Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

A secondary piece of branding includes your menu. Whether on a simple laminated sheet or on a digital board , follow these great digital menu tips : properly sized screen, location of menu, clean and easily understood content, and simple allergenic indicators.

Customer Service

Apicbase

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Did you know a poorly managed menu could cost you thousands in wasted food and lost profits each month? Menu management touches all core aspects of running a restaurant. You need to manage everything from costs and inventory to menu design to get this balance right. Poor menu management is a recipe for disaster.

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. I think 2025 will be the year restaurants focus on turning insight to action through integrations.

2025

Apicbase

JULY 28, 2025

They’re asking: “Can you help us build a reliable, scalable inventory process that actually improves our margins?” Managers have full control and advanced capabilities, while kitchen teams, using their tablets, only see what they need to place orders, count stock, view recipes, and access allergen information. Each solves a problem.

Hospitality

Apicbase

JULY 16, 2025

They’re asking: “Can you help us build a reliable, scalable inventory process that actually improves our margins?” Managers have full control and advanced capabilities, while kitchen teams, using their tablets, only see what they need to place orders, count stock, view recipes, and access allergen information. Each solves a problem.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

It can also provide full sourcing and ingredient listings that are needed for menu creation to serve customers with special requirements. As a result, restaurants can easily access key information – again, with a quick smartphone scan – to identify expiration dates, ingredients, allergens, batch/lot numbers for recalls, and more.

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.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size. Inventory stock changed significantly. About 88 percent say they will consider moving from paper to digital menus this year, according to Square’s Future of Restaurant 2021 Report. In the best of circumstances, they should be linked to inventory and automated kitchens.

Technology

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 Labeling Requirements.

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

Chef driven fast casual restaurants feed consumers’ desires for high quality menu items delivered quickly and on the go. Eight-six percent of dames surveyed agreed that chef driven fast casual restaurants are filling a consumer desire for high quality menu items. What do you think are the biggest changes since the last survey?

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With AI, food companies can calm ingredients that trigger allergens. This enables businesses to avoid buying too much inventory. Furthermore, restaurants and hotels are using AI to keep tabs on which foods are thrown out and then make portion size and menu recommendations to reduce waste.

Food Supply

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. They can enter what they can't eat right into the system, which then suggests safe menu items.

Dietary Restrictions

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. Cooks and back-of-house employees tend to work with inventory management software and kitchen display technology. Cooking specific menu items.

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. Become Allergen-Friendly Certified.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature pizza predictions, Valentine's Day menu trends and lots about loyalty. Valentine's Menu Trends Restaurant guests heavily favor tasting menus this Valentine’s season, according to Lightspeed. percent dip in overall gratuities.

2024

The Rail

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Customers can now interact with a digital or virtual assistant to make their meal selection, get information about menu items ( such as allergens ), place orders or make reservations, and receive notifications when orders are ready for pick-up.

Online Ordering

ChowNow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

ChowNow integrates seamlessly into Toast to route orders through your kitchen, manage your online menu faster and easier, reduce errors and cancellations, and have better order accuracy. ChowNow’s integration to Square allows restaurants to receive and fulfill every order into one POS and simplify their operations.

Front of House

ChowNow

OCTOBER 18, 2023

ChowNow integrates seamlessly into Toast to route orders through your kitchen, manage your online menu faster and easier, reduce errors and cancellations, and have better order accuracy. ChowNow’s integration to Square allows restaurants to receive and fulfill every order into one POS and simplify their operations.

Front of House

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One such software, Nutritics, also calculates dishes’ allergens, calories, and nutrition based on inputted recipes. There are other tools to print and display nutritional data on your website, menu, or counter. Inventory management software is also critical. It also shows the highlights of the dishes’ nutrition.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Moreover, in the coming year, early access to novel menu additions is set to become a sought-after offering. Restaurants will entice their customers with the privilege of being among the first to savor new menu items, creating a sense of exclusivity and fostering anticipation. – Joe Hand Jr.,

2024

Cheetah

JANUARY 20, 2022

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. But as supply chain issues, labor shortages and health concerns persist, the small menu trend is making increasingly more economic and operational sense as a long term strategy.

Seasonal Menu

Hot Schedules

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With labor costs rising, see how menu and purchasing excellence can help your restaurant get ahead. As you work to increase your profitability, two areas to explore are recipe and menu engineering, and purchasing and inventory optimization. Menu Engineering. Optimized Purchasing and Inventory.

Inventory

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. What happens when you tweak a menu item, or swap one ingredient for another? As dishes are created or adjusted, their nutritional value and allergen information update automatically.

Allergens

The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

Table service, on the other hand, encompasses both a fine dining experience and a full-service restaurant that offers variety and a complex menu. Potential for limited menu options. Supply chain management , inventory control, and minimizing food waste are key strategies to lower overhead costs and offer savings to customers.

Fast Casual

Hot Schedules

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Inventory Management and Prep Planning. Managed prep planning” is the science of purchasing the right inventory and managing kitchen production using analysis and calculation. It helps avoid the trap of buying in bulk to get a discount, only to end up with inventory that goes bad before it can be used. read more.

White Paper

Apicbase

MAY 21, 2024

Whether launching a new concept or expanding into a different market, menu development is critical for a restaurant’s success. That means balancing brilliant ideas with practicality and taking the time to consider all variables that can impact food costs , menu scalability, and customer first impressions. What is Menu Development?

Menu

The Restaurant Times

JUNE 14, 2022

If you are a restaurant owner, you will know that a menu is a restaurant’s heart and soul. Although the look and feel of a menu may attract customers, it is much more than that. A smartly designed restaurant menu can result in high profits as it can influence customers’ choices and tempt them to order more.

Menu

Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With the right set of tools in place, like back-office software to track trends in customer requests and popular dishes, restaurants can make menu adjustments to account for product shortages with much lower risk. Managers can count and order inventory, create and assign schedules, review P/L data, and more from any mobile device.

Technology

Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

With mobile-optimized systems and easy-to-use solutions for things like inventory management, recipe and menu engineering, and managing schedules, your team will have more time to focus on revenue-generating tasks, and will spend less time tethered to the back office with mindless busywork. It can also be a competitive advantage.

Cash Management

Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are the training suggestions I was given by ChatGPT for FRONT OF HOUSE S TAFF Menu Knowledge Training : Utilise ChatGPT to create quizzes and interactive modules to test employees’ understanding of the menu. Questions could range from ingredients of dishes to potential allergens.

Training

Apicbase

APRIL 11, 2024

The success of a food service business depends on how well its restaurant managers manage purchasing and inventory and how good the chefs are at creating profitable recipes. Standard features include inventory management, labour scheduling, waste tracking, accounting, and analytics.

Operations

Hot Schedules

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In addition to maintaining compliance with the FDA Food Labeling Regulations, how can you use menu labeling to attract healthy eaters to your restaurant? With the right options, your menu can empower guests to stick to their resolutions, and attract healthy eaters. Menu Options. Menu Publishing. Learn More. Related Posts.

Catering

Apicbase

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s an ironclad rule in the hospitality industry and menu costing is no exception. It’s essential for everything you do, from menu pricing to closing the gap between theoretical and actual food costs i.e. detecting the causes of food cost variance. And to get to it, you need accurate menu costings. What is menu costing?

Menu

Apicbase

JULY 26, 2024

With 96% of restaurants planning to expand , operators are looking for the best software to manage BOH operations like inventory, recipes, production, and scheduling. You might be tracking inventory in a spreadsheet, for example, or placing orders via email without sharing this data with other parts of the business.

Back of House

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. It can be calculated for each menu item or as an average for the whole business.

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. Menu engineering Enhance profits with menu engineering software.

Back of House

Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

This end-to-end solution uses data from your POS to provide insights into sales, food costs, menu engineering and inventory management. You instantly get the actual profit margin for each menu item. Combining several (or all) modules empowers you to save time, cut costs and improve menu quality. from your POS.

Point of Sale