7 Shifts

JULY 27, 2023

Jason Hammel opened Lula Cafe in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood back in 1999. More than 20 years later, the award-winning farm-to-table institution is one of the city's most celebrated restaurants. For an industry with a high rate of first-year closures, Lula Cafe's longevity is a testament to what Hammel calls a youthful mindset.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is expanding its franchise opportunities to feature another nontraditional franchise model – virtual kitchens and has executed area development agreements to bring more of Dickey’s slow-smoked, Texas-style barbecue to Chicago, Houston and Orlando, as well as make its debut in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

JULY 29, 2022

Already in 2019, restaurants were not able to pass inflationary costs on to consumers (back then, the average restaurant price increase was 3.1% Restaurant robotics is a term that is used to describe the use of technology in restaurants to automate certain tasks. How Robots Are Changing the Restaurant Landscape. and food at 5%).

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Aramark Creates Safety Plans. Aramark examined front and back of house processes to establish tailored playbooks for all of its businesses and market segments, leveraging innovative solutions, new service methods, and rigorous safety protocols. Takeout For Good.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital solutions that helped restaurants alleviate customer safety fears and adapt to restrictions boomed and tech providers scrambled to offer new products to get restaurants on board. But they also see a decline from 2019 numbers, saying that it will take a few years to return to pre-pandemic numbers. What’s in store for 2021?

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Digital solutions that helped restaurants alleviate customer safety fears and adapt to restrictions boomed and tech providers scrambled to offer new products to get restaurants on board. But they also see a decline from 2019 numbers, saying that it will take a few years to return to pre-pandemic numbers. What’s in store for 2021?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

Feed the Front Line. ezCater launched Feed the Front Line , a program that helps anyone contribute meals to healthcare workers fighting coronavirus. To support restaurants, ezCater has waived commissions on all Feed the Front Line meals. This edition of MRM News Bites features ezCater, S?mrus, ” Small Brand, Big Heart.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the impact of cold weather on restaurant viability, why franchises need to be nimbler and the pandemic's effect on guest expectations. Restaurant Adaptation. Limitations and consumer demand. A vast majority of the U.S. restaurants are operating at less than 100 percent capacity in their dining rooms.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Miso Robotics launched global commercial availability of the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail (ROAR) – a zero-footprint, cost-efficient intelligent robotic kitchen assistant for the evolving commercial kitchen. This edition of MRM News Bites features a lot of technology and robotic news, virtual food halls and healthy kid menus.

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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. The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off. 71 percent rely on delivery for 11 percent or more of sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kitchen Display System . By eliminating bottlenecks in the back-of-house, a reliable kitchen display system (KDS) can increase your service speed. By eliminating bottlenecks in the back-of-house, a reliable kitchen display system (KDS) can increase your service speed. Point of Sales (POS) System .

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. These commissary kitchens are sometimes also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens , or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants.

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The Restaurant Times

JUNE 11, 2020

Cloud kitchens are delivery-only restaurants with no storefront or dine-in facility. A cloud kitchen business primarily accepts orders online from third-party online food aggregators and its own online ordering enabled website. Understanding the Cloud Kitchen Business . The Promising Future of Cloud Kitchens .

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Diners might not notice these shortages — many restaurants make it their mission to operate in a way that obscures any difficulties in the kitchen — but if you look closely, you’ll see them: Menus are slimmer, because ingredients erratically come and go from suppliers’ lists. Here’s how three owners are doing it.

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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. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.). Chick-fil-A.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. We are excited to support their mission to help independent restaurants optimize online ordering and generate incremental revenue from under-utilized kitchens.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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EATER

JULY 22, 2021

When his New York City restaurant, Reverence, opened in August 2019, guests could sit at the U-shaped chef’s counter beneath 14-foot ceilings. When his New York City restaurant, Reverence, opened in August 2019, guests could sit at the U-shaped chef’s counter beneath 14-foot ceilings. Chef Russell Jackson was tired.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more.

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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. PJ's Hopes to Open 187 Locations Throughout Florida in Next 10 Years. Tampa: Up to 50 locations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

“Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

For the 2019 financial year, Grubhub had 23 million active customers, recorded 180 million orders, GMV of $5.9 In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature updated links for the PPP, the acquisition of Grubhub and contactless products and services. PPP Revisions. Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Dunkin' Hirin' As more of America opens up, Dunkin’ franchisees are seeking to hire up to 25,000 new restaurant employees at Dunkin’ locations, from front-counter to restaurant management, creating immediate jobs that offer long-term education benefits and key career skills for people all across the U.S.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 19, 2020

March 18, 2020 NRA Recovery & Relief Proposal The National Restaurant Association presents a restaurants recovery and relief proposal to the White House with projections of more than $225b in sales losses and 5–7 million jobs lost. Restaurants would be repurposed as community kitchens, offering affordable meals to-go.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut.

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ChefMod

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In a bid to counteract these negative effects in the restaurant industry, the government established various regulations to ensure the safe operation of the restaurant industry. Although these regulations are ever-changing, there are several ways that restaurant owners and stakeholders can continue to run a successful restaurant business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) plans to bring its signature California-style pizzas, pastas, salads and more to Canada for the first time. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. CPK Heads North. Giorgio Minardi and Naheed Shariff. Founded in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Some, like Ratatouille and Chef , are obvious picks — they are largely set in restaurants or kitchens, there are chefs involved, etc. But what exactly constitutes a great food movie? Well, that really depends. Other films employ food in more subtle ways, to further the narrative or help us connect with a character.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

" The platform will continue to house a variety of helpful COVID-related materials as well as evolving resources to address new and emerging challenges. " The platform will continue to house a variety of helpful COVID-related materials as well as evolving resources to address new and emerging challenges. Make it This Winter.

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

By August 2021, the rolling 12-month hourly turnover rate was an alarming 19 percentage points higher than it was in 2019. . Year-over-year check growth was 5.7% during the week, the highest growth recorded since mid-April. Check has grown at 5.0% or more during each of the last 7 weeks. . Only fine dining did improve in sales growth.

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EATER

AUGUST 21, 2020

Peter Meehan’s transgressive vision helped redefine food media with the groundbreaking Lucky Peach , and later transformed the LA Times ’s food coverage. But that vision came with a toxic management style characterized by intimidation, a barrage of sexualized commentary, and explosive anger, according to two dozen current and former staffers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thus far in 2021, the company has expanded across Las Vegas at the Convention Center, LINQ Hotel, and Arizona Charlie’s Boulder Casino, as well as reopened with the unveiling of the new Virgin Hotel. “Dunkin’ continues to modernize with convenience at the forefront. Getting Hotter at Dave's.

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EATER

MAY 29, 2020

I said we need to put safety precautions in place. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. Clair Supper Club.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

At King Arthur, the brand that became synonymous with the millions of sourdough loaves baked during the pandemic, business boomed : In 2019, it sold 23.7 One woman’s journey into the heart of grain and how our flour is made Where were you during the great bread baking boom of 2020? But I also couldn’t explain what made it different.

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