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Restaurant Operations Omicron

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How These Restaurant Owners Pivoted Operations During Omicron

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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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United States & Canada

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

When devising your restaurant’s menu pricing strategy, there are many important factors to consider. Read our blog for tips, formulas, and more.

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Menu Pricing Strategies for Restaurants

Whether you’re opening a cloud kitchen or a dine-in restaurant, here are key considerations for how to choose your restaurant location.

Restaurant Location Strategy

How to Choose a Restaurant Location

There are many benefits to offering third-party delivery and pickup. Keep reading to learn how a DoorDash partnership can grow your business.

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How to Partner with a Third-Party Delivery Service

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 Increased Sales by 62.5% by Using Storefront

Read how honeygrow and HipCityVeg designed their menus for non-vegan customers and built a strong restaurant community during COVID-19.

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United States

6 Ways These Sustainable Restaurants Support their Community

Learn how to enhance your restaurant’s marketing strategy by taking advantage of national food holidays.

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Restaurant Marketing Strategies for 2022 National Food Holidays

Restaurant special events and private parties can do wonders to grow profits. Learn how to make those events memorable and tips for their success.

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Creative Ideas for Hosting Restaurant Events

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

Restaurant technology increases efficiency, lowers costs, and enhances the guest experience. Learn how to improve your restaurant operations by incorporating technology.

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7 Restaurant Technology Products That Improve Operations

The convenience of online grocery shopping is here to stay. Learn grocery delivery trends from DoorDash. 

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Grocery Delivery Trends: How People Are Spending & Shopping Online

Dive into the latest wine drinking trends and stay on top of what your customers are enjoying today.


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2022 Wine Trends: What to Sell Today

Learn the latest in alcohol sales with these 2022 alcohol trends (including non-ABV alternatives) and get ideas for growing your alcohol delivery sales.

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2022 Alcohol Trends: What Consumers are Drinking Now

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

What drives many restaurateurs is more than just a passion for cooking. It’s about family, tradition, and community. Learn what’s behind the success of these five Canadian restaurants.

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How These 5 Canadian Restaurateurs Build Community 

Learn how to keep your customers and staff safe and your kitchen busy this winter by optimizing your restaurant operations.

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Optimize Your Winter Restaurant Operations

Explore 7 ways to get your flower shop noticed this holiday season — and keep sales growing over time.

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7 Holiday Marketing Ideas for Flower Shops

Looking for some extra capital to grow your restaurant? Explore this list of loan, grant, and financing options.

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Restaurant Financing and Capital Resources

Learn how Los Angeles-based Nes Abegaze is using her Ethiopian food and culture to build something bigger — and create a living heritage.

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How Azla Vegan Uses Food to Tell Stories

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

Learn how this small business bloomed big by focusing on increasing efficiency, speed, and scale with a delivery partnership.

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How The Flower Shop Grew Their Profit Margins 10%

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

Learn how this regional pizza chain increased its average order volume by reaching a new segment of high-value customers.

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How Westside Pizza Grew Sales with DoorDash Self-Delivery

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

How Does Selling Alcohol on DoorDash Work?

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

How Roch Le Coq Brought Fried Chicken to Montreal

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The restaurant limited time offer (LTO) is an industry staple. When properly executed, customers respond by driving up demand and creating buzz. Here are five key ingredients for your restaurant’s LTO.



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The Art of a Successful Restaurant LTO

COVID-19-related supply chain shortages will likely continue, so restaurants today should take steps to prepare for and manage these disruptions. 

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6 Ways Restaurants Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages

Need a hand turning your restaurant dream into a viable business? Here are the key ingredients to write a restaurant business plan — plus a free template.

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The Key Ingredients of a Restaurant Business Plan

Restaurant sales forecasting helps operators make informed decisions to better manage staffing, inventory, and their overall business. 

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How to Conduct Accurate Restaurant Sales Forecasting

Learn how your business can turn over a new leaf with five creative fall marketing tips to boost revenue and drive loyalty ahead of the holiday season.

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5 Strategies to Prepare Your Business for Fall

A pop-up restaurant is a fun and creative way for chefs and restaurateurs to test out new concepts. Follow these eight steps to success with opening your pop-up restaurant.

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Quick Guide to Starting a Pop-Up Restaurant

When it comes to increasing your restaurant’s profit margins, you may be overlooking a lucrative market: desserts. 

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Creating a Profitable Restaurant Dessert Menu

Learn how this immigrant- and woman-owned luxury dog treat brand connected with customers in a contact-free world.

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How MISHKA Luxury Dog Treats Grew Business 7X

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

Learn how this Oakland-based convenience store grew incremental sales by adding alcohol delivery to their offerings.

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How Savemore Grew Alcohol and Convenience Revenue

Grow your grocery delivery and pick up sales with DoorDash as your delivery partner.

How Does DoorDash Work for Grocery Stores?

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Explore the latest floral industry trends to help your flower delivery service bloom.

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Floral Industry Trends to Watch

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 how this Austin restaurant opened during COVID-19 and partnered with DoorDash with their own delivery team.

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How Cocky Teriyaki Grew their Business with DoorDash Self-Delivery

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]

Learn the benefits of offering food discounts, as well as tips and creative ideas to help you determine the right promotions for your business. 


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12 Ways to Structure Restaurant Discounts and Promotions

Read on to learn about the best restaurant marketing tips to help you win big in your neighborhood.


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6 Local Marketing Tips for Restaurants

Learn how to get the most out of your business’s P&L statement, and download a profit and loss statement example template.

Understanding Your Business’s Profit & Loss (P&L) Statement

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Understanding Your Business's Profit and Loss (P&L) Statement

Learn how this Toronto-based fast casual restaurant optimized their off-premise business.

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How Naan & Kabob Grew Monthly DoorDash Sales by 19%

Learn how this Utah-based bakery expanded their delivery and pickup offerings.

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How Hruska's Kolaches Increased Overall Sales by 10% with DoorDash

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

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10 Restaurant Tips to Improve the Dasher Pickup Experience

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