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The Mid-Year 2025 State of the Restaurant Industry Report

GUIDE RESOURCE The 2025 State of the Restaurant Industry Midyear Report Let’s be honest—2025 has been anything but predictable for restaurants. Between rising costs, shifting consumer spending, and...

How To Turn Your Pizza Shop Into a Profit Powerhouse With Smart Restaurant Tech

Explore this guide to scale smarter and grow profits by using a cloud-based system to centralize your restaurant data.

The 2025 State of the Restaurant Industry Report

Explore this guide to gain a clear look at the trends shaping the restaurant industry, so you can make informed decisions and set your restaurant up for success...

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How to Calculate Restaurant Labor Costs: Key Metrics for Owners and Operators

Learn how to calculate labor cost percentage to streamline your labor operations.

Checklist: A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Operator

Learn how operators streamline their responsibilities in an integrated, all-in-one restaurant enterprise management platform

Checklist: A Day in the Life of a Restaurant Business Accountant

Learn how restaurant accountants use our integrated, automated cloud-based system that empowers them to spend more time advising the business.

Restaurant Hiring Shortcuts 2023

This guide provides strategies for restaurant operators to hire faster and attract talent in a rapidly-changing workforce.

How to Sharpen Your Margins with Restaurant Business Intelligence

In this guide, we take an in-depth look at how restaurant business intelligence is evolving and what it means for your business.

Inventory Efficiencies You Need To Scale

In this guide, we’ll cover the best practices for inventory management as well as many of the ways an inventory management system lighten the load

Checklist: 9 Payroll & Accounting Best Practices

Download this checklist to get detailed guidance to managing staff in any situation to help drive sustainable growth.

State of the Industry Report 2023

In our State of the Industry survey, Restaurant365 asked our customers their top challenges in 2022 and what they expect for 2023. This report shares

Seven Mistakes In Restaurant Hiring & How to Avoid Them

Today, franchise operators can further leverage technology to help simplify complex management tasks to streamline their current operations and set the stage for efficient, profitable

The Ultimate Guide to Streamlining Franchise Operations

Today, franchise operators can further leverage technology to help simplify complex management tasks to streamline their current operations and set the stage for efficient, profitable

Guide to Hiring and Retaining Restaurant Staff

We understand that hiring and retaining star restaurant employees has never been so tough, but with some planning, persistence, and patience It can be done.

Guide to Controlling Costs During a Recession

Insight into Prime Cost is key to succeeding in any economy, including the most challenging ones. While the current climate seems overwhelming, there are many

Guide to Controlling Cost of Goods for Restaurant Businesses

Having insights into your food costs is key to controlling them.

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The Ultimate Guide to Recipe Costing and Menu Engineering

If you’re not getting the highest profit margin from your menu items, this handy tutorial will provide everything you need to start boosting profits by

Mastering Restaurant Operations

Successful operations rely on intentional, strategic processes across all areas of your business. Ultimately, meeting your operational goals can save you and your staff time

Guide to Reducing Variable Costs

A restaurant budget is critical for profitability and success. It guides decisions, creates accountability, and provides a benchmark for financial health. This guide will discuss

Restaurant Fraud Prevention Checklist

This guide will discuss and teach strategies to help you discover and deter restaurant theft from bartenders, waitstaff, and managers.

Simplifying the P&L and Other Key Metrics: A Guide for Store-level Restaurant Managers

The guide includes a finance terms cheat sheet, how to analyze a P&L, how to use sales and labor forecasting as a “crystal ball,” and

Guide: Payroll for Restaurant Operators

Download Our Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Payroll Restaurant payroll can be a challenge with employees receiving multiple types of compensation, from tips to salaries to

Controlling Costs with Actual vs. Theoretical Food Cost Tracking

https://www.restaurant365.com/blog/menu-engineering-guide/ Download Our AvT and Menu Engineering E-Book AvT and menu engineering are both powerful tools alone, but integrated, they make a strong foundation for

Guide to Modern Restaurant Accounting

Despite the unique challenges your restaurant faces, modernrestaurant accounting can help you eliminate hours ofmanual work, gain visibility across your organization andreduce controllable expenses. Next

Prime Costs Guide: 10 Ideas to Reduce Food and Labor Costs

With capacity limits and other coronavirus-related restrictions affecting your bottom line, it’s never been more important to trim down your prime cost as much as

Guide: Restaurant Tech For Scaling

Learn how cloud-based technology can increase visibility, provide guidance, and position your restaurant business for real profitability and growth. This guide is designed to help