I. Casual Dining

II. Fine Dining

III. Quickservice

IV. Fast Casual

I. Advanced Course: The Secret Ingredient - Advanced Recipe Management 
Further refine your costs and operations with advanced recipe management. Our industry veterans will review the finer points of menu item configuration, sales mix sizing, menu concatenation, and more.  

II. Top Tips to Controlling Labor Costs 
Learn how to increase labor efficiency and productivity by creating more accurate forecasts, then setting weekly targets to hold your store-level managers accountable.  

III. Smart Solutions for Happy Staff
In this session we’ll explore proven strategies for enhancing restaurant staff satisfaction and retention including AI-fueled personalized training programs, task management and more.

IV. Crafting your Numbers – The Art of Custom Financial Reporting
Join this hands-on workshop that empowers restaurant operators to create tailored financial reports. Learn to leverage your restaurant's unique data to make informed decisions, drive profitability, and gain a competitive edge in the industry.

V. What Keeps a Restaurant Manager Up at Night
Restaurant managers know that the long-term success of a restaurant depends on many daily small choices at the store level. This session will provide tips for mastering your restaurant operations today in a way that bootst efficiency and long term profitability. 

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

Networking Lunch

Workshop Sessions

I. Advanced Course: How to Streamline Franchise Operations 
This session will cover tools and best practices that make it easy to get high-level and granular insights into how your entire franchise organization and individual locations are performing so you can  focus on high performance and growth. 

II. Tipping the Scales: How to Streamline Restaurant Payroll
with Tip Automation
Learn how innovative restaurant operators are using tip automation within integrated payroll to manage tip pools and shares faster and with greater accuracy.

IV. Advanced Budgeting and Forecasting
Master advanced techniques for budgeting and forecasting in your restaurant, ensuring financial stability and informed decision-making.

V. Practical Applications for AI in your Restaurant
Learn how you can embrace the potential of AI to enhance your operational efficiency and financial management.

III. Boost Profits with Menu Engineering
Learn strategies that consistently grow margins alongside psychological and sales tactics that drive customers to order the dishes that add the most to your bottom line.

I. Mastering the Ledger: Advanced Accounting Techniques for Restaurants
Accounting is far more than tracking costs and revenue. In this session, learn how to empower your accounting function and your entire business with reporting that reveals growth and savings opportunities and auditing that builds confidence behind it.   

II. Saucing Success: Advanced Tactics for Operational Efficiency
Explore advanced strategies and best practices for optimizing restaurant back-of-the-house operations, focusing on efficiency and cost control.   

III. Blueprints for Brilliance: Task Managment for Restaurant 
Operational Excellence
Learn how to streamline restaurant operations and achieve excellence through effective task management strategies to literally guide you through your workday.

IV. Purchase like a Pro - Ordering and Vendor Accountability
In this session, we'll tackle the common vendor challenges faced by restaurants and share essential reports that every restaurant operator needs in order to accurately track price fluctuations, analyze CoGS, and hold vendors feet to the fire to keep operating costs low in an unpredictable market.  

V. Mastering AP Capture for QSR Efficiency
Gain expertise in efficient Accounts Payable capture methods tailored for quick-service restaurants, enhancing operational efficiency and financial management.

I. From Debits to Delight: A Beginner's Guide to Accounting 
In this session, we'll look at automation and workflow tips and tricks that reduce time spent on entering accounting information and increase insight into financial performance. From AP invoices to bank reconciliation, discover new or new-to-you ways to get work done fast.

II. Operations 101
In this session, we'll show you how to slice and dice your operational data and how your workflows impact the financials in real-time. Uncover the benefits of connected accounting and operations for true, actionable transparency that adds to the bottom line. 

III. Accelerating your Restaurant Hiring
As a restaurant operator, hiring and retaining employees can feel like a constant battle that’s never won. In this session we'll focus on ways to speed and automate your hiring.

IV. Franchise Finances Made Easy
This session is designed to simplify the complexities of financial management in the restaurant franchise industry. From budgeting and cash flow analysis to understanding franchise fees and profit margins, this course provides practical insights and strategies to help franchise owners optimize their financial performance.

V. What Keeps a Restaurant CFO up at Night? 
Join us as we dive into the unique challenges and responsibilities faced by restaurant CFOs. Covering topics such as financial risk management, cost control, and maximizing profitability, this course offers invaluable insights and solutions to help CFOs navigate the complexities of the restaurant industry.