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Understand how to incorporate restaurant technology to enhance your business.
 

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United States, Canada & Australia

12 Restaurant Technologies to Help Grow Your Business

Learn how restaurateur Mike Solomonov built a thriving restaurant group steeped in his core values of generosity and hospitality.

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Global

How a Culture of Hospitality Fuels Mike Solomonov's Restaurants

From optimizing space to considering equipment placement, explore the key factors for improving a commercial kitchen floor plan.

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How to Make Your Commercial Kitchen Layout More Efficient

These are the best strategies to optimize your food cost percentage formula and improve your restaurant profitability.

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How to Calculate Your Food Cost Percentage

Wondering what your liquor cost percentage is? Learn how to calculate and optimize this key business metric for bars and restaurants.

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7 Ways to Lower Your Liquor Cost Percentage

Learn how to understand a restaurant P&L statement, then download a free profit and loss example template.

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Everything You Need to Know About a Profit and Loss Statement

This San Francisco restaurant revamped their menu and operations to become more approachable — while still maintaining profits.

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How Che Fico Alimentari Lowered Their Menu Prices

To-go food packaging impacts restaurant food quality, costs, and sustainability — and is key to a positive delivery customer experience.

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Food Delivery Packaging and Container Tips for Restaurants

Learn how to analyze a restaurant P&L to understand profitability for third-party delivery sales. 


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How The Smoke Shop BBQ Uses Restaurant P&L Statements to Gain an Edge

Increase your social media impact with this guide to flat lay photography, which includes 6 free templates.

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Master Restaurant Food Photography with These Flat Lay Tips and Templates

Collaborations between local producers and merchants foster a vibrant community and increase customer engagement.

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How to Build Community Using Local Producers

Learn how Water St. Cafe builds trust and transparency with drivers, known as Dashers, to make deliveries and pickups a breeze.

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How Water St. Cafe Builds Strong Dasher Relationships

Discover actionable strategies to improve winter restaurant operations and attract customers.

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Optimize Your Winter Restaurant Operations During Slow Season 

Discover how to create a seasonal winter restaurant menu that helps attract new customers and drive sales in the colder months.

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5 Winter Menu Ideas Proven to Work for Restaurants

These food delivery statistics can help guide your restaurant’s online ordering strategy for 2023 and beyond.

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42 Food Delivery Statistics Restaurants Need to Know in 2023

Famed restaurateur Will Guidara's transformative concept can change the way you connect with delivery customers.

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Elevate Your Restaurant Delivery Experience with 'Unreasonable Hospitality'

Turnover may be the norm in the service industry, but with the right restaurant job descriptions you can set expectations early and build a great team.

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11 Restaurant Job Descriptions to Help You Hire & Keep Great Staff

Our restaurant guide for outdoor dining is packed with advice, from patio setup and weatherproofing to seasonal menu development and operations.

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How to Prepare Your Restaurant for Outdoor Dining

Whether you have a patch of sidewalk or an expansive parklet, make your restaurant’s outdoor dining area stand out with these patio design tips.

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9 Restaurant Patio Design Ideas to Create an Outdoor Dining Oasis 

Learn how to calculate and lower customer acquisition costs for restaurants, and ​measure the impact and cost of common paid marketing strategies. 

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Comparing Restaurant Customer Acquisition Costs & Paid Marketing Channels

From business partnerships to food delivery partnerships to community partnerships, learn how restaurant partnerships can help you thrive. 

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Restaurant Partnerships: What Business Owners Need to Know

From fast food to fine dining, learn about the different profit margin averages for various kinds of restaurants.

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Profit Margins for Different Types of Restaurants

Learn about average profit margin for grocery stores, pet stores, liquor stores, flower shops, and more.

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Comparing Average Profit Margin by Industry

Learn all about the food delivery container options available to restaurants, including how to ensure freshness, prioritize sustainability, and reduce costs.

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A Guide to Eco-Friendly Food Delivery Containers for Restaurants

Get a breakdown of common restaurant expenses, as well as strategies to reduce restaurant costs and increase profit margins.

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How to Reduce Restaurant Costs and Improve Profits

Are you ready for an influx of flower orders for Mother's Day? Get tips on staying prepared for flower-heavy holidays, from managing incoming orders to handling local deliveries.

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United States & Canada

How to Prepare Your Flower Store for Mother’s Day 

Successful restaurant managers set the tone for the entire customer experience. Use these restaurant manager tips to optimize operations and boost your bottom line.

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6 Restaurant Manager Tips to Boost Your Bottom Line

Fear of employee no-shows keeps many restaurant managers up at night. Here are seven restaurant employee retention techniques to ensure a happy team.

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7 Employee Retention Techniques for Restaurants

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

With February 14th around the corner, here's how to get your business ready for the influx of Valentine's Day flower delivery orders.

With February 14th around the corner, love is in the air and Valentine’s Day flower delivery orders are starting to roll in.

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How to Prepare for the Valentine’s Day Flower Delivery Rush

Three operators discuss current issues in the culinary industry and how they've overcome restaurant challenges with creative solutions. 

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9 Strategies to Overcome Restaurant Challenges in 2023 

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

Learn how restaurants can retain their employees and reduce turnover.

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Restaurant Management Tips for Higher Employee Retention

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

Learn how this Ohio sandwich shop turned to DoorDash Capital to receive fast, flexible financing to cover an unexpected cost. Not currently available in Quebec.

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How No Fork Received Fast, Easy Financing with DoorDash Capital

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

From flower glue to finishing spray, here are the basic tools you need for professional flower arranging.

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The Best Professional Flower Tools for Your Business

Want to step up your flower game? Get expert-evaluated tips and tricks for making flower arrangements.

Your Guide to Prepping, Processing, and Arranging Flowers for Delivery

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Your Guide to Preparing, Processing, and Arranging Flowers for Delivery

Learn how to keep french fries crispy for delivery with these tips from the Las Vegas-based Black and Blue Diner.

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How to Keep French Fries Crispy for Delivery

Need to grow your restaurant team? Learn some of our tips to navigate the challenges of hiring seasonal workers.

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Canada

Hiring Seasonal Workers: Tips for Restaurant Success

With busy days on the horizon, learn how to make the most of the year’s most popular holidays for flower delivery. 

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The Most Popular Holidays for Flower Delivery

The summer months are often the busiest for restaurants. Learn how these businesses prepare for the summer rush. 


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 How Three Restaurateurs Handle the Summer Rush

A fourth generation florist shares tried-and-tested tips for successful online flower delivery.

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Tips and Tricks for Online Flower Delivery

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 

Recognizing your employees’ hard work on a regular basis boosts workplace morale. These ideas for showing staff appreciation are worth a look.

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10 Employee Recognition Ideas for Small Businesses

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