Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. From the types of dishes offered to how we serve our guests—dine-in, takeout, or delivery—operators must meet customers wherever they are. Flexibility will be essential for restaurants to succeed in 2025.

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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?

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

More recently, as chefs have been working up seasonal menus to highlight local specialties and homegrown bars have been remixing native spirits, Sri Lanka drew millions of tourists in 2024 , announcing the islands comeback on the global stage after a few years of economic uncertainty. But its easy to find great meals if you know where to eat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2025

When someone goes to a nightclub or live music night at a bar, the expectation is that it will be loud and they may have to shout to be heard. Let’s look at the reasons that full service/fast casual restaurants may have music issues. Music and dining are all about expectations. Either way, it’s a win.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2025

Born in the 19th century as modest spots serving workers affordable fare like onion soup and crepes, bistros have become symbols of France’s culinary soul. Even rural cafés in distant locales have adopted the bistro blueprint: hearty food served in a welcoming space.

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EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2023

At restaurants, the coupes carry desserts, as has long been classic: cremolata at Una Pizza Napoletana in New York City, sorbet at Lutèce in Washington, DC, a cherry-topped soft serve at Esmée in Copenhagen, or a chocolate cake piped with coquettish bows at Rollinwood Bakeshop in Seoul. The metal coupe is a satisfying exercise in contrasts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2025

Restaurant industry challenges are pushing operators to be more creative and efficient with many opting for more multifunctional spaces – especially in a fast-casual setting. For restaurateurs, the message is clear: in 2025, your space is no longer just where food is prepared and served.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Smart Foodservice operates 70 small-format cash and carry stores across California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Montana that serve small and mid-sized restaurants and other food business customers with a broad assortment of products. US Foods Springs into Helping Bars and Grills. Innovative Experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Considering these changes, it’s critical for restaurants to meet their diners where they are and adapt to serve their evolving customer base. Cultivating a Personalized Experience and Welcoming Environment Casual dining or fine dining? Cuisine type?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. introduced "Perkins Griddle Go," a fast-casual concept for quick on-the-go meals, in 2024, with the first store opening in late October. percentage points.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For casual dining habits at restaurants like Olive Garden: 56 percent said they ate at casual restaurants frequently or occasionally. 29 percent said they rarely ate at casual restaurants. Bar type restaurants such as Buffalo Wild Wings had a much higher “never” rating at 29 percent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

We’ve seen this trend take off at many quick-serve or fast-casual chains, where displays and screens provide entertainment value for patrons as they wait for their meals or decide if they are staying for dessert. It has its place in the restaurant industry, particularly for quick-serve experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

Since most major QSR and fast casual concepts have already made significant investments in boosting their digital and off-premises offerings, many brands have the infrastructure in place to succeed but are looking for ways to keep up with the increase in demand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2020

. “I’ve been telling friends that after three months of social-distancing,“ said Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, “The first thing I want is to sit at a restaurant table and have someone serve me a turkey club and fries.” Bar seating will be removed and reconfigured to allow six feet between bar stools.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While this has created many new jobs, restaurants and bars are struggling to find the talent to fill these positions. As seen first with many fast casual chains, we expect more differentiated benefits packages to continue to emerge as a way for restaurants to fill much needed open positions. Growth of New Business Models.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Halloween celebration and spending is growing in the US Here are thirteen Halloween promotional ideas your restaurant and bar to boost sales this October, and for all the Octobers to come. Halloween Specials and Menu Ideas for Restaurants and Bars ????? Serve it in an empty pumpkin for a final touch! Here are a few examples.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Now thoroughly destigmatized, more bars and restaurants will include a dedicated non-alcoholic section on their beverage menus. This is a favorable trend customer-centric bars and restaurants will embrace. Non- and low-alcohol options are a great way to increase ticket averages and responsibly upsell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Every year, the culinary world serves up something new to savor. Remember when food trucks redefined street food in the early 2010s or when small plates turned casual dining into an adventure of endless flavors? But the real story of 2025 isn’t just about what’s on the plate; it’s about where and how food is served.

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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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

"It’s important to remember that in times of disaster, restaurants have always served as a gathering place for the community," he stressed. " Family meals should be “to go” or served buffet style -foregoing everyone sitting around one table. Pellegrini, Jr. " To learn more and register, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

"Like so many industries, full-service and fast-casual restaurants are feeling the impact that inflation is having on their business and guest count. Coming out of the pandemic and into an inflationary period, the bar has been raised in terms of diner expectations. Everything matters. Everything matters."

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EATER

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Umi’s website says it has a “strictly enforced” dress code, which bars “ball caps, sneakers, athletic wear and sports jerseys,” but the couple says not only had Johnson worn those exact shoes to Umi before, but a woman at the bar, who was white, was also wearing sneakers. It escalated from there. Dudes with short-sleeved polos.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

Launched at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Quarters 4 Kid serves underprivileged children to become “healthy in body and strong in spirit” by providing access and education to underprivileged children about proper nutrition, the benefits of organic eating, exercise, and improving overall wellness. WOWed by the Growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ike’s Love & Sandwiches is ranked #12 on Fast Casual’s Movers and Shakers 2021 list. Ike’s appointed industry veteran Adam Rinella as Vice President of Development to help the booming fast casual brand reach even more markets. Rinella is skilled in bringing restaurant ideas into reality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Unsurprisingly, many examples of restaurants that already take a conscientious approach are owned by members of the culture whose food they serve. Other restaurants intentionally forgo explanations: the menu at Chinese fast-casual chain Junzi lists ingredients like furu without explanation. Include photos or illustrations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Restaurant segments represented include fine dining, casual dine, fast casual, quick service restaurants and bars. The survey group included 418 restaurant operators and 1,500 restaurant patrons who had visited a restaurant two or more times per month prior to COVID-19.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Fine dining establishments may require staff to have in-depth knowledge of each dish, including wine pairings and ingredient sourcing, while a fast-casual restaurant may focus on quick service and consistent food prep. Let’s say you run a fast-casual restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Is your brand quirky and casual? Serve up furniture made from sustainable materials along with your seasonal fare. Top photo: El Sapo Bar – Image courtesy of Grits and Grids. Atmosphere. To get the atmosphere right choose furniture that reflects your brand’s personality. Then choose playful furniture to reflect that.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

” Creating Multi-Brand Platform of Premium Casual Restaurant Concepts. “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. BurgerFi International Inc. 1 coffee hub in Tennessee,” Cody Rothwell.

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Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

By optimizing how quickly tables are cleared and reseated, restaurants can serve more guests during peak hours and improve overall profitability. Calculating the table turnover rate involves dividing the total number of guests served by the number of tables available during a specific period.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But mixed in with these are decades-old noodle stalls, casual curry shacks, legendary restaurants, and bustling markets — most of which can be reached on foot, a rarity in Thailand. The version served at Raya Restaurant is a great introduction. Try naam phrik kung siap at Nam Yoi Restaurant. A vendor at Cham-Cha Market, Phuket Town.

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EATER

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Illustration by Bea Hayward Once a luxury reserved for posh dinners, fish roe has become the snack du jour at restaurants across the country — and it’s blurring the lines between casual and formal dining Caviar has gone on a journey over the past few years. At Ladder 4 Wine Bar in Detroit, you can add 28 grams of Kaluga caviar to hash browns.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2023

Who among us hasn’t ordered food through a convenient mobile application, with menu choices ranging from not just quick-serve or fast-casual restaurants, but convenience stores as well? The location even offers a cold brew and tea bar, along with Slurpees, Big Gulps and a car wash.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2023

Restaurants and bars portraying these influences began to pop up first on the east coast and gradually moving westward. Prohibition and the Speakeasy: Prohibition from 1920-1933 made it illegal to produce, distribute, serve, or consume alcoholic beverages except as a sacrament in the church and for medicinal purposes prescribed by doctors.

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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

COGS is a restaurant metric that includes everything you spend on food and drinks to make the dishes you serve. Customers sit down, order from a menu, and are served by waitstaff. These also have higher table turnover, which means they can serve more customers in less time. They have limited items that are easy to prepare.

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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. We have been overwhelmed by the support of our guests in all of the communities we serve and we can’t thank them enough for that. Kyle Collins. Chef Paul Wahlberg.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Bars and nightlife businesses were among the hardest hit, with consumer interest down 81 percent. dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. Consumer interest in restaurants dropped by 52 percent from March 10 to April 19. In the U.K.

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