The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Menu pricing is one of the most underestimated aspects of restaurant management. If your customers don’t think the prices on your menu are reasonable, how great your concept or your food is won’t matter much. This is where the concept of dynamic pricing comes in to help restaurants!

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 3, 2024

In today’s competitive dining industry, maintaining profitability while keeping prices stable is a significant challenge for restaurateurs. High operating costs, fluctuating commodity prices, and the ever-evolving preferences of guests can all squeeze margins.

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SpotOn

MAY 13, 2024

  From crafting a summer menu that celebrates seasonal ingredients to offering cool beverages can enhance customer loyalty, adapting to the busy season with innovative menu ideas and online ordering can set your restaurant apart. Optimize your tech Set up an online reservation system to handle more customers smoothly.

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The Rail

APRIL 11, 2024

By Eric Tress, Contributor If you are looking for an excellent tool to increase your restaurant’s reservations, email marketing is an effective advertising tool you should consider. People are always looking for popular eateries and unique menu items to try when looking to eat out. However, this can be very slow going.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ah, but the food and conversation were consistently good, plentiful, and in-expensive. The conversation evolved around local news and gossip, and alcoholic beverages were reserved for bars scattered throughout the community. Why do people line up for your food every day?” No one ever left the restaurant still hungry.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Well, you have all heard the statistics about success and failure when food and beverage are involved, so I won’t repeat them. Again, turn to the National Restaurant Association for guidance. [] PRICING YOUR MENU BY COMPARISON. Every business requires controls in pricing, consistency, quality, and cash handling.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s critical to provide a seamless eating experience, which includes simple payment choices and online reservations. Using technology to facilitate contactless payments, online ordering, and quick table rotation can increase consumers’ satisfaction and loyalty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

Even our Diner Trends Report found that a whopping 84 percent of restaurant goers always or often look up a restaurant menu ahead of time, and 79 percent always or often look at a restaurant’s website. Inventory : Generally, when food costs go up, operators will raise their menu prices by a small amount.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Where Automation Can Help For instance, automated reservation systems and AI-driven customer analytics are enabling restaurants to provide more personalized service, while robotic kitchen assistants are undertaking repetitive cooking tasks, freeing staff to focus on the creative and interpersonal aspects that elevate the dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2021

Many restaurants shifted to online ordering, curbside pickup and delivery during the pandemic to stay afloat, and they adopted new safety protocols for guests onsite. Even before the pandemic, it was a best practice to sanitize menus because they are so frequently handled. Those processes are now fully integrated into operations.

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Social Hospitality

AUGUST 11, 2023

In order to run a successful restaurant, you must also have an easy-to-navigate website. Implementing local SEO strategies can lead to more reservations. A well-optimized website attracts more visitors and encourages them to explore the menu, make online reservations, or even order food directly through an integrated system.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Food cost percentage. Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. Food Cost Percentage. Inventory turnover ratio.

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Apicbase

JUNE 2, 2022

Shaving a percentage point off food costs here… eking out a few extra pennies by tightening up inventory procedures… stomping out waste. But… there’s another side to the restaurant profitability equation — menu pricing. What is menu pricing? Menu pricing is the process of assigning a sales price to your menu items.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Restaurant reservation systems help solve one of the biggest challenges of the foodservice industry – managing the constant influx of reservations and customers. In this article, we compare 4 of the best reservation systems out there to help you make the right choice for your restaurant. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

Here are some thoughts. [] IT’S STILL ABOUT THE FOOD: People go out to eat for a variety of reasons – convenience, social interaction, a change of pace, business travel, vacations, celebration, or habit. Guests will come for the food and the service, but they become raging fans of a restaurant with a story. A terrific story.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this article, we delve into the anticipated restaurant and menu trends for 2024 and explore how technology, particularly advanced point-of-sale (POS) solutions, can enable restaurateurs to ride the wave of these trends successfully. Experiential Dining The dining experience is becoming as important as the food itself.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2022

With wholesale food prices soaring 13 percent in 2021 and labor costs rising as worker shortages continue, many restaurants are looking for smart ways to lower costs and avoid passing them on to their diners. One such solution has been shrinking restaurant menus. A smaller menu also offers more options for upsells.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Restaurant reservation systems help solve one of the biggest challenges of the foodservice industry – managing the constant influx of reservations and customers. In this article, we compare 4 of the best reservation systems out there to help you make the right choice for your restaurant. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A restaurant menu is key to bringing guests in and keeping them around. On average, guests will spend only 109 seconds reading your menu, according to a Gallup poll. Creating a new menu or improving an existing one takes time. A good menu stays true to a restaurants’ concept and maximizes profit. Selecting menu items.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 22, 2021

You may not be familiar with the term “prix fixe menu,” but you’re more than likely familiar with the concept, which has been a staple of both fine-dining and casual restaurants for decades. In classical restaurant parlance, prix fixe , French for “fixed price,” refers to a multiple-course meal that comes with—you guessed it—a set price.

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SpotOn

APRIL 8, 2024

Independent restaurants have the opportunity to join in celebrating mothers and brunch items by creating a special mother's day brunch menu, dinner service, or promotions that cater to families. 💡 4 in 10 consumers will eat out or order online on Mother's Day. Pairings can add a sophisticated flair to your menu.

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Tableo

JULY 27, 2023

In this guide we will delve into food & beverage (F&B) control methods to help you generate profitability and uphold good standards. Quality control: You can guarantee constant quality in your foods and beverages by keeping an eye on the ingredients and manufacturing procedures. Narrow the selections on the menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One method that the industry has increasingly moved to in order to achieve these goals is sous vide cooking. Once a method reserved for use in the highest echelon of restaurants, the method has become increasingly more accessible. Sous vide prepared foods can be purchased far in advance, setting a fixed cost for food supplies.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It gives you classic American diner food on one corner and a Lebanese restaurant on the next. I look for a menu with a variety of sweet and savory menu items, so I don’t have to pick between the two. I look for a menu with a variety of sweet and savory menu items, so I don’t have to pick between the two.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These challenges are impacting menu availability, raising the prices of menu items, leading to short staffs, increasing wait times for diners, and changing operating hours and offerings. Digital waitlists and reservations help consumers minimize wait times at restaurants to get seated sooner upon arrival.

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EATER

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But after a while it’s like, c’mon, I do need a menu. And then when the server arrives asking if I’ve decided what I want, I’ll remember, oh right, the menu isn’t a menu anymore. The technology is there for the QR code to provide not just a menu, but an entire ordering system.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a restaurant owner, you’ve put some serious thought into your interior design, menu development and ambience creation to make your guests feel comfortable and attract more people to visit. Represent the whole menu. Implement an online reservation system. Single-use or sanitized menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Holiday Hangovers : On the days after holidays like St.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Online reservation system. Make the pen-powered reservation book a thing of the past by moving the reservation-making process online. A system like OpenTable takes reservations day and night, running the book even when you’re away from the restaurant. Allergy-friendly menu. Vegetarian menu. Dessert menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2023

Get Your Licenses in Order Starting a restaurant business involves registering with the authorities and procuring the relevant licenses. Food Quality Oversight Consistency is something most customers look for to return to your establishment regularly.

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Chowly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The economy defied expectations, avoiding a downturn, thanks to successful efforts by the Federal Reserve. However, challenges persist with rising prices across various categories, potentially impacting household budgets. Food and Menu Trends Consumer preferences and economic dynamics influence food and menu trends.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 27, 2022

In Hospitality Technology’s 2021 Customer Engagement Technology Study , it was found that 37% of diners prefer to dine at restaurants that do not have a paper/physical menu. With a QR code menu, diners scan a QR code with a smartphone camera and access the online digital menu that is then displayed on a smartphone.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

2023 has been a challenging year for restaurant operators, caught as they were between rising food costs and labour shortages. Food costs increased in 2023: according to one survey, 60% of operators reported that all or most suppliers raised their prices , up from 50% in 2022. trillion), while food-at-home spending grew by 10%.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 3, 2022

We’ll explore software for inventory management, restaurant payment and billing, food delivery, dashboards, restaurant onboarding, reservation management, and ERP systems. The POS simplifies record keeping and cash flow accountability as well as operations by sending the orders to the kitchen directly.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Opening a restaurant is a dream for many aspiring entrepreneurs and food lovers alike, but it’s also a complex venture that requires careful planning and execution. From budgeting and licensing to crafting the perfect menu, here’s everything you need to know about how to open a restaurant. Are people craving a new Italian place?

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EATER

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Illustration by Bea Hayward Once a luxury reserved for posh dinners, fish roe has become the snack du jour at restaurants across the country — and it’s blurring the lines between casual and formal dining Caviar has gone on a journey over the past few years. At Ladder 4 Wine Bar in Detroit, you can add 28 grams of Kaluga caviar to hash browns.

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