Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

According to new research from the National Restaurant Association, 72 percent of people want a restaurant gift card this holiday season. Given that the 2019 holiday season is shorter than last year, brands will need strong gift card promotions throughout December to optimize their overall sales. Go with a Restaurant Gift Card.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Prime cost does not include equipment and supplies, utilities, menu design, signage, decor or any other costs unrelated to the production of your product. Labor Cost Percentage Averages Below is a breakdown of average labor cost percentages in Q4 of 2017: Quick service: 29.4% Prime cost is your most important key performance indicator.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Creating and optimizing the menu based on US Foods’ exclusive food-costing tools, industry analysis and recipes designed by in-house chefs that focus on both profitability and diner trends. The two companies have joined forces to offer a version of Sally the Robot that will exclusively serve Saladworks’ rotating, seasonal menus.

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Lavu

MAY 23, 2025

Inventory Issues : Manual stock counts and outdated tools lead to inaccuracies and waste. Back in March 2017, as many as 60% of payment terminals still relied on dial-up connections, which naturally caused delays. Outdated menu items or pricing , causing confusion and delays. Inefficient labor : Wasting time on manual counts.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Here are a few elements worth paying attention to in order to prepare your café for the festive season. You may also like Managing Staff Shortages During Seasonal Peak Periods. Fika Coffee in Toronto, Canada, during the festive season. Consider implementing a seasonal dress code or uniform for your staff.

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EATER

APRIL 25, 2022

At Slater’s restaurant, Seward Brewing Company in Seward, Alaska, wild local seafood is a menu staple. He often cooks fish straight from frozen, especially during certain species’ off-seasons, to offer his signature dishes year-round. Here, a few to consider. Frozen fish purveyors to try. Campo Grande.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Ingredients are clean and sourced from local vendors whenever possible, and the menu is designed to support vegan, gluten-free, and Halal diets in an effort to accommodate all guests, no matter their dietary preferences. Haggis, a seasoned executive, brings nearly 40 years of experience in the food industry to Taco John’s board.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Aside from fondue, no one was exploring seasonal, vernacular cooking. Ski season: Megève’s low altitude can mean limited snow cover in the earlier parts of the season from December through January. Since 2017, the Basque-born chef Anthony Bisquerra has presided over the L’Alpaga hotel’s excellent duo of restaurants.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 21, 2020

Meanwhile, in the UK, the industry is seeing year-on-year growth and, in 2017, market research firm Mintel stated that the UK was seeing its “biggest period of growth since 2008”. Next, consider your menu. If you’re looking for easy ways to diversify without giving your baristas a headache, try a seasonal menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Minimal Waste – Ono’s food truck is designed to be environmentally sustainable. With multiple restaurants in a shared space, DoorDash will empower these merchants to offer their customers new menu offerings and pairings unique to the DoorDash Kitchens’ restaurants. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In Arkansas, ordering buffalo ribs will land you a plate of fried fish—seasoned, battered ribs cut from local big-boned buffalo fish. Founded by Joe and Molassis Watson in 1905, it started as a sandwich shop out of their home, with Joe later adding catfish and buffalo ribs to the menu. It employs over 300 people.

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Touch Bistro

MAY 10, 2021

And one area that is often overlooked is the question of how to reduce food waste in restaurants. Food waste costs restaurants a staggering $162 billion per year , and in America alone, restaurants generate as much as 33 billion pounds of food waste per year. Different Types of Restaurant Food Waste.

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Lavu

MARCH 30, 2020

You can choose to add cutlery to meal prep, or opt to leave the disposable cutlery out of the picture to reduce your restaurant’s waste impact. You can pre-season the meals, or choose to include small containers of spices for each one needed. At the same time, we all rush to stop our reusable cups, cutlery, and even grocery bags.

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Additionally, she was wasting time on bank reconciliation, spending between seven and 35 hours per month on the task each month for the seven locations. In 2017, Maru Hospitality Group started looking for a system that would meet more of its needs. “We We needed a system that could cover a lot more bases than just accounting.

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

Cloud kitchens (often used interchangeably with “ghost kitchens”) are centralized licensed commercial food production facilities where one or two to dozens of restaurants rent space to prepare food for delivery-optimized menu items. Cloud kitchen menu items are optimized for ease of production and reliability of food quality upon delivery.

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EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The first, the 2017 Tubbs Fire, had ripped through the region with a ferocity that made it, at the time, the most destructive wildfire in California history. The first, in 2017, was caused by one of the wettest winters in a century , which had followed the state’s historic five-year drought. Between the fires, there were the floods.

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Marketman

JUNE 25, 2019

of food production is either lost or wasted each year, we have the ability to turn this chain reaction around. According to the Hartman Group’s Sustainability 2017 report, this generation pushed for fresh, less processed foods. Give your menu a facelift. Your menu cannot be a one and done initiative.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

National Menu Trends. They also analyzed how their national menu trends compared to the menus of their James Beard award-winning customers. They also analyzed how their national menu trends compared to the menus of their James Beard award-winning customers. McDonald’s visits in July were 15.7

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

” “Equality is something I advocate for in all aspects of my life, and the kitchen is no exception,” said Bravo’s “Top Chef” Season 10 winner, Kristen Kish. I am fully behind this initiative and hope my industry peers share their support as well.” " Trabon and MenuTrinfo Team Up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

Government data provides evidence that restaurants are raising menu prices to help offset higher labor costs. Many operators revamped their labor models, simplified menus to lower complexity and reduce waste, and are using technology, such as self-serve kiosks, to become more efficient during lockdowns. The State of Gift Cards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sandy is a graduate of Walsh College with a Bachelor’s of Accountancy and accomplished the designation of Certified Scrum Master in 2017. Real-Time Menu Optimization : Promote items with short preparation times (or higher margins) when things are busy. William (Bill) M. Angott: President and Chief Executive Officer | 25 years.

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Marketman

JUNE 25, 2019

of food production is either lost or wasted each year, we have the ability to turn this chain reaction around. According to the Hartman Group’s Sustainability 2017 report, this generation pushed for fresh, less processed foods. Give your menu a facelift. Your menu cannot be a one and done initiative.

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EATER

APRIL 6, 2022

The vegetable season menu included 150 different ingredients — most people don’t eat more than 60 in a decade.” Her digestive tract embattled by 17 seasons of Top Chef judgments and stage-4 endometriosis, Lakshmi finds elation in a healthy poop. And that can shock our systems.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The menu may seem a little overwhelming for novice sushi lovers, filled with endless fish options you may not have heard of before. Sushi Nakazawa has been making a name for itself ever since it was featured on the hit Showtime TV series, Billions , in 2017. With an omakase-only style menu, Onodera prefers aged sushi rather than fresh.

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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. Even cost of sales may go down as the ghost kitchen typically has a smaller, more manageable menu. Plant-based Menu Items. Jim Collins, CEO at Kitchen United.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

While staff did work with local, seasonal, unique ingredients, servers and cooks alike say they grew uncomfortable telling stories about some of the restaurant’s sourcing and preparation practices, including for a number of its signature dishes, which they considered misleading.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Sales and traffic improved for the holiday season, but not as significantly as reported during Thanksgiving week. They keenly focused on narrow time bands around price changes — just days before and after restaurants updated their menu prices. In 2017, the fixed POS terminal dominated the global market, in terms of revenue.

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EATER

APRIL 11, 2023

Emerging from the discarded container — one of five at Yang’s Small Kine Farm, a no-frills plot abutting a succulent nursery and a range of salvage and waste reclamation businesses — he takes a big bite out of a larger portobello: quality control. It took Yang years to fine-tune turning local green waste into mushroom substrate.

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