Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Super Bowl Sunday is one of the busiest days for restaurants and bars, as fans gather to enjoy the game, food, and drinks with friends and family. This can encourage current customers to stay longer and also attract new ones looking to hop between bars and restaurants during the break.

Social Media

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Examples of variable costs for a restaurant include food and beverage costs, costs associated with labor, and utilities. For example, a restaurant can analyze its food and beverage costs to identify opportunities for cost savings, such as purchasing ingredients in bulk, reducing waste, or renegotiating supplier contracts.

Loyalty Program

Future Food

MARCH 5, 2025

Two of the eight concepts at Castle Hill include, Short Cut providing the ultimate comfort food - ribs, wings and burgers; while Lucys Neighbourhood Bar elevates the experience with a more intimate space for cocktails, wine and craft beer.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

Sparkling wine has been another big mover in bars and restaurants—especially in western States, where it added at least 1 percentage point of total wine sales by value. The most American jobs among beverage alcohol (41 percent). percentage points of share by sales value in the 12 months to end-March. percentage points of share.

Fast Casual

Squirrel Systems

MAY 1, 2025

Optimizing the Bar Program with Digital Tools Beverages, especially alcoholic ones, offer some of the highest profit margins in the restaurant industry. Strategies include: Implementing waitlist and reservation management tools to optimize seating. Yet many restaurants fail to maximize this potential.

Loyalty Program

Future Food

MARCH 6, 2025

Customer Engagement : research into existing customers needs and wants and understand where and how customers engage through heat mapping of footfall and spending in large or complex spaces.

Fast Casual

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 6, 2025

200 Degrees Coffee will open a 2,280 sq ft shop at Cotswolds Designer Outlet this summer, its 23rd UK location and most southerly, creating 15 jobs and offering 102 indoor and 24 outdoor seats. The first machine is installed at Tapps Wine Bar, with further rentals planned across the South West.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 11, 2025

Prototype locations feature flexible bar layouts, zoned seating areas, integrated digital order screens, and dedicated mobile pick-up drawers to streamline service flow and enhance the customer experience as part of the Back to Starbucks efficiency drive. Paris, France) Thu, 10 Jul – Raise the Bar launches its barista education event.

2025

Restaurant Business

JULY 1, 2025

sports bar segment. Most of its sales are digital, though customers can order in person at the counter, and there is limited seating. At about 1,500 square feet, Go locations are much smaller than Buffalo Wild Wings’ sprawling sports bars, giving the brand more flexible real estate options. McDonald’s is testing its own options.

Fast Casual

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Inside, groups deep in conversation gather around tables covered with genre-bending bar bites like grilled pork jowl dressed with crying tiger sauce, tteokbokki-inspired Budo-gnocchi, and pandan-coconut soft serve with a tiny shovel nestled in the swirl. Arrive to the queue before the first seating to guarantee yourself a seat.

Seasonal Menu

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Opening and owning a bar is one of those unique life experiences; you have no idea what it will be like until you actually go for it. In this guide, we're covering everything you need to know about owning a bar to prepare as well as you can for the big opening day. How Do I Run a Profitable Bar?

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some trending concepts over the past several years have included more open seating, high ceilings, and exposed structure concepts. As restaurant owners in Florida, patio seating can be seen as a less than desired component to our space specifically in the spring and summer months. With the current climate of the U.S.,

Design

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As President of the Food & Delivery segment of Novolex, I’ve had a front seat to these dramatic changes, and to the challenges facing the industry as it struggles to survive and adapt. We saw a significant increased demand for products like wine “sippy cups” for adults and plastic mason jars housing pre-mixed drinks.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

Over the past few weeks, we have met with clients, attended roundtables, observed trends and polls, and have kept our creativity flowing, to develop design solutions to help sustain our food and beverage industry partners through COVID-19 and beyond. Or, do we design permanent fixed seating that follows social distancing?

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

" Bo Peabody, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of restaurant reservation and rewards app Seated , Board member of Boqueria Restaurants, and Co-Owner of Mezze Restaurant Group , suggests: Beyond spacing out tables, take advantage of outdoor space if you have it available. ." Pellegrini, Jr. . "Social

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2020

Guests would be seated at every other table or booth so as to maintain a safe distance. Bar seating will be removed and reconfigured to allow six feet between bar stools. Bar servers will take orders and deliver drinks and food but will not linger across from guests. Employees wearing masks and gloves.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

With outdoor dining occupying the foreground, and bars and indoor dining taking a back seat to consumer preferences, it begs the question: what happens when it gets cold? Get creative and incorporate one or two beverage items if you can (alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic, is possible). One key to making this a success is marketing.

Seasonal Menu

Embrace the Suck

APRIL 26, 2020

In fact, the bars and restaurants that fail to capitalize on their data will find themselves in hot water. That’s happening to your bar or restaurant right now. ” It’s important to track numbers in your bar or restaurant. You want to keep an eye on the pulse (or profitability) of your restaurant or bar.

Cash Management

Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This should include all tables available for seating customers. Optimize seating arrangements: Arrange tables in a way that maximizes the use of available space without compromising customer comfort. This practice not only keeps the restaurant tidy but also signals to waiting customers that the table is ready for seating.

Seating

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we have news on understanding customer loyalty, beverage insights, restaurant supply loyalty, the influence of discounts, the state of payments and the evolution of gift cards. velocity in Neighborhood Bars has grown by 447 percent vs the equivalent week in 2020. " Beverage Insights.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

bars & restaurants returned to and surpassed pre-pandemic levels of employment. Failure to adapt will make securing a seat at the table an uphill battle for tech companies. Expect to find creations like a salmon martini or beverages using unique washing ingredients such as duck confit and spam. million in February 2020.

2024

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

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This includes: Self check-in, table alert, and self-seating to expedite the entry process. utilizes social media to not only highlight our technology with followers, but more importantly highlight our enticing food and boozy beverages with great pictures and description, which just happens to be residing on our technology.

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These restaurants generally have limited menus, no seating, and fewer (if any) servers compared full-service restaurants. Cons: You have higher overhead costs because you need more seating and servers. Family-style restaurants follow the full-service model with seating and dedicated servers. Pub or Bar. Fast Food Chains.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

“The product is superior – bar none – to any other on the market and we are so excited to bring a taste of Hawaii to Tennessee,” Rothwell said. The new team members have deep roots in growing Texas restaurants, including Rudy’s Country Store & Bar-B-Q and Mighty Fine Burgers Fries & Shakes.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Spirit-based, ready-to-drink beverages will continue show vast white space, and bourbon should continue to thrive. The project will feature three types of bars, which can be seen as three types of experiences for the residents. In addition there is also a poolside bar. " – John Oakes, Revenue Management Solutions CEO.

2023

7 Shifts

APRIL 29, 2021

Any establishment that serves food or beverages to guests is eligible. Bars and lounges. Outdoor seating construction. Food and beverage inventory. Note for businesses who opened in 2020: the Applicant's original business model should have contemplated at least 33.00% of gross receipts in onsite sales to the public.).

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Paul Wahlberg is Chef/Co-Owner of Wahlburgers, a casual dining restaurant and bar founded by the chef and his brothers Mark and Donnie. Kyle Collins is Marketing Director for Patina Restaurant Group, formed by Nick Valenti and Joachim Splichal as a bicoastal boutique restaurant and food service company. Kyle Collins. Chef Paul Wahlberg.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully.

Inventory

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully.

Inventory

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Seated Acquires VenueBook. Seated acquired digital event booking platform VenueBook. With Seated Events, Seated at Home, and Seated, restaurants can drive demand to their three primary sources of revenue in a single, easy to use rewards platform.” and the surrounding region. . and the surrounding region. .”

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With real-time data into consumer behavior data, the solution offers immediate, location-specific food and beverage insights into an industry that is changing faster than ever before. ” “Tastewise has been incredibly valuable in helping us to uncover white spaces in the food and beverage industry. BIBO Beverage Debuts.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. Barring a dramatic decrease in coronavirus infections, U.S. Restaurant and bar related concerns. 57 percent of restaurants and bars believe they can stay open for more than six months if conditions continue.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. People who purchase hot dogs also had specific beverage preferences across alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.

2020

7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Coffee Bars. Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Are there high-top, bar-style tables, regular seating, or a mix of both? Coffee Shop Concepts.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

Long before the pandemic, hoteliers were looking for ways to refresh their properties' food and beverage offerings, and the pandemic presented the ideal opportunity for restaurants to enter the hotel sphere. This is especially true for the hotel bar.

Hotels