After a long, warm Memorial Day weekend, the world seems a little more open. Restaurants around the United States and beyond have begun to slowly return to some sense of normalcy, with many opening for the first time in months to inhouse traffic. In many of those places, the CDC has recommended …
5 Hip-Hop Songs About Food
It might not seem like it, but hip-hop has been a force in music since the mid-to-late 70s now, and a genre that currently holds between 13-15 of the top 20 spots (depending on how you look at it). This is all to say that hip-hop has shifted dramatically from social movement to social norm and one …
Off-Premise Dining and the New Normal
Just last year, it was reported that 78% of restaurateurs considered off-premise dining a strategic priority. The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed how the restaurant and hospitality industry operates now, from shuttering in-house traffic to limiting social gatherings in an effort to …
Raising Restaurant Staff Morale: Maintaining High Spirits in Low Times
At the best of times, the restaurant and hospitality industry experiences more than a 70% annual turnover rate, with a much higher number in some cases. Since the onset of the coronavirus and accompanying shutter of on-site traffic, of the approximately 15 million people working in the restaurant …
Restaurant Graphical Displays: What They Are, Why You Need Them
Imagine a kitchen on a busy weekend evening in a crowded restaurant. How do you picture the chef and cook staff receiving their orders? In the past, you probably would have seen a row of handwritten paper tickets, notes for the back-of-house to process, hung in the order they were received. While …
May 2020: Restaurant Good News Roundup
As if the pandemic wasn’t distressing enough, now we can add unseasonable cold snaps, and murder hornets into our news cycle. But don’t let that darkness in, because there's always a bright side of life. On the pandemic front, researchers believe that once you have the coronavirus, you can't catch …