We bring restauranteurs six helpful tips to help your establishment stand out to the talent pool – as well as ways to provide a best-in-class experience for both team members and customers alike.
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4 common restaurant time thieves and how to eliminate them
How to identify and eliminate common restaurant time thieves that can affect efficiency across your business.
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How to improve surface cleaning in your restaurant
Surface hygiene is, of course, an important pillar of food safety—and customer perceptions. The CDC emphasizes that restaurants and bars should clean and disinfect frequently touched areas “at least daily, and as much as possible.”1 Meanwhile, a recent survey found that 57% of customers would feel more comfortable in restaurants where retailers and operators regularly […]
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How to reduce restaurant takeout waste
Takeout has been the next-best thing to a silver lining for the restaurant industry during COVID-19, but now one factor threatens to tarnish its sterling image: plastic waste. Shortly before the pandemic hit, the World Wildlife Federation projected a 40% increase in plastic pollution over the next decade.1 The COVID-driven surge in takeout has made […]
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Don’t be scared of ghost kitchens, be a ghostbuster!
For traditional restauranteurs, ghost kitchens may seem like the scariest new addition to the exploding delivery sector, which is forecast to hit $75.9B in gross volume by 2022. With growth in delivery running over 9%/year , and the sector expected to soon comprise 11% of the total market, no one can afford to let any […]
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How restaurants turn trash into treasure via composting
Restaurants are discovering new benefits in the composting movement, because it improves a very specific slice of the environment – their business environment. In this article, a sustainability advocate explains how composting programs can lower a restaurant’s waste disposal costs while raising its profile among the rapidly-growing group of sustainability-minded customers. You’ll discover seven key […]
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Four labor-saving ideas to get restaurants through the labor shortage
It’s hardly a news flash to say the restaurant industry is struggling through a major labor shortage. In fact, a 2018 study showed that nearly 60% of restaurant managers point to hiring, training and retaining staff as their biggest challenge. And while the most common response may be to get more competitive for employees, with […]
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Welcome to the Color Experiment!
Imagine yourself in a room bathed with green: Green paint on the walls and a green chair to sit in. On a green table there is a green plate – with a green napkin and a green macaron. When you reach down to take a bite of your macaron and take a sip of the […]
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Difference between Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting: Environment & Task
Picture this: a busy restaurant, a long wait list and a newly-vacant table that needs to be ready for the next guest. The staff are likely clearing the table and trying to quickly turn it around, cleaning and sanitizing the surface as fast as possible. But, are they doing it correctly and efficiently? Maybe in […]
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What’s Hot Culinary Forecast: Foodservice Round-Up
What’s Hot Culinary Forecast. The National Restaurant Association’s annual What’s Hot culinary forecast predicts food and menu trends for the coming year. For 2015, the NRA surveyed nearly 1,300 professional chefs – members of the American Culinary Federation American Culinary Federation (ACF) to find out what the hottest menu trends will be. Read more at […]
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