Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

Simply put, the experience should look, feel, smell, and sound differently from their last visit in 2019. Should the customer and employee experience not be altered to fit that lifestyle? What advice can you share to improve employer/employee relations and help retention? Great question. Of course it should!

Employee Relations

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2021

That includes anything from closely monitoring how much is served to any single guest, doing thorough background checks on security guards and other staff, keeping all liquor-associated certifications current, and providing written protocols to employees to ensure policies are understood and carried out in accordance with the rules.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In a survey of 4,079 small business owners conducted from 8/15 to 9/13/21, 66 percent reported having a "very difficult" time finding the right employees to fill open roles, many of which are necessary to help them drive revenue and rebound. In July, 47 percent couldn't hire enough employees. Dining Trends in Canada.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Whether customers are ordering direct via your site or through a third-party marketplace, it’s crucial to focus on building customer relationships when your employees aren’t the ones handing orders to customers. Launching and scaling delivery involves a lot of moving parts. Putting it All Together.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2021

Look for available solutions, that optimize sales and allow operators and employees to focus their effort and energy where it’s needed most. Compared to 2019, many additional restaurants have an off-premise segment, and not all of them have had a chance to create their own delivery setup. Co-created with Burma Inc.,

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The sports bar is equipped with several TVs for sports viewing, garage style doors, an outdoor patio with fire pits, and locally brewed craft beer and cocktails. Since opening in May, 2019, Rivas’s AV system design has allowed The Old Plank team to get their jobs done efficiently without any AV-related hiccups.

Sports

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. Despite this, value velocities on Christmas Eve and Day were up by +37 percent and +42 percent versus 2019. ” What Restaurant Employees Want at Work. Key Takeaways.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Del Taco was recognized for adding multiple Beyond Meat items to its menu in 2019 and for heavily advertising these offerings to meat-lovers, vegetarians, and vegans alike. Just a few months after Burger King’s successful Impossible Whopper launch in August 2019, the restaurant chain added the Impossible Whopper Jr. to its menu.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Transparency into work environment precautions – Many restaurants and stores are publishing the precautions they are taking to ensure the safety of customers and employees. The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety. Gift Card Sales Boom. 6 preferred brand.”

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

In 2019 we were introduced to the chicken sandwich war, and in 2020 it raged on as chain and independent restaurants added the sandwich to their menus for diners to enjoy. Similar to Grubhub's 2019 Year in Food Report , diners are continuing to eat vegan and vegetarian dishes. Top Foods of 2020. chili: 228 percent more popular.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Also, in today's Covid challenged environment, Citrus safeguards both employees and customers by completely eliminating contact, enabling businesses to thrive, providing a safe pickup experience for all. Menish Gupta, Citrus CEO, commented: "Today's curbside pick-up logistics are inefficient and disorganized.

Serving

7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

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

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

However, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve Bank, 37 percent of all Americans could not cover an unexpected $400 expense without going into debt. It’s one more way we can show how much we care about our employees. “We are very excited about our partnership with SaverLife. .

Franchising

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Download the ebook Seattle Employee Pay & Minimum Wage Laws Seattle Minimum Wage Seattle is known for having one of the highest minimum wages in the United States, which has made it difficult for the city’s restaurateurs to balance high costs with the need to keep prices down in recent years. However, if employees are tipped $2.25

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

“While cafes, dining halls, cafeterias, and concessions stands may look a little different, I am confident that they will feel and be safe for our employees and everyone we serve,” said John Zillmer, Aramark’s CEO. Requiring appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees, including gloves and masks.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In essence, this shift should lead restaurants to embrace the idea of maintaining a truly “intelligent” smart kitchen, one that will be tech-equipped to continue evolving with consumer demands. Improve employee performance. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door. Reduce theft.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2023, many operators want to keep moving toward the edge, with more than four in ten planning investments in equipment or technology to increase front- and back-of-the-house productivity. Only one in ten operators think recruiting and retaining employees will be easier in 2023 than it was in 2022. million by 2030. million by 2030.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

Because the facility includes a kitchen for restaurants to prepare foods, the only equipment needed to operate a Dickey’s location is a smoker and a warming cabinet. PREP, an 83,500-square-foot culinary campus, houses multi-functional shared kitchen facilities featuring extensive equipment. Hot for Dave's Hot Chicken.

Franchising

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Restaurant owners are placing more importance and effort than ever on making sure employees are engaged and fulfilled, and that toxic work cultures are stamped out before they can thrive. Read on to learn more about effective restaurant kitchen management tactics you can use to ensure your employees feel supported, safe, and engaged.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

.™” with an initial donation, aiming to raise $125,000+ for Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE), a nonprofit that assists the families of service industry members navigating life-altering circumstances. All donations are tax-deductible and go directly to Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE). based 7shifts users.

Healthcare

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Respondents across all countries said their top food-related concerns were: safety and hygiene, access to healthy foods, and nutrition. The vast majority of those surveyed want restaurants to have employees wear face masks and encourage social distancing. Restaurant Industry Consumer Perspectives. In the U.K.,

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Employee recruitment and retention continues to be a major challenge for operators in 2020, with low unemployment rates and growing job openings. However, of the job openings filled in 2019, nearly half of them were filled by either new entrants to the workforce or people promoted from other positions in the same restaurant.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Despite the industry being at its most stable since 2019, customers being more educated and engaged around the issues impacting the food system, and massive strides made in creating sustainable and equitable conditions for staff, rising costs are greatly impacting both operations and the public’s dining out frequency.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Restaurant and bar related concerns. 77 percent of restaurants and bars indicated that ensuring the health and safety of employees was their top concern. Restaurant and bar related concerns. 77 percent of restaurants and bars indicated that ensuring the health and safety of employees was their top concern.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Ervin Cohen & Jessup launched a Food, Beverage and Hospitality practice to more efficiently advise industry-related clients to recover from the devastating financial and logistical impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Delightree app can also streamline employee onboarding.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Taco Bell will be offering paid sick time for all corporate-owned restaurant employees, plans to test a $100,000 salary for managers of company-owned restaurants in select markets, and will continue to champion easy and accessible vegetarian options around the world. "It's Taco Bell Sustainable Packaging. Black Bear Diner Ads Execs.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

analyzed daily traffic from February 26 through March 7 and compared it to the equivalent period in 2019. percent from unusually high numbers a year ago related to U.S. Imports during 2019 totaled 21.6 11-16, 2019. Often times, a happy employee equates to happy guests. Some Placer.ai That was up 5.7

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The National Labor Relations Board will issue its final rule tomorrow, February 26, governing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. NLRB Issues Joint-Employer Ruling. ” The NLRB issued an NPRM concerning joint-employer status under the NLRA on September 13, 2018.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

As a new member in PuduTech’s existing fleet, BellaBot serves as a delivery robot equipped with large four-layer trays, multiple delivery functions, precise positioning and navigation systems and optimal scheduling algorithms, which inherit characteristics of the last-generation robot called PuduBot.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wescott was appointed as CFO in September 2019, and after a year of cross functionally working within the company and playing an integral role in the success of the brand in the face of the pandemic, the taco shop has added COO to her title. New COO at Fuzzy's. Spreading the Spirit of BBQ. This year for Giving Tuesday (Dec.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 23, 2021

Providing educational resources dedicated to answering questions small businesses have related to the RRF. ” Restaurants and other eligible food and beverage sellers can apply for a RRF award directly from Square’s dashboard if they used Square to process customer payments in both 2019 and 2020. .”

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Salata is on track to have 25 new franchise contracts secured by the end of 2019. The introduction of the franchising microsite follows a number of brand milestones for Salata in 2019, including: The debut of a new restaurant design (February). As 2019 winds down, Del Taco’s expansion plans are still heating up.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Chef Morimoto opened his first Momosan Ramen & Sake in New York City in 2016, followed by his second Momosan shop in Waikiki Beach in May 2018, and his third Momosan location opened in Seattle’s International District in September 2019.

Brewery

Restaurant365

JANUARY 5, 2021

Additionally, businesses applying for a PPP loan can also apply for Employee Retention Tax Credits (ERTC), if the credits are not applicable to wages paid with forgiven PPP loan funds. payment for software and cloud services), perishable goods, and worker protective equipment. Business must have fewer than 300 employees.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2019

NCR and Zynstra have worked together for several years, reflected in the launch of NCR Software Defined Store introduced in January 2019 and in use by companies like Pilot Flying J. PFG now expects to close the transaction on or about December 30, 2019, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the remaining closing conditions.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The study also found that 8 million employees were laid off or furloughed during the height of the pandemic. ” The majority of SALIDO's employees joined NAB following the acquisition to continue innovating the Restaurant OS. Lewis, President, RPL Consulting, LLC (Events Marketing, Public, Community Relations Firm).

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Smart Foodservice had 2019 revenues of approximately $1.1 We would like to thank Derek Jones and all of the employees at Smart Foodservice for their dedication in building a highly differentiated business in the cash and carry industry, and we know the company will be in great hands with its new owners.” SpotOn Transact, Inc.,

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