Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Across the globe, and largely amongst younger age groups, more and more people are choosing to go out to eat by themselves. With solo dining on the rise globally, consumers are fundamentally changing the way they dine out. With solo dining on the rise globally, consumers are fundamentally changing the way they dine out.

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EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Rifrullo’s rustic-modern décor, mismatched dishware, and chalkboard sign welcoming guests to “be yourself, make friends, find harmony, and relax,” are as inviting as its prices, which top out at $16 for the salmon burger. Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How my father taught me how to be a dad, one roasted Lowcountry oyster at a time “Boy, take your time and pay attention to what you’re doing!” Just put the knife in the back and twist it.” The time I cut my hand open stands out the most. The time I cut my hand open stands out the most.

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ChowNow

JUNE 12, 2025

And no, increasing restaurant sales doesn’t mean turning your restaurant staff into pushy upsellers trying to squeeze a few extra dollars out of every order. Think seasonal menu items, weekend-only bundles, or one-day-only discounts; the urgency motivates guests to take action soon.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

With households increasingly treating dining out as a luxury, every menu item and service interaction becomes a potential make-or-break moment. With households increasingly treating dining out as a luxury, every menu item and service interaction becomes a potential make-or-break moment. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. The restaurant sector is poised for a seismic shift as AI integration takes center stage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. ’ Just having this van parked out front drove that sale.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2025

Whether it is a server, the bartender or the dishwasher.Trash disposal must be taken care of properly.Having a clean back area by the dumpsters starts with the staff. Whether it is a server, the bartender or the dishwasher.Trash disposal must be taken care of properly.Having a clean back area by the dumpsters starts with the staff.

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. These numbers are largely hypothetical. Congratulations. The environmental mission can come later.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ghost kitchens have been critical to enabling take-out meals during the current pandemic and are predicted to be central in restaurant operations moving forward. If your cooks are mostly fulfilling off-site orders, you can do away with niceties like a slick front of house, visual merchandising, and a location with hungry walk-ins.

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ChowNow

MARCH 28, 2025

These are tools that can help you streamline operations, easily schedule staff, and make sure you never run out of ingredients for your best-selling menu items. Understanding How AI Works in Restaurants Lets get one thing out of the way: AI for restaurants doesnt mean robots taking over your kitchen or replacing your staff with machines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

The 2024 State of the Restaurant Industry report revealed that 22 percent of restaurant operators plan to invest in technology like POS software, back-of-house systems, and data analytics in the near future. Meanwhile, an additional six percent will invest more in automation like kiosks and robotics.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2020

For franchises, that means making sure your evaluations and data collection house in order. We’ve put together five steps for getting the most out of your data: 1. Use Front and Back-of-House Dashboards to Stay Aligned. Define Data-Based, Measurable Standards. across your franchises.

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EATER

JANUARY 8, 2021

Three designers on the inspiration that goes into creating the bottles you reach for. Usually, we’d buy a liter of Yellow Tail or Carlo Rossi to take to house parties. As the design director of Eater, judging things on how they look is part of my job. Designer and founder of Studio MMBB. Mel Barat Bours.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Restaurant operators searching for something versatile that will cross the dayparts need to look no further than their breakfast menu as waffles have been breaking out of the morning. That’s where waffles come in: they’re high margin for the operator, crave-able and on-trend for the consumer and efficient for back-of-house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Digital platforms can help time-strapped operators address their historically difficult questions by minimizing operational complexity, giving their crews more time to assist guests, and providing staff with the freedom to accomplish more in both the front and back of the house. ” Mix more drinks or turn more tables?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Demand for Dining Out Isn’t Going Anywhere. To take some of the pressure off of an already small staff, restaurants have begun turning to technology solutions with touchpoints in the front and back of house operations. Taking Orders with Artificial Intelligence.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A recent survey of job holders – including front-of-house and back-of-house restaurant workers – showed that 55 percent were planning to switch jobs, citing “lack of recognition” as the number one reason for the change. These acts of recognition go further than you may think. How do you do this?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2023

The original design is a heavy timber replica of a six-beam Haida house—a traditional style of building by the Haida Tribe—which opened in 1939 as a Native American curio shop before serving as a restaurant space starting in 1945. I like to joke about the number of mop sinks I’ve designed over the years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hospitality operators are rapidly turning to contactless ordering and payment solutions to help navigate the long road back to normal from COVID-19’s impacts. With so much focus on “going contactless”, it’s important to take steps to make sure guests feel welcome and supported in their dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2025

A KDS updates instantly, reducing lag time between order and action – no more misfires, and a more error-tolerant system for already overstretched Front of House teams. design to improve service speed and streamline operations. In the relentless heat of The Bear's kitchen, where every "Yes, Chef!"

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2022

The service robots operate at two levels of intelligence- from delivering food to taking care of consumer’s queries. The company's robots are designed to perform tasks, such as delivering food and drinks to customers at hotels and airport lounges, handling check-in and check-out services at hotels, and even carrying luggage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

That means, in a vacuum, three out of every four of your employees could potentially engage in some form of theft from your business. It relays the order to the kitchen for you, and in most cases, it is password protected and an order cannot be changed by anyone other than a manager or designated person in charge of overseeing the system.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Prioritize a clean design, fast load times, and a seamless mobile experience since most customers will be searching from their phones. The next step to optimizing your online presence is to take advantage of SEO so more customers find you. Here are two ways to make a big impact on your local SEO. Optimize your Google Business Profile.

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ChowNow

JULY 4, 2025

Where our eyes land first, how we interpret prices, and what descriptions stick in our minds—all of it is shaped by subtle design choices and cues we may not even notice. Where our eyes land first, how we interpret prices, and what descriptions stick in our minds—all of it is shaped by subtle design choices and cues we may not even notice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As restaurants reimagined takeout and venues shut down their bars, we too repurposed and rebalanced our portfolio repeatedly to meet changing demands—whether we were converting food packaging supply lines to produce PPE or supporting take-out offerings with tamper-proof food packaging. billion from the same period in 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2023

Owners remain grounded in traditional ways of doing business – you have front-of-house staff taking care of the customer from service to payment, and you have back-of-house staff taking care of the food and management. The resistance to adoption can be attributed to several factors. At least not entirely.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Artificial intelligence was designed to solve for specific tasks and has applications that can dramatically impact the bottom line in your restaurant, from automating features to the burger-flipping robots of the future. Let’s take a look at a few that can directly benefit you today. Communications. Restaurant Logistics.

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ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Their sleek design and intuitive user interface make them a natural fit for a modern restaurants day-to-day operations. To really get the most out of your tablets, you need to be strategic about how you choose them, use them, and train your staff. Tablets are everywhere in restaurants these days, and with good reason.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

New concepts, ghost kitchens, and delivery-only brands are popping up constantly, making it harder for any single restaurant to stand out. If your restaurant isnt showing up in search results, maintaining strong reviews , or engaging on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, youre missing out on a huge segment of potential diners.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In fact, its going to be a lot easier than you think, and there are steps you can take starting today that will give you real results by tomorrow. Optimize Your Website and Online Ordering Experience If your restaurants website isnt easy to use, youre probably losing out on online orders. Next, take a look at your menu.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With a modern cloud-based POS, restaurants can streamline order taking, reduce human error, and improve the overall speed of service. Many systems now offer mobile ordering capabilities, allowing servers to take orders tableside or giving guests the ability to order and pay directly from their phones. Consider your budget.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

You need ideas that will wow new customers and get the regulars excited to come back in. We searched high and low for every restaurant event idea out there, then boiled them down to what we believe are the most exciting and effective restaurant events to keep regulars ecstatic and new customers talking.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bigger is less predictable and much more difficult to control and bigger takes cooks and chefs away from what they love to do, what attracted them to the trade in the beginning – to cook from the heart. I have very fond memories of walking the streets of St. That was it! Those four or five employees were like family.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

While there are clear benefits to an all-digital menu system, to get the most out them, you must first take a step back to re-examine what your menu means to you. If your operations are spread out geographically, or you’re trying to eke out a bit of efficiency, the answer may be Yes. Cuisine and Concept.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2023

Without this assurance, gluten-free consumers are likely to take their business elsewhere – or, worse yet, leave negative reviews on popular dining apps. Meeting the needs of gluten-free consumers also extends beyond the front of the house. The first step is to clearly identify any gluten-free dishes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With a critically shrunken talent pool, restaurants are racing to fill positions in every part of the business — front of house, back of house, and corporate teams. Across the United States, businesses are suffering from unprecedented staffing shortages in the aftermath of COVID. Enter digital tableside ordering.

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