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Restaurant Management Tips for Higher Employee Retention

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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

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

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

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

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

Need to staff up for the busy season again? Learn tips for success in hiring seasonal workers, featuring advice from Dear Bella Creamery.

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Seasonal Hiring Guide: Tips for Restaurant Success

The following tips will help you set the foundation for effective restaurant operations management.

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6 Best Practices in Restaurant Operations

If you missed this year’s National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, here are five takeaways highlighting what’s top of mind for today’s restaurateurs.

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5 Takeaways From the National Restaurant Association Show

Give your business a checkup with this list of six things that optimize your flower shop operations.

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6 Ways to Optimize your Flower Shop Operations

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

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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

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

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

Grow your business by creating positive experiences, exceeding expectations, and building strong relationships with customers.

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Customer Service Guidelines: How to Make Sure Your Business Stands Out

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

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

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

According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask indoors. There are some exceptions. So what does that mean for restaurants?

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Understanding Mask Requirements for Restaurants

Learn from Tanya Holland — Executive Chef and Owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland — about how to run a restaurant successfully. 

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Tanya Holland on How to Run a Restaurant Successfully

Good news: increasing restaurant sales during the winter months is easier than you think. Take your inspiration from these unique winter revenue streams.

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Winter Restaurants Prep: How to Add New Revenue Streams

Learn how to overcome four common struggles of running a restaurant business. 

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4 Common Restaurant Challenges and Solutions

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

Protecting your staff and customers today is top priority. Read about the latest guidelines for your updated food safety management checklist today.

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Health & Safety Checklist for Restaurants

For those ready to adapt and pivot their restaurant operations, trying times can be turned into an opportunity. 

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The New Normal For Daily Restaurant Operations

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

Be ready for a restaurant health inspection at any time with these tips that help you prepare your staff and protect your customers. 


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How to Prepare Your Restaurant for an Inspection

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.