Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This strategic shift can attract a new wave of health-conscious customers and, surprisingly, may boost overall revenue as smaller portions allow for creative menu diversification, reduced food waste, and better customer satisfaction. Eco-Friendly (another thought) I think generationally also we can add the emphasis on eco-friendly.

2025

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. Fast, accurate, trustworthy product identification enables targeted recalls and helps avoid unnecessary removal of unaffected products, reducing food waste. What’s My Role?

Information

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The company's Beastro was designed to use AI to create personalized dishes, thereby cutting labor costs and cutting food waste. Additionally, many robots lack the versatility required to handle a wide range of cuisines and cooking processes, posing a challenge for operators needing adaptable solutions for diverse menu offerings.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Digitizing your menus can have a powerful impact because the information is typically scraped online by third-party affinity sources, such as Yelp and TripAdvisor, who collect data for their customers. By optimizing inventory to meet demand and menu offers, restaurants can also minimize costs and waste.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2020

This provides food service businesses an additional revenue stream and allows food that may otherwise be wasted to find its way to consumers, most of whom are under quarantine and face long queues at supermarkets. allergen information required by the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act.

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. Food Waste Reduction The World Economic Forum estimates that humanity wastes about 74 kg (163 pounds) of food per person, per year. It's already helping to prevent supply chain shortages and eliminate food waste.

Food Supply

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

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 21, 2020

Next, consider your menu. While you don’t want to overwhelm yourself with offerings, increasing your costs but not necessarily your incomings, you also don’t want to drive customers away with a stale or restrictive menu. If you’re looking for easy ways to diversify without giving your baristas a headache, try a seasonal menu.

Café

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

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. Offsetting Rising Labor Costs. Steps to take: Know your sales trends.

Inventory

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

Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They take the form of wasted time, effort and cash, and cause havoc and frustration for your employees and guests alike. Plus, manual back-ups and lost information, buried notices and wasted paper. . You’re not the first to meet this foe. Find out how you can defeat the Busywork Beast once and for all. read more.

Cash Management

Hot Schedules

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This will generate less waste, more profit, and happier employees and guests. Learn how Fourth’s inventory management solutions can help your restaurant reduce waste and increase profit. You know what you need to buy, and what schedule to set to ensure the right number of people are on at the right time. read more.

White Paper

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

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. Allaying allergen fears. You can optimize food usage and reduce waste. Balancing staffing needs.

Technology

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

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be calculated for each menu item or as an average for the whole business. It tells you how efficient or wasteful your operations are, helping you reduce waste and lower your food costs. Each menu item can be engineered for better profitability by making the right adjustments.

Food Truck

Apicbase

APRIL 11, 2024

Standard features include inventory management, labour scheduling, waste tracking, accounting, and analytics. This automation saves time and leads to more accurate production and less waste. You will have clear menus with accurate allergen information and everything available to order.

Operations

Apicbase

JULY 26, 2024

Menu optimisation Effective menu creation and optimisation start with robust recipe management. It allows you to make changes and see their effects in real-time, so you can tweak your dishes to create the best menu possible. Apicbase is the backbone of your kitchens. Apicbase stores every detail of your recipes down to the gram.

Back of House

Apicbase

JULY 22, 2024

He cited proprietary research that the global food services and facilities management company has conducted on sustainable eating programs, sustainable ingredients, and carbon-neutral dishes, plus partner programs focusing on food waste avoidance and sustainable eating. The software provides answers to managing food waste.

Catering

Rocket Fuel

JANUARY 18, 2025

As fast food chains strive to stay ahead of the competition, QSR industry trends like digital transformation, menu diversification and enhanced delivery options are reshaping how these businesses operate. Another key trend is menu diversification. Here’s an in-depth look at how certain trends are restyling the fast food sector.

2025

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. This helps to ensure that the restaurant has the necessary ingredients at all times while avoiding overstocking and reducing waste.

Point of Sale

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. Determine precise batch quantities based on actual demand, enabling more accurate food cost control and less waste.

Back of House

Touch Bistro

MARCH 25, 2021

Here’s an overview of the process: Complete all necessary paperwork Set up direct deposit Communicate restaurant guidelines and policies Explain staff scheduling policies Set up new hires in your staff systems Provide hands-on menu training and tasting Provide mentorship and shadowing opportunities Give constructive feedback. Compliance.

Hiring

Clover - Restaurants

APRIL 25, 2024

To help control cost: By precisely documenting ingredient quantities, recipe cards can help minimize food waste –and as a result, optimize profitability. For menu development: Wanting to spice up your offerings? At minimum, information should include a list of ingredients, cooking/baking instructions, and plating notes.

Design

Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

It helps you track waste and theft to better control running costs. MarketMan tracks ingredient prices to help optimise menu prices. Recipe costing: The system calculates the theoretical cost of producing a menu item. It generates reports on profitability so you can refine your menus to improve margins.

Inventory

Apicbase

JUNE 11, 2024

Outsource Secondary Menu Items If you’re following the same strategy as most large operation managers, your focus is on “big money” items, i.e., high-cost and high-demand items like meats, dairy, and produce. by installing an additional cooler) helps minimise food waste. This ensures each outlet gets what it needs on time.

Supplies

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Here are some eye-opening findings: The National Restaurant Association found that 53% of restaurants report they cut menu items because of higher food costs 53% of successful operators cite food costs as their number one challenge A study by Champions 12.3 The recipe cost, menu cost, and profit margins are all calculated automatically.

Management

The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 30, 2022

Besides, it lets you run reports in real-time so that you know whether an item is doing well or should it be removed from the menu. Besides, some of them don’t possess the ability to manage POS data (such as menu item prices, promotions, discounts, etc.) and guest-facing content (such as allergens, nutritional content, etc.)

POS

Apicbase

AUGUST 19, 2022

A restaurant’s back of house was essentially a black box with a multitude of overlapping processes, ranging from menu engineering, supply chain management, on-demand production and a vast inventory system. F&B used to be notoriously hard to manage, hence its position on the back burner, but the tech came to the rescue. It was chaos.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Trabon, menu management and publishing solutions, and MenuTrinfo®, nutritional analyst and food allergen expert, have forged a strategic alliance that enables an end-to-end solution for the calculation and presentation of menu item nutrition facts and allergen declarations. ." Trabon and MenuTrinfo Team Up.

Allergens

Clover - Restaurants

MAY 3, 2024

Use the first-in, first-out method to use ingredients that are closer to spoiling first, so that you can decrease food waste. It’s important to properly communicate potential allergens in your menu to diners, and to train servers on what allergens are so they can communicate those to the guests they serve. Clean menus.

Kitchen Safety

Apicbase

MARCH 16, 2025

Guests showed up at set times, ate what was on the menu, and went back to work. A healthy salad, tucked away into the menu, wont do. We have to track food waste, carbon footprint , and procurement sustainability. Menu & recipe data : Ingredients, allergens, nutrition, and sustainability. That world is gone.

Catering

Culinary Digital

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Foodservice operations need advanced products like CulinarySuite (CS) Lite, to streamline menu planning, recipe catalogues, nutritional analysis, cost analysis, production management, and more. With this product, customers can effectively create a compliant menu and scale recipes and manage production records.

Allergens

Culinary Digital

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Global agriculture wastes over 28% of its products, according to reports. World hunger, climate change, economic insecurity, and increasing stress on limited resources are all caused by food loss and waste. Poor inventory visibility across multiple locations results in food waste when transferring it to another site in need.

Sustainability

Culinary Digital

MAY 10, 2023

Benefits of CulinarySuite CulinarySuite is a digital menu planning software solution that can help state correctional institutions provide nutritious meals to inmates while managing the food cost efficiently. The software can automatically generate purchase orders, track inventory levels, and monitor food waste.

Dietary Restrictions