19 March food holidays for your restaurant to celebrate

Did you know 45% of US customers say they’ve tried a new restaurant after seeing a restaurant’s post on social media? That’s why it’s more important than ever to make sure your restaurant is establishing an effective social media strategy to grab customers’ attention. One great way to make your restaurant stand out online is to celebrate national food holidays on social media. Take a look at these tips on how you can take advantage of food holidays this month and keep scrolling to get the full April calendar. What are national food holidays? National food holidays are micro holidays…
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How to control your food expenses

alone — the rising price of food is one of the biggest challenges for restaurant owners in 2023. While costs are always subject to fluctuation, this year brings a perfect storm of economic forces. Inflation, persistent supply chain disruptions, and a possible recession are driving increases of 10% or more across the board. By finding ways to control costs, you can maintain a positive cash flow and protect your bottom line. What impacts the cost of food? The global food market is complex and interconnected, which means an incident across the world can have a significant impact on your restaurant’s…
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March game day promotion ideas for your restaurant

The college basketball tournament is coming. 67 games, 179,560 heart-wrenching, bracket-busting, Cinderella-storytelling minutes of action – and your restaurant can’t miss a single one. With over 10 million people tuning in for each basketball game in 2022 there are endless opportunities to score big this March. Use these tips on how to grow your business, along with Grubhub, to conveniently offer the delicious food, tasty snacks, refreshing drinks and other essentials your hungry diners need to enjoy every minute of the mania. How to capture more customers on game days While the college basketball teams battle it out all month…
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People are trashing a budget airline and saying it put them up in ‘disgusting’ cockroach-infested hotel rooms in Cyprus and Spain after their flights were canceled

People are trashing a budget airline and saying it put them up in ‘disgusting’ cockroach-infested hotel rooms in Cyprus and Spain after their flights were cancelled.Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images Angry passengers are tweeting at EasyJet for putting them up in sub-par hotels after flight cancellations. A flyer wrote she slept on the floor “as the ceiling fan is hanging off and can’t be turned off without injury.” The UK-based budget airline canceled 1,700 flights between July and September, per Reuters. Disgruntled passengers stranded by a budget airline’s flight cancellations are blasting the “disgusting” hotels the carrier put…
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5 ways to improve your restaurant inventory management

Restaurant inventory management is the process restaurant managers use to track and replenish consumable products, including ingredients and kitchen supplies, in real time. Well done, this practice ensures you always have enough food on hand to serve customers — but not so much that the excess goes to waste. Managing your inventory is a critical part of daily operations; implementing a specific workflow and utilizing restaurant inventory management software can help your business meet its short-term and long-term goals. The inventory your restaurant needs can vary based on your specific operations. In general, it’s a good idea to have 5-7…
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These hotels west of Fort Worth see thousands of police calls

The extended stay Motel 6 in White Settlement on Monday, April 10, 2023. The White Settlement Police Department has created a task force to reduce crime at hotels and motels along Interstate 30 and West Loop 820 South. The department has received 2,860 calls for service across eight of these properties over the past two years. Amanda McCoy [email protected] On the floor in Charlotte Smith’s hotel room are terracotta pots of cactus near the door. More plants fill the top of the dresser by the TV. [–When her Fort Worth apartment evicted her last year, these were the only…
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NYC converted hotels to shelters as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers

NEW YORK (AP) — The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan shuttered three years ago, but it will soon be bustling again — reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday that the city will use the Roosevelt to eventually provide as many as 1,000 rooms for migrants who are expected to arrive in coming weeks because of the expiration of pandemic-era rules, known collectively as Title 42, that had allowed federal officials to turn away asylum seekers from the US…
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