Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2024

This digital transformation is not just about technology; it’s about reimagining the relationship between a brand and its customers. During my time in the ecommerce field, many online retailers faced similar challenges regarding customer retention.

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SpotOn

MAY 13, 2024

As the summer season approaches, bringing with it longer days and warmer weather, restaurants have a golden opportunity to welcome waves of customers looking for memorable dining experiences.  Upgrade your outdoor dining experience Summer is synonymous with outdoor dining. We can help.

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ChowNow

JULY 19, 2024

A well-thought-out menu is more than just a list of dishes. It’s a strategic tool that influences diner choices, enhances their dining experience, and ultimately drives your restaurant’s success. Are you creating a full menu, a breakfast menu, a brunch menu, or perhaps a seasonal or limited-time menu?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. For the second part, click here.

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Open for Business

MAY 9, 2024

From transforming your space into an outdoor retreat to making the most of occasions like Father’s Day and Pride Month, there are several ways to elevate your dining experience, attract new guests, and boost your bottom line this season. Engage customers with mouth-watering photos, behind-the-scenes glimpses, and seasonal deals.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2021

Chefs who are able to develop systems of production that work with fewer people will find a gold star on their resume. [] STREAMLINED MENU PLANNING. Chefs who are able to generate, assess, and use analytical data in their decision-making (menu trends, cost trends, daily labor analysis, market prices, etc.) This is quite the package.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It’s December, and the air is seasoned with the scent of cinnamon, spice, and everything nice. Create a fixed-price ‘Mix and Match’ menu with soups, salads, and sandwiches for customers to choose from. (If Pop a promotional banner at the top of your lunch menu to catch diners’ eyes when they’re hungry but in a rush.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates. Define the one or two KPIs most critical for your top growth goals.

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Leadership Small Business Customer Experience Hospitality 203

ChefMod

OCTOBER 20, 2021

While the catering industry is on the mend, it’s essential that you ready and steady your business for the coming year. Here are some bulletproof ways to streamline operations in a catering business to cope with changing market dynamics. The catering sector is no different and can benefit from innovative technology.

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7 Shifts

JULY 20, 2024

Food & beverage sales report A food and beverage sales report breaks down revenue from different menu items, giving you an idea of the best-selling dishes and optimizing your menu accordingly. For example, your restaurant offers a crispy fried chicken dish that’s popular among dine-in customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In addition, bartenders are mixing sparkling wine of all styles and prices into their cocktails to add effervescence, crispness or sweetness to the experience. Wines Chill Out : Chilled selections of red and sweet wines appeared on menus across the U.S. Will non-alcoholic beverages be the hot new drink on tap?

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Culinary Digital

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the ever-evolving food industry landscape, one concept stands out as a catalyst for operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and improved customer satisfaction: streamlined menu options. Let’s uncover the secrets behind leveraging streamlined menu options to take your organization to new heights.

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Open for Business

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It’s an all-important metric that influences everything from menu pricing to operational decisions and beyond. Is there a seasonal pattern? Measure the impact of changes: Did that new menu item boost your profits? Consider seasonal ingredients to take advantage of lower costs when certain items are plentiful.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Additionally, menu prices at casual dining establishments rose by an average of 9 percent year over year from 2021. This inflation at the customer–facing end of the restaurant business has largely been fuelled by rapidly increasing operating costs – by as much as 11.7 percent compared to the same period in 2021.

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Operations Cash Management Seasonal Menu Loyalty Program 197

Xtra Chef

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The holiday season is usually full of family, friends, and fun—and a lot of profitability for the restaurant industry. Restaurants that are already trying to find ways to cut food costs and optimize efficiency with reduced opportunities for revenue are now asking themselves: How do we thrive during this holiday season?

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Open for Business

MAY 16, 2024

Menus can be refreshed and hospitality can be fine-tuned, but your restaurant’s success ultimately boils down to discoverability. Diners are doing more research than ever and a restaurant website is a critical touchpoint of the guest experience. A website can be a powerful tool for marketing your restaurant.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

As you plan out your concept, location, menu, staffing, and marketing, take a read through the advice left by hundreds of restaurateurs to ensure you’re set up for success in 2020. Create an experience. Ace, Trails End Catering. Start with a small, focused menu featuring quality ingredients and hiring kind, skillful servers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature pizza predictions, Valentine's Day menu trends and lots about loyalty. A failure to handle complex orders with speed and accuracy can damage the customer experience for almost half of customers and lead to lost business. Why the buzz?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Consider what foods you love, what the local community loves, and what cuisines and menu items are not currently available in your region. Adults are always tired, so if you park a mobile concept serving caffeinated beverages (especially near colleges and offices), customers will certainly come. Frozen favorites. Shuck truck.

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Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022? For these travelers, the dining experience will be back on the menu. Plant-based options are a must on any menu from bed and breakfasts to five-star resorts. Finding innovative ways to incorporate novel foods into your menu sets your properties at the forefront of healthy dining.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, we delve into practical strategies that retail precincts and F&B operators can employ, considering the specific needs of different customer segments, to maximize visitation frequency and spending in a time of escalating cost of living.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we delve into practical strategies that shopping centres and F&B operators can employ, considering the specific needs of different customer segments, to maximize visitation frequency and spending in a time of escalating cost of living.

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Clover - Restaurants

JULY 5, 2024

They include a variety of formats such as fast food restaurants, food trucks, and smoothie bars, each catering to specific consumer needs with a focus on quick preparation and minimal wait times. It is even estimated that fast food will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1%

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The Food Corridor

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And with the holiday season fast approaching, there’s plenty of opportunities to boost sales by offering products and services that can be given as gifts. Host a Holiday Cooking Class A great way to spread awareness of your business while also making some cash is to bring your customers into the business and host a cooking class.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With the season of food and Thanksgiving when holiday food is at the forefront, what are defined standards and procedures that restaurants should keep top-of-mind to set the expectations regarding food handling and preparation during the holiday rush? After all, these things never take a holiday. Help Employees Understand the Why.

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Apicbase

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this article, we explore the benefits of centralising inventory, optimising menu design, standardising staff training, and more. F&B management oversees kitchen operations, menu development, customer service, and finances. This includes restaurants , hotels , catering companies, and other hospitality businesses.

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ChowNow

JUNE 27, 2024

Shandy Linley, Senior Director of Customer Success at ChowNow, leaned on years of experience in the restaurant tech space and an extensive background in restaurant operations. For example, if your restaurant usually experiences a lull between 2 PM and 4 PM, consider reducing staff during these hours.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Restaurants will also explore delivery options beyond costly third-party partnerships, and hike delivery menu prices to make the channel more lucrative as off-premise demand holds steady. Simplified Menus. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Health-Conscious Food Will Dominate Menus.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Additionally ordering online is always an option to customers with an internet connected device, offers them a higher level of convenience, and it helps restaurants reach a much larger audience. Look for loyalty program software that integrates with your POS system, allowing you to collect important data points from your customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The operating model and menu are adaptable to any environment with different options including kiosks and free-standing locations with a drive-thru, ranging from a few hundred square feet up to 2200 square feet. "ezCater's platform provides effortless online ordering and exceptional customer service." Jessica Wescott.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Bitter Ends provides window service to its customers ordering online. The luncheonette also sells its foods at the Linea Verde Green Market to give customers convenient access to its food during its off-days. They also offer curbside catering for specific occasions. Make a Reservation.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. Less time on payment processing and menus leads to faster turns—a necessity with caps on indoor capacity. There are new technologies, new ways of doing business, and new consumer habits, too.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

Your takeout packaging choices directly affect your restaurant’s image and reputation, so it’s important to select containers that ensure all meals arrive to the customer at the right temperature and looking delicious. If you are leery about diving into a specialized mocktail menu, Dry January is an ideal time to test your market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

In order to pull off successful events and cater to their clients’ needs, event planners and their bar staff. Mixologists are experimenting with seltzer-based recipes and teas combined with fewer spirits. If there are leftover ingredients from an event, use them on the next day’s cocktail menu. CBD Drinks.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

With everything from world-famous steakhouse chains to local treasures, you’re sure to have a special dining experience. Originally a burger joint started by a restaurateur and his chef, Morton’s soon expanded its menu and its locations to include over 65 acclaimed fine-dining steakhouses. Best Steakhouse Restaurants in Pittsburgh.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 21, 2020

Vegan, earth-conscious, experience-seeking, Instagram-shunning, pour-over-drinking, pour-over-avoiding, quality-orientated, convenience-orientated: the consumer market is rapidly evolving and at times contradictory. Coffee shop owners who don’t adapt to their changing needs risk losing sales and customers. Credit: Jean Pierre Flores.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Chart House offers private dining and event catering. Other popular menu items for group dining include the French onion soup, Sausage, and Chèvre flatbread, and the Steak Frites Au Poivre. In the private dining experience, guests can have a personal event coordinator, customizable menus, and sophisticated wine pairings.

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