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Hear from four incredible women-owned restaurant businesses from across the country.

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Proprietors of women-owned restaurants across Canada share what they’ve learned, what they’re proud of, and what challenges they’re currently facing.

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Stories from Women Restaurateurs Leading the Way in Canada

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Read interviews, trends, and tips for owning, operating, and ultimately growing a business.

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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 restaurants and small businesses can offer affordable health and training benefits to their employees to improve hiring and increase retention.

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How to Access Affordable Employee Benefits 

Explore Katie Ruddell’s unique path to owning Kokomo, one of DoorDash’s 50 Most Loved All Stars in Canada.


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How a Former Brand Strategist Turned Her Dreams into Reality with Kokomo

Learn how a retail delivery order works with DoorDash as your delivery partner.

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How Does Retail Delivery Work on DoorDash?

Find out how DoorDash works for food trucks, and learn about key features that set up food truck operators for success.

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How DoorDash Works for Food Truck Delivery

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

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

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Hiring Seasonal Workers: Tips for Restaurant Success

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

Improve your profit margins and strengthen your beverage costing and pricing strategy with the following five tips. 

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How to Optimize Your Beverage Cost Percentage and Liquor Pricing 

Learn how offering on-demand delivery from your app or website keeps customers happy while taking care of logistics.

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How On-Demand Delivery Can Benefit Restaurants & Other Small Businesses

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 

Food delivery is here to stay. Learn the 7 benefits of offering a food delivery service for your restaurant—and how to get started today.

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7 Advantages of a Food Delivery Service for Your Business 

Whether you’re opening a new restaurant or expanding, here are key considerations for your restaurant location strategy.

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Restaurant Location Strategy: How to Choose a Restaurant Location

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

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

A successful restaurant manager sets the tone for the entire customer experience — start to finish.  Read tips on how to manage your restaurant and bottom line.

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How to Manage Your Restaurant and Your Bottom Line

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

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

Your team is an integral part of your business — which is why we want to help you set them up for success. In this article, we’ll cover the basic skills your staff needs, including how to accept and process orders, address common problems and follow best practices.

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Train Your Team on DoorDash

Learn how to conduct a restaurant SWOT analysis to run marketing campaigns, update menus, and create processes to give your business a competitive edge.

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How to Conduct a Restaurant SWOT Analysis [+ Template]

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

Learn how this Washington, D.C. pizzeria took a data-driven approach to determine where to open new locations.

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How &pizza Leveraged Data to Drive 372% YoY Growth

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.