7 Shifts

MAY 25, 2020

There’s nothing better than a tidy workstation and clean range hood before service hour; and the post-shift scrub down of the kitchen can be a form of meditation for stressed out chefs. each surface that comes into contact with food, and any supplies or equipment that’s used through the day. Cover all your bases ???

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. All of this means that restaurants, especially fast-food places, will have to change how they operate. Voice Ordering.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Technology will be vital in the months – and years – ahead as the pandemic continues to change the conversation about food safety. Restaurants now must prioritize the overall safety of the restaurant environment, in addition to addressing food safety itself. Deploying RFID for Supply Chain Traceability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

Fresh prepared produce delivers many benefits to foodservice operations from cost and labor savings along with increasing back of house efficiency, food safety, and freshness. Supply Chain Shortages. One of the biggest pain points during and after the pandemic was supply chain. Ease Labor Shortages.

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Apicbase

MARCH 25, 2024

Demand forecasting for restaurants puts out the flames, takes the guesswork out of purchase orders and streamlines the supply chain. When restaurant managers or kitchen staff make poor purchasing choices, they face increased food waste, inflated costs and frustrated customers. That’s a daunting task.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 3, 2020

[] CUSTOMERS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE FOOD THEY ORDER. Possible strategy: Be proactive with a well defined, enhanced sanitation and food handling protocol for your restaurant and relay this information to your guests. Let your customers know that safety and sanitation is your most important job.

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Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

MarketMan offers tools for automating invoicing, recipe costing, and food cost calculations, making it a popular choice among restaurateurs. However, with numerous similar systems available, tailored to various types of food service operations and specific use cases, you might ask, ‘Which software is the best fit for my business?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This edition of MRM News Bites features McDonalds, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, OpenTable, Ordermark, Hudson Group, Hakkasan Group , Waitr and Checkers, ICV Partners, Restaurant Technologies, Diebold Nixdorf and Alto-Shaam. " Reducing Food Waste. Changes at the Top for McDonald's. in January 2017.

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Cheetah

MAY 25, 2021

Benefits of Working with Fresh Cut and Prepared Foods Suppliers. JIT, a ready-to-serve inventory of high-quality fresh-cut items, enables restaurants to cut down on preparation time, saving both prep time and reducing inventory waste. With all this, your restaurant budget and supply become more accurate and easier to plan.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond The changing face of Food & Hospitality. Whilst some food and hospitality businesses chose to pivot their businesses early, out of necessity, others have elected to respond to changes in consumer preferences and are quickly reshaping the food and hospitality landscape in front of our eyes.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Kitchen management software comes in all shapes and sizes. Most successful food businesses are now multi-unit and multi-channel. All come with their own data sets and metrics – food cost, inventory variance, sales numbers, the list goes on. It makes choosing the system that is right for you all the more complicated.

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Food traceability is compulsory for many food companies in the US, Europe, and the UK. These businesses are accountable for any safety issues in their supply chain and must have information on traceability for the goods they grow, distribute, and sell. And that, in turn, drives more interest in food traceability software.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

85% of Food in Restaurants Is Wasted According to the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, in the restaurant industry, about 85% of food ends up in the trash. This translates to a substantial profit loss as money that is invested in food does not in fact produce a profit. Disposables: all waste that is not food.

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The Rail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

By Briana Hilton, Contributor The “ slow food movement ” has been given a big push by new post-pandemic demands, with many restaurants now nearshoring or reshoring (sourcing supplies closer to their location so as to have greater control over supply). They can order products as they need, reducing inventory and waste.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A concept known as cloud kitchen has emerged as a result of these advancements. A cloud kitchen also called a “ghost kitchen” or “virtual kitchen,” is a commercial culinary environment that provides food enterprises with the tools and resources they need to prepare menu meals for delivery and takeout.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. US Foods Ghost Kitchens. US Foods Holding Corp. The Main Course.

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

And more and more often, whether we realize it or not, it’s also where we’re ordering our food. Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. What are the potential challenges with ghost kitchens?

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

When thinking about restaurant automation, imagining a future where AI-powered androids shake cocktails and drones drop food deliveries through your skylight is fun. But automation in food service is much more than that. Production Maximise kitchen efficiency with precise production planning.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off. In Love with Tech, but Impatient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Restaurants will continue to grapple with labor shortages and supply chain disruptions throughout 2022. Supply chain : Supply chain issues will be a key challenge in 2022. Third-party delivery : Restaurants can generate cash flow but not profit; they’ll have to figure out how to make money using these services.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic related increase in demand for food delivery has given food brands, cloud kitchens and delivery only kitchens an opportunity to test and demonstrate their new order-to-go technologies. However, restaurateurs need to be extra careful while delivering food to their customers.

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EATER

MAY 20, 2020

But when it comes to implementing safety protocols, many feel like they’re in the dark : For weeks, the Trump administration delayed a CDC report that would have provided guidelines on how to do just that — because it was “overly prescriptive” — while the FDA has published guidance that mostly defers to the CDC.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2020

But when it comes to implementing safety protocols, many feel like they’re in the dark : The Trump administration squashed a CDC report that would have provided guidelines on how to do just that — because it was “overly prescriptive” — while the FDA has published guidance that mostly defers to the CDC. Tisch Illumination Fund.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Though food delivery packaging always played an important role in the restaurant business, post COVID-19, it has become even more essential. Thus, food delivery packaging needs to be as sustainable and efficient as it can. Thus, food delivery packaging needs to be as sustainable and efficient as it can.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.).

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 25, 2020

From the kitchen to front-of-house operations, restaurant operators need to follow the government’s COVID-19 response guidelines and institute safety practices to ensure a safe and hygienic dining environment for their customers. . Train Your Restaurant Employees About The Safety Procedures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

With many states ordering dine-in restaurants to shutter, getting the word out if you can offer curbside pickup, delivery and takeout is crucial. “These new takeout options make healthful food readily available, particularly for those vulnerable populations that cannot easily grocery shop.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Based on findings from a survey hosted on the Angus Reid Forum on behalf of Restaurants Canada, the report shares that on the positive side, Canadians are looking forward to returning to restaurants, so long as safety measures are in place. 78 percent of Canadians have ordered delivery within six months prior to the survey.

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The Food Corridor

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A FOOD CORRIDOR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NICK AVEDESIAN, FORMER DOORDASH GHOST KITCHEN DEVELOPER & OPERATOR. . The exciting trend of ghost kitchens is getting a lot of attention. Kinda sounds like fast food 2.0! . But there’s a darker side to dark kitchens. . Hidden during construction. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. While you can not always control the commodity pricing, you can control how you manage it by reducing waste, optimizing efficiencies and leveraging margins.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

In a deal that creates the world’s largest online food delivery company outside of China, Just Eat Takeaway.com plans to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Grubhub in an all-stock transaction. The transaction represents Just Eat Takeaway.com’s entry into online food delivery in the United States.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 29, 2022

As a restaurateur, you would love to see your restaurant kitchen bustling while your dining room is fully packed with guests. Besides the wastage of food and messy kitchen floor, it also forces the hungry patrons to wait longer for the new dishes that need to be cooked. Importance Of Kitchen Layout In A Commercial Restaurant.

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The Restaurant Times

MAY 26, 2021

Online deliveries also ceased during Q2 of the year 2020. However, online deliveries picked up later on, and dine-in restaurants have also started reopening with reduced occupancies. How efficiently the safety norms are followed like hand washing, no talk, cough, or sneezing near utensils. Food Wastage. Exposed Utensils

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill directs all operational and strategic planning and execution for the Applebee’s, Del Taco, MOD Pizza, Wendy’s and Olga’s Kitchen brands. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager. Bill is a 1982 graduate of Michigan State University.

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