Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This article will explore seven tips on using Facebook Ads to increase your market share of customers. You might also decide to create a custom landing page for visitors from social media. For example, check out how Pizza Express has enticed customers to dine with them with its free dough balls advert.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 4, 2022

The greatest threat is not the labor shortage or supply chain issues, it’s not the pandemic or the price of real estate – yes, all those concerns are troubling and must be dealt with, but they are not what will bring the restaurant industry to its knees. Well then – what will? Try apathy on for size. Hey, I don’t know, and I don’t care.”.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 8, 2023

It sounded like an appropriate title for an article about life in the kitchen. There is something gratifying about sore muscles, aching backs, and soaked shirt and chef toques from sweat at the end of a busy service. I was just listening to some old Beatles tunes and A Hard Day’s Night came up. No pain, no gain – right?

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 9, 2024

There is a deeper price to pay when looming issues like the labor shortage, rising costs of operation, an eroding passion for careers in the kitchen, and diminishing profits haunt our everyday operations. Unfortunately, your customers are oblivious to the difficulty in operating a restaurant, especially at a time when challenges are abundant.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2022

Sorry, there isn’t a lot of good news for restaurants and chefs in recent years-except up to this point customer demand for the experience is rising. Most of the articles we read point to the pandemic as the culprit as well as the centralization of processing ownership. For restaurants and for chefs, these challenges are real.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Full-service restaurants would later refer to this as a Table d’hote selection. But restaurants like The Blue Gentian, were full of happy, very content customers. She still worked every day in the restaurant and aside from her duties in the kitchen, managed to visit nearly every guest table throughout service.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 29, 2024

The service staff members have been well-trained and are enthusiastic about the restaurant concept. Certainly, fantastic tasting, smelling, and looking food is essential and guests do return for great service, so, what else is missing? We know the technology is here to help us along, but the customer rarely thinks that way.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

In all cases the expectation is at the very least – acceptable food quality, and in some cases the expectation is extraordinary food (price has much to do with expectations). Guests will come for the food and the service, but they become raging fans of a restaurant with a story. Sounds like a pile of contradictions, doesn’t it?

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

The chef/owner knew how well (or poorly) they were doing and what the customer thought of the experience because they spoke with them every night, worked with each ingredient, took the garbage out, counted the cash, felt the pain associated with every broken plate or wine glass, and wrote the checks each week for employees and vendors.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 29, 2024

Reactionary approaches involve increasing rates of pay, dumbing down menus, reducing hours of operation or levels of service to limit the number of employees needed, raising prices to compensate for higher rates of pay, reducing portion sizes while raising prices, or even looking at automation and technology to “right the ship.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Any restaurant — Toast customer or not — can be listed on the site.Toast is committing up to $250,000 in matching contributions to World Central Kitchen and the Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation. ” NCR wants to help its restaurant customers during this difficult time. restaurants.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2020

That is what we are going to answer in this blog—providing you with steps you can take right now to reduce your costs and boost your revenue to keep your restaurant profitable during COVID-19. It’s also worth it to see if any POS providers are offering deals, discounts, or temporary free service during the COVID-19 situation.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many only stayed in business for a few months, but some were able to weather the storm of the depression and carry-on serving thousands of customers every week, allowing them to stay afloat. Despite a steep decline in food prices, many families did without milk or meat.” -The Ah, but not everyone suffered during the depression. “To

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I am optimistic in the ability of the restaurant business to recover and shine, to bring people together once again, to return to a position of central to the life of neighborhoods, and optimistic that this business of food will provide wonderful careers for cooks, chefs, service staff, bartenders, managers and owners – THIS WILL HAPPEN.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 22, 2024

Shrinkflation” is a descriptor for reducing the size of packaged goods while either keeping selling prices where they were or raising prices while portions are being reduced. Grocery stores try to eliminate cashier positions (yes, I know how hard it is to find help) and opt for self-check-out but do so without lowering prices.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2023

Most restaurant owners, managers, family members of cooks, friends of cooks and chefs, those in other professions, service staff, and restaurant patrons, don’t get it. To the owner/operator there are two things that define success: customer satisfaction and profit. Most people don’t get it.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

64% of those independent restaurants were “full-service”. Everywhere you look, people are beginning to line up for a return to the good old days of restaurant service. Passion, interest in learning, service orientation, personality, and drive will, as always, set the stage for a dynamic team and a successful restaurant.

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Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 25, 2024

There are several reasons for this, including your food, your pricing, and your customer service. In this article, we look at how to tell your restaurants story through branding. tweet this) Your story and your brand are what lift your restaurant above others and make it a destination for customers.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

After all, it pays to have online ordering , and these services can offer you a large audience of new customers. If you currently work with one of these delivery middlemen, you may very well have a steady stream of orders lighting up your tablet, announcing yet another customer hungry for your food. Those commissions add up.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It is a menu change that tests a chef’s ability to understand the seasonality of harvest, the connection that menu items have with the concept of the restaurant, executive cost-effective items, push the kitchen crew to enhance their skills, and excite the customer. Your service staff members are on the front line. Are you up to it?

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

AUGUST 8, 2021

If you offer discounted prices on certain menu items, set a strict expiry date for the promotion. Be in all the places where your target customers are likely to conduct their restaurant research. According to this Forbes article , influencer marketing grows faster than all other forms of digital ads. Be omnipresent online.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

AUGUST 8, 2021

If you offer discounted prices on certain menu items, set a strict expiry date for the promotion. Be omnipresent online Be in all the places where your target customers are likely to conduct their restaurant research. The easiest is through sponsored articles and reviews. Or get popular blogs and magazines to feature you.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

After analyzing the latest industry trends, viral content, and successful campaigns, we have developed an all-in-one marketing guide to help you craft your strategy to attract new customers and keep your previous diners coming back. Customers today strongly believe in the importance of social responsibility.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Here you'll find links to our favorite blog and support articles, information about 7shifts Academy, our social media profiles, and more. How to Serve in a Fine Dining Restaurant : Fine dining restaurants tend to offer elaborate food at higher price points, with attentive, often formal service.

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Future Food

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In this blog my aim is to talk about the ever-increasing spend potential on food and beverage based around a number of “Happiness—hungry” experiences. Pleasure-hungry customers are looking for memorable experiences, eating and drinking along with immersive leisure and entertainment experiences to bring happiness via a range of avenues.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

But while the congratulations, back slapping and commiserations are shared around – who is actually looking after the customer? It is a serious question as to what has been the best outcome this year for commercial catering and depending on your perspective – customer, competitor or winning/losing caterer the answer is not crystal clear.

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Sling

APRIL 19, 2021

In this article, the experts at Sling will answer those questions and show you how to get control of your margin with some basic math. In simple terms, profit is the difference between what you earn for a product or service and what you spend to provide that product or service. One such adjustment may be your pricing strategy.

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Hot Schedules

APRIL 21, 2020

Along with many restaurateurs adjusting to operating during COVID, they modified service hours, staff, and menu items. Rivera went on, “We also looked at what could be the most affordable for our customers. Make sure you’re able to offer a safe environment for staff, and they are able to safely interact with customers.

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 28, 2025

Get your customers excited for your new menu with a strong marketing plan. In this article, we look at nine marketing tips to get your dining guests excited for your new menu. Your customers need to know about them, and the most important thing is that they need to get excited about them.

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Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Some of your customers have even asked about catering options. In this article, we look at how to tell if you should start catering. You might consider hiring specific team members for your catering service to ensure it runs smoothly every time. Do you have the extra services customers might want? Extra Services.

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Restaurant Engine

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this article, we look at how daily lunch specials can drive new patrons at your restaurant. Offer a Fixed Price Lunch Special. You can bring in new patrons (think office workers) with a fixed price lunch special. For example, create a three-course, fixed price daily lunch special with a couple of choices for your new patrons.

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Indoor Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This blog is supposed to be a resource for our customers, both current and potential. We have articles about Coupon Advertising and Brand Advertising. So we have created articles about Digital Advertising to help guide our customers there as well. Who is the typical IndoorMedia customer? So, Just Do It?

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The Rail

AUGUST 23, 2022

Before choosing a food delivery service, catering company, restaurant to have dinner, or venue to celebrate an event, people weigh all options. In the end, the service shows the TOP 5 sites for the search query in organic and paid search results based on this keyword. If you ignore this advice, you will be making a fatal mistake.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Hospitality Mindset - A sales & service maximiser approach (Part 2). In part one of this article, I spoke about the customer’s timeless desire and appreciation of quality food and service and how this is the platform from which to drive food and hospitality sales. What’s Changed? Image via Good Food.

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Sling

JUNE 9, 2023

So, in this article, we discuss some of the most important restaurant costs, how to calculate them, and how to use them to run your restaurant better. For the remainder of this article, we’ll use one month as our time period of choice. Step Two : Go back through your inventory and determine the quantity and price of each item.

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The Rail

JUNE 10, 2022

By Owen Baker, Contributor Delicious food is a great way to keep your customers, but you need to do more. Add Customer Testimonials. Restaurant customer testimonials help your email subscribers to trust you more and accept the content you sell them in your email newsletters.

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Sling

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In this article, we discuss some of the best things you can do before you even open your doors that can help make your new bakery a success. Note how the business manages its employees , markets its products, provides customer service , and develops its business model. your target market). your target market).

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