Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Labor shortages, supply chain issues, sick employees, not enough financial assistance, hesitant diners- the list goes on and on and we know if you’re running a restaurant right now this is by no means breaking news. 6 Ways to Reduce Food Costs. Track waste. Keep your menu seasonal. Analyze your menu.

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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. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 2, 2021

December 2, 2021 by John Moody, Restaurant365 Co-Founder & Chief Strategist. The holiday season is upon us. Cooler weather, festive celebrations and delicious seasonal menus have traditionally solidified November and December as lucrative months for the restaurant industry. Menu Item Analysis. Daily P&L.

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The Restaurant Times

JUNE 6, 2023

Restaurant management software revolutionizes food establishments’ operations by providing efficient tools to manage inventory and control costs. By optimizing inventory management, restaurant software empowers businesses to minimize waste, prevent overstocking, and maintain adequate supplies.

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Cheetah

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This winter be sure to have at least two vegan desserts with massive profit margins on the menu to increase ticket sizes and improve your bottom line. Those predictions held true, and in the past two years the number of plant based menu items in US restaurants has increased by 1,320%, including desserts.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2022

But several months into owning our own establishment, Joon Market, our optimism proved naive as we found ourselves in constant survival mode amid staffing shortages, increased labor and food costs, and supply chain issues that left cooking equipment and furniture stuck at the ports. With it came the first lull in sales.

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Rocket Fuel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Most often measured by fast food—or QSR (Quick Service Restaurant)—restaurants with drive-thrus to measure the time it takes from ordering to receiving their food. Get visual: Make clear what items have been 86’d Two words: Supply chain. What is the industry average speed of service?

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Rocket Fuel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Most often measured by fast food—or QSR (Quick Service Restaurant)—restaurants with drive-thrus to measure the time it takes from ordering to receiving their food. Some of the tools you’ll need to build an accurate forecast are: Your previous year’s sales, which are especially important during seasonal changes and holidays.

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EATER

APRIL 25, 2022

A number of specialty seafood companies are making it possible to have high-quality frozen fish delivered right to your door In 1912, a food-obsessed Brooklynite named Clarence Birdseye moved to Labrador, Canada. His obituaries would call him the “father of frozen foods.”. But frozen food was by and large awful.

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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. In addition to the new brands, The Absolute Brands will introduce pop-up concepts for seasonal happenings and chef collaborations.

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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. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. Customers order online on food delivery apps (such as Grubhub, Doordash, etc.)

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EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics. With a menu of compelling bites like beef heart skewers and glistening ceviche, the city has embraced Amazonia as a nightlife destination in its own right.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

Sourcing local ingredients and producing more in-season vegetable focused dishes help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contributes to improving our carbon footprint. To eliminate waste, I always make pickles or fermentations with excess vegetables and dry cure meats for our charcuterie program to utilize any excess proteins.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2019

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Winnow, Epic Burger, OneDine, Revenue Management Solutions, t he ONE Group Hospitality, McCain Foods, Epson America and Noble, Inspire Brands and 2nd Avenue Lighting. Winnow Raises $20M to Fight Food Waste. 63 million tons of food is wasted every year.

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EATER

JUNE 14, 2022

The “trash” in Shuggie’s name refers to waste from farmers and other food suppliers, which the owners repurpose in all sorts of ways: Bruised fruit gets blended into frosé slushies, fish bycatch crowns a salmon belly pizza, and buffalo-flavored chicken gizzards and hearts make the most of meat offcuts. Inside Shuggie’s.

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Cheetah

JANUARY 20, 2022

When the Covid-19 delivery boom took off, many restaurants shortened their menu in order to focus on their best, and most delivery-friendly, items. But as supply chain issues, labor shortages and health concerns persist, the small menu trend is making increasingly more economic and operational sense as a long term strategy.

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Notch

MARCH 17, 2022

The National Restaurant Association’s “What’s Hot” 2022 Culinary Forecast - an annual survey of 350 culinary leaders - found that sustainable packaging, plant-based foods, and zero waste were predicted to be leading culinary concepts this year. And, paper also makes up 26% of landfill waste. Green Star Restaurant.

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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. Production speeds are being tracked to increase and meet demand needs, reaching an average of 360 baskets of fried foods a day. In total, approximately 14,580 lbs.

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Gourmet Marketing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

After five purchases, they could get a free meal or drink with their food. This is great if you don’t have many items on your menu or if you do similar dishes that are around the same price. They can also be used indoors to show off some of your latest menu items, combos, discounts, and rewards. Work with food delivery services.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2021, Laura added the Wendy’s brand to her role with responsibility for implementing Develop­ment Days and quarterly business plans for TSFR’s 56 Wendy’s restaurants. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager. The Awards are one of these programs.”

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Food waste is one of the largest areas of potential cost savings in a restaurant. December 6, 2021 by John Moody, Restaurant365 Co-Founder & Chief Strategist. In the letter, the NRA addressed how increasing costs and limited supplies are restricting the industry’s ability to function. Menu prices have risen 4.7

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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. Frequent hand washing following CDC guidance and food code.

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EATER

MARCH 17, 2022

A volunteer prepares food in to-go containers at Ramen vs Marketing. In late 2021, even with the COVID-19 pandemic, the first wave of fine dining, chef-led restaurants opened in Kyiv. Mirali Dilbazi’s Mirali only used local and seasonal ingredients produced in Ukraine, and strived for a no-waste approach.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Market Cafe Powered by FOODWORKS is both a cost-effective, contact-free dining option, while simultaneously helping local restaurants and food artisans who were affected by COVID-19 get back on their feet and provide them with a way to restart their services. US Foods Holding Corp. On Point With Off-Premise.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Located on a working farm that was once part of a sprawling Rockefeller estate, the restaurant is a beacon of the sustainable food movement. But then, they say, they came to realize that the story told by the restaurant — that a fine dining establishment can create a blueprint for transforming the food system — is essentially a fantasy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

US Foods Ghost Kitchens. US Foods Holding Corp. launched US Foods Ghost Kitchens, a program designed to guide restaurant operators every step of the way when opening their own operation, helping them easily add a new revenue stream. They have hosted a United Way campaign for 40 years.

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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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EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This Thanksgiving, the vast majority of food writers were excited about one thing : skipping the turkey. I enjoy how mild and bland and slightly sweetish it is, and that blandness makes turkey a perfect leftover food. It ended up being a three-week affair. The rule of thumb was, what? A pound per person?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Curry Up Now began as a food truck in 2009 and was founded by husband and wife duo, Akash and Rana Kapoor, and supported by co-founder and Senior VP of Operations, Amir Hosseini. Our business growth in the last decade has positioned us to create change for good and implement creative solutions for our planet, our people and our food.

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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 economic model makes more sense than traditional brick and mortar so many food businesses are moving in this direction. Plant-based Menu Items.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

However, since the start of 2021, Randy’s has seen a wave of interest from both domestic and international franchisees. Saudi Arabia had a successful pop-up store at the 2019 Riyadh Season and is opening its first permanent store in Jeddah this summer. Randy’s Donuts began franchising domestically in the summer of 2019.

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EATER

APRIL 11, 2023

Ingredient by ingredient, Hawaiʻi chefs and farmers are working towards putting more local food on diners’ plates Down a muddy road in Waimanalo, half an hour from bustling Honolulu, Fung Yang cuts airy portobello mushrooms from miniature landscapes of white mycelium inside of a temperature-controlled shipping container.

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