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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

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Break-even point. Sales per labor hour. You can now determine what percentage this is off your overall sales to get a picture of your restaurant's financial health. Business is often a game of numbers, and restaurants are no exception. If it's not measured, it won't be managed. Table of Contents: Cost of Goods Sold.

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Contactless Before Contactless Was Cool (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

They can order and pay through a server (old school), or directly from their mobile phones (contactless ordering and payment – new school), or blend the two experiences all on one tab, through its easy-to-use mobile point-of-sale (POS), contactless ordering and payment features, and kitchen management systems (KMS).

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Medellín’s Cafes and Farms Are Taking Back Colombian Coffee

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Medellín’s bounty of coffee beans. Pergamino After decades of exporting the best coffee, Medellín’s local brands and cafe owners are turning residents on to the world-renowned specialty beans in their backyard and paying it forward to farmers “En casa del herrero, azadón de palo.” In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden hoe.

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Revolutionizing Restaurant Financial Compliance with the AI-Powered Future

Modern Restaurant Management

In the US alone, restaurant sales are forecast to hit $997 billion during 2023, according to the latest National Statistics. POS systems tend to be the most fruitful attack targets for cybercriminals, with 75 percent of restaurant data breaches being traced back to compromised POS systems, according to a 2016 Trustwave Global Security Report.

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Chefs Love Wonder, the Latest App Trying to Disrupt Delivery. Will Diners Follow Suit?

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It’s the same selling point as the early days of delivery app Caviar, when it offered a premium product — takeout from higher-end restaurants — in a marketplace that’s otherwise about unlimited options, not curation. It’s called Bankside, with a menu that includes peel-and-eat shrimp, clam chowder, crispy cod sandwiches, and a lobster roll.

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New-Wave Bakeries Are on the Rise in Puerto Rico

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In 2016, San Miguel started making bread in a second-hand pizza oven from a small ghost kitchen in Cupey, joining a generation of inspired Puerto Rican bakers who have begun offering an alternative to the bread factories: sourdoughs, country loaves, pastries with actual fresh creams and local fruit. consumers.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature news about an influx of catering orders, the topic of tipping, the rise of kiosks and affordable Michelin restaurants. Among the highlights: On or Off Prem Same-store catering transactions increased +71 percent in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. Total tips averaged 18.9 Tips on Sundays averaged 18.73