ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Leverage Automated Email Marketing ChowNows Automated Email Marketing helps your restaurant bring customers back and increase orders with minimal effort. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to stay top-of-mind with customers and remind them its time to order again from your restaurant.

Ordering

EATER

APRIL 21, 2025

I have fond memories of these restaurants of my childhood their banquet seating and faded prints of Persepolis, our familys terrain, for birthdays, reunions and drawn-out evenings of indulging in conversation, dance, and scents of charcoaled meats over fire that took my dad, uncles, and aunts back to the streets of Tehran.

Back of House

ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Before you spend the money and roll out a dozen new tablets across your front of house and kitchen, its worth asking: Are these things actually built for the job? Its going to get dropped, splashed with sauce, and maybe knocked off the bar by a customers pursethats just part of the deal.

Front of House

EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Tacos are served up at Maizajo, where corn tortillas are made in-house. The most fun cocktail menu: I would have loved Las Brujas for its concept alone a women-run cocktail bar with a comic book-like menu of drinks inspired by different women throughout history. Subscribe now.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. The report analyzed data from more than 30,000 QSR restaurants that generated a total of 4.5 billion transactions and $67 billion in sales in 2024. labor costs at 3 percent.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Solo dining – a time dedicated to eating a meal alone at a sit-down restaurant – is an opportunity for diners to practice self care over a meal, whether that be by relaxing and reflecting at the end of a long day or even by engaging the mind with a book or catching up on the news.

Customer Experience

EATER

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

If weeknights are for riffing, Sunday nights are our time to go by the book, giving us a chance to test out our ample cookbook collection. We went to restaurants sometimes, we cooked together other times. But date nights happened sporadically, and we didnt call them that, if we called them anything at all.

Take-out

ChowNow

MAY 16, 2025

When your website houses your menu, hours, location and ordering, it becomes the single source of truth for your business. 62% of diners have been discouraged from ordering takeout or delivery because of a poor restaurant website experience. 77% of diners visit a restaurants website before they dine in or order takeout or delivery.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Restaurant owners negotiated payment plans with their landlords, many of which had prolonged forgiveness dates, but were often not able to pay back rent. " As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry. ." – Pooja S.

Mobile Ordering

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A bar or brewery is considered to be the highest profit margin restaurant business with a gross profit margin on alcohol that's around 80%. But many owners don't account for the high fixed costs of bars —like repairs, insurance, and alcohol theft which can leave them with less profit than expected. We all know it.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

Reservations

EATER

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

What replicating a cocktail party from Martha Stewart’s first book taught me about Martha, and the good life The first time I remember being aware of Martha Stewart was when a childhood friend told me about a T-shirt she saw in a store window. Entertaining is a weird book. It read, she giggled, wide-eyed, “I want to be Martha.

Entertainment

EATER

MARCH 10, 2025

Andrea DAquino New books from Molly Yeh, Hailee Catalano, Meera Sodha, Calvin Eng, and more will whet your appetite for a new season I dont know about you, but the first two months of 2025 have felt like two years. And so they deliver, greeting the season with a tidal wave of new titles.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house. Ninety-five percent of those surveyed reported using some form of AI in their restaurant, with the most common being AI-assisted inventory management (35 percent), AI menu optimization (35 percent) and AI reservations/bookings (32 percent).

2025

EATER

JUNE 3, 2025

In their new books, writers John Birdsall and Erik Piepenburg prove the importance of queer placemaking and creativity Vnyl was a kitschy diner around the corner from my moms office in Manhattan, its walls decorated with things like old records and Elvis figurines, its bathrooms adorned with collage portraits of pop stars.

Food

SpotOn

JULY 15, 2025

But behind the stick (industry slang for the bar), it’s not all free shots and big tips.  Photo by Kike Salazar N / Unsplash To anyone enjoying a few drinks at a bar top, bartending appears to consist of mixing and pouring drinks and talking to customers.  In this article: What does a bartender actually do?

Front of House

EATER

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Everyone Loves a Timeless, Well-Written Cookbook There are certain books every home should have, many of which are food-focused. More than that, both present philosophies around preparing food, feeding ourselves, and feeding each other that go to the heart of what makes a house a home. And if the new homeowner is a cheese fan?

Back of House

EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He handed out sandwiches donated by a local shop, bagged-up snacks, and juice boxes; some families received books carefully sorted by reading level. He handed out sandwiches donated by a local shop, bagged-up snacks, and juice boxes; some families received books carefully sorted by reading level. Who was taking care of back of house?”

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Let’s come back to Henry. Perhaps you’re a large restaurant chain that has locations all over the country? If you fit into any of these categories and you’re wondering why restaurant technology is a worthwhile investment, then keep reading. Henry is ready to order some dinner. Contactless Technology.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

Bar

Culinary Cues

MAY 27, 2023

Dedicate the effort to make it special, make the time to allow everyone to sit down TOGETHER and break bread, talk, relax, and laugh together (front and back of the house). We need to embrace the good and understand the bad and the ugly. But we need to be cognizant of a primary reason for “being connected”. Try “FOOD” on for size.

Technology

EATER

JUNE 24, 2020

As few as 16 lesbian bars remain in the United States, and their owners are fighting with all they have to make it through On the night of March 2, a tornado churned through Nashville, ripping through whole neighborhoods and damaging swaths of restaurants. Jolene’s in San Francisco. On March 11, they reopened. Lipstick shut down again.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2023

” Steve Lewis and Chris Thompson Photo courtesy of Clayton Hauck Where did the idea come from to house the concepts under one roof? . "For ” Steve Lewis and Chris Thompson Photo courtesy of Clayton Hauck Where did the idea come from to house the concepts under one roof? "When cities run out of room, they build up!

Back of House

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. 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?

Bar

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It was strange at first, but then we gradually dressed up a room in our house, set up our computers, turned on the Keurig Coffee Maker and spent our days flipping from one virtual meeting to another. This may seem like a strange topic for a blog focused on the restaurant industry and the world of food but hear me out. So why not?

Social Media

EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But as an employee on the receiving end of that rage, the book fails to account for trauma he caused me. David Chang’s new memoir grapples with the white-hot fury that defined most of his career. David Chang changed the way America eats. Along with Momofuku’s rise has come Chang’s own.

Front of House

7 Shifts

APRIL 13, 2021

And the reports for the team are nearly spot-on: “When [7shifts’] projects our sales, your bar graphs, and your line graphs are almost, if not, they're 95%. Canyons has also seen success in breaking down labor percentages into the back and front of the house to better understand where they may be overstaffed.

Front of House

EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Between now and December, cookbook publishers will churn out some 100 new titles in service of promoting better living through eating. Turn on your stoves!” they seem to shout. Haul out those baking pans! Prepare to spend many hours contemplating the abyss of your Dutch oven!”

2024

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros. The luxury hotel, where rooms typically top $1,000 a night, closed at the end of March and is not taking new bookings. Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of negativity online and in the news. Hotel Trundle Shares Stories of Happiness. Thank you @FourSeasons.

Hospitality

Sling

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For a restaurant to run smoothly and efficiently, you should divide activities into two parts: front of house (FOH)/back of house (BOH). What Is Front Of House (FOH)? The difference between FOH (front of house)/BOH (back of house) is one of appearance and presentability. What Is Back Of House (BOH)?

Front of House

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Halloween celebration and spending is growing in the US Here are thirteen Halloween promotional ideas your restaurant and bar to boost sales this October, and for all the Octobers to come. Halloween Specials and Menu Ideas for Restaurants and Bars ????? The scorpion on the shots typically raise the cost of the shot by 2-3 dollars.

Specials

EATER

APRIL 21, 2022

The Massachusetts restaurant and chef Ruth Wakefield deserve some credit for America’s favorite cookie, but certainly not all of it Ruth Wakefield was a highly accomplished person: a college-educated dietician, teacher, chef, and the founder and operator of Toll House Inn, one of New England’s most famous restaurants.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features diner expecations over the next few months, robots for QSRs, and the best cities for coffee lovers, vegans and vegetarians. How Comfortable are Diners? The survey results reveal that 35 percent of respondents feel the same level of comfort dining out now as they did at the beginning of the pandemic.

2020

EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lots of the houses had little trains you could take [through the cellars] that were reminiscent of something you would have seen at Disney World,” remembers Christian Holthausen, a French-American strategic consultant in the wine & spirits industry, of his early career in Champagne in the 1990s.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

Kitchen Safety

EATER

MAY 31, 2023

Between the picturesque inns serving multicourse feasts, craft beer bars with decks ideal for sunset drinks, and loads of seafood around every turn, it’s hard not to rave. Wedged between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Gulf of St. But the famous bivalves don’t get all the attention.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

Furthermore, a recent study by SaverLife sponsored by the FINRA Foundation found that savings balances above just $250 are correlated with increased housing security, ability to pay utility bills, and avoiding high-cost borrowing. “We are very excited about our partnership with SaverLife. .

Franchising