State of Restaurant Operations 2026

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Your Guide to Labor Shortages

Our guide offers essential templates and expert recommendations to help you hire smarter, reduce turnover, and stay competitive in today’s challenging labor market.

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How to Address Restaurant Payroll Challenges

Payroll challenges plague restaurants. With the right solution, inaccurate checks, pay delays, low morale, fees and fines are a thing of the past. See how.

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Why Your Best Managers Ignore Your Scheduling System (And What to Do About It)

Discover why experienced restaurant managers override scheduling systems and how to build trust, improve adoption, and reduce manual schedule edits.

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Your Technology Should Work as Hard as You Do

Fourth CEO Scott Collison shares his vision for faster, smarter restaurant and hospitality technology — powered by AI, built around how operators actually work.

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Why Most Restaurant Technology Rollouts Fail & What Actually Works at Scale

Discover why restaurant tech rollouts fail and how leading brands drive adoption at scale. Lessons from Red Lobster’s former CIO.

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Fourth Appoints Veteran Product Leader Scott Collison as CEO

Fourth, a leading provider of workforce and inventory management solutions for the hospitality industry, today announced the appointment of Scott Collison as Chief Executive Officer.

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From Weekly Planning to In-Shift Decisions: How AI Is Changing Restaurant Operations

AI is shifting restaurants from weekly planning to real-time, in-shift decisions. Learn how continuous forecasting improves labor, inventory, and margins.

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Why Multi-Unit Restaurant Operators Overwhelm Their GMs (And How to Fix It)

Former McDonald’s operations leader, Harish Ramalingam, explains why multi-unit restaurant operators overwhelm GMs and how simplifying priorities improves execution and profitability.

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AI for Restaurant Operators: What’s Real, What’s Next, and What to Do Now

Explore how AI is reshaping restaurant operations, improving labor decisions, and helping multi-unit operators protect margin and grow sales.

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Fourth launches Fourth iQ 3.0, giving senior restaurant leaders control and visibility over store performance.

Fourth iQ 3.0 introduces a significant new layer of above-store AI capabilities built for executives and operations teams responsible for multi-location performance.

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Why Forecasting Is the Most Proven AI Use Case in Restaurant Operations Today

AI forecasting is the most proven use case in restaurant operations today. Learn why it drives measurable ROI in labor, inventory, and execution.

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