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. Uncles Colombo gets to sleep early, but not Uncles.

Hotels

Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

POS systems do more than just process payments they enable restaurants to personalize menus by analyzing customer data. Learn more in our latest post: How POS Systems Enable Menu Personalization. Real-Time Updates : Adjust menus instantly for accuracy and relevance. Improves Operations : Smarter inventory and menu management.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

percent menu-price inflation rate. With households increasingly treating dining out as a luxury, every menu item and service interaction becomes a potential make-or-break moment. Red Robin climbs 3 percent to 78 thanks in large part to its focus on menu and food. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1

Loyalty Program

Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The same is true of chefs and cooks who countless times prepare a menu, a dish; arrange components on a plate, sauce the work, apply an appropriate garnish, wipe the rim and quietly celebrate the story behind it. As examples, any restaurant can, and so many do, offer Caesar Salad as a menu staple.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. Foot traffic or heat mapping, menu item engagement, or consumer demographics by time of day. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

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Restaurant Clicks

JULY 28, 2025

The menu includes both classic BBQ plates and creative sandwiches, using ingredients that are prepared with care and attention to detail. The restaurant runs on a simple model with quick, friendly service and a menu that doesn’t try to do too much. #25 Wagon Bones BBQ has become a reliable favorite in the Versailles area. #20

Fast Casual

ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Its going to get dropped, splashed with sauce, and maybe knocked off the bar by a customers pursethats just part of the deal. Slim and stylish is fine, but in a restaurant, function beats form every time. For guests, its a smoother customer experience and more in line with what theyve come to expect from modern dining.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Solo dining – a time dedicated to eating a meal alone at a sit-down restaurant – is an opportunity for diners to practice self care over a meal, whether that be by relaxing and reflecting at the end of a long day or even by engaging the mind with a book or catching up on the news. Just the “cover count.”

Customer Experience

Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From the rise of AI to the increasing popularity of experiential dining, businesses are adapting creatively to meet new consumer demands. Perhaps oddly and yet understandably, premium dining spending has increased… but only through average spend. Those who already treat themselves to high end dining experiences spend more.

Hospitality

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. And while these tables can be challenging to book, snagging a reservation tends to be slightly easier if youre a guest of the hotel.

Hotels

SpotOn

APRIL 1, 2025

However, getting more guests in seats through outdoor dining can also come at a cost, both in time and money. Having managed a restaurant with an extremely popular patio and brunch menu, I know this firsthand. Menu item information Most servers should know the flavors of your menu items and what pairs well together.

Seating

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. A well-designed website with updated hours, a clean menu, and high-quality images builds confidence and makes your restaurant stand out.

Mobile Ordering

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 14, 2025

The country drinks around 14 billion espressos every year , reaffirming the long-standing tradition of drinking fast, cheap coffee quickly, often while standing at the bar in a traditional coffeehouse. Rising menu prices pose a greater risk to independent cafés, which are up against large chains with greater capacity to absorb costs.

Café

The Restaurant Group

APRIL 12, 2025

How It Works in the Restaurant Business In the restaurant biz, influencers share their dining experiences, spotlighting your culinary delights to their audience. Fine Dining Spot’s Influencer Tasting Event : Created buzz around a new menu launch.

Influencer

SpotOn

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

They're known for high quality elevated pub food on the menu and an extensive selection of beers, wines, liquors, and cocktails. Michelin added gastropub as a cuisine type in part of their famous guide to dining establishments. The scotch egg is a classic gastro pub menu item. What's on a gastropub menu?

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

Black Box Intelligence

MAY 12, 2025

Panda Express is the largest family-owned and operated Asian dining concept in the United States, renowned for its American Chinese cuisine. Eatn Park (Family Dining) Who is Eat’n Park? LongHorn Steakhouse (Casual Dining) Who is LongHorn Steakhouse? Panda Express (Fast Casual) Who is Panda Express? Why They Won?

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Web Diner

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Ever wonder why that craft cocktail at your local bar seems irresistible, or why you always end up ordering that premium coffee drink when you meant to get regular brew? It’s not just your cravings calling the shotsit’s menu psychology at work. A bar tested this theory. Sometimes it’s just the story you tell.

Menu

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

By barring the doors, costs have been saved across the board – from labor to operations. Start Serving Small Plates during Off-Peak Hours Modern dining behavior is partial to small plates. The recession can be seen as having changed the meal landscape for dining establishments. Well, here are a few steps 9j how to.

POS

SpotOn

JUNE 27, 2025

Over the last several years, QR order and pay has gone from being a fringe technology to a widely used solution for restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries. What started as a simple way to swap paper menus with contactless ordering during COVID quickly evolved into an operational solution to battle staff shortages and improve efficiency.

Mobile Ordering

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 9, 2025

” Average Check: This represents the average amount that is spent by each customer dining. Additionally, fast casual restaurants might have slightly higher labor costs than QSR restaurants due to more staff, but still not as high as contemporary casual or fine dining. Balancing ingredient costs with efficient labor is key.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

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. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

Mobile Ordering

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. Automated Sales Entries: Daily sales data (categorized by payment type, menu item, etc.)

Bar

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

“Real-time data and analytics on inventory levels enable restaurants to make informed decisions on inventory management, menu engineering, and operational strategies.” By reviewing patterns, managers can fine-tune stock levels and cut down on waste. Investing in mobile inventory tools brings benefits on several fronts.

Inventory

SpotOn

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While some restaurants offer guests a wine menu to showcase their many drink options, others allow guests to bring their own bottle of wine (also known as BYOB). Corkage fees are typically found in casual dining and fine dining restaurants, encouraging guests to select a bottle from the restaurant, instead of bringing their own. 

Fine Dining

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

Restaurant Clicks

APRIL 8, 2025

With so many BBQ joints, choosing the best can ignite fierce debates—possibly even bar fights! Slow-smoked over pure oak wood, the meats carry a robust smokiness, with a finely tuned balance of peppery seasoning and juicy tenderness. It’s a great stop for those who enjoy a more intimate dining experience.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Turn Pricing into a Growth Strategy : A smarter approach to menu pricing can boost revenue and profitability without compromising guest experience. These annualized sales declines despite foot traffic growing reflect the ongoing trend of consumers trading down for lower-cost options when dining out. percent) and transactions (+3.9

Delivery

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

The Restaurant Group

MAY 6, 2025

Restaurant Data Analytics shows which menu items are sellin like hotcakes and which need to retire. Combine that with restaurant sales performance data and youve got serious menu engineering analysis power. Train them to check things like table turnover rate analysis , restaurant financial reporting , and dining trends analysis.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It also zooms in on current challenges faced by owners/operators, menu prices and inflation, and tech/AI implementation. While guests may still be feeling the pain of rising menu prices at restaurants, fewer restaurants said that they raised prices this year compared to last year.

Point of Sale

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

EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In both fine dining establishments and cafes, filtered, sparkling water is increasingly part of the included hospitality experience, not an upsell. In an already pricey dining setting, the chef didn’t want to create an atmosphere of exclusion. And that’s how it should be. And, Sinzer hopes, imbues diners with fuzzy feelings. “If

Fine Dining

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. But what makes the book genius is her guide to cooking through it, separated by mood, cooking time, and menu.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Welcome to the LOLfood era, where as the world burns, the beautiful eat pizza rolls The pizza rolls on the menu really sealed it for me. But perusing the menu of the buzzy Corner Store and seeing five cheese pizza rolls served with ranch solidified my instinct that something was up, and just made me cackle out loud. This is LOLfood.

2009

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Scott Suchman This year, we found ourselves blissfully forgetting about the world outside the dining room, and settling into meals that felt exciting, confident, and joyful Dining out should be a lot of things — nourishing, thought-provoking, less than a week’s rent — but one that can be easy to forget about is fun.

Seasonal Menu

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. 1 ● Come one, come all – While solo dining is up 10 percent YoY, group dining is also having a moment: parties of 6+ are up 8 percent YoY.2

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