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Gift Card Revenue: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

‘Tis the season of gift giving. And in a holiday season like no other, it's more important than ever to factor gift cards into your restaurant's strategy.

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Manage Restaurant Operating Costs Across Locations

See how multi-unit restaurants can sustain profitability and long-term growth by accurately projecting and managing prime/controllable costs.

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Control Prime Costs & Grow Margins with xtraCHEF & 7shifts

Learn how to take control of your prime costs and costs of good in your restaurant by using technology and tools that streamline processes.

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Food cost variance is driven by many different factors

What Is Food Cost Variance & Why Does It Matter?

Learn more about food cost variance and how to consistently monitor it. See how to use invoice processing tools to automatically push product price updates through to recipes costs, COGS, and more.

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Restaurant operator using AP automation software to scan and digitize a paper invoice

It’s Time for Restaurants to Harness Invoice Processing Automation

Thriving or just surviving? Invoice processing automation is the foundation for managing costs, profitability, & overall business health. See how!

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Are Cost of Goods Sold restaurant insights enough for your operation?

What’s Cost of Goods Sold Really Saying About Your Restaurant?

You need to go beyond COGS measures and gain individual menu items insights to truly optimize costs and sustain long-term profitability.

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Accounting for food delivery costs is a breeze with xtraCHEF

The Benefits of Recipe Management Software

Recipe management software is a must-have to gain quick and easy insight into plate costs. Read on to see how it can benefit your restaurant.

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Easily digitize your invoice data and start making better decisions.

[Webinar] From Invoice to Insights: Use invoice details to make better decisions

Restaurant invoices are all too often viewed as a necessary annoyance for back offices. The truth is that humble yet mighty invoice contains dependable information—a rarity in this industry. Our webinar explores critical invoice insights & the systems to unlock them.

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Automatically calculate plate cost with xtraCHEF's recipe management software.

How to Calculate Plate Cost for Your Restaurant’s Recipes

Calculating plate cost is one of the most important practices that any restaurant manager or owner can undertake. Precise plate costs help you make better decisions for menu pricing, COGS, budgeting, & more!

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Restaurant business planning taking place at the bar.

3 Restaurant Business Planning Factors You Can’t Overlook

Here are three often overlooked factors can make or break your restaurant business—especially these days—so be sure to bake them into your next planning session.

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Forget about your food inventory turnover ratio—there's better metrics!

Forget About Your Food Inventory Turnover Formula

You have much more important and efficient inventory metrics to worry about than your turnover ratio. These are those metrics.

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Manage third-party delivery fees at the recipe level.

Baking Third-Party Delivery Fees into Recipe Costs

You must implement a system to monitor delivery costs for individual dishes so that you can manage your profitability across these services.