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Burger of the Month Specials for June 2013
June is an anything-goes month for burger specials, as is evident in the Burger Of the Month selections at burger joints nationwide.
Restaurants can expect beef prices to keep rising
Beef prices hit an all-time high last week, topping the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s previous record set in 2003 — and prices will only continue to rise, according to commodities experts.
How a digital restaurant check stops data thieves
A new touchscreen payment system – designed to frustrate data thieves -- should start appearing in hundreds of restaurants across the nation over the next few months.
The Next Big Thing in Business: Food
If you're looking for a business, industry, or career to sink your teeth into, look no further than your next meal. 10 reasons the food industry is booming.
Marketing Strategies
5 Musts for any restaurant website
Your website is one of the first things a potential first-time customer sees when making their decision whether or not to dine at your restaurant.
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Best Practices
How to handle embezzlement in a family owned business
Hearing about embezzlement in a public company rarely shocks anyone, but when it happens in a family business, people are often stunned. “How could he steal from his own family?” “Doesn’t she know she’s hurting her siblings/cousins/parents?”
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Service
The Key Drivers of Better Service
by Jim Sullivan Everyone talks about the importance of service, but its meaning is difficult to define in this faster-harder-smarter-more world we all live and work in. The fact is that most foodservice operators confuse service with hospitality. Service fulfills a need, hospitality fulfills people.
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Social Media
Content Marketing Using Social Media
"Like" it or not, customers size up your operation before they even walk through the door. You can make a positive impression with a social media presence that communicates who you are and gives customers a reason to "like" you - and keep coming back.
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Foodservice News & Trends
8 tips on how to better match beer with food
Talking to a chef in Northern California about pairing food and beer seems a little strange, but that’s just how far craft beer has come. Even just outside wine country, there’s more than enough room for a place like Cannery Row Brewing Company in Monterey, CA. It offers more than 70 beers on tap, mostly local and almost all of the craft variety, and part of new executive chef Daniel Furey’s job is matching his food to the beer.
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The Bottom Line
Menu Engineering: How to Raise Restaurant Profits 15% or More
Gain ongoing profit increases of up to 15% from one menu redesign and additional profits from future refinements. Strategies discussed apply to all types of menus: traditional food menus, wine lists, menu boards, and more.
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Business Innovation & Ideas
Should your loyalty program go digital?
Programs that reward a restaurant’s loyal customers have proven effective because they make those customers feel special and increase the likelihood they will share their positive experience with friends. To date, they have typically relied on punch cards to keep track of customers’ progress toward collecting a program’s reward. But now loyalty reward apps can give restaurant operators a new tool to manage these programs in the smartphone era.
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