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Restaurant Operations Omicron

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How These Restaurant Owners Pivoted Operations During Omicron

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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

Global

How to Choose a Restaurant Location

Are you storing your alcohol correctly? Learn best practices for alcohol storage for wine, beer, spirits, and more, for restaurants and alcohol retailers.

Alcohol Storage

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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United States & Canada

Optimize Your Winter Restaurant Operations

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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United States

6 Ways Restaurants Can Manage Supply Chain Shortages

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

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 business involves many different moving parts and partnerships. As one of those partners, we want to help ensure running your business is as smooth as it can be. One of the ways we do that is by integrating with your POS (point of sale) system.

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Integrate Your Point-of-Sale System with 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

Taking the time to set up your store now will save you time in the future — and, most importantly, it will help you drive more sales in the long run. This article will guide you through setting up your store on DoorDash so you can go live and start receiving orders.

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How to Setup Your Store on DoorDash

As a DoorDash partner, you have access to an exclusive suite of tools that will help you manage and grow your takeout and delivery business.

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Learn How to Use the DoorDash Tools

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

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

Food delivery apps are ramping up in popularity and hard to ignore! We are sharing the advantages of adopting food delivery services for your restaurant.

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7 Advantages of a Delivery Service for Your Restaurant

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.