Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2022

And Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solutions represent a vital component to generate revenue for restaurants by filling up dining tables with customers who feel safe and confident. This is especially important for potential clients prone to allergies, given that the region has been clouded by recurrent wildfires in 2020 and 2021.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. An Uncertain Start to 2020? percent, a drop of 1.2

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Focus POS

JUNE 2, 2020

First and foremost is the strategic recalibration of quick service restaurant (QSR) and fine dining business models. Restaurateurs are pivoting to recoup the lowest level of sales seen in more than 35 years—for some, that’s the lowest sales seen in their lifetime of operating their business or restaurant chain. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Dealing with a global pandemic and resulting business interruptions and locks downs, working hard to ensure employees are compensated as much as possible, facing down business liability issues – all were big issues in 2020 and are expected to be so in 2021. In August of 2020, that number surpassed 32,000 restaurants.

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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. According to this year's survey, restaurant operators' early investment in delivery and mobile ordering has paid off in a big way. 43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The year 2020 prompted enormous changes in the restaurant industry. operators, mostly sales) minus your cash outflows (your operating costs, like food and drink, payroll, rent, etc.) Your cash flow may have been tight in 2020, so 2021 is the time to focus on your cash flow recovery and next steps.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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EATER

AUGUST 10, 2020

From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week This post originally appeared on August 8, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Employees of D.C. Employees of D.C. A spread at Le Sia in New York | Louise Palmberg/Eater.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Why not briefly fill rooms by offering an exclusive evening of private pandemic dining?

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Restaurant365

JULY 8, 2021

For restaurant owners and operators, how do you balance between maintaining off-premise business and rebuilding in-restaurant sales—at the same time? The rise of off-premise dining. Off-premise dining certainly accelerated during the pandemic. Is off-premise dining here to stay? ” In fact, P.F.

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Open for Business

MAY 9, 2023

In 2020, third-party delivery exploded because it gave restaurants a vital revenue stream during the pandemic. But even now that guests have long since returned to on-premise dining, demand for delivery remains high and shows no signs of going anywhere. Third-party delivery is booming like never before. billion by 2027.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Having served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Wyatt will oversee a newly created “Office of CEO” that includes Chief Financial Officer Caryn Doyle and Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel Randy Miller. .” Boston Market® named Eric Wyatt as Chief Executive Officer. PPX Hospitality Launches.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The findings have offered insight into consumer expectations to support restaurant brands as they work to navigate ongoing operating, social, and economic shifts over the past year and a half. Less sales and traffic meant less pressure on execution, especially while operating under an environment plagued by staffing shortages.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Most staff members have little, if any, control over operations at the restaurant where they happened to be employed in the spring of 2020. It has since also reopened for indoor dining.) Some have drawn the line at indoor dining, even when it’s permitted at reduced capacity. The doctor at the VA told me, ‘Don’t go back.’

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Finding and retaining employees remain among the biggest obstacles operators struggle with. First, at 2.1

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 26, 2021

With the Covid pandemic in 2020 and even in 2021, the restaurant industry found itself having to adopt new ideas and look deep into the future. When you use an automated robot in your kitchen, you might even end up with zero kitchen-related accidents. While some restaurants are fast food or quick service, others provide fine dining.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

Brands, Mount Franklin Foods, US Foods, Melt Shop, FoodMaven, Nathan's Famous, Island's Fine Burgers & Drinks, Checkers & Rally’s, Lineage Logistics and Minnow. The 2020 National Restaurant Association Show, which we had planned to hold in Chicago on May 16-19, has officially been canceled. ” Yum!

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the latest facts and figures of restaurant operations, the state of business dining, and the mid-year gift card report. With most of their business reliant on dine-in visits, full service restaurants (FSR) bore the brunt of the COVID dine-in restrictions. foodservice industry.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Just like an amoeba in a Petri dish, many now-expanding categories that started out with just one instance are proliferating throughout the industry, taking meal or snacking occasions from traditional foodservice operators. Mechanization and Robotic At-Home Kitchens It’s not just restaurant kitchens that are being revolutionized. In the U.S.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This past year has shown us the invaluable difference that a warm and welcoming dining experience can make for customers, who are increasingly choosing establishments that go the extra mile in offering hospitality. We’ve seen how robotics can improve not only the customer experience, but the employee experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

A Return to Normal The National Restaurant Association released its 2023 State of the Restaurant Industry report, which examines key factors impacting the industry including the current state of the economy, operations, workforce, and food and menu trends to forecast sales and market trends for the year ahead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Although the land, labor, and creativity of farm-to-table sourcing is so exciting and delicious, considerable operational disruption, scheduling, and menu management is still required to make it all a profitable business model. If you think Uber Eats and Grubhub have already had a big impact on the way restaurants operate, just wait.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. The PPP has been a bridge for many during the shutdown, but the restaurant industry is still looking at months of starts and stops to find a new normal in business operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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. New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. William (Bill) M.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Silvestri comes from Disruptive Group (a division of sbe), where he served as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing all of the food and beverage operations for venues across the sbe portfolio globally, including culinary concepts, nightlife venues and Umami Burger. Photo credit: Bill Milne. " PFG Wins FTC Approval.

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2020

The newly launched Restaurant Recovery Sales Flash is open to all operators. Coronavirus and the Restaurant Industry: Key Insights – May 13, 2020. . The number of restaurants reopening their dining rooms has steadily increased in recent days. Dine-in sales still represent a small percentage of the total.

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Sustainability Beyond the Plate

JANUARY 26, 2017

Other natural fibers such as bamboo are fine for composting, as long as they aren’t treated or combined with other materials. But if reusables won’t work for your operation, be sure to buy disposable products that you know are indeed compostable. An extensive list of composting terms and their definitions can be found here.

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EATER

MAY 16, 2024

Some days he’s fine. Just recently, KNEAD Hospitality + Design , which operates more than a dozen restaurants in the DC area, introduced reimbursement of childcare costs — up to $1,800 per quarter — for salaried employees, which comprise 110 of their 920 staff members. My son has special needs. Some days all hell breaks loose.

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Restaurant Clicks

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

TouchBistro has an easy-to-use, intuitive interface, but it also comes with 24/7 support and training so that employees can easily manage it. It’s flexible too – small quick-serve cafes can use a single iPad, or you can connect several for a larger operation as long as you have a wireless connection. . TouchBistro Features: .

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

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.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Former apprentices and employees say they faced working conditions they considered unsafe, while numerous former livestock employees describe what they view as unnecessary animal suffering within Stone Barns’ holistic land management system. The farm is run by Jack Algiere, who was hired as the center’s first employee in 2003.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Smart Foodservice operates 70 small-format cash and carry stores across California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Montana that serve small and mid-sized restaurants and other food business customers with a broad assortment of products. .” NYSE: APO) (the “Apollo Funds”) for $970 million in cash.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

” “We were on a path to integrate more technology into our operations before COVID-19 and found ourselves fast-tracking during the pandemic so that we could get back to business as fast as possible, serve our customers and keep our people employed,” said Kevin Youkilis, owner of Loma Brewing Company. ” Tastewise Data.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Amid an unprecedented crisis, chefs, bakers, and operators imagined new ways for diners to revel in the pleasure of a good meal and a shared experience — even if that meant doing so outside or via takeout containers. Since opening in early 2020, Albi has become indispensable because it meets diners where they are. Editor: Jesse Sparks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Etana Diaz, who began her career as a pastry chef and a line cook in fine dining, but found her true love for butchery after discovering that pastry wasn’t her passion. with his first venture being the operation of the Roy Rogers on Rt. Etana proves that her dedication and drive outweigh her size and gender. Plamondon, Sr.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders and experts for their insights on what will impact restaurants in 2020 and the response was overwhelming. 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.).

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