7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

Once in your customers' hands, this piece of paper can directly influence what your diners order and how much they spend in one sitting. By analyzing the profitability and popularity of your menu items in depth, you can pinpoint exactly which food and beverages contribute to your restaurant's success and which ones you can eliminate.

Social Media 195

Social Media Loyalty Program SEO Email Marketing 195

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Use order information with inventory management software for smarter purchasing. SkiptheDishes.

Technology 370

Technology Front of House Social Media Back of House 370

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Food Service Skills For Your Resume. 5 Restaurant & Food Service Skills for Your Resume. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Food allergies. Food Service, Kitchen, & Hospitality Tech. Cooking and Food Preparation. Table of Contents. Skills for Your Resume. Undercooking.

Front of House 370

Front of House Back of House Kitchen Safety Food Safety 370

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

Remember just saying thank you or giving a pat on the back isn’t enough. For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. For back of house set goals on the time it takes to get food to the pass and out to customers. Don’t just give them a thanks or a high five.

Management 163

Management Management Back of House Customer Service 163

7 Shifts

MARCH 30, 2022

After two years of only being able to order takeout and having to wear a mask when not at the table, restaurants are poised to bounce back in 2022. How will you be getting more diners to eat your food this year? Online Restaurants Advertising Ideas. Don't underestimate the power of in-house advertising at your restaurant.

Advertising 370

Advertising 2022 Social Media Email Marketing 370

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

Front of House 204

Front of House Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Back of House 204

7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2022

The app is also useful for your front and back end staff, giving them the ability to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. As online shopping continues to grow, make sure your restaurant is on board by signing up with ChowNow , a customized online ordering app for restaurants.

Management 195

Management Management Operations Point of Sale 195

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Let’s come back to Henry.

Technology 198

Technology Front of House Back of House Point of Sale 198

7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Word of mouth is fantastic, but when it comes to scaling a restaurant or reopening after months of closure, you need to rely on more than just the possibility of a customer loving your food and telling their friends about it.

Marketing 420

Marketing 2020 SEO Loyalty Program 420

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Think about it: no more stacks and folders full of invoices, no clipboards and checkmarks, no guessing when it comes to food costs. Partender 3.

Social Media 370

Social Media Front of House Back of House Point of Sale 370

SpotOn

MAY 13, 2024

  From crafting a summer menu that celebrates seasonal ingredients to offering cool beverages can enhance customer loyalty, adapting to the busy season with innovative menu ideas and online ordering can set your restaurant apart. “Invest in marketing , train your staff, and be ready. We can help.

Seasonal Menu 98

Seasonal Menu Outdoor Email Marketing Loyalty Program 98

Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Once upon a time, most restaurants operated on a patchwork of paper systems involving notebooks and back-of-the-napkin calculations, not to mention information owners and managers kept in their heads, hunches, and habits. Streamline the front of house. Run a smooth back of house. Streamline the front of house.

Technology 147

Technology Front of House Back of House Online Ordering 147

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Noma’s announcement generated a healthy debate on how we can improve the restaurant industry as a whole and how we should defend our food systems and culture. Noma’s announcement generated a healthy debate on how we can improve the restaurant industry as a whole and how we should defend our food systems and culture.

Fine Dining 193

Fine Dining Technology Front of House Sustainability 193

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It means guests love the food you serve so much that one location simply won’t cut it — and you get to serve more customers, generate more revenue , and expand your business. Expanding your place in the food service industry happens in one of two ways — developing a new restaurant concept or replicating an existing one.

Management 370

Management Management Document Hiring 370

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2020

As one way to help restaurants navigate this uncertain time, our team has created a short e-Book with marketing tips for restaurants. You can capitalize on peoples’ cabin fever during this time of self quarantine by promoting your order pickup services. This idea can be applied to dine-in, pickup, and delivery orders.

Marketing 198

Marketing Back of House Employee Relations Social Media 198

Open for Business

JUNE 9, 2023

Read on for more about how to handle common complaints people make about restaurants both in the dining room and online, with examples of how your team can turn complaints into great hospitality. It can help to paraphrase what the guest is saying back to them to make sure they feel heard and understood. It’s just a fact of life.

Hospitality 142

Hospitality Dietary Restrictions Social Media Online Ordering 142

7 Shifts

APRIL 23, 2021

Early on in 2020, we were scrambling to figure out ways to get food to customers and how to give staff enough hours and keep them on the payroll. Staff are now tasked with policing masking, moving heavy furniture to configure outdoor dining, and packaging to-go orders. Adam Ranier, Writer, Restaurant Manifesto.

Hiring 370

Hiring Front of House Back of House Food Safety 370

Open for Business

MAY 4, 2023

We think the food going down our throats is the product,” says Ryan Giffen, assistant professor of hospitality management at California State University at Long Beach, in the Washington Post. “We Your front-of-house team is your restaurant’s point of contact with guests once they walk in the door.

Take-out 78

Take-out 2023 Customer Service Online Ordering 78

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

restaurant industry has shown remarkable resiliency, having lost as much as 35 percent of visits at the beginning of the pandemic, but still has a ways to go to get back to pre-pandemic levels, reports The NPD Group. Visits, online or physical, at morning meal, which includes the breakfast and A.M. " Remarkable Resiliency.

2021 186

2021 Guest Recovery Online Ordering Point of Sale 186

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. Off premise has become a sizable segment of our business, and I don't see it ever going back to pre-COVID numbers. Lavu CEO Saleem S. Barry McGowan, CEO Fogo de Chão.

2021 229

2021 Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Kitchen Safety 229

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Their business grows by word of mouth—one of the best marketing tools in the book. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. Table of Contents. Download now.

Seating 222

Seating Email Marketing Marketing SEO 222

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Aside from its abundance of art museums and ferry trips around Casco Bay, many come to Portland to experience its annual food and beverage festivals or public urban and wooden parks, earning the city its nickname, “Forest City.” ViA VECCHiA Blue Spoon Little Tap House East Ender Katahdin Restaurant The Front Room.

Front of House 113

Front of House Seasonal Menu Online Ordering Back of House 113

7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2021

Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Word of mouth is fantastic, but when it comes to scaling a restaurant or reopening after months of closure, you need to rely on more than just the possibility of a customer loving your food and telling their friends about it.

Marketing 195

Marketing 2021 SEO Loyalty Program 195

Next Restaurants

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Unless word of mouth about your food is so powerful that guests are lining up day and night just to get a reservation, you need a website — and even if your restaurant is super popular, a website is still a good idea! You book a table, show up and — tragedy of tragedies — they don’t serve burgers. You have a website.

SEO 140

SEO Fine Dining Back of House Point of Sale 140

Embrace the Suck

APRIL 18, 2022

Simon Sinek in his best-selling book titled Start With Why says that “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” There are also some that thrive (15%) and the elite few that drive their market (5%)… these top two categories came out of the pandemic stronger because they focused on the right things.

Social Media 221

Social Media Recruiting Online Ordering Point of Sale 221

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

Event Planning Is Back. The survey revealed that after a year of birthday, holiday, graduation and anniversary celebrations over Zoom, respondents are ready to get back to event planning. consumers to better understand their feelings about planning events in 2021.

2021 185

2021 Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery 185

Ken Burgin

JULY 5, 2022

Food, Menus and Kitchen Management. Restoke manages back of house functions like recipes, menus, ordering, work lists, staff training, plus health & safety. Yume Food – buy surplus or near use-by-date food from wholesalers through an online marketplace. Cut waste and reduce costs.

Kitchen Safety 78

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Website Management Online Ordering 78

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. Staff also receive monthly bonuses for great online reviews and boosts for good press or awards. Table of Contents. 5 Tips on Tipping.

BOH 195

BOH Restaurant Law Back of House Front of House 195

Deliverect

JUNE 30, 2020

Running a successful restaurant business isn’t just about preparing tasty food and serving it to your diners. Today’s consumer wants a unique, personalized food experience that may not even take place in your restaurant. The answer is food technology. Easy table booking with Resengo. Booking a table?

Food 94

Food Online Ordering Cash Management Waste 94

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Chris Boyles, VP of Food Safety for Steritech. Ghost kitchens allow you to order from multiple brand menus at a single location. Drones deliver to your house. Voice-activated apps allow you to order without touching anything. Each person orders their favorite meal on their smartphone. 20 at 4 p.m.

Kitchen Safety 225

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Loyalty Program Technology 225

7 Shifts

MARCH 31, 2023

With rising food and labor costs, how can you prioritize the working conditions for your team so they stick around? “Take better care of your staff.” We’ve all heard it. How can you encourage them to care about the business and invest time and energy into their role? We invited 4 restaurant operators to discuss how they put their team first.

Hiring 195

Hiring Front of House Back of House Document 195

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the impact of cold weather on restaurant viability, why franchises need to be nimbler and the pandemic's effect on guest expectations. Restaurant Adaptation. Limitations and consumer demand. A vast majority of the U.S. restaurants are operating at less than 100 percent capacity in their dining rooms.

2020 219

2020 Mobile Ordering Hotels Food Safety 219

Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Sushi Bar FortyFive Degrees Blue Sushi Sake Grill Sushi Club Watami Sushi All-You-Can-Eat Sakura Mikado Asaka Japanese Restaurant Mori Sushi Sushi Boss Ichiban Sushi Bar & Sammy’s Asian Cuisine Kasai Sushi Bar & Kitchen Wasabi on 82nd Sushi House Tegry Bistro Ocean World Sushi Watami. Order Online. Order Online.

Online Ordering 109

Online Ordering Back of House Front of House Fine Dining 109

Open for Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The best restaurants serve something more than flawless food: welcoming hospitality that makes every guest feel like a VIP. Regardless of how great the food is, people won’t return to a restaurant if the service stumbles. How to increase order accuracy. How to learn from online reviews. How to personalize hospitality.

Customer Experience 88

Customer Experience Online Ordering Customer Service Hospitality 88

Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Increasingly, it isn’t just white tablecloth spots that benefit from letting guests book in advance. Guests dealt with busy signals, double-booked tables, and transcription errors. People can easily view and book available tables online or via an app. This can cut down on food waste. Increased revenue.

Reservations 78

Reservations Management Management Front of House 78

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether you’re looking for food markets, coffee houses, bookstores, theater, or music, you’ll find the very best of home-grown creativity in Portland. I’ve compiled an eclectic list of my favorite restaurants in Portland that not only serve amazing food but also reflect Portland’s one-of-a-kind spirit.

Fine Dining 125

Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Online Ordering Fast Casual 125

Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Among the many reasons to visit Boulder, from rock climbing to book festivals, you’ll find restaurants scattered throughout the city. Among the many reasons to visit Boulder, from rock climbing to book festivals, you’ll find restaurants scattered throughout the city. Flagstaff House Restaurant. Best Restaurants in Boulder CO.

Online Ordering 117

Online Ordering Back of House Food Order Seasonal Menu 117