SpotOn

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Michelin added gastropub as a cuisine type in part of their famous guide to dining establishments. American gastropub menus include what's typically known as "bar food"—items like burgers and sliders, french fries, club sandwiches, and salads. Experiment with having guests order at the bar or via QR code.

Fast Casual

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

In this article, well walk you through 7 easy steps to increase table turnover effectively, helping you boost your bottom line while maintaining a great dining experience. Turnover rate may be higher in fast-casual or quick-service restaurants compared to fine-dining establishments.

Seating

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

Sample Bookkeeping for Restaurants and Bars: In the hospitality industry without precise record-keeping, even the most successful establishments can find themselves adrift, struggling with cash flow, compliance, and ultimately, profitability. Bookkeeping is the often-unsung hero, forming the bedrock of smart financial management.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Many restaurant owners had believed they would be covered in the event of something like the pandemic, and found themselves without a safety net. Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options.

Mobile Ordering

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A bar or brewery is considered to be the highest profit margin restaurant business with a gross profit margin on alcohol that's around 80%. But many owners don't account for the high fixed costs of bars —like repairs, insurance, and alcohol theft which can leave them with less profit than expected.

Operations

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 20, 2025

These hospitality accounting services offer hospitality finance solutions, vital for accounting for restaurants and bars. Hospitality accountants, particularly in London, often witness errors in accounting for hotels and bars. Similarly, improper accounting for restaurants and bars can result in fiscal discrepancies.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

Pricing

Restaurant Engine

MAY 14, 2025

Ultimately, youll increase the rate at which they dine with you, engage your customers, and increase your revenue. Promoting new menu items or events. This approach taps into status-driven motivation and is ideal for higher-end or fine-dining establishments. What do you want to achieve? Boosting average ticket size.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As restaurants look to the next 12 months, they anticipate placing a greater emphasis on revenue streams such as on-premise dining, off-premise dining, and catering. Out of 25 brands, 17 are QSR or casual dining restaurants, marking a significant shift in why people are primarily visiting malls – to eat. percent.

Point of Sale

EATER

MARCH 10, 2025

As I stuffed my face, I felt happy knowing that even if I cant make it back to Dads anytime soon, I can take a literal page from its playbook and wind up with (to paraphrase Clark) a damned fine meal I made myself. He was eliminated after the first course. But his new book, Ghana to the World , continues the narrative.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of Drinksgiving and Thanksgiving trends, FSR challenges, and "out-of-the-box" dining habits. For Gen Z in particular, easy online ordering and the use of social media as a restaurant discovery tool have become the norm.

2025

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 8, 2025

Within the company, the culinary outlets range from fine dining to speakeasy-style bars, including Signature Restaurant at La Cantera Resort & Spa in San Antonio, Definos Italian Chophouse at Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa in Florida, and Subito at The Lytle Park Autograph Collection Hotel in Cincinnati.

Leadership

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.

Fine Dining

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.” ” Spring Scoop highlights include: Elevated, Upsell-Worthy Bar-and-Grill Favorites. " The TWO HENS monthly license fee is $249.

Bar

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.

2024

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.

Mobile Ordering

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.

Specials

7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

Full-service restaurants Full-service restaurants offer a complete dining experience with table service. This type of restaurant can charge higher prices for their meals because of the full dining experience and quality service. Bars Bars mainly serve alcoholic beverages and offer a limited food menu.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

" At the same time, planning these events takes time and creativity, and the end product—if organizers are not careful—isn’t always stellar. According to the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Art , fast-casual eateries and fine-dining restaurants average between 10 and 40 employees.

Transportation

Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2024

In the streaming age, it’s not uncommon for many consumers to watch shows and events together—sharing access to a streaming platform with friends and family is nothing new. Those who get caught can face significant fines, and businesses engaging in unauthorized broadcasting are violating intellectual property laws.

Sports

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 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.

Fine Dining

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. Diners are Ready, but Concerned.

2020

EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By presenting cuisine that has not traditionally been championed in a fine dining, wine-tasting setting, Mistry hopes to challenge people’s expectations about cuisine — and the people who make it. Over the past few years, one-off guest chef appearances and chef-in-residence programs have proliferated in the fine dining industry.

Fine Dining

EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Say bonjour, always Whether it’s at the post office, a boutique, or a fine dining restaurant, say “bonjour” to every single person you interact with. For hotspots like Septime or Frenchie , you should call or check online weeks ahead; for more casual dining, call a day or even just a few hours in advance. and finally lifted.

Fine Dining

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. 8 in 10 consumers (78 percent) plan to continue their current dining habits even after the pandemic subsides. Canadian Dining Trends. Restaurant Resiliency. QSR Hiring. Delivery Driver.

2021

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. Can't touch this.

2020

EATER

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Today, Pilsen is one of the hippest areas in Chicago, with a thriving arts scene, fine dining options, and quaint cafes that continue to entice wealthier transplants to the area as working-class Mexicans who have lived there for years are displaced. New bars have a similar relationship with higher cost of living.

2010

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” The indoor-outdoor, three-level floating vessel will feature year-round public and private events, as well as annual membership options.

Coaching

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2023

Barring any new global emergencies like the pandemic that caused the demise of restaurant dining, the past few months have seen it return back to life in a tempered manner. The dine out cutbacks will likely not come from single people or couples without families with good stable jobs and incomes.

Fine Dining

EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

At BIBO, she will focus on supplier-client relations, National Account development, and continue to develop BIBO’s Fine Wine division. Restaurants are pivoting their business model for a post COVID-19 world, expanding beyond the traditional dine-in service to offer more unique experiences. billion valuation in 2017. .”

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

From the very beginning we worked to attract loyal guests seeking an authentic, family dining experience. With restaurant dining rooms closing unexpectedly and inconsistently from market to market, the industry realized the ability to communicate frequently and rapidly to their customers is critical. Shasta, California.

2020

7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

Your marketing plan is your year-long guide to seek opportunities in public holidays and cultural events; it’s your marketing budget that will help reduce risk and minimize overspending; it’s your insights into customer behavior and trends; it’s your pièce de résistance to serve up a great experience and achieve your financial targets.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

What will inspire event themes and design in 2020? What menu inspiration will chefs use as they create new and fine tune traditional favorites? Wellness is a still a top trend in catered events for 2020. Photos courtesy of Cameron Mitchell Premier Events. These will be a sought after offering on events as well.

Events

EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. European mountaineering guides also brought dishes from their homelands, like fondue.

Hotels

EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Capital-T Trends have had the space to take root as customers crowded into dining rooms and traveled around the country, bringing their excited energy with them to red-sauce Italian joints, vibey supper club-inspired spots, and so many pop-ups turned full-fledged restaurants. Hillary Dixler Canavan. Nashville, Tennessee. Danielle Del Valle.

2022