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

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How a Culture of Hospitality Fuels Mike Solomonov's Restaurants

Are you starting your own food truck? Read this guide and download the free food truck business plan template.

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How To Create an Effective Food Truck Business Plan

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

Learn how this restaurant group increased average order value and grew their customer base with Fiserv gift cards, Paytronix loyalty, and DoorDash’s commission-free* online ordering.

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How Storefront Helped Drive Loyalty and More Visits for Lettuce Entertain You

How DoorDash Drive’s white-label solution increased sales and improved customer experience.

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How honeygrow Grew their Orders by 31% with Drive

Get an overview of restaurant business insurance and policies to consider, including general liability, commercial property, worker's compensation, liquor liability, and more.

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Restaurant Business Insurance: What Operators Need to Know

Learn how to take a strategic approach to location analysis before bringing your restaurant to new neighborhoods. 

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Restaurant Location Strategy: How to Choose Where to Open Your Business

Learn how paying tips through payroll helps restaurants streamline operations, reduce risks, and ensure compliance with tipping rules.

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Why Restaurant Owners Should Be Paying Tips Through Payroll

COO Emily Biederman shares why she recommends choosing just one partner for third-party delivery.

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Why Steuben's Partners Exclusively with DoorDash for Third-Party Delivery

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 

Co-packing, also known as contract packaging, can be a boost to building your brand and driving new revenue. 

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What Is a Co-Packer and How Can They Help Grow Your Business?

Do you want to pursue restaurant franchising? Get firsthand insights from a successful franchise entrepreneur.

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How to Franchise a Restaurant: Advice from a Successful Franchise Operator

Learn which food costs are climbing and creative ways to fight restaurant inflation

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Restaurant Inflation: How Rising Food Costs Impact the Industry

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

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 

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

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 how to run a successful restaurant with strategies from veteran restaurant owners to help up-and-comers establish and grow their business. 

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How to Run a Restaurant Successfully: 7 Tips from Restaurant Owners

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 starting a restaurant? Use this new restaurant checklist to guide you as you choose a location, develop a business plan, and build your brand. 

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Opening a Restaurant Checklist: 6 Essential Steps

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

Discover how to craft a winning restaurant business plan that charts a path toward success.

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How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide

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 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

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

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

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What is White-Label Delivery? Benefits, Solutions, and More

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 

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

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.