Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2021

On the positive side, the pandemic forced any number of pivots among restaurateurs as they struggled during the pandemic shutdown to keep their doors open and kitchens cooking. Virtual kitchens, for example, were already accelerating trends when the pandemic hit. Cracker Barrel trialed a chicken and biscuit concept.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As a result of this trend, we’ve shifted our focus to provide more Take & Bake options and even have plans to launch additional varieties of our Take & Bake breads in early 2021. Lesson #1: Multiple factors are leading to businesses increasingly communicating via messaging – with both customers and employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Labor and employment claims will continue to be one of the top legal issues facing restaurants as they navigate the government health and safety regulations. Others have brought employees back that were only temporarily furloughed and have questions about accrued sick leave. The eviction moratorium is not a long-term solution.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Anything plant based!

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

Dave’s Hot Chicken is spicing up its 2021 franchise development strategy. The brand is set to open at least 30 locations in 2021, and plans to have an additional 300 units in development. 2021 will be big for us as we branch out of California and make our entrance into the Midwest and East Coast.” Hot on Hot Chicken.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A restaurant is not just the restaurant owner, a restaurant is the kitchen staff, waitstaff, the whole industry around restaurants. Now, the City Council of New York City has voted to extend local law 1932-A until March 31st, 2021. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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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. A new survey shows that Americans love new tech-driven options for ordering and retrieving food, but the flipside is that it is making them more impatient. In Love with Tech, but Impatient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

It’s one more way we can show how much we care about our employees. “We’re thrilled to partner with the KFC Foundation to provide KFC restaurant employees with the tools they need to quickly build emergency savings funds and establish long-term saving habits,” said Leigh Phillips, President and CEO, SaverLife.

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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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Restaurant Engine

MAY 26, 2021

The future is here, and automated kitchens are trending. 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. The newly imagined restaurant of today might find itself looking to automated kitchens. What is an Automated Kitchen?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

She started her career in private wealth management, serving as the Director of Client Relations for an investment advisory firm where she honed her skills for management of client relationships and true servant leadership. "Blendid is on a mission to make delicious and customized food accessible to all using robotics and AI.

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Black Box Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2021

We use this data to formulate a net sentiment score across six categories: food, beverage, service, ambiance, value and intent on return. Pandemic-related issues continue to be the dominant factors driving restaurant customer satisfaction trends. My husband’s silverware looked dirty and my supposed clean napkin had food in it.”.

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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. “We believe it is extremely important to capitalize on delivery by maximizing the use of virtual kitchen spaces. New Level of Hot Dog.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

We are offering restaurateurs the opportunity to operate a second brand within their existing brick and mortar location, increasing their bottom line by also becoming a virtual kitchen owner.” General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Workers at two HelloFresh factories in California and Colorado are organizing with UNITE HERE, a labor union representing workers in the hotel, food service, manufacturing, and other industries Workers at two HelloFresh factories in California and Colorado have announced their intention to unionize. It's time for change.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Participating restaurants will donate 15-25 percent of sales to their local food bank and over 1500 restaurants nationwide have already joined the initiative. ” Over 200 food banks face a surge in demand for emergency food aid in the wake of COVID-19. Aramark Creates Safety Plans.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Together, the initiative supported the food and beverage community by providing more than 500,000 freshly cooked meals and much needed supplies across 19 relief kitchens nationwide. Sharebite launched Sharebite Stations, a streamlined, post-COVID compliant solution for facilitating contactless food delivery at offices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2021

The announcement comes after the COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges for the hospitality industry, particularly for restaurant General Managers who grappled with unprecedented obstacles, such as labor shortages, customer and employee safety, and supply chain delays. Killer Burger Teams with Village Family Capital.

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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. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The challenges our teams have faced over the last two years specifically has made us value our employees now more than ever. As it relates to the labor crunch, we’re seeing in restaurant brands across the board: An impact in top-line revenue because customers aren't being served. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

“Uber and Postmates have long shared a belief that platforms like ours can power much more than just food delivery—they can be a hugely important part of local commerce and communities, all the more important during crises like COVID-19," said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. "As 350,000-1 million. $1-2 1-2 million. $2-5

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. "With colder weather setting in and new restrictions going into effect across the country, our ongoing commitment to helping restaurant operators adapt during the pandemic has never been more important," said Jim Osborne, senior vice president of customer strategy and innovation at US Foods. "Our

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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

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. US Foods Holding Corp. Each member of the coalition is committed to responsibility.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Eighteen former workers at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture allege dysfunction in the livestock program at America’s most famous regenerative farm “This isn’t a joke,” police told the Daily Voice , a hyperlocal news site in Westchester County, New York, on August 30, 2018. “We

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EATER

JANUARY 25, 2023

I had no intimation of what was to come: the billion-dollar multinational flavor and fragrance companies, the “spray-dried” broth, the “clean label protein solutions,” the “kitchen-like ingredients,” and the corporate dream of a “fully sustainable chicken stream.” I’ve worked with humongous corporations and commercial food manufacturers.

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Touch Bistro

MAY 31, 2021

Even in 2021, Restaurant Business reports that 92% of fully vaccinated restaurant customers plan to continue using online ordering post-pandemic at least as often as they did during it. Venues are often organized by location or food type to help customers explore and place their orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

believes the coronavirus is not going to have a single blanket impact on all aspects of the economy or even the retail economy or food sector more specifically. 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. That was up 5.7

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Along with environmental conditions triggered by global warming, COVID has snarled supply chains across the world, and food supplies are no exception. Our food supply] is not all one supply chain,” he says.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Movie images: Janus Films, MovieStillsDB, Walt Disney Studios/MovieStillsDB, New Line Cinema/MovieStillsDB, Getty Images What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry For just about as long as there have been movies, food has played a meaningful role in film. But what exactly constitutes a great food movie?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature sobering statistics from Yelp, a ghost kitchen franchise model, franchise explosions expected and falling for for an improved PSL. Meanwhile, grocery related businesses are on the decline as people spend less time at home. Ghost Kitchen Franchise Model. Yelp Sees COVID Effect.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature top foods of 2021, customer satisfaction, the Good Food 100 and shopping sentiments, State of the Plate. Unlike 2020, diners opted for the plant-based versions of delivery classics so far in 2021. Top Foods Across Major Markets. Beef empanada: (+333 percent).

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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.).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Brands and The Habit, Chase and DoorDash, Waitr, Local Foods, C3 Signature, Pudu Tech, Southern Glazer's, Voodoo Doughnut, The Friendship Café and Digital Signage Expo. Cardmembers will need to activate by December 31, 2021 to enjoy the new benefit. Local Foods Eyes Austin. Local Foods photos by Julie Soefer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

For instance, if a restaurant could cross-utilize current staff to deliver food and already has the POS capabilities to handle delivery orders, the cost to launch could be minimal. Now more than ever, consumers want to get their food and go, quickly. Convenience is the main ingredient driving restaurant demand.

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

October 27, 2021. Data through the week ending October 17, 2021. By August 2021, the rolling 12-month hourly turnover rate was an alarming 19 percentage points higher than it was in 2019. . Guest Intelligence tracks 6 main categories ‘food’, ‘beverage’, ‘service’, ‘ambiance’, ‘value’ and ‘intent on return’.

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