Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Most Important safety initiatives. Followed (not surprisingly) by restaurants and delivery drivers following proper safety protocols, price, and ease of ordering from the restaurant. How Comfortable are Diners? Some highlights inlcude: Consumers' projected dining out frequency. Primary reasons for dining out less.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2022

The outlook is improving for many restaurants as COVID-19 restrictions loosen and guests make their way back to their favorite establishments. First, take stock of normal in-house use in the kitchen – consider how frequently are you making batches in your own restaurants. The process can be a little intimidating.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. The Foundation will administer the grants, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

To shine the spotlight on the immediate opportunities that exist for all Americans to find employment at franchised restaurants of an iconic brand that holds a unique place in people’s daily lives, Dunkin’ is launching its first-ever national advertising campaign aimed at recruitment.

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EATER

JULY 31, 2020

Four months into quarantine, a regression back to the safety of middle school dining “Do you have kids that hate when their food touches?” reads the first line of an email that popped up in my inbox this morning, advertising corrals that separate foods on a plate. Africa Studio /Shutterstock.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Hardee's, and Panda Express are just some of the leading restaurant chains that have added plant-based items to their menus over the past 12 months, with Del Taco, Qdoba Mexican Eats, Red Robin, and Yard House adding additional items to their existing plant-based offerings. This data covers U.S.

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Indoor Media

JANUARY 16, 2025

From hand-tossed dough to house-made sauces, thoughtfully sourced toppings, to the perfect bake, your product is the fastest way to inform customers that you know what you’re doing. When your pizza stands out, it enhances your entire operation and keeps customers coming back for more. And we’re not talking about sausage and mushrooms.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? Here are their responses. Click here for part two. Anita Adams, CEO of Black Bear Diner. Shasta, California. Dennis Becker, CEO, Mobivity.

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SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Now, as a copywriter at SpotOn, he helps restaurant owners and managers learn how to run a more profitable operation. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs. Contribution margins.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marketing and advertising : Market your restaurant to help achieve optimal restaurant capacity (social media and review management included). Operations: An all-encompassing word for everything else involved in managing a restaurant, such as maintaining the atmosphere and ensuring employees follow health and safety standards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features Yum! 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. Beefing Up with Habit Acquisition. Brands, Inc. has agreed to acquire The Habit Restaurants, Inc., Brands, Inc.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) plans to bring its signature California-style pizzas, pastas, salads and more to Canada for the first time. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. CPK Heads North. Giorgio Minardi and Naheed Shariff. Founded in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Increased demand for food delivery had already boosted the growth of ghost kitchens, and the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated both the popularity and profitability of the model. Ghost kitchens cut the cost of real estate and labor by reducing the restaurant model to accommodate off-premise food sales. What is a ghost kitchen?

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7 Shifts

JULY 1, 2024

Running a bar is a lucrative business, proven by the fact that this industry is estimated to be valued at a whopping $36 billion in 2024. Even better, it is expected to grow at an annual growth rate of 5.09% in 2027. While this could be a rewarding venture, opening a bar is not exactly the same as opening a food business. How profitable is a bar?

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Before visiting each establishment, go to their website, read their restaurant reviews, analyze the type of advertising they use. Consider taking over a space that previously housed a restaurant, especially if you are a first-timer restaurant owner. For a perfect match, restaurant owners need to undertake serious research.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 4, 2021

Remember the expression, too many cooks in the kitchen ? are trying everything and the kitchen sink to recruit and retain employees in the face of a labor shortage the likes of which this industry hasn’t seen in decades. Well, go ahead and unlearn it. million jobs – or 12% – short of pre-pandemic levels as of June 2021. In total, 2.5

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Focus POS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Or they can be removed from the stand and used by staff to take orders and process payments anywhere on the house floor. Orders placed on tablets are transmitted directly to the kitchen, resulting in faster prep times. Tablet Point of Sale Software. There are many reasons to consider adding tablets to your technology profile.

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Lavu

JANUARY 15, 2020

Restaurant Financing and Restaurant Loans. Owning a restaurant is both an exciting and challenging experience. Before the challenge of making a profit, you also have to identify sources of financing. Restaurant financing and restaurant loans are crucial to successful running of a restaurant. Types of restaurant financing. Start-Up Business Loans.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 19, 2021

Colourful trucks with decorated exteriors serving niche food items have a lot of potential in terms of generating advertising revenue and tapping new markets. Colourful trucks with decorated exteriors serving niche food items have a lot of potential in terms of generating advertising revenue and tapping new markets.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Don’t forget to detail marketing strategies, which could range from social media advertising to partnerships with local businesses. Think about the flow of traffic from the kitchen to the tables. Think about the flow of traffic from the kitchen to the tables. It’s equally important to study your competition.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 9, 2020

Starting your own restaurant can be challenging, especially considering all the competition in the restaurant industry. Statistics show that the number of Americans dining out continues to increase, however, so there are plenty of potential customers to go around. How To Start a Restaurant . Pick a Food Concept or Type of Restaurant.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 18, 2023

An integrated restaurant management system is a collection of applications designed to streamline food service operations—specifically restaurants, nightclubs, confectioneries, cafes, cloud kitchens, food carts, and delivery companies. Technology is crucial to the success of modern restaurants. for managing phone calls, .

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. These commissary kitchens are sometimes also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens , or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When a restaurant wants to cater to certain customer segments, offer healthier menu options, maintain food safety and quality, and make other recommendations for their clients, such as which restaurant POS system is the best choice, food consultants are frequently employed. 4 Reasons Why You Need To Hire A Food Consultant. Menu Engineering.

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Clover - Restaurants

JUNE 20, 2024

Your menu should, in turn, reflect your restaurant’s theme and offer guests plenty of variety without overtaxing your back-of-house staff. Your menu should, in turn, reflect your restaurant’s theme and offer guests plenty of variety without overtaxing your back-of-house staff. Is there space for outdoor dining?

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Touch Bistro

MARCH 25, 2021

Considering three in four restaurant workers leave their employers within a year, and the average cost of turnover can set a restaurant back as much as $5,864 per employee (ouch!) After all, employees are the heart of your restaurant, and setting them up for success starts with the onboarding process. Let’s get started!

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Chris Boyles, VP of Food Safety for Steritech. Ghost kitchens allow you to order from multiple brand menus at a single location. Drones deliver to your house. From a food safety perspective, far UVC light is a growing area where the light destroys germs, but doesn't harm humans. 20 at 4 p.m. Here are their insights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Off premise has become a sizable segment of our business, and I don't see it ever going back to pre-COVID numbers. Off premise has become a sizable segment of our business, and I don't see it ever going back to pre-COVID numbers. We celebrate this as it benefits us all when brands focus on sustainability. Lavu CEO Saleem S.

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EATER

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the windowless beige back rooms, a hundred men (it was vastly men) championed their data collection and organization apps. Why should you ever have to leave the house? At the Food on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the food service industry laid out its vision for a future in which customers never have to wait. What a bold future.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature the impact of third-party delivery in a revealing study from SevenRooms, stats on the pandemic year, the tales told by foot traffic and the increasing popularity of breakfast items. Third-Party Delivery Impact. 904 hours of pay for waiters (at $9.95/hour hour in NY). hour in NY).

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EATER

MAY 11, 2021

And getting it back open again, keeping in mind the different requirements and interest in food halls, fine dining, events, retail, and bars, is its own unique challenge. He launched 10 ghost kitchen operations to extend his delivery zone to new cities and regions, expanded his takeout menu, and has a large product line.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’ll quickly see the emergence of Restaurants 2.0 – a new generation of restaurateurs who snatch up available real estate for ghost kitchens, virtual brands or new dine-in experiences that have a heavy reliance on digital interactions and business models that enjoy lower overhead. Here are their responses. generation.

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360Training

JULY 16, 2020

But if you’re ambitious, know that 9 out of 10 restaurant managers started their career in entry-level positions. . And the same is true for 8 out of 10 restaurant owners. What Does a Food Service Manager Do? Food service managers handle the day-to-day operations of a food service facility. There’s fine dining and casual dining.

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 6, 2020

While third-party companies may have been able to advertise some of these companies pre-closure to a larger consumer base, depending on the restaurant, some simply cannot afford any extra expenses right now. Curbside delivery and in-house delivery is on an uptick versus sit-down options. The problem is the fee structure.

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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.). Chick-fil-A.

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