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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

By following policies that protect our guests, staff, and the business itself — actions like implementing an updated cleaning and sanitization policy across all restaurants — management teams put safety for all first and showed our staff that we will do what it takes to keep them safe. There are many moving parts in a crisis.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The Manifest surveyed 501 people about their food delivery and restaurant habits during COVID-19 and found that two-thirds of people ate in-person at a restaurant in July 2020. Nearly two-thirds of people (65 percent) ordered food delivery in July 2020 as food options remain in-demand, but restaurant profit margins decrease with delivery.

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Get Ready for the Post-COVID Economy Now!

Embrace the Suck

Much longer than that and eating canned food and instant ramen will become very boring. There’s safety—and therefore comfort—in numbers. Look back to a black swan event you might have already been through the events on September 11, 2001. This pandemic hit us fast and hard. It also will end that way.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

There has also been an increase in review content for Black-owned restaurants and food businesses (up 9X) and nightlife (up 13X). The findings, from research conducted by Reach3 Insights show a complex restaurant consumer marketplace that is ready to return, but still concerned about safety.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Take-out options – For restaurants unable to ramp up a delivery service or worried about the commission cut of food aggregators, takeout being the second best way to earn business is encouraging. Consumers prefer an easy experience when they do choose to order food or buy products or services online. on-premise space.

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The National Restaurant Association, Explained

EATER

Recently, the organization has come under fire after New York Times reporting revealed that proceeds from the organization’s foodservice safety certification program ServSafe , taken by thousands of hospitality workers across the country each year, were being used to lobby for laws to keep wages low for those same workers.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

Modern Restaurant Management

” Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is celebrating its 19th consecutive year as the host of the Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®), a star-studded, five-day destination event, held February 19 – 23. Neilan's first job in the U.S.