Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Throughout subsequent waves of the pandemic, the reports explored the growth of off-premise strategies including the spike in mobile apps and, more recently, captured softening safety concerns among consumers when they began favoring shorter wait times over safety protocols. Safety and sanitation is a priority.

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Goliath Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2020

2020 has been quite a learning experience. Brands like Starbucks are increasing their drive-thru prevalence to accommodate the demand for contactless orders (1). Domino’s launched their “Carside Delivery” Service nationwide this June which would allow customers to receive their online order without ever leaving their car (2).

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EATER

MAY 5, 2023

That’s not just due to safety and health concerns ( ball pits are known to be bacterial cesspits ). For McDonald’s, Sweetgreen, and others, reducing seating means chains can open smaller stores, saving on expensive real estate, especially in urban areas. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find one.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Increased demand for food delivery had already boosted the growth of ghost kitchens, and the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated both the popularity and profitability of the model.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. ” Delivering Jobs.

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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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Culinary Digital

AUGUST 10, 2021

With an increasing demand for safety and hygiene, the foodservice industry needed to prioritize the health and safety of these communities. Things have changed, where restaurants make dining rooms adaptable features through steps like adding seating times and dividers to define personal space better.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

For many organizations, the first step in dealing with pandemic shutdowns was just to help their participants and alumni get through the initial weeks On the evening of Saturday, March 14, 2020, the staff at Café Momentum served only seven diners. But then shelter-in-place orders started. “We

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

And more and more often, whether we realize it or not, it’s also where we’re ordering our food. Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. In this guide, we’ll cover: What is a ghost kitchen (aka cloud kitchen)? What’s behind the cloud kitchen trend?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

We are also leaning heavily into our People First Safety Always Plan to guide us through how we’re doing business, as we seek what’s best for all our teams, franchisees, and enterprise.” doubled the number of ghost kitchens worldwide since June 2020. ” Nathan's Gets the Ghost.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

Total restaurant visits were down -6 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2019 but were up +23 percent from a year ago, recovering from a -23 percent decline in May 2020. Snack periods, were down -5 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2020, and for a pre-pandemic view, down -11 percent compared to same month two years ago.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Currently, PJ’s Coffee has 124 locations and by the end of 2020, the franchise is expected to open an additional six cafes throughout the country. The new Subway catering platform will allow guests, particularly businesses, to make large orders for any occasion from participating Subway restaurants across the U.S. "An

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

World’s First Mobile Restaurant Powered by Advanced Robotics. unveiled the world’s first mobile restaurant powered by robotic technology, top video and photo. ” While Ono’s food truck is powered by complex technology, ordering an Ono Blend is simple. Door Dash Shared Kitchen. ?DoorDash?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. Most Important safety initiatives. More than half of survey respondents said they will order more than usual, with only one in 10 saying less than usual. The importance of making guests feel comfortable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

Using order data from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 and a national consumer survey, DoorDash’s mid-year report checks in on popular food trends, nationally and regionally, how users ate through social distancing, cravings across the country, and more. DoorDash Deep Dish.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Online ordering is obviously huge in 2020, and customers are craving comfort food when they’re ordering in, according to Upserve’s new 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry data collected from the company's 10,000+ restaurant customers. State of the Industry. Holiday Plans Impacted by COVID.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. .” The TableUp guest retention platform empowers restaurants of all sizes to increase customer engagement and reward guests for their loyalty. ” Tyga Bites Launches.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

The purchase is expected to be completed in September 2020. In addition to allowing a safer, hands-free payment method, the system has been shown to make the ordering process quicker and more efficient. US Foods Ghost Kitchens. Brands Inc. for approximately $25 million. US Foods Holding Corp. US Foods Holding Corp.

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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. You can see which other restaurants they frequent, too, and the types of items they order from those places.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

With thousands of restaurants forced to close their dining rooms, and millions of Americans facing sudden unemployment, GroupRaise saw an opportunity to mobilize its 10,000+ restaurant partners along with their communities to offer those who are able a chance to support both local business and food distribution to at-risk families.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

” Guzzetta was ranked as the second Most Influential Restaurant Executive in the country by Nation’s Restaurant News in January 2020. Deciding to close your doors: Whatever you decide, make sure all employees understand the steps you are taking to ensure top safety and health standards. EarlyBirdCapital Inc.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’ll quickly see the emergence of Restaurants 2.0 – a new generation of restaurateurs who snatch up available real estate for ghost kitchens, virtual brands or new dine-in experiences that have a heavy reliance on digital interactions and business models that enjoy lower overhead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

The safety of Dunkin’ franchisees, their restaurant employees, and guests remains a top priority. Taffer's Tavern, the new full service tavern concept created by Jon Taffer, signed a multi-unit franchise deal with Cuisine Solutions, a manufacturer of sous vide foods, to bring the ‘Kitchen of the Future’ to the D.C.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

Clean Juice Chief Executive Officer, Landon Eckles described 2020 as challenging but resolute in lauding its franchise partners and support staff in the company’s response to the global pandemic. Additional 2020 Award Recipients: Top Delivery Sales : Lance and Blake Condray, Campbell, CA. Clean Juice Celebrates Franchisees.

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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. The funding will be used to help more restaurants transition to online ordering during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. White Castle Flips for Flippy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

data highlights: Usually, QSR brands see a dip in traffic from the last week of February to the first week of March, but three of the eight saw those fortunes turn in 2020. 17 percent said they were just avoiding dining-in (opting to pick-up or have food delivered), with 10 percent appearing to lean toward Ordering for Pickup only.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. The Restaurant Reboot Relief Program launches in June of 2020 and run for at least a year. restaurants by the end of summer 2020.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill directs all operational and strategic planning and execution for the Applebee’s, Del Taco, MOD Pizza, Wendy’s and Olga’s Kitchen brands. Greg Fuchs serves as the Senior Facilities Manager for Applebee’s, MOD Pizza, Del Taco, Olga’s Kitchen and Wendy’s restaurants in the TSFR portfolio.

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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. With Flippy ROAR, production speeds increase and social distancing concerns in the kitchen are quickly addressed.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One of the first things Sylvan Mishima Brackett did after the mayor of San Francisco issued a lockdown order in March was walk a few blocks to a local Best Buy to buy a phone. One person called 60 times to place an order, only to be greeted by one busy signal after another. Brackett tried a few setups looking for the right fit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

” Despite obstacles in 2020, Dunkin’s non-traditional development continued with 27 additional restaurants, including openings throughout airports in Boston, San Antonio, St. Petersburg-Clearwater, and New York City.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

During that period, McDonald's also undertook several "velocity growth accelerators," including (1) an Experience of the Future layout, which features a combination of ordering flexibility, customer experience, and a more streamlined menu; (2) mobile ordering and payments; and (3) delivery alternatives. "When

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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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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

The heart of Stone Barns is its farm, which fulfills multiple purposes: It’s a working four-season farm that grows produce and raises livestock for its CSA (rebranded last year as a “farm share” ), on-site store, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and until 2020, other restaurants and farmers markets. You’re on a metal tightrope.”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For the respondents who reported having outdoor seating (or planned to add outdoor seating soon) and whose climates allow them to seat people outdoors nine or fewer months of the year, the decision to “weatherize” the patio for the colder weather was split.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2021

Looking at trends from hundreds of thousands average daily orders, Grubhub's mid-year report checks in on what has shaped 2021 thus far, including the top trending foods, popular restaurants across the country, and what we can expect to see more of in the second half of the year. Top Vegan Orders. Top Alcohol Orders.

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EATER

MAY 20, 2020

But when it comes to implementing safety protocols, many feel like they’re in the dark : For weeks, the Trump administration delayed a CDC report that would have provided guidelines on how to do just that — because it was “overly prescriptive” — while the FDA has published guidance that mostly defers to the CDC. Tisch Illumination Fund.

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