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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5 Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5

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How a Virtual Kitchen Could Improve Your Restaurant Group’s Profitability

Restaurant365

As a prominent example, virtual kitchens existed before the pandemic, but the last year has skyrocketed the growth of this new kind of establishment. As restaurants adapt to how customer dining preferences have changed, ghost kitchens are now more popular and quite often more profitable. What is a virtual kitchen?

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants had to quickly adapt by adding outdoor seating while creating an inviting atmosphere, as well as offering the same experience your customers are used to receiving at your establishment via delivery and takeout. Intuit reports that by 2021, the gig economy will surge and add 9.2 Shyam Rao, CEO and Cofounder, Punchh.

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How Nonprofits That Train People to Work in Restaurants Navigated COVID-19

EATER

At the weekly staff meeting, they came up with an ad hoc plan: One group of staff members developed their first COVID safety protocols, ordering hand sanitizer, scheduling hand-washing breaks, and putting lines of blue painter’s tape across the floor of the restaurant to show people how to stay six feet apart. Several U.S.

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Everything You Need to Know About Ghost Kitchens (aka. Cloud Kitchens)

The Food Corridor

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. Ghost kitchen business models What are the benefits of cloud kitchens?

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MRM Franchise Feed: Opportunity is Barking and the Spirit of BBQ

Modern Restaurant Management

. "Blendid is on a mission to make delicious and customized food accessible to all using robotics and AI. "We're proud to team up with the leading smoothie brand on this new opportunity to provide a solution for contactless food preparation and delivery which has become imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

In the last year we’ve been able to really focus on growing our off-premise business, and we found that guests enjoy our home-style comfort food in the comfort of their own homes. Food delivery was an already booming industry, but when COVID hit it increased even more. Jockey Hollow Bar + Kitchen's Chris Cannon.

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