Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

So, which back of office trends should restaurant ownership and management be concerned with heading into 2023? Here are some back of office trends to watch for in 2023. Keep an eye on this trend, as it may have a direct impact on how your employees are compensated in 2023 and beyond.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Sadly, these events are only becoming more frequent; in 2023 alone, the U.S. Also, incorporating a severe weather preparedness plan into new hiring training and posting it in break rooms and common areas ensures staff are informed and prepared.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked experts for their thoughts on trends and challenges that will affect the restaurant industry in 2023. "With consumer behaviors now firmly established around off-premise dining solutions due to the pandemic, off-prem will remain a prevalent option for 2023. For part two, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Only 14 percent of respondents described business performance as poor/very poor, which was down from 23 percent in 2023. Notably, 92 percent of respondents reported increasing staff wages in 2024, up from 84 percent in 2023, reflecting the ongoing rising cost of labor. Labor costs continue to rise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Organizations will need to prioritize broader social accountability, which includes hiring a diverse workforce to ensure your staff is representative of your increasingly diverse customer base. Food businesses will have to work hard to keep the lights on and deliver products (and promises) to customers. Boost Workplace Accountability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2024

According to the operators surveyed, 97 percent expect their revenue from catering to grow in 2024 compared to 2023, and 74 percent anticipate over 20 percent growth. percent from 2023 to 2033. billion in 2023. More broadly, catering is a strong revenue driver for restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Rising food costs are the number one issue of concern for chefs heading into 2023, according to the survey, with 44 percent of respondents ranking it as their top worry. Rising labor costs, the inability to find staff to hire, and rising non-food costs (utilities, containers, furniture, etc.)

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

In a State of the Restaurant industry report, the Natiional Restaurant Association sees a return to normal with predicted sales growth in 2023. million by the end of 2023. Competition is heating up : In 2023, 47 percent of operators expect competition to be more intense than last year. "The

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2023

expect to be less profitable in 2023. Rising food, labor and energy/utility costs pose significant challenges heading into 2023. business leaders anticipate a recession in 2023, according to JPMorgan Chase’s 2023 annual Business Leaders Outlook survey. 50 percent of operators expect to make less profit in 2023.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2023

However, with the fast changes in the industry, it’s essential to hire qualified employees and get them up to speed as quickly as possible to implement monumental success. Training Trends in 2023. The post 2023 Restaurant Training Trends appeared first on. The restaurant industry has been rapidly changing in recent years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Department of Labor , the leisure and hospitality sector is set to add nearly 800,000 new jobs between 2023 and 2033—about 1 in 8 of all new jobs during this period. One of the easiest ways to reduce hiring friction is by streamlining the application and interview process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Even as QSR employment needs grow (over five million fast-food positions in the US as of 2023) , this important pool of workers is shrinking. Of course, it takes two to tango when hiring. In 2000, 30 percent of teens enrolled in school has jobs; today the number is under 20. Others offer special wages for hard-to-staff shifts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2024

Things began to change for the restaurant industry in 2023 as the script flipped from cutbacks to a growth mindset. Data from the National Restaurant Association’s 2023 State of the Restaurant Industry report revealed that nearly three in four operators were focused on sustaining growth.

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MAY 1, 2023

37% of restaurant operators say employee retention and productivity is one of their priorities for 2023. As part of our Serving What's Next webinar series, four restaurant managers shared their approach to hiring, training, and retaining. She knows while it takes time to hire the right people, it ultimately leads to less turnover.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2024

Statistics from the National Restaurant Association reveal over 87 percent of operators are likely to hire restaurant staff in 2023, provided they can find qualified applicants. percent below pre-pandemic levels as of the start of 2023, resulting in a staggering 450,000 job openings compared to 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

This convenience has made the online food delivery market massive, with global revenues of over $1 trillion in 2023 alone. This scenario also implies hiring couriers and handling logistics. They must decide whether to hire delivery drivers internally or use independent contractors. Handling deliveries yourself can be tricky.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2022

With winter behind us and summer approaching, it is time to begin planning for the 2023 benefits plan year. Likewise, forecasting costs and building budgets will mean understanding medical costs as well as the hiring market. Planning for 2023 will be complicated, especially for the restaurant sector.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A Decade of DoorDash DoorDash celebrated its 10th anniversary by unveiling Dash From the Past 2023 and Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered, which checks in on popular trends as we celebrate the best of what users have dashed over the past year, and over the past decade. Like the most ordered food on DoorDash of all time: French fries.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 16, 2025

Eventually we figured it out (to some degree) but in the process lost an enormous number of restaurants from 2020 2023. We offered tables in air-controlled domes, sophisticated negative ion air cleaners, waiter-less counter pick-up, even QR Code menus to eliminate touching menus that had been handled by others. Do you remember this?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Fueled by this backdrop, Toast's Market Insights team sought to better understand restaurant employees' perspectives—from bright spots to challenges faced—by conducting a survey in February and March 2023 of more than 1,000 US restaurant workers. So, what did we find?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2023, the turnover rate in the industry soared to 72 percent. Instead of being stuck in a cycle of recruiting, hiring and training new staff, HR teams must focus on engagement, benefits and overall employee experience to improve retention, maintain institutional knowledge, achieve high customer satisfaction, and improve business stability.

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MAY 15, 2023

Hiring a payroll specialist or using payroll software can help you avoid common mistakes. "I Benefits of using payroll software Using payroll software is a great alternative to hiring a payroll specialist or agency to manage your restaurant's payroll, or doing it the old-school pen-and-paper way. The best part?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2023

Additionally, there is a persistent gap reported between job openings in the foodservice industry and number of hires. According to the National Restaurant Association , between October 2021 and March 2022 unfilled jobs exceeded total hires by an average of 500,000 a month in the hospitality industry alone.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As restaurants hire new employees, they are finding it more difficult to come across experienced workers who can also train other team members. Tennessee for example passed a new law that allows carryout and delivery of alcohol that expires in 2023. Currently, 16 states and Washington, D.C.

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Food Business

JUNE 30, 2023

This is a short story on how you can build a successful hiring habit even now, in 2023! Whenever restaurants are hiring, they follow, or don't follow a protocol. 2 to the decision to, or not to hire the right person for the position. 2 to the decision to, or not to hire the right person for the position.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

A recent Toast survey found that one in three restaurants had a difficult time hiring in 2022, so restaurants need to bring their “A game” to show all employees appreciation for the fantastic effort they gave between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2023

To do this, you should hire a dedicated social media manager responsible for creating your social image and monitoring trends. © Modern Restaurant Management, 2023. Negative reviews are pushed down as you highlight positive testimonials and share uplifting content.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 31, 2024

When properly developed and integrated into your operation, the mission statement will impact who you hire, how you train, the products you develop and sell, the way you lead and manage, how employees interact, the way that guests are approached, and how the world perceives you (the business) to be.

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EATER

AUGUST 20, 2024

In 2023 alone, Walmart sold more than $264 billion in groceries, more than double the sales of its two closest competitors combined. By 2023, after Fly By Jing had grown, solidifying its supply chain and hiring more employees, Gao had decided she was ready for Walmart.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While Facebook is the most commonly used platform for restaurant marketing, TikTok has seen a massive spike in usage, with nearly half of operators (48 percent) now using the platform, compared to just 26 percent who said the same in 2023. There were 11 percent more transactions on Thanksgiving Eve than on the average Wednesday in 2023.

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EATER

JULY 1, 2024

In a 2023 interview with Today, Elliott said that she’s only ever held one restaurant job — a hostess gig — and she barely made it a week before quitting without even returning for her paycheck. She sees him off to his new life as a chef in New York and offers him a little bit of cash to get started.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To start 2023 on the right foot, here are four tactics restaurant owners can implement now to improve employee engagement at all levels, and subsequently increase long-term retention rates. #1: 2: Improve the Onboarding Experience for New Employees Onboarding is the process by which new hires are integrated and brought up to speed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 26, 2024

According to recent data from SpotOn, its clients saw restaurant spending on Cinco de Mayo increased by 40 percent from 2022 to 2023. In 2018, Womply estimated restaurants saw a 44-percent increase on Cinco de Mayo over a typical day. compared to an average Friday, with increases of seven percent in Texas and three percent in California.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recent findings reveal that researching a new POS for implementation after 2023 is a priority for 43 percent of restaurants , with 29 percent hoping to upgrade their POS for better omnichannel integrations. This shift underscores the evolution of POS systems from mere transactional tools to comprehensive data hubs.

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EATER

MARCH 8, 2024

Staub launched light yellow Citron on March 1, and introduced Eucalyptus , a smoky green, in 2023, and Lilac the year before that. Compare these to KitchenAid’s color of the year in 2023, the bright and bold Hibiscus , quite similar to Pantone’s 2023 color, Viva Magenta.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

One of the biggest issues facing restaurants in 2023 is finding and keeping good talent. When staff are unhappy, you lose more than just the cost of hiring and training. He hired them on the spot, and they've grown within the company since. According to our data , the average turnover rate for restaurant staff in the U.S.

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