Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2025

Introduction: The Charm of French Bistro Culture At the heart of French bistro culture lies an effortless charm that transforms dining into something personal and profound. Unlike larger, formal dining establishments with starched linens and sprawling menus, bistros offer a relaxed intimacy that swaps stiff elegance for a warm, lived-in feel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2025

Mother’s Day reigns queen as the largest dining-out holiday of the year, with Americans projected to spend around $35.7 Music Drives Dining Performance Music is the invisible host. Yet, many restaurants either throw on a random playlist or forget music altogether, missing a crucial opportunity to elevate the dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Guests are dining out more often than last year and and rewarding great service, with the highest tips at bars and fine dining restaurants, according to hospitality industry data from Lightspeed Commerce Inc. percent) and fine dining restaurants (19.9 percent year-over-year at fine dining and 3.53

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Culinary Cues

MAY 1, 2025

Lets take a look: [] RAISING THE BAR Consumers dont know what they dont know, until they know what they didnt know. The same can be true for the quality of purchased meats and fresh fish, an expanded wine list, broader selection of regional beers, an upgrade to quality coffee and tea, or even improving the sound system in dining rooms.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With those stats in mind, Causeway Solutions conducted consumer research* on today’s dining trends compared to our research over the past few years. In August 2023, only eight percent of consumers we surveyed say they do not eat out, so dining out is “in” again. 62 percent rarely or very rarely enjoy fine dining.

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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. Travel around and youll be rewarded.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Music can play a role to enhance the dining experience, setting the mood and complementing the menu and design. A made-for-business streaming service ensures restaurants are playing legal music, enables operators to enhance the customer experience and eliminates the danger of hefty fines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As the world is largely re-opened post-COVID, people are eagerly out and about dining in restaurants and bars to reinvigorate their social routines. According to Morning Consult , 77 percent of all polled adults are comfortable dining out at restaurants or cafes as of June 2022.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The dish was elevated to an entirely different level as the guest became the most important person in the dining room during the process. The story can make the dish but the dish absent the story is just another salad that can be found in fine dining or your local Greek diner. As is the case with Caesar Salad, the story sells.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? Moving to Interactive Menu Boards Speaking of dining being back – it’s back to being… different. However, the reach of these interactive experiences is extending beyond these locations and into restaurants, bars, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 22, 2025

Fine dining venues benefit from understated elegance through embroidered logos on professional attire, while fast-casual concepts can leverage more dynamic graphics and color palettes to reflect their energetic atmosphere. In the food service industry, branded apparel is a critical extension of your business's identity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The premiumization of tea is a natural extension to what has been taking place in fine wine, specialty coffee, craft spirits and beer over the past several decades. Really, wherever food and beverage has an intentional focus on quality and customer experience, fine tea has a rightful place – just like wine and craft beverages.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

You know that every chef has wrestled with this – should the menu reflect a personal philosophy to move the bar or stick with time-tested standards? Restaurants survive and thrive on the “early and late majority” that represents over 60 percent of the dining population. That is in our DNA, we can’t really help ourselves.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Now its done up in warm tones and has a crystal glass roof and striking semi-open kitchen framed in copper.

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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. A well-informed team improves service, enhances the dining experience, and reduces errors in the kitchen.

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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.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There will *always *be something your staff can do to enhance a patron’s dining experience. Problem: Excessive mingling This is a prevalent issue in restaurants, especially ones that offer full bar service. As a restaurant manager or operator, you are the driving force in productivity – leading your staff and keeping customers happy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

US Foods Springs into Helping Bars and Grills. In other news, US Foods launched its Spring Scoop, “Raising the Bar: The Classics – Celebrated and Elevated.” (NYSE: APO) (the “Apollo Funds”) for $970 million in cash. Smart Foodservice had 2019 revenues of approximately $1.1 reducing to approximately 3.0x

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2024

” “These plates will look great in my home” One of our fine dining restaurants — whose check average is well over $100 per guest — has show plates that are on the table when the guest arrives, and each plate costs $100. A few months ago, a guest put two of the plates in her purse because she liked them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That’s what restauranteur Will Guidara wrote on a cocktail napkin whilst sitting in a hotel bar after the prestigious World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony in 2010. There was nothing to smile about and Guidara and chef Daniel Humm needed to do a lot of work to climb the ranks of the world’s most sought-after fine dining experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

In municipalities where diners are still barred from entering inside, curbside may be the only way to bring in revenue, and as such it has become a lifeline to keep the lights on. There could be some lasting savings, such as decreased congestion in drive-thru or less interior space dedicated to dining room. Let us count the ways.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

Full-service restaurant chains, which primarily rely on dine-in customers and had few if any off-premises services when the dine-in restrictions went into effect, bore the brunt of the transaction declines throughout the pandemic. An Unpopular Year. For full-service restaurants now, it’s about government restrictions.

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EATER

AUGUST 31, 2022

Any fine dining restaurant should look at this bathroom as aspirational.”. That’s what we mean when we say ‘fine dining,’” read the restaurant’s Instagram post. . | Gerard + Belevender /Eater Detroit. Restaurant bathrooms matter more than ever. It’s not just about food anymore.”.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. It all matters – education level, income bracket, age range, frequency of dining, and food and wine preferences. [] KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO BE AND HOW YOU WANT TO BE PERCEIVED. Don’t try to be something that you are not.

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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. COVID-19 Impact on Restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2022

With the right technology in place, restaurants can tailor smaller menus to the on- and off-premise dining preferences of their customers while leveraging automated marketing promotions to make the most of their offerings. To mitigate these concerns, restaurants have gotten creative, looking for new cost-cutting measures.

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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. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag. Mixed take-out bag.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Though many of the market forces that shaped the restaurant industry in 2021 were closely linked to disruption from the pandemic's onset in 2020, 2022 brings new challenges — and opportunities. Simplified Menus. Simplified Menus. Serving smaller portion sizes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2021

As people begin venturing out to eat again after a year of lockdowns and restrictions, 75 percent say they are not comfortable with dining indoors. Ensuring adherence to city and state regulations, keeping parking lots and sidewalks safe and obtaining the necessary city permits are keys to a successful outdoor dining season.

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JULY 12, 2024

Many operators struggle with low profit margins, and it’s easy to fall into this trap. In fact, the average restaurant profit margin just falls between 3% and 6%. By finding the right balance, you can avoid these pitfalls and ensure your business stays profitable. Utilities are another fixed cost to monitor. Constantino writes.

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ChowNow

MAY 16, 2025

A great dining experience starts long before someone walks through your door. 77% of diners visit a restaurants website before they dine in or order takeout or delivery. Nearly every customer journey begins with a search on Google, then a scroll through several restaurant websites before something catches their eye.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features news of restaurant resiliency, dining trends in Canada, restaurant salaries across the U.S. Restaurant Resiliency. Throughout one of the most challenging years for U.S. Throughout one of the most challenging years for U.S. Carry-out ended 2020 holding 46 percent of off-premises order share.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

The ancestors of the first semi-automatic machines to serve food and drink are still in use today, though instead of restaurants and bars, we see them in public spaces, perhaps small shops. No waiters, just steaming plates and a glass door that's opened by a coin. This is what we discuss in this article.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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Goliath Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2019

After weeks of time-consuming meetings with local liquor distribution reps, local market research, and decision wavering, you finally feel confident that your bar is set up and ready to go. Before we dive into how bar consultants work, let’s briefly break down the structure of the liquor industry in America.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

When designer Monica Jeffers saw the aging, dated restaurant she was going to remodel, she thought, “A T-bar grid ceiling! How the heck am I going to deliver this beautiful, elegant restaurant with a T-bar ceiling?” ” Ironically, this thought sets her apart. Photo by Martin Knowles. ????The

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