marketing strategy for your restaurant can help you build lifelong relationships with your diners. Here’s how to use email for restaurants.
Retention

How to do an Employee Evaluation

Hiring and retention in the restaurant industry is notoriously difficult. Here's how to use employee evaluations to help build a happy, thriving, and successful restaurant team.
Retention

What is Tip Pooling?

With varying views on tip pooling and tip pooling laws, it’s important to understand how your staff feels about pooling tips and implement it in the right way.
Menu + Food

How to Make Your Menu a Money-Maker Using Restaurant Menu Design

There’s more to a great menu than a beautiful design and layout. Use this menu engineering intro to optimize your menu for profitability and popularity.

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Industry News

For Guelaguetza, family is the key to survival

After a harrowing year, Bricia Lopez reflects on how her restaurant has changed – and the family values that have remained steadfast throughout it all.

Industry News

Pinky Cole & Slutty Vegan Represent the True Scope of Veganism

Pinky Cole's Slutty Vegan restaurant empire is ever-growing — and she's giving back to her community every single day.

Operations

Thamee Is Closed, but They're Saving up and Giving Back

The trio behind D.C.'s Thamee applied for every loan and grant they could find. Now, they're giving back to their community until it's safe to open their doors again.

Industry News

Micah's Mixx: From a Lemonade Stand to an LLC

Micah Harrigan started a lemonade stand at age seven. Today, at 11, he's got a food truck, an LLC, and big plans for his lemonade empire.
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How-to Guides

Get step-by-step advice, instructions, tools, and templates on topics like hiring restaurant staff, creating better compensation, and everything in-between.

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Hiring

How to Hire Front-of-House Staff

Hiring stellar staff is essential to your team's happiness and your bottom line. Learn how to hire the best front-of-house employees for your restaurant.

Accounting

How Restaurant Costs Breakdowns Can Boost Financial and Operational Performance

Operations

Your Guide to Patio Season: How to Make the Most of Outdoor Dining

Industry News

How to See Shortages as a Restaurant Staff Retention and Churn Crisis

Operations

How To Design An Ice Cream Shop: 11 Ice Cream Shop Design Ideas

Industry News

How to Interpret Rising Wheat Prices and the Potential Impact on Restaurant Costs

Marketing

How To Do Pizza Shop Marketing

Marketing

How To Design A Modern Restaurant: 15 Modern Restaurant Design Ideas

Marketing

How to Design a Coffee Shop: 15 Coffee Shop Aesthetic Design Ideas

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Accounting

How Restaurants Can Navigate Food Inflation and Protect Profitability

Put rising food inflation into historical context and uncover action items to help protect profits and remain agile in the face of sustained economic pressure.

Accounting

A Guide to Bar Financing and Loans

Whether you’re opening a new bar, or expanding your concept, you’re going to need capital to make it all happen.

Operations

How to Choose a Healthy Restaurant Name + 53 Healthy Restaurant Name Ideas to Inspire You

Here's how to brainstorm and come up with a list of healthy restaurant names to narrow down for your new business.

Marketing

How To Design A Nightclub: 10 Nightclub Design Ideas

10 nightclub design ideas that will help catch your customers’ attention.

Operations

How to Design a Juice Bar Floor Plan, Layout and Blueprint

Don’t just build a juice bar, build an experience with this blueprint and floor plan guide.
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Topics

Hiring

‘‘We want to hire people who have that innate hospitality within them. The skillset is trainable.’’ — Korey, Head of HR

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Training

‘‘Nowadays, you have to do more things like emotional IQ training in the restaurant, which is probably the biggest difference.’’ — Jason, Manager

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Retention

‘‘The easier part is managing the food. The hardest part is the people. That keeps me up at night.’’ — Josh, District Manager

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Accounting

Your go to place for information and insights about restaurant accounting, budget, spend, payroll, and taxes.

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Marketing

Everything you need to know about marketing your restaurant, from getting your brand in-front of new customers to building rapport with existing ones.

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Menu + Food

Learn how to build a restaurant menu that excites taste buds and generates revenue.

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Industry News

The latest restaurant industry news from food trucks to fine dining.

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Operations

Everything you need to know about how to operate a restaurant

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COVID-19

Special edition page tracking the restaurant industry's response to COVID-19

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Go Digital

Learn how online ordering for restaurants has provided the industry with a vital lifeline during COVID-19

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