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The ongoing dockworkers' strike along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, which began in October 2024, is significantly affecting the restaurant industry. With ports handling a vast amount of food imports, including 75% of bananas and 85% of canned foodstuffs, restaurants are facing potential shortages of key ingredients. Perishable goods like fruits and seafood, as well as imported beverages such as wine and whiskey, are at risk of delayed shipments, driving up prices and limiting availability. If the strike continues, the disruption could deepen, impacting supply chains 

Minimum Wage Playing Havoc with your P&L? Savvy operators are taking a multi-pronged approach to mitigate labour costs – and even seeing a profitability boost. This playbook gives you five ways to 'Survive and Thrive' the National Minimum Wage rise... #foodanddrink #hospitality #wages #costsaving #operationalexcellence #leaders #profit #strategy #ceoinsight #restaurant #pubs #bars Luke Fryer Harri

Wage hikes both sides of the Atlantic are hitting bars and restaurant businesses hard. What to do? There’s no silver bullet - but here are a suite of strategies that will help mitigate those costs. Harri founder and expert in these things Luke Fryer shared his powerful insights with the Atlantic Club earlier in May. You can act on them now. It will also help you focus on underlying business issues like retention and sub-90-day staff turnover. You know what to do!

With the way food prices are rising, staples seem to be becoming luxury food items. Well, you may have to add hamburgers, and ground beef in general, to your revised list of "luxury" food items. #Meatprocessing #furtherprocessing #management #sustainability #foodprocessing #regulations #foodindustries #beef https://lnkd.in/esyYcRzs

https://lnkd.in/e-jQuxYa The minimum wage in California was recently increased to $20 per hour.   To combat this cost increase, Pollo Campero, a fast food chain operating in 20 US states, recently mapped the foot traffic patterns of employees. Did they use a Spaghetti Diagram?   They redesigned their restaurants to change the traffic patterns, cutting some employees’ daily step count nearly in half.   This reduction in step count helps to offset some of the labor cost increases and helps with employee retention.   By capitalizing on #lean tools used in the #manufacturing world for decades, Pollo Campero was able to increase productivity and employee retention at the same time.   At Motive Logistics, we use #analytics to help you to cut #transportation costs and shrink your carbon footprint at the same time. Cutting costs doesn’t always have to be the cheap way to do #business! #logistics #supplychain #trucking #freight #innovation #sustainability #changemanagement

🔍 Understanding Direct vs. Indirect Labour Costs in Restaurants 🍽️ #RestaurantManagement #LaborCosts #HospitalityIndustry #RestaurantOperations #BusinessEfficiency

Quick piece on how we (as consumers) will be impacted by the port strike... First item suggested in the article is fresh fruit and veggies. https://lnkd.in/e8ZE_KTp

#hospitality : Tim Martin: JD Wetherspoon had a bumper Christmas but high labour and energy costs are bruising pubs, highlighting the disparity between pubs, restaurants and supermarkets. In an update this morning, the boss of the no-frills boozer said: “The price of a pint in a supermarket is about £1, so a 10 per cent increase in labour costs (which are around 10 pence per pint) necessitates a one pence increase in the selling price to cover costs. “However, for pubs, the average selling price of a pint is around £4.50. The labour per pint is therefore around £1.35 (30 per cent of £4.50), necessitating a 13.5 pence increase in the selling price to cover extra costs.” He added: “The inevitable consequence is that increased labour costs raise the differential in prices between the hospitality industry and supermarkets” #wagesandsalaries #inflation City AM

Food on or close to it's sell by or use by date needs to be discounted by 90% to stop food waste, only then if it is not sold should it be eligible to go biogas energy and digestate fertiliser. If it is edible, not significantly discounted and goes straight into biogas and digestate then it is food wasted. Companies that take this option need to be sanctioned.

🤔 Is this potential port strike impacting you? ⚓️ With a looming strike at major U.S. ports, are your wine shipments at risk just as OND hits? Curious how much wine volume goes through these ports that are at risk of a strike. What steps are you taking to protect your supply chain? #Wine #SupplyChain #OND