GRA Weekly

June 30, 2022

This week's newsletter is brought to you by GRA Corporate Partner, Atmosphere.

INDUSTRY WAGE REPORT

FREE Restaurant Wage Benchmarks from 1,000s of Jobs in Georgia!

Want to know what your competitors are paying without calling their stores? Want to be able to tell your crew that "We pay ABOVE the 75th percentile crew wages in the area"? This report is EXACTLY what you need. Click here to access the report.

A CLOSER LOOK AT SWIPE FEES

Restaurants and the Electronic Payments Ecosystem: A closer look at Swipe Fees

For restaurant owners and operators, accepting a form of payment that is not “cash only” is an absolute imperative to best serve their customers, and ultimately, to stay in business. However, facilitating credit and debit card payments is often one of the highest costs borne by our industry, only behind labor and food. Join the National Restaurant Association and CMSPI for a webinar focused on the operational ins and outs of the electronic payment ecosystem, including interchange fees, least cost routing, facilitating card-not-present transactions, and credit card surcharging, and learn more about the legislative and regulatory opportunities and hurdles that restaurants are facing in this ecosystem today.

Thursday, July 7 | 2:00PM

STATE + LOCAL NEWS

Georgia Department of Revenue | Sales & Use Tax Rates Effective July 1, 2022

The Georgia Department of Revenue has posted the upcoming quarterly sales and use tax rate changes.

Counties with S&U tax changes include: Calhoun, Haralson and Pike.Please visit the Department's website to view current, historical, and upcoming sales and use tax rate charts.

AL FRESCO DINING SIMPLIFIED

What You Need to Know About StreetDeck Parklets

There’s no sugar coating it, the pandemic has been a train wreck for the restaurant industry. We’ve had to come together and adapt in ways that we could never foresee. Today we can look back and see that our resilience has led to some beautiful metamorphoses that have forever changed the way our customers experience our food – one such butterfly is al fresco dining on raised, self-contained platforms called parklets.

If you’ve driven through College Park in the past 8 months you probably have noticed the 86’ streatery occupying 7 parking spaces just outside of Virgil’s Gullah Kitchen, The Real Milk and Honey, and Johnny’s Chicken and Waffles. This is an example of a StreetDeck modular deck system designed by Archatrak Inc. and it may be the most expansive parklet in the country to date. Continue reading.