Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

These requirements for businesses will go into effect on January 1, 2023. The law also establishes a California Privacy Protection Agency, which will enforce and implement consumer privacy laws and can administer fines for businesses that violate California’s privacy laws. Litigation. of the outstanding quota.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, given the current circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability and impending recession in 2023 , traditional norms are shattered. The Future of Payments Payment option variety is changing the dining experience in unthinkable ways. Gone are the days of cash-only transactions.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

It leads to discrimination, sexism, and sexual harassment , and creates a disparity between the back and front of house. We all know for the longest time that the back of house employees have been underpaid for decades in the restaurant business. The restaurant industry has a wage problem.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So, whether you’re looking to open a new restaurant and bar or are responsible for ensuring your existing bar offerings stay up to date and relevant for your guests, let’s look at what trend-forward locations were doing in 2022 that can highlight opportunities heading into 2023. working to help our restaurant partners.

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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. Hy’s Steakhouse.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Updating packaging to account for new ways of getting food from restaurant to car to house to table can increase propensity to re-order significantly. Own Your Changes In March 2023, restaurants’ food prices were 8.8 Customer expectations are level set by their most advanced in-store and digital experiences.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

from 2023 to 2030. Are you serving fine dining patrons seeking a premium experience, casual diners looking for convenience, or a mix of both? By Kateryna Reshetilo, Contributor Are you a restaurant owner looking for ways to keep up with the fast-changing demands of your customers? If so, you’re not alone.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A best new restaurant announces itself as part of the national dining conversation. Together, Eater’s 12 Best New Restaurants represent the highest highs of the year in dining — loosely defined as October 2022 through September 2023 — as well as the promise of what’s to come next. But most of all, each is an original.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2024

Led by young Korean Mexican entrepreneurs, some of whom migrated from South Korea decades ago with their parents, alongside Korean Americans with diverse culinary backgrounds, the restaurants borrow from dining concepts that have grown popular in South Korea, New York, and Los Angeles. A variety of dishes at Dooriban in the Roma neighborhood.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

The main takeaway: It’s led to higher prices and lower foot traffic at many of the state’s dining establishments. With customers seemingly viewing dining out a luxury, restaurants that can differentiate themselves in terms of quality and value will have a competitive advantage.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2023

Barring any new global emergencies like the pandemic that caused the demise of restaurant dining, the past few months have seen it return back to life in a tempered manner. The dine out cutbacks will likely not come from single people or couples without families with good stable jobs and incomes.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Oxte Immigrant chefs are shaking up Paris’s fine dining scene with Michelin-starred restaurants, venues in five-star hotels, and Lebanese, Mexican, and Korean flavors not traditionally found in haute French cuisine When Enrique Casarrubias came to Paris from Mexico in 2007, he had no intention to stay. Prepping a dish at Oxte.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen Six chefs and restaurant owners from across the country explain why restaurants feel so expensive right now, and how they’re coping with high prices and customer complaints Dining out involves calculating the intangible: What is hospitality worth to you? We recommend new places with caveats. The food was great,” we say, “but.”

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7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling variation. I worked in fine dining for so long, I thought my career was always going to be in fine dining, and I'm not saying that I'm completely.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 20, 2022

One of those ways is tip pooling, where all tips are collected into one “pool” and re-distributed back to employees. One of the most significant changes occurred in 2018 when the Department of Labor ruled that back-of-house employees like cooks and dishwashers are eligible to be included in the tip pool. Table of Contents.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2024

Q4 Restaurant Trends Toast released its Q4 2023 Restaurant Trends report that examined catering activity around the holidays, large events, cold-weather food and alcohol preferences, and weekly tipping trends. Among the highlights: On or Off Prem Same-store catering transactions increased +71 percent in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From the rise of AI to the increasing popularity of experiential dining, businesses are adapting creatively to meet new consumer demands. Full year reporting on insolvency in July (comparing financial year 2023-24 to 2022-23) indicated a 42% surge in insolvencies on the previous year – up to 1576. Source mccrindle.com.au

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EATER

APRIL 28, 2022

Living in the UP has never been easy, but Yoopers (and visitors) have found comfort in delicious pasties and cudighis, fresh maple syrup and berries, and lots of fried fish On a map, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula perches on top of Wisconsin looking a bit like a rabbit, its ears jutting into Lake Superior, back legs kicking into Lake Huron.

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EATER

JUNE 14, 2023

It seemed like a sure thing: Loba Pastry + Coffee was Chicago magazine’s Best New Bakery in 2016, among other plaudits, and Velazquez Lindsten, who got her start as a pastry chef in Chicago’s fine dining kitchens after immigrating to the U.S. Kreiter Looking back, I can see every mistake I made very clearly.

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EATER

JANUARY 23, 2023

When I began baking professionally, the pastry cook trajectory was rather straightforward — you put in your time working in fine dining and worked your way up to pastry chef. I began my pastry career by walking in the back door of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, and asking to intern in the pastry department.

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Open for Business

JANUARY 26, 2023

Before launching any new menu promotion idea, it’s a good idea to go back to basics and get clear a few basic points first. For a fine dining Italian restaurant, it could be that fresh truffle supplements are available at a premium price for a limited time. Quick links What are restaurant promotions? What is the goal?

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EATER

JULY 3, 2024

Experiencing the eponymous bo ssam at Momofuku Ssäm Bar was the kind of dining event you put on your bucket list as soon as the New York City restaurant opened in 2006. Sadly, the stars never did align for me and never will, since the new location of Ssäm Bar’s New York location (its second), shuttered in the fall of 2023.

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Black Box Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Comp Traffic Best Region: New England Best Segment: Family Dining Best Cuisine: Breakfast Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Fast Casual Worst Cuisine: Sandwich The December 2024 Restaurant Industry Trends + A Year in Review 2024 saw many ups and downs. For example, Fine Dining often experiences significant slowdowns during holidays.

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ChowNow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Cost of delivery – back in the day, if you wanted to offer delivery you needed to eat the cost of in-house staffing to ensure availability. Cost of delivery – back in the day, if you wanted to offer delivery you needed to eat the cost of in-house staffing to ensure availability.

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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. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. percentage points.”

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EATER

MARCH 1, 2021

While the fermented foods industry evangelizes products rooted in global, often East Asian, traditions, its most visible faces are predominantly white The first time I tasted kombucha was in 2010, at a Whole Foods in San Francisco. The community is grounded in reconnecting people to traditional food systems, lost tastes, and microbial heritages.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

No one would have guessed that so many people would be working remotely in 2023, or that TikTok would become the next social media powerhouse. Digital ordering has been a game changer, and the latest trends for 2023 could change how hospitality businesses operate even more. But the latest advances offer solutions for back of house too.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Before you get any ideas for a cheesy radio spot, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. Table of Contents.

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Open for Business

MAY 4, 2023

Keeping your online presence up to date, cutting wait times, and highlighting your value all make for a dining experience that feels good to guests and keeps them coming back—no matter what’s happening in the economy. Leveling up the dining experience and taking feedback seriously can turn guests into evangelists for your brand.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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Marketing4Restaurants

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Following up on the previous topic where we discussed restaurant trends we may see in 2023, we will cover a few more trends that we believe will shape the restaurant business landscape this year. # Another factor would be the pricing of your food and the ambience of your front of house.

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Sling

JANUARY 4, 2023

and discuss how it differs from a restaurant and other types of food-service establishments. Table of contents. What is a bistro ? What is a bistro versus a restaurant? What is a bistro? No one is sure where the term “bistro” actually came from. The term stuck, and restaurants that served simple food quickly became known as bistros.

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The Wine Knitter

JANUARY 2, 2023

Wine & Dine Time is starting off 2023 with treats from Alentejo, Portugal. The land and fortified manor house, Paço do Morgado de Oliveira, was founded in 1306 and was originally owned by the church. I want to bring back to the blends all the lighter grapes.” Happy New Year!

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Restaurant owners negotiated payment plans with their landlords, many of which had prolonged forgiveness dates, but were often not able to pay back rent. Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options.

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SpotOn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

There's room for fast food chains, fine dining restaurants, and casual dining restaurants, steakhouses, falafel spots, taco trucks. Fine dining restaurants White tablecloths, candlelit dinners, extensive wine lists, and exceptional service are some of the hallmarks of fine dining establishments.

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