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Evaluating the ROI of Restaurant Loyalty Programs 

In the ever-changing hospitality landscape, restaurant owners are always looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve. Whether through implementing the most advanced POS system or utilizing a new marketing strategy, the industry is always evolving.

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Evaluating the ROI of Restaurant Loyalty Programs 

In the ever-changing hospitality landscape, restaurant owners are always looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve. Whether through implementing the most advanced POS system or utilizing a new marketing strategy, the industry is always evolving.

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Emerging Tech Trends in Hospitality Accounting for 2024

The hospitality industry is a complicated financial facet, specific intricacies of hotels, restaurants, and resorts all require nuanced support because of industry-specific regulations and compliance. Paperchase solidifies its stance in the industry through a tech-agnostic operation.

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California’s Updated Surcharge Pricing Transparency

A new law introduced in California will shift requirements for menu pricing in restaurants. Senate Bill 478 was introduced to promote “price transparency” and help consumers avoid hidden fees.

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Paperchase Guide to Hotel Bookkeeping

Balancing books is as important as welcoming guests and providing exceptional services. However ,money management has never been easy, especially in the hotel industry.

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New Regulation Shifts Outdoor Dining in NYC

After taking a critical hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants bounced back with the help of eased regulations around outdoor dining. New York City became a hub for makeshift patios on sidewalks and the street, embracing a Parisian café culture.

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City of Yes for Restaurants: Dancing Allowed in More Establishments

New York City is known for its iconic restaurants and vibrant nightlife, but the two don’t always overlap. This month, the NYC Hospitality Alliance met with Mayor Adams and the Office of Nightlife to discuss issues facing the hospitality industry.

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Dinner Reservations for the People: NYC Cracks Down on Scalpers

Restaurant reservation scalping, where third-party platforms use bots to snatch reservations at popular restaurants and resell them for a profit, has been hurting restaurants, workers, and consumers alike.

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Maximizing Restaurant Profitability Through P&L Analysis

Your restaurant’s profit and loss (P&L) statement is more than just a financial record; it’s an essential tool that guides strategic decision-making.

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Financial KPIs Every Restaurant Owner Should Monitor

Partnering with specialized hospitality finance accountants like Paperchase gives your business insight into these KPIs so you can run your restaurant with ease.

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Understand COGS And its Importance

Paperchase’s hospitality accountants deliver valuable, detailed reporting, on a weekly and monthly basis to guide operational efficiency, and guide operations to achieve key performance metric goals like COGS.

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Sustainable Accounting Practices for Restaurants

Sustainable accounting lets restaurants and other businesses assess their impact on the economy, society, and environment.

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Comprehensive Financial Planning for Your New Restaurant

Comprehensive Financial Planning for Your New Restaurant

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Exceptional Service: A Key to Restaurant Profitability

In the ever-evolving restaurant industry, one thing remains constant: exceptional service is the cornerstone of profitability.

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Managing Costs: Seasonal Menu Planning Guide and Understanding

In today's culinary landscape, managing costs while maintaining quality is paramount for the success of any restaurant or food establishments. One effective strategy that savvy chefs and restaurateurs employ is seasonal menu planning.

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Everything You need to know about Bars & Night Club Taxes

Have you pondered about your favorite bars and nightclubs' taxes? These sites are enjoyable and provide additional activities. However, they offer a bustling nightlife and pleasure, with severe tax restrictions.

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Coffee Trends in the Middle East

Early 2024 saw a significant shift in the Middle Eastern hospitality industry, with a surge in the focus on coffee. Changing consumer tastes, and a turn towards Western culture due to an influx of tourists, have caused coffee shops to pop up all over the region. While partially concentrated in [...]

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Paperchase Guide To Payroll Processing in Hospitality.

Hotel payroll management is tricky compared to other sectors. Labor law compliance and complicated departmental pay programs are only two variables to consider. Precise payroll processing is necessary for legal compliance, employee satisfaction, and firm financial health.

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What’s The Middle East Fine Dining Climate Looking Like in 2024?

A strategic look into Saudi covers vs. UAE and where their fine-dining future stands. Driven by a rich culinary heritage and shifting consumer lifestyle and preferences, the Middle East Restaurant Market has witnessed a significant boost post-pandemic.

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Engineering your Wine Menu

Every restaurant owner strives to create a winning formula. The perfect blend of ambiance, service, and food, but there's a hidden ingredient. Often misused, your wine list has the power to enhance the dining experience, entice customers to explore new flavors, and ultimately, boost your bottom line.

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Paperchase officially partners with the James Beard Foundation

Paperchase, a leading global hospitality accounting firm, is thrilled to announce its sponsorship of the prestigious 2024 James Beard Awards.

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The Ultimate Guide to restaurant taxes: navigating tax compliance and saving!

Being in the restaurant business seems very easy because it involves dealing with customers all day and letting them have the best meal of their day.

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Paperchase Guide on Bar Financial Planning

Building a bar business can be a difficult task but with correct financial planning you can attract customers towards your business.

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Financial Planning for Successful Nightclub Events

Flashing lights, disco balls, and good times. Running a nightclub is a great way for a business owner to develop a brand and create a highly stylized establishment.

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Paperchase Guide to Hotel Accounting

Hotel accounting is a specialized field aimed at recording, managing, and analysis of the financial activities of a hotel business.

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Paperchase’s Guide to Restaurant Bookkeeping: Expert Insights

A restaurant owner handles many tasks simultaneously, such as serving fresh food while maintaining a good attitude.

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Navigating the Financial Landscape of Hospitality

In the fast-paced world of restaurant management, keeping a tight grip on finances is crucial for success.

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Paperchase’s Guide to Restaurant Accounting: Success Starts with Numbers

Accounting is the engine of a restaurant and good financial and record-keeping organization are what keep it running.

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Essential Restaurant Accounting Tips

Cash flow management is an area that can seem overwhelming to many business owners, but Paperchase specializes in this area to help you understand these specific factors of running a restaurant.

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Best Practices for Small Restaurant Accounting Records: Elevate Your Financial Game

Have you been considering expanding your business one way or another?

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Franchising or Licensing: The Choice Is Yours

Have you been considering expanding your business one way or another?

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Wrapping Up 2023: Expect the Unexpected

The UK has been through a rough period over these last two years. We’ve barely made it without a recession, and the Bank of England raised interest rates amidst a shrinking GDP.

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Accounting for Hospitality in the UAE

“For over 30 years, Paperchase has provided bookkeeping and financial management services to the hospitality industry, globally, however, we do so much more than just bookkeeping. We consider ourselves to be partners to each of our clients, offering insights, problem solving, supporting business growth and training” comments Manit Singh, Business [...]

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Restaurant Data

We recently sat down with Restaurant365 and Wayne Huang, Chief Financial Officer at wellbeing café, Pura Vida Miami, to discuss all things relating to unlocking the full potential of restaurant data and optimising operations and performance.

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Preparing for summer – Tips for hospitality businesses

With 34 years of helping hospitality business to improve, grow, develop and expand, there isn’t much the team at Paperchase does not know about the industry. Getting ready for summer should be on every operator’s agenda right now, so, here are a few tips from the team at Paperchase.

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Attracting, Engaging, and Retaining Staff

Attracting and retaining good staff in hospitality is always challenging. Paperchase talks to Ann Barker, Sales & Partnerships Director of Excellect, an independent employee benefits and health insurance broker to explore some best practice.

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UK Budget 2023 – What does it mean to the hospitality industry?

Has the Chancellor thrown the industry a lifeline? With the recent budget, what will the effect be on the hospitality sector?

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New Legislation Mandates Calorie Labels on UK Restaurant Menus

Adriana Cavita is an international chef, soon-to-be author, and owner of London-based Mexican restaurant

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Celebrating Women In Hospitality

Anna Haugh is a chef and owner of Irish-influenced restaurant, Myrtle.

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Raising Funding For Your Hospitality Business

How do you raise funding for a new hospitality venture?

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Business Planning In 2023

The year ahead is already forecasted to be challenging – it’s about how we embrace the chaos, uncertainty and pressure and use it to fuel our creativity, drive new ways of working and challenge our teams to think outside the box.

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Make Your Bookkeeper Your New Best Friend

You may be running a restaurant, doing your own admin, and have appointed a generic accountant, thinking you have all the help you need to manage the finances of the business. The truth is you also need a bookkeeper!

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How To Open A Restaurant

Simon Binder, Chairman of hospitality accountancy, Paperchase, with 40 years of running restaurants, offers some sound advice to would-be new restaurateurs.

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What Does The New Government ‘Allocation Of Tips’ Bill Mean? 

New Government ‘Allocation Of Tips’ Bill Explained

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Paperchase Accountancy Expands Its UK Sales Team

Paperchase, the UK’s leading accountancy services provider for the hospitality sector

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3 Tips For A Successful Hospitality Business 

What is the recipe for a successful restaurant, bar, or pub?

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Calorie Information On Menus

New legislation became law on the 6th April regarding the listing of calorie information on restaurant menus.

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2022 Budget Recap: Hospitality Highlights

Did Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement Offer Hospitality a Little Hope for 2022 and Beyond?

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Hospitality Planning For 2022

What will your New Year resolutions be in 2022?

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Foodservice Prices Set To Rise!

Due to rising demand, product shortages, distribution problems, with a lack of delivery drivers, food service prices are under extreme risk of imminent increase as the hospitality industry gears up for the festive season.

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Hospitality News: Upcoming Changes Impacting Businesses

Just as the world returns to normal, three significant events in the next 6-months threaten to affect hospitality business as well as the consumer.

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Tipping, Tronc & Service Charge

Do You Know Where You Stand As An Employer, Or An Employee?

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Showing Up For Hospitality

According to findings by Zonal 'no-shows cost the hospitality industry an estimated £17.6 billion in lost sales every year'.

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Marc Bertorelli Joins Paperchase

Marc Bertorelli joins hospitality accountancy specialists Paperchase as Business Development Manager.

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Value For Money – Getting It Right

In the midst of a cost of living crisis, customers are considering now more than ever whether they are getting value for their spend before parting ways with their money. With this in mind we thought we would look at what delivers true value for money within a restaurant.

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The Budget Is Here & Reopening Is Near

Following our recap of the 2021 budget and the UK government’s announcement that hospitality venues can reopen outdoors in April and indoors in May.

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Is Hospitality Giving Consumers What They Want?

It’s almost been an entire year since Covid altered life as we knew it. A lot has changed during this time including consumers’ eating habits, attitudes and behaviours.

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2021 Michelin Stars Congratulations

Paperchase congratulates all our restaurant clients who gained or retained Michelin Stars in the 2021

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What Can Paperchase Do For You?

Whilst Paperchase specialises in the hospitality sector, we are a little more than just accountants. We understand the industry and we swim in the same pond as you.

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Don’t Count The Beans, Cook Them

As hospitality businesses struggle to find staff to do their accounts and bookkeeping in-house, what are the advantages of contracting-out?

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6 Tips For Increasing Restaurant Bookings

Technology, the internet, and mobile applications have revolutionised restaurant reservation management.

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Are You Still Giving Your Customers The ‘V’ Sign?

With an increase in the change in eating habits, and the popularity of dishes that contain neither meat, fish, eggs, or dairy, with vegetarian and plant-based eating gaining popularity, are restaurateurs future-proofing their relationships with their diners?

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Food For Thought With Brett Graham

10 questions and answers showcasing the personalities of some of hospitality’s finest. Join us this month as we get to know Brett Graham of the Ledbury.

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Weathering The Covid Storm

3 US restaurateurs share their experiences

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Technology In Hospitality

Technology in hospitality is now playing a major role at every stage of the customer journey, with 40% of diners agreeing that technology has improved their hospitality experiences.

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It’s An Opening!

As hospitality gets ready to welcome back customers, is it a case of just unlocking the doors and letting the crowds in?

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2021 Budget Recap – Hospitality Highlights

For the hospitality sector 2020 was a car crash.

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2021 – What Happens Now?

Having spent his entire working life in the hospitality sector as a restaurateur, a strategic consultant to the industry, as well as building some of the most iconic restaurant brands in the UK, Simon Binder, now Executive Chairman of Paperchase, looks at 2021.

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HMRC Announces Extension To Job Retention Scheme

The Chancellor of the Exchequer announces an extension to the ‘Coronavirus Job Extension Scheme’ (CJRS) payable under the scheme set out on 15th April 2020

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Marketing Now – Use Your Downtime Well

Barry Walker – Paperchase Marketing Manager, suggests the best way to spend your lockdown time is by planning for change!

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