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Learn how to measure and improve your restaurant profit margins with these helpful tips.


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How to Improve Your Restaurant Profit Margin

Learn how to build an effective restaurant training program that gets your team up to speed faster.

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How to Build an Effective Restaurant Training Program

Learn how delivery is helping to boost business for local retail stores all around the globe — and how you can use these trends to grow your own business.

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How Retail Delivery Boosts Local Business

Get your retail delivery ready for the holidays with these practical tips from DoorDash merchants.

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How to Get Your Last-Mile Delivery Ready for the Holidays

Temperatures are cooling, and retail sales are heating up. Here’s how two merchants are preparing for the busy holiday season in creative ways with free gifts, retail delivery, and more.

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How Local Retailers Can Prepare for the Holiday Rush

Discover how a successful restaurant communication system helps staff and customers accept changes to your menu, service, COVID-19 safety requirements, and more. 

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How to Develop an Effective Restaurant Communication System

As supply chain shortages continue to affect restaurants worldwide due to inflation and COVID-19, discover how three restaurateurs are preparing and managing these disruptions. 


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How Restaurants Are Managing Supply Chain Shortages and Inflation 

Find out the best way to recruit restaurant staff with hiring tips and employee retention strategies.

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Restaurant Recruiting: 5 Tips to Grow Your Team 

Ensure alcohol delivery orders get to customers safely and swiftly with these packaging and transportation best practices.

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Alcohol Delivery: Merchant Tips for Packaging

Restaurateurs share their experience managing stores during the Omicron surge. 


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How These Restaurant Owners Pivoted Operations During Omicron

Are you storing your alcohol correctly? Learn best practices for alcohol storage for wine, beer, spirits, and more, for restaurants and alcohol retailers.

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Best Practices for Alcohol Storage

Learn how to incorporate innovative restaurant technology to increase efficiency, lower costs, and enhance the guest experience. 

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7 Innovative Restaurant Technologies to Help Operators

Girl & the Goat Chef and Owner Stephanie Izard discusses creating a restaurant culture that resonates with customers and empowers staff.

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How Stephanie Izard Built a Lasting Restaurant Culture and Brand

One thing keeping restaurant managers up at night is a fear that their employees won't show up for work. Here are six restaurant employee retention strategies to ensure a happy staff.

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6 Employee Retention Strategies for Restaurants

Wondering what your bar’s liquor cost percentage is? Learn how to calculate and optimize this key business metric.

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8 Ways to Lower Your Liquor Cost Percentage

Learn how Montreal-based restaurant Roch Le Coq pivoted during COVID and doubled sales by partnering with DoorDash for delivery.

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How Roch Le Coq Brought Fried Chicken to Montreal

For many people, working in the restaurant industry isn’t easy. So how do you maintain employee wellness? Here are some mental health tips. 

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Strategies for Improving Employee Mental Health

Finding the right balance between restaurant costs and profits can be tricky. Learn the basics of menu engineering so you can design a profitable menu. 

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Menu Engineering Tips to Drive Restaurant Profits

Learn helpful strategies for creating a small business budget plan for restaurants, liquor stores,  convenience stores, and more.

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How to Create a Business Budget Plan [Free Template]

Ensure a seamless Dasher pickup with these tips from businesses like Yolk, Naan & Kabob, and Hruska’s Kolaches, as well as Dasher Leo Ney.

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10 Tips to Improve the Dasher Pickup Experience

Learn how to calculate overhead costs and increase profitability across your business. 

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How to Calculate Overhead & Increase Your Profitability

We share answers to common questions about food cost percentage, as well as strategies to optimize this metric and improve your restaurant profits. 

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Food Cost Percentage

Looking for ways to get feedback from restaurant customers? Here are 7 ways to gain actionable insights from dine-in guests and delivery customers.

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7 Ways Restaurants Can Encourage Customer Feedback

Running a restaurant has never been easy — and as off-premise sales continue to rise, we want to make sure your restaurant is equipped to meet the needs of your customers, staff, and the evolving landscape.

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How to Streamline Your DoorDash Operations

Customer satisfaction is critical to your success as a business but is also more nuanced than "the customer is always right". Learn how to solicit and address customer feedback, respond to negative feedback, and tips for going above and beyond.

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Improve Your Customer Ratings on DoorDash

Learn how Self-Delivery works, allowing you to list your business on DoorDash while fulfilling deliveries with your own fleet or Dashers when you need them. 

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How Self-Delivery Works: Use Your Drivers and Dashers

Are you tracking these restaurant numbers? Here are the important restaurant metrics you need to know to maintain and grow your business.  

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13 Key Restaurant Numbers and Metrics that Impact Profits

Learn restaurant hiring and retention tips from industry leaders.

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Hiring Staff During a Restaurant Industry Labor Shortage

Learn the steps it takes to build your own delivery fleet or partner with a third-party food delivery service when adding delivery to your restaurant. 

Adding Delivery to Your Restaurant: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Explore the three most common restaurant kitchen floor plans, as well as steps to optimize your restaurant kitchen layout for delivery. 

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Optimizing Your Restaurant Kitchen Plan for Dine-In and Delivery

Looking to ensure food quality in off-premise orders? Learn how to optimize your restaurant menu and operations for takeout and delivery food quality.

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How to Optimize Food Quality for Off-Premise Orders

It’s time to increase takeout sales for your restaurant. Learn about your food delivery options and see the impacts they can have on your business.

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Increase Food Delivery Sales By Improving Restaurant Operations