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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

7 Shifts

Numbers can give us insights into everything from profits and losses to average customer spend to how often employees cycle through. Employee turnover rate. For fine dining, around 30 percent. Labor cost includes all labor-related categories: Employees, both hourly wages and salaries. Employee Turnover Rate.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. percent between 2015 and 2018, compared with a 2.5

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth. Family dining was another segment that was hit hard, which includes many buffet-based concepts. The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Since 2015, this segment has more than doubled its footprint, and interest in the format — which alleviates some operational risks and costs for operators — is not expected to slow down. Mechanization and Robotic At-Home Kitchens It’s not just restaurant kitchens that are being revolutionized. There were some 180 food halls in the U.S.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

The Varano Group will also continue its association with Fratelli, the Italian fine dining restaurant at the Encore Boston Harbor Resort. Restaurateur Robert Earl, founder of Virtual Dining Concepts, is doubling-down on restaurant delivery service by launching Wing Squad, top photo. ” P.F. Chang’s.

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47 Scaling Restaurants In Scandinavia To Keep An Eye On (Because They Are Awesome)

Apicbase

You may not have noticed, but some brilliant restaurant chains and franchises are shaking up the dining culture of the Nordic countries, both with new concepts and by revamping old ones. An experience that combines the high quality of fine-dining with the cosy atmosphere of sharing dishes with friends. Scandinavia. 14 Outlets.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

If courses were inspired by something exact, the servers mentioned its scene of origin: After Catelyn Stark arrests Tyrion Lannister at an inn, she dines on onions dripping in juices, and we got the same. At Elizabeth under Regan, her use of these sources transcended dining room cliche. Vaneda Vireak.