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Can AI Address Labor and Food Safety Challenges?

Modern Restaurant Management

The company's Beastro was designed to use AI to create personalized dishes, thereby cutting labor costs and cutting food waste. It also self-cleans, helping ensure food safety. Restaurants need to remain profitable, and lowering food quality is not a viable solution.

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Food Safety and Transparency Are the Lifeblood for Operators

Modern Restaurant Management

Few scenarios strike more fear into a restauranteur’s heart than the prospect of serving food to patrons that makes them sick. However, even with the greatest attention to food safety, there is no single way to eliminate all foodborne illness because its sources are numerous and diverse. Traceability Is Essential.

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Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

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Scaling an artisan food business is no easy feat. Many small food businesses reach a critical point where they must decide whether to remain small and exclusive or expand into wholesale, manufacturing, and broader distribution. Looking back, I was optimistic—perhaps a bit naïve—about what scaling would require.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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Ensuring Food Safety: How Better Equipment Helps

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Food safety has never been more prevalent. When dining out, they rightfully expect that the food they order is cooked properly to a safe temperature and that the kitchen foods are prepared in is clean. For operators interested in ramping up their efforts, updating equipment can be a big help in fostering safety.

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Reduce Training Retirements & Manual Tasks With These Three Automation Best Practices

Modern Restaurant Management

Simplify Front of House Processes. Many of these processes will remain even after the pandemic, presenting opportunities to deploy automation technologies to simplify front of house processes. Optimize Food Safety Protocols. Automation technologies can improve back of house operations as well.

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Frying High: Elevating Cooking Oil Maintenance with Automation

Modern Restaurant Management

This helps the business manage its bottom line – especially given the higher cost of cooking oil in recent years – and the quality of the food coming out of its kitchens. The process was ripe with safety risks for employees and liabilities for the franchisee. Cody Neal, vice president of operations for 1788 Chicken.