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Access expert resources to help drive smarter strategies and stronger results across your multi-unit restaurants. Whether you're looking to improve financial performance, streamline operations, boost marketing, enhance IT systems, or support executive decision-making, you’ll find curated webinars, downloadable PDFs, and interactive calculators tailored to your needs. 

 

 

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AI for Restaurant Fraud Detection

Discover the power of AI in automatically detecting restaurant fraud and learn the most innovative fraud detection reporting techniques that will revolutionize your approach to combating fraud.
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Multi-Brand Restaurant Challenges

There are challenges that Multi-brand companies face that single-brand companies are less likely to encounter. The multi-brand operator must deal with different technology, different operating systems, different calculations and data sets, and different business policies whenever they try to analyze results across all of their brands.

Learn how to successfully operate multiple concepts.

Automating Restaurant Process Management

Automating Restaurant Process Management

There are a lot of moving parts that go into running a restaurant. Trying to keep up with it all can be quite an unwieldy task. Having a process makes it much more manageable.

Learn how automating process management can help you complete tasks faster, lower operational costs and improve resource allocation.

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Data Export Benefits

Data exports are the key. Just as crucial as consolidating data from various sources, exporting that integrated data offers many benefits.

Check out our recent webinar where you will hear how Red Robin franchisee, Talon Management Services, uses data exports to automate tip pay outs.

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Promo Reporting

Keeping a close eye on how your promotion and LTO offers are doing in real time will help you increase sales and per person average.  

Check out our recent webinar where you will hear how Twin Peaks uses promo reporting to get better results with their weekly promos. 

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Plate Cost Calculator

If you don’t have a calculation of Plate Cost for every menu item, you should. It allows you to easily monitor the cost of the basket of goods sold, helps you set menu prices and evaluate whether it is time to raise prices, and evaluate promotion profitability. 

Download our Plate Cost Calculator to easily calculate Plate Cost for your menu items.

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Understand Customer Behavior with Product Mix

The best way to earn repeat customers is to sell them what they want. But how do you know what it is they want?

The answer lies in information you probably already have access to - Product Mix. 

Learn how to use product mix to learn about your customer's decision-making and keep them coming back for more. 

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Real Revenue Growth

 If you are only examining your traditional same-store sales metrics today, you are not getting an accurate picture of the market realities or your restaurant's real performance. During an inflationary period, sales increases can look good but can also be misleading, or worse, lull you into a false sense of security. To see performance clearly during times like these, you need to recalculate your sales growth to eliminate the beneficial effects of inflation.

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Increase Sales with Event Tracking

There are many types of events to track at restaurants:

  • Promos & LTOs 
  • Sports Events
  • Local Events
  • Remodels
  • New Store Openings

Learn how to track each one and how event tracking can help you increase sales. 

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Your Toast Data, Your Way

See how fellow Toast POS users have opened up a whole new world of reports and ways to look at data, that they were never able to easily access within Toast.

Learn how Mirus makes it so easy to change the way the data is presented and allows you to put data together in a way that best fits your needs. 

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Fixing the Labor Problem

Mirus CEO, Dave Bennett, shared a wealth of information and ideas on fixing the labor problem facing the restaurant industry.

This presentation covers :

  • The current state of the restaurant labor market
  • Creative ideas our clients are using to attract & keep employees
  • Ways to track and measure labor
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Sales Channel Profitability

Mirus CEO, Dave Bennett, shared a wealth of information examining how to measure sales channel profitability.

This presentation covers :

  • How to measure sales channel profitability
  • The data you should examine
  • Examples of dine-in vs. take-out margin variables
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Restaurant Inflation- Time to Raise Prices?

Mirus CEO, Dave Bennett, shared a wealth of information examining how inflation is affecting the restaurant industry and ways you can effectively measure and manage it.  

This presentation covers :

  • Inflation and the restaurant industry
  • How to effectively measure inflation
  • Whether it's time to raise prices
  • How to manage inflation efficiently
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Restaurant Profit & Loss Tips

Becoming intimately familiar with your P&L and digging into it on a regular basis can help you determine how well your business is operating.

This pdf offers top tips to help you get the most out of your P&L and find ways to increase profits. 

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The Real Cost of DIY BI

Many companies who set out to build their own Business Intelligence system only consider the initial set-up cost. But BI is not a project. 

The initial costs are just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many more costs involved with keeping the system working on an on-going basis.

Download the Real Cost of DIY BI PDF to see just how much.

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3 Ways to Measure Restaurant Cannibalization

Check level analysis is required to accurately measure cannibalization.

You cannot measure cannibalization by simply looking at a product mix report because it does not show you the content of guest checks. You must go deeper with a Market Basket report.

This pdf shows you 3 specific reporting techniques to help you see if your new product offering is eating away other product sales.

 

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What is an Enterprise Data Warehouse

See how an Enterprise Data Warehouse can help your restaurant business leverage the data your restaurants produce.
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3 Basics to Harnessing Restaurant Big Data

Restaurants produce incredible amounts of data. Unfortunately, that data is useless unless you know how to properly use it to make informed business decisions.

Want to learn how to make the most of your data? The first step is to understand the basics of restaurant-performance management systems, and what they can (or can't) do for you.

To get you started, Dave Bennett, thought leader in restaurant business intelligence, discusses 3 basic principles to utilize your own information to solve business issues and improve restaurant profitability in this free guide. 

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Restaurant Data Ownership

Many restaurant operators are shocked to find out that they do not own their own data. For instance, when deciding to switch from one POS system to another, you may find that your contract has data ownership limitations.

Download a free guide to restaurant information ownership and learn why data ownership is crucial and what steps you can take to prevent system vendors from holding your information hostage.

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Vendor Checklist

Get restaurant software that lives up to your expectations by asking the right questions. 

This vendor checklist gives you specific questions to help you decide if the company you are talking with will be able to meet your needs.

Finding the right solution for your data management and reporting needs will save you a great deal of time, money and effort.