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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Moretti’s (Edison Park), 6727 Olmsted, Chicago, IL Guest Speakers • Raffles • Direct Vendor Contacts SEE PAGE 47 This free industry-only event will feature a panel of experts discussing best practices to stay profitable and overcoming challenges associated with third party delivery orders. These relationships often become unprofitable due to high commissions charged by companies like GrubHub,
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Doordash, UberEats and others. Join us as our panel discusses how to overcome increasing delivery order food and labor costs, increasing regulations impacting food handling and delivery, increased competition from delivery-partners and the solutions to manage your delivery services.
With the Covid 19 crisis effecting almost every food business, we’ve seen a new type of hospitality and nimbleness from Chicagoland’s restaurant professionals. With the safety of their employees and customers as their top priority, we’ve seen food businesses quickly pivot. Owners have gone out of their way to offer convenience and service to customers, many of whom have been eager to support their local restaurants to help them survive. Some of the best practices we’ve seen include operators selling “prepare at home” meal kits, kids cookie kits, fresh and frozen soups, family dinners, parking lot hosts to act as runners, cashiers for pick-up orders, delivery and curbside pick-up. We also want to acknowledge the many restaurant professionals who provided food donations to those in need, and those suppliers who supported them. This generosity and hospitality is what makes Chicagoland’s food industry special. We are all one family.
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