Lavu

JUNE 30, 2025

A well-designed POS system improves restaurant operations by streamlining order management, speeding up transactions, and delivering real-time insights that help optimize every aspect of the business. A modern POS system is more than just a cash register – it’s the operational hub of your restaurant. Want to know more?

POS

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

The right POS setup can make it easier to take orders, manage staff, track sales, and keep customers happy. Instead, the system offers customers a cash discount, helping you protect your profit margins and reduce operating costswithout compromising on service. Key Features to Look For : Cloud-based systems for remote management.

POS

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

The right system does more than process payments—it streamlines operations, manages inventory, tracks sales, and enhances the customer experience. Should you go for a more expensive POS system with higher customization for your table management or a less expensive restaurant POS system that integrates with important software you need?

POS

Paper Chase Accountancy

AUGUST 5, 2025

Nearly 60% of restaurants fail within the first year, often due to poor financial management. Accountants offer specialized solutions, ensuring accurate bookkeeping, tax compliance, and cash flow management for restaurants. They play a crucial role in daily operations, ensuring better financial health for restaurants and bars.

Cash Management

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 9, 2025

Paperchase Senior Account Manager Ruhel Ahmed discusses the nuance of labor costs: “This metric includes employer payroll tax and management salaries. Employee benefits are excluded; however, it should also be included in analyzing actual cost associated with total labor cost.” This maximizes revenue for the business.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of how restaurants are a saving grace for malls, the economic impact of Taylor Swift in town, and how influential reviews can be. Inflation (or the increased costs of goods and services) is still a top pain point for operators (15 percent).

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. Along with the morning meal, snacking was a top-performing daypart, with transactions slightly growing YoY during the March period.

Reservations

SpotOn

JULY 15, 2025

But behind the stick (industry slang for the bar), it’s not all free shots and big tips.  Photo by Kike Salazar N / Unsplash To anyone enjoying a few drinks at a bar top, bartending appears to consist of mixing and pouring drinks and talking to customers. What does a bartender actually do?

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp.entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. NYSE: APO) (the “Apollo Funds”) for $970 million in cash. US Foods Springs into Helping Bars and Grills.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

” The cashless multi-vendor open-air gastronomic market has two locations in Prague, and a total of 34 independently operated restaurants, bars and retailers. Cash is dirty; and 4) we will soon launch bundled food delivery, acting as a marketplace for cloud kitchen delivery. Cash is dirty. Eat healthier.”

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s no secret among bar and restaurant owners that customer experience is key. Cardless programs reduce the number of high-touch surfaces for customers and staff and serve the additional benefit of eliminating issues related to card replacement. Consider Your Customer’s Safety and Privacy. McKinsey & Co.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2023

Restaurants and bars are often targets for robbery, burglary and theft , so much so that the FBI ranks restaurants as the eighth most common setting for violent crime and nearly half of cyber-attacks target small businesses. Secure Your Cash On-Hand : To reduce the risk of robberies, keeping cash in registers to a minimum is a best practice.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation has launched the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund to support U.S.

Employee Relations

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2023

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Burke to offer additional insights on how restaurants can best use Tik Tok in their marketing efforts. What makes Tik Tok an effective income generator, particularly for cash-strapped smaller restaurants? Leverage SEO techniques so your restaurant shows up in search results on the app.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

Is your restaurant up to speed with the latest best practices for back of house (BOH) management? Everything from decreasing food waste to exploring how automation can increase revenue for small business restaurants is related to BOH procedures. Here are some back of office trends to watch for in 2023.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked experts for their thoughts on trends and challenges that will affect the restaurant industry in 2023. We will continue to evaluate tech solutions and find what best enhances the Fogo experience for both our guests and employees. For part one, click here. Your CPA can help with this.

2023

7 Shifts

MARCH 16, 2020

How restaurant managers can navigate COVID-19. Employees do not require a doctor’s note. Employees no longer require a doctor’s note. Communicate with staff and managers. Monitor 7shifts Announcements from management for updates on the situation. Accept all sick requests. Put up posters about proper hygiene.

Management

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Enter 7shifts , a scheduling and team management app that simplifies the payday processes that typically run restaurateurs ragged. Typical Employee Payout Methods. How Outdated Pay Cycles Negatively Affect Employees. Any owner or manager running payroll manually understands the complexity faced each pay period.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. This year’s Neighborhood to Nation Contest will double the number of winners to award 20 prizes of $5,000 in cash along with a robust marketing package.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. This new site is a one-stop hub of critical information for restaurants, employees, customers and industry partners.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The challenges our teams have faced over the last two years specifically has made us value our employees now more than ever. As it relates to the labor crunch, we’re seeing in restaurant brands across the board: An impact in top-line revenue because customers aren't being served. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

2022

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 18, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry movers and shakers: "What do you feel is going to cause disruption in the restaurant industry over the next decade?” Restaurants will always be popular for date nights, and restaurants with bars will always attract the thirsty. Improve employee performance.

Mobile Ordering

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. Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their views on trends. Given the current landscape, restaurant brands are investing in their employees now more than ever to not only help attract and retain talent, but also create a better work environment to optimize efficiencies on and off premise.

2022

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

But the challenges don’t stop there—once open you have to focus on improving processes, managing labor schedules, and controlling restaurant costs. Not only do you have to manage many costs including, labor, equipment, and food—but you have to do it while dealing with inevitable price increases. This is only a guideline.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

“While cafes, dining halls, cafeterias, and concessions stands may look a little different, I am confident that they will feel and be safe for our employees and everyone we serve,” said John Zillmer, Aramark’s CEO. Requiring appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees, including gloves and masks.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features COVID-19 crisis statistics and surveys about third-party delivery, guest expectations, QSR reliance and more. Bars and nightlife businesses were among the hardest hit, with consumer interest down 81 percent. Yelp Economic Average. In the U.K.,

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features Grubhub's State of the Plate 2020 trend report, the fragility of "open," di g ital resilience and brand intimacy. 32 percent plan to go out to bars and restaurants for an eating occasion and 15 percent for a drinking occasion.

2020

EATER

JANUARY 28, 2022

per hour — the lowest legal cash wage in the U.S. during her six years at Seasons 52 Wine Bar and Grill in Memphis, Tennessee. Melton also says she witnessed discrimination on the job — not only from customers but also from the store’s management. Jillian Melton was paid just $2.13 But she says they weren’t receptive.

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. “As already short-staffed restaurants reopen, they are grappling with how to manage both in-person diners and deliveries, while meeting growing expectations on speed and service. out of 5.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In a survey of 4,079 small business owners conducted from 8/15 to 9/13/21, 66 percent reported having a "very difficult" time finding the right employees to fill open roles, many of which are necessary to help them drive revenue and rebound. In July, 47 percent couldn't hire enough employees. Dining Trends in Canada.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) announced the formation of the Hospitality Recovery Coalition with the goal of supporting on-premise partners, including restaurants, bars and distilleries, facing harsh economic impacts due to the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, many already have.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This evolution includes the introduction of a new smaller 3,000-7,000-square foot footprint, more tech-savvy concept that features a bar-centric atmosphere, tabletop ordering, kiosks and new appetizer items with 5-10 units in the works currently set to open in 2020. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine quizzed Anderson and Sr.

Social Media

7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

Managing a restaurant is not for the faint-hearted. However, as a rule, the primary costs you can expect in running your restaurant are usually related to food, labor, and rent. A restaurant budget allows restaurant owners and managers to see directly if they are meeting their income and expense benchmarks.

Point of Sale

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The goal is to determine the total amount of cash flow that will be available to the new owner after accounting for these types of expenses. Profitability Showing consistent profits and positive cash flow can increase the perceived value of your restaurant. Another way is to apply a fresh coat of paint and repair any damages.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“The owners/operators offer a firm understanding of the cultural and financial factors related to Botswana and Dickey’s,” said Jim Perkins, vice president of international development and support at Dickey’s. JINYA Ramen Bar is set to bring its bowls to the Hoosier State. ” JINYA Ramen in Indianapolis. .

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