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Increase your social media impact with this guide to flat lay photography, which includes 6 free templates.

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Master Restaurant Food Photography with These Flat Lay Tips and Templates

Collaborations between local producers and merchants foster a vibrant community and increase customer engagement.

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How to Build Community Using Local Producers

Discover actionable strategies to improve winter restaurant operations and attract customers.

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Optimize Your Winter Restaurant Operations During Slow Season 

The Toronto Michelin Guide has shouted out these 10 exceptional restaurants — and they’re all growing through delivery with DoorDash.

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Michelin-Recommended Restaurants Growing With Delivery in Toronto

Learn how Michelin-Recommended, Bib Gourmand, and Michelin Star restaurants in Vancouver incorporate delivery into their business. 

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Michelin-Recommended Restaurants Growing with DoorDash in Vancouver

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?

Looking to drum up sales this winter? Use these restaurant marketing tips to attract diners during the colder months. 

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8 Foolproof Tips for Marketing your Restaurant This Winter

From grand openings to pop-ups, hosting a community event helps small businesses network and connect with new customers.

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Community Event Ideas for Small Businesses

Want to turn first-time guests into regulars? Here are some tips to drive restaurant customer loyalty and keep diners coming back.

Six Ways to Increase Restaurant Customer Loyalty

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6 Ways to Increase Restaurant Customer Loyalty

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

Discover how to create a seasonal winter restaurant menu that helps attract new customers and drive sales in the colder months.

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5 Winter Menu Ideas Proven to Work for Restaurants

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

Learn about the global food trends that are showing up on restaurant food and drink menus around the world.

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Global Food Trends: What Restaurants Need to Know in 2023

Famed restaurateur Will Guidara's transformative concept can change the way you connect with delivery customers.

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Elevate Your Restaurant Delivery Experience with 'Unreasonable Hospitality'

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

Learn how this Toronto-based healthy Tex-Mex franchise location built a loyal customer base through DoorDash.

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How DoorDash Helped This BarBurrito Franchise Increase Sales by 84%

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 

Learn how to calculate and lower customer acquisition costs for restaurants, and ​measure the impact and cost of common paid marketing strategies. 

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Comparing Restaurant Customer Acquisition Costs & Paid Marketing Channels

Learn how Spread Bagelry’s omni-channel customer experience drives new business at a higher margin.

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How Spread Bagelry Wins Incremental Sales with DoorDash

Explore today's consumer dining trends and get industry insights from the 2023 Restaurant Online Ordering Trends Report.

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2023 Online Ordering and Restaurant Consumer Trends

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

From fast food to fine dining, learn about the different profit margin averages for various kinds of restaurants.

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Profit Margins for Different Types of Restaurants

Find out what we expect consumers to crave on DoorDash this summer and how restaurants can make the most of the season.

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Summer Food Trends: How Restaurants Can Prepare for the Season

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 all about the food delivery container options available to restaurants, including how to ensure freshness, prioritize sustainability, and reduce costs.

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A Guide to Eco-Friendly Food Delivery Containers for Restaurants

Learn how Atlanta-based Slutty Vegan won over the hearts of its customers. 

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How Slutty Vegan Gained a Cult Following

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

What is your strategy for building a restaurant website? Learn what makes a good restaurant website and how to avoid common pitfalls.

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Building a Restaurant Website: 12 Mistakes to Avoid

Learn how Instagram marketing works for small businesses of all kinds, from restaurants and liquor stores to supermarkets and pet shops.

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A Guide to Instagram Marketing for Small Businesses

These restaurant advertising strategies can help you reach new customers, while also reminding previous guests that it’s time for a visit.


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How to Reach New Customers with Restaurant Advertising

Learn how to incorporate innovative restaurant technology to increase efficiency, lower costs, and enhance the guest experience. 

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12 Restaurant Technologies to Help Grow Your Business

Learn how supermarket marketing, strategic promotions, and meeting customers where they are can help grocery stores increase sales. 

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Creative Ways to Increase Supermarket Sales

Looking to grow your restaurant’s reach and bring in more revenue? Learn how to get started with direct mail for restaurants.


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10 Ways to Use Direct Mail for Restaurant Marketing

Help your business grow by taking these extra steps to provide excellent restaurant service and offering a variety of ways for guests to dine with you.

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How to Improve Restaurant Service to Keep Customers Coming Back

Learn about alcohol delivery and pickup preferences from our exclusive 2023 Alcohol Online Ordering Trends Report.

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Alcohol Pickup & Delivery: Consumer Trends for 2023

Secret Menu is a celebration of the restaurants that are integral to local communities. 

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Secret Menu Issue 2: Miami's Almighty Hustle

Miami has long attracted big names in the restaurant world, but the recent pace is like nothing the city has seen before. Local legend, Michelle Bernstein, doesn’t think it’s a bad thing.


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Bring It

Modern-day Miami is a Boomtown, with neighborhoods being transformed by new money, new residents, and frenzied development. Some of the city’s bedrock businesses, like B & M Market, stay put by doing what they’ve always done.  

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Holding It Down

Black chefs are leading a vegan movement across Miami.

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Our Community Deserves This

Inflation. Rising rents. Unpredictable supply chain. Here's how some Miami restaurants are making their restaurant operating margin work. 

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The Cost of Doing Business

Here’s how the enterprising husband and wife behind Phuc Yea, a beloved Vietnamese-Cajun restaurant, navigated the costs to opening a restaurant.

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From Red to Black

The dream was an Italian restaurant. Step one was a taco stand. Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer’s unconventional road to a Michelin star.

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That's Amore!

Richard Ortega’s Maiz Project goes beyond serving Miamians true Venezuelan arepas. By invoking memories of his abuela’s cooking, he hopes to show that traditional family recipes can be the start of something bigger.

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Do You Know The Masa Man?

Learn about the business of BBQ in Miami, featuring Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs, Drinking Pig, and more. 

Learn about Miami's hidden gem: Mama Lucy's All Pro Ribs

The Keepers of the Flame

The influx of high-end Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants in Miami obscures something: that people have been cooking such food here for a long time.