management

Are you being served?

By Bill Main on Apr. 06, 2000

We want our guests to receive the best service in town...flawless greeting scripts...impeccable plate placement...perfect pacing...a sincere thank you and invitation to return. We want our servers to deliver that first class service. But is it happening?

Jake's Finer Foods Implements Maxava HA Enterprise for IBM i Disaster Recovery

By Restaurant Business Staff on Nov. 11, 2010

(November 10, 2010)—Maxava, a provider of high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solutions for IBM i, announces that Jake's Finer Foods has...

Managing to get by

By Bill Main on Aug. 08, 2001

Keep your employees engaged by adding little rewards and a little bit of play to each day. Here are a few ideas which can help get employees excited and happy.

This much we know already

By Peter Romeo on May 18, 2011

With the NRA show just hours away, certain truths about this year's convention are piling up like used toothpicks at a sliced-pepperoni booth. Here’re some of the insights we've gleaned so far:

In the hot seat

By Bill Main on Oct. 15, 2002

A foodservice manager is an extremely influential person.

Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative Observes Second Anniversary

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 14, 2011

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ (October 14, 2011)—Dozens of major foodservice companies are seeing measurable benefits as part of the industry-driven Foodservice GS1 US...

ID NEWS: Quality-PFG's Tappan to retire; Greg Schaffner tapped as successor

By Restaurant Business Staff on May 09, 2003

Performance Food Group (PFG), Richmond, VA, has announced that Philip Tappan, president, Quality-PFG, Little Rock, AR, plans to retire, effective May 30. He...

Foodservice Leaders Drive Expanded Industry Track At GS1 Connect 2012

By Restaurant Business Staff on Mar. 26, 2012

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ (March 25, 2012)—GS1 US will showcase an expanded foodservice track this year at GS1 Connect 2012, the information standards...

Upon closer inspection

By Bill Main on Sep. 24, 2003

By now I'm sure you're all used to regular visits from the health inspector, fire inspector, and maybe even building inspector. It's a regular part of the job. And for many, a regular part of the stress.

What the failed harvest means for you

By Bill Lapp on Aug. 31, 2012

The 2012 U.S. corn crop is forecast to total 10.8 billion bushels, a decline of 13 percent from a year ago. While planted area is pegged at a record 96.4 million acres, yields are forecast to decline to 123.4 bushels per acre, a decline of more than 20 percent from trend levels. The decline reflects the most adverse weather in more than 20 years to face corn growers.

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