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Boost business from new and regular customers with these Valentine’s Day restaurant ideas, trends, and tips.


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Valentine's Day Restaurant Ideas to Boost February Sales

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Read for a variety of restaurant tax tips, regulations, and resources to keep in mind for tax season. 


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Prepare for Tax Season with these Restaurant Tax Tips

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

Discover how the owners of Slutty Vegan, Kismet, and Starbird Chicken use virtual brands and data analytics to expand operations.

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Growing Your Restaurant Business: A Guide to Strategic Expansion

In this step-by-step guide, we share strategies for improving customer experience — both for your existing customers and new ones.

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How To Improve the Food Delivery Customer Experience

Learn creative ways you can market your business, connect with customers, and grow your online retail sales.

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How Retailers Can Connect In-Store and Online Shopping

New hires can be hard to find — and keep — in a post-pandemic job market. Here are powerful interview tips to get candidates to say yes.

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How to Prevent Ghosting in the Restaurant Interview Process

Discover how the owners of The Red Chickz, Souley Vegan, and Honey’s Kettle use social media to build thriving businesses rooted in authenticity. 


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How to Build an Authentic Restaurant Brand on Social Media

Learn which winter menu items are most popular, how consumer dining behavior shifts during this season, and how restaurants can make the most of the holidays.

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Winter Food Trends: How Restaurants Can Prepare for the Holiday Season

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

Learn how this Georgia-based beauty store is helping customers look and feel their best, with an innovative approach to retail delivery.

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How Kesha Beauty Supply Delivers Convenience with DoorDash

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 restaurants and other small businesses can retain employees with affordable health care.

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How to Retain Employees with Affordable Health Care

Learn how this Ohio sandwich shop turned to DoorDash Capital to receive fast, flexible financing to cover an unexpected cost.

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How No Fork Received Fast, Easy Financing with DoorDash Capital

From local retail delivery to longer sales seasons, here's what experts are predicting for this year’s holiday season.

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5 Things Retailers Can Expect During the 2022 Holiday Season

Explore how this restaurant became a small-town favorite, earning Most Loved on DoorDash in 2022 and growing sales 25%. 

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How Damas Mediterranean Grill Became Most Loved on DoorDash

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

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

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

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How Does Retail Delivery Work on DoorDash?

Discover how Mellini Monique Bramlett and her husband turned their passion for healthy, global flavors into a thriving business. 

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How the Founders of Herby PoP Turned Their Passion for Health into Sales

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

Bakery owners are often thinking about new ways to promote and grow their businesses. Learn how easy it can be with these six strategies.

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How to Increase Bakery Sales and Expand Your Business

Discover how Tiffany Leong, founder of Bo-yi, went back to childhood basics to heal herself — and created a new business to educate others in the process.

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Healing by Harnessing Ancient Herbs: The Bo-yi Story

Learn which fall menu items are most popular, how consumer dining behavior shifts during this season, and how restaurants can capitalize on fall food trends. 

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Fall Food Trends: How Restaurants Can Prepare Menus for Autumn

Learn how a fourth-generation flower business is staying true to their values by offering quick, online flower delivery.

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How Family Flowers Scaled Flower Delivery with DoorDash

DoorDash has partnered with Hello Alice to create the Restaurant Disaster Relief Fund, providing $10,000 relief grants to restaurants impacted by natural disasters. 

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Disaster Relief Resources for Restaurants

Three restaurateurs share how their businesses in Calle Ocho, located in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, serve their community, preserve Cuban culture, and more.

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How 3 Restaurants Keep Cuban Culture Alive in Calle Ocho

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

Learn how Souvla’s expansion plans throughout the Bay Area continue to place their customers and staff first. 


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How Charles Bililies of Souvla is Investing in the Bay Area

Explore how this Roseville-based liquor retailer updated their DoorDash presence to grow sales by over 300%.

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How Liquor Locker Grew Alcohol Delivery Sales 3x

Learn how Sandro Roco of Sanzo grew his business from an apartment in Queens to being featured in DashMart and on the big screen.


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From H Mart to Hollywood: How Sanzo Diversified Sales with DashMart

Learn how alcohol delivery works for restaurants, wine shops, specialty liquor stores and more with DoorDash as your delivery service partner.

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How Does Selling Alcohol on DoorDash Work?

As any restaurateur will tell you, success comes from knowing what your customers want — whether it’s comfort food or a hefty discount (or both). Los Angeles restaurant owner Derek Chang shares what drives growth for him.

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How Marketing Promotions Spell Success for This LA Restaurant

The inaugural issue of Secret Menu is dedicated to the diverse local restaurant communities in Los Angeles.

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Introducing Secret Menu, a Magazine for and by the Restaurant Industry

The pandemic changed the game for alcohol retail and delivery. Here’s how to make the most of these trends to drive profitability and sales.

The Top 5 Alcohol Trends that are Here to Stay Post-COVID

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Learn how Toronto-based Favorites Thai BBQ translates their unique take on Thai to takeout and delivery. 

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How Favorites Thai BBQ Reinvented the Thai Restaurant Experience

Discover how these businesses fuel growth by selling their goods nationwide on DoorDash.

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Nationwide Shipping: 3 Businesses Share How They Sell Goods Across the US

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

Discover how this healthy fast-casual chain used DoorDash Promotions to increase sales and reach new customers.  


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How Modern Market Increased Order Volume & Size with DoorDash

Discover how these restaurateurs used DoorDash Capital to grow their businesses, run efficiently, and more.

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How 3 Restaurants Optimized their Business with DoorDash Capital

Discover how this fast-casual chain boosted sales in under two months for its newest location using Sponsored Listings.

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How The Melt Attracted New Customers with DoorDash

Learn how this fried chicken restaurant bounced back from a 50% drop in sales during COVID-19 by implementing a new online ordering system with Storefront.


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How Honey’s Kettle Grew Online with DoorDash

Get inspired by these restaurant menu examples and learn how to stand out from competitors, attract more customers, and boost sales. 

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7 Restaurant Menu Examples: How to Design a Menu that Sells

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

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. 
