Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

A chief reason is due to caution or uncertainty exhibited by conscious consumers, with 48 percent saying they are taking the ‘wait and see’ approach and holding back on spending in 2024. Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? So, what’s the solution?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2024

If these folks were going to a friend’s house they wouldn’t think of taking a plate, a mug or a picture off the wall. “I collect stuff” There are great sports bars and steakhouses that go out of their way to put up rare, autographed photographs and memorabilia from athletes and celebrities in their establishments.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Proper staff training keeps your team knowledgeable, confident, and able to provide the kind of customer service that keeps guests coming back. Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Focused training also speeds up the onboarding process.

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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.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. And while these tables can be challenging to book, snagging a reservation tends to be slightly easier if youre a guest of the hotel.

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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.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Set the bar right from the beginning – We want to be the best fish fry restaurant in town. I wonder why this is the case.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For the tour, we traveled to Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, visiting a wide collection of over 80 bars and restaurants, from brand new and iconic to others that have stood the test of time. And, you don’t have to run a cocktail bar or fine dining location to play with these combinations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of Drinksgiving and Thanksgiving trends, FSR challenges, and "out-of-the-box" dining habits. AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Over the next decade, new cafes, restaurants, and housing developments owned by outsiders replaced many resident-owned properties and abandoned lots. Inocencio Carbajal opened his acclaimed taqueria, Carnitas Uruapan, on West 18th Street in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1975. But the Pilsen around it is changing again.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The law also establishes a California Privacy Protection Agency, which will enforce and implement consumer privacy laws and can administer fines for businesses that violate California’s privacy laws. Florida Increases Minimum Wage : Over 60 percent of Florida voters approved Amendment 2 to increases the minimum wage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it’s Heinz Ketchup, Budweiser’s Beechwood aged beer, or Hershey’s chocolate bars, each product shares two common attributes: they’re all delicious and they’re all created from the finest ingredients. Charlie and I met for lunch high up at his dining club that overlooked LaSalle Street in the loop.

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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?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Review mentions of “Back-owned” (and related terms) also skyrocketed, up 426 percent, as people look to support and surface these businesses to the community.

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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

By finding the right balance, you can avoid these pitfalls and ensure your business stays profitable. Let’s explore what this number means, how you can calculate it, what the average margin is for different types of restaurants, and the factors that can affect low profit margins.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Updating packaging to account for new ways of getting food from restaurant to car to house to table can increase propensity to re-order significantly. We worked with one of our Atlanta clients on a new concept that took the brand from a large, sit-down bar and restaurant to a smaller version prioritizing buy online pickup in-store (BOPIS).

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They are mainstays in the dining culture, and millions of people around the world recognize them. Of course, tasty food, a specific dining experience, and real estate locations all have a part to play. Of course, tasty food, a specific dining experience, and real estate locations all have a part to play. Table of Contents.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Chef Marc Meneau was such a chef – a powerful personality who elevated the dining experience – a chef who lived excellence every day in his restaurant L’Esperance in Vezelay, France. a house of worship where it is claimed rest some of the bones of Mary Magdalene. On rare occasions, there are chefs who do all of the above and more.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It won’t be for everyone (especially at the high end) but I imagine some restaurants will never go back to paper. Closures: Callie Speer’s cool downtown diner Holy Roller in Austin; and fine dining gem Tarsan i Jane and trailblazing organic restaurant Tilth in Seattle. curfew on indoor dining. .; curfew on indoor dining.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag.

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ChowNow

MAY 16, 2025

A great dining experience starts long before someone walks through your door. 77% of diners visit a restaurants website before they dine in or order takeout or delivery. Nearly every customer journey begins with a search on Google, then a scroll through several restaurant websites before something catches their eye.

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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.

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EATER

APRIL 25, 2023

The dish is equally at home sold from the trunk of a car and at the country’s finest dining establishments. The story starts in the mid-1990s, when an unknown schoolboy stepped into Fory Fay, a traditional bar and restaurant specializing in seafood and ceviche. The caldosa at Fory Fay, the home of the original recipe.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From the rise of AI to the increasing popularity of experiential dining, businesses are adapting creatively to meet new consumer demands. Perhaps oddly and yet understandably, premium dining spending has increased… but only through average spend. Those who already treat themselves to high end dining experiences spend more.

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Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

In this article, well walk you through 7 easy steps to increase table turnover effectively, helping you boost your bottom line while maintaining a great dining experience. Turnover rate may be higher in fast-casual or quick-service restaurants compared to fine-dining establishments.

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EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By presenting cuisine that has not traditionally been championed in a fine dining, wine-tasting setting, Mistry hopes to challenge people’s expectations about cuisine — and the people who make it. Over the past few years, one-off guest chef appearances and chef-in-residence programs have proliferated in the fine dining industry.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

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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.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

Live-work-dine neighborhoods do not generate enough outside traffic to sustain a business if it is not designed correctly” — Daniel Reed Hospitality 2. Live-work-dine neighborhoods do not generate enough outside traffic to sustain a business if it is not designed correctly” — Daniel Reed Hospitality 2. Congrats! ?? And good luck.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This past year has shown us the invaluable difference that a warm and welcoming dining experience can make for customers, who are increasingly choosing establishments that go the extra mile in offering hospitality. Each year, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asks experts for their views on the state of the industry.

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EATER

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Packed with restaurants, farmers markets, fishing lakes, and cozy B&Bs, it’s a place where farm-to-table dining is (and has always been) just the status quo. Packed with restaurants, farmers markets, fishing lakes, and cozy B&Bs, it’s a place where farm-to-table dining is (and has always been) just the status quo. Getty Images.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2023

Barring any new global emergencies like the pandemic that caused the demise of restaurant dining, the past few months have seen it return back to life in a tempered manner. The dine out cutbacks will likely not come from single people or couples without families with good stable jobs and incomes.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. Over the course of 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Canada

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