Apicbase

OCTOBER 25, 2024

You need to manage everything from costs and inventory to menu design to get this balance right. Inconsistent menu offerings A poorly managed inventory can lead to discrepancies between what’s listed on the menu and what’s actually available in the kitchen. The more locations you operate, the bigger the loss.

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From inventory management to predictive labor scheduling, AI tools will help restaurants cut costs and adapt in real-time, while providing operators valuable data to help inform business decisions. While features like ordering and paying via QR codes have become the norm, Back-of-House systems have lagged in sophistication.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurants started using 2D barcodes (such as QR codes) at dining tables to offer digital menus and even allow patrons to order with their smartphones during the pandemic, when contactless transactions were necessary. Since then, the practice has become ubiquitous. Traceability is heightened.

Information

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 22, 2024

Then it’s a matter of leveraging their strengths, including unique menu offerings, fresh and high-quality ingredients, community engagement, and a full dining experience. "Guests want to know what items are included in each dish, where the products come from, and other information like allergens. . "Increasing

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

Experiential dining, plant-based menus and sustainability were hot topics in the Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) 2023 Trends Report. The visionary panel that explored dining away from home included members with specific expertise and interest in restaurant dining and the hospitality industry.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 26, 2024

To keep up, restaurants need systems that can quickly check if dishes contain allergens and alert staff. This requires technology that can analyze ingredients against common allergens and instantly inform the kitchen and serving staff. QR code menus, for example, are a simple but effective solution for diners with allergies.

Dietary Restrictions

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2020

As reported every day in the news, kitchens across the country are shuttering often with inventory on hand and retailers cannot stock their shelves fast enough to meet consumer demand as panic-buying abounds. allergen information required by the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.

Menu

7 Shifts

JUNE 28, 2021

And regardless of whether these guests are dining in, taking out, or getting delivery, food safety needs to be at the top of mind for your restaurant and your staff. Health inspections are routine at restaurants – and for good reason. How does a typical inspection work and how do I prepare? Sanitation.

Kitchen Safety

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Examples include a TIPS certification , ServSafe Allergen , or a local accredited restaurant safety course. Examples include a TIPS certification , ServSafe Allergen , or a local accredited restaurant safety course. Table of Contents. Skills for Your Resume.

Front of House

The Rail

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Let’s look at four management tips you can put into place to create and promote an allergen-friendly establishment. However, you can mitigate those issues by training your staff as much as possible on food allergens and how to avoid them. Identify Allergens on Your Menus. Train Your Staff.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Pizza Ordering Predictions HungerRush released the results of a national dining survey on 2024 pizza ordering predictions for The Big Game (February 11) and National Pizza Day (February 9). In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature pizza predictions, Valentine's Day menu trends and lots about loyalty. million times per month.

2024

ChowNow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With Square for Restaurants, restaurants can manage more orders faster, stay informed about their labor and inventory costs, access their money instantly, and receive complete data to give restaurants an edge. Meet our current Partners and see what they have to offer.

Front of House

ChowNow

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With Square for Restaurants, restaurants can manage more orders faster, stay informed about their labor and inventory costs, access their money instantly, and receive complete data to give restaurants an edge. Meet our current Partners and see what they have to offer.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Unique experiential opportunities will further enhance customer engagement, providing memorable moments beyond just the act of dining. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. Read the first part, here.

2024

Cheetah

JANUARY 20, 2022

Efficient Inventory Management with Bite Size Menus. Reading Time: 3 minutes. 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. For diners, smaller menus can mean reduced anxiety by contrasting the choice overload effect.

Seasonal Menu

The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

As a result, the demand for quick and convenient dining options has been met. It’s perfect for a quick bite, personal dining experience, or when guests are on the go. Table service, on the other hand, encompasses both a fine dining experience and a full-service restaurant that offers variety and a complex menu.

Fast Casual

Hot Schedules

JANUARY 29, 2020

require emergency medical attention from contact with a food allergen. Accurate allergen information is critical to guarantee your guests’ safety. Servers who may be well-versed in one iteration of a dish may find themselves in a tight spot if a change has been made but nutritional or allergen data hasn’t been updated.

Allergens

Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

According to the National Restaurant Association’s recently published State of the Restaurant Industry, the percentage breakdown of operators who plan on investing in back-of-the-house technology in 2022 are as follows: Family dining – 30%. Casual dining – 28%. Fine dining – 28%. Allaying allergen fears.

Technology

Hot Schedules

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Our research found that two-thirds of consumers want to know the nutritional information of every dish on the menu when dining out. With a menu and engineering solution, you can automate the publishing of menus (and nutritional and allergen information) to your website. Menu Options. You can also include options for substitutions.

Catering

Culinary Digital

DECEMBER 19, 2024

How AI tames supply chains Modern supply chains are long, unwieldy, and can be difficult to understand – and that goes double for ingredients, which have a host of unique concerns around freshness, exposure to allergens, and potential recalls and contamination to manage. AI-powered supply chain platforms provide an enticing solution.

Management

Apicbase

MAY 21, 2024

Menu Planning Tailoring your menu to perfection for a dining experience that keeps customers coming back for more. Setting a final menu takes time, because there are many factors to juggle beyond recipes. Operational realities like ingredient sourcing, kitchen workflow, pricing strategy, and branding play a role in menu development.

Menu

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

In this guide, we’ll examine the definitions and calculations for different types of restaurant profit margins and discuss the best ways to improve them through better inventory and purchasing management, tech integrations, and analytics. A slight improvement in your net profit makes a huge difference.

Food Truck

Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

Restaurants use software and smart hardware to automate everyday tasks and management duties, such as purchasing ingredients, managing inventory, making production lists, dealing with allergens, and calculating costs. But automation in food service is much more than that. What Is Restaurant Automation?

Back of House

The Restaurant Times

JUNE 14, 2022

It is one of the touchpoints through which customers interact with your restaurant, and based on their perception, decide whether or not they want to dine there. An inherent advantage of this system is that it comes integrated with the billing as well as the inventory management module. Recipe Management. Central Menu Management.

Menu

The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 30, 2022

A restaurant POS system helps you manage everything from inventory to staff members, easing out a lot of the complexities involved in running a restaurant business. It allows you to manage sales, inventory, supply chain, production, orders, kitchen operations, staff, and customers with the help of a digital interface of the software.

POS

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The F&B director works with the order forms, the COO analyses the profit and loss statements, the inventory manager checks the stock counts, the executive chef works in the recipes database and so on. All come with their own data sets and metrics – food cost, inventory variance, sales numbers, the list goes on.

Management

Rocket Fuel

JANUARY 18, 2025

Consumers are demanding choices that cater to a variety of dietary needs, including plant-based, low-carb and allergen-free options. By analyzing historical data and real-time customer trends, these systems can predict order patterns, optimize cooking times and even recommend ingredient inventory levels.

2025

Apicbase

MARCH 16, 2025

We cant assume well have a full dining room at lunchtime anymore. Few know this better than Sandra Rijswijk , Digital Transformation Manager at Vermaat, and Daniel Corlett , Managing Director Workplace Services at ISS UK. The Fixed Lunch Hour? That’s over. The fixed lunch hour is dead. And its not just when and where employees eat.

Catering