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.

Fine Dining

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.

Uniforms

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 14, 2025

Traditional coffeehouses have long outnumbered specialty coffee shops and roasters, and historic regulations have kept espresso prices unrealistically low. Simultaneously, many Italians conflate specialty coffee with unreasonably high prices. The Italian coffee sector is quite resistant to critique and change.”

Café

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 28, 2025

The service is fast and welcoming, and customers often point out the steady quality and fair pricing. Customers appreciate the simple, clean setup, friendly service, and fair pricing. Sonny’s focus on steady preparation, wide availability, and approachable prices has helped it remain a dependable choice for barbecue in Kentucky. #19

Fast Casual

Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

POS systems are transforming dining by making personalized experiences easy and efficient. POS systems also provide insights into seasonal trends, dietary restrictions, and even price sensitivity. This means menus can be updated to reflect what people actually want, making the dining experience more engaging and relevant.

POS

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

Future Food

MARCH 5, 2025

Successful precinct designs are aligned to the key strategy drivers Delivering a modern dining precinct in a club environment demands a holistic strategy that goes beyond architectural or interior design plans.

Fast Casual

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. Placing it at the top of your navigation bar, keeps it consistent across every page. Also, make sure it works just as well on mobile as it does on desktop.

Mobile Ordering

Future Food

MARCH 6, 2025

Successful precinct designs are aligned to the key strategy drivers Delivering a modern dining precinct in a club environment demands a holistic strategy that goes beyond architectural or interior design plans.

Fast Casual

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

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

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

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? A bar tested this theory. But the psychology of pricing goes even deeper. A bar & grill played this game brilliantly. ” The result?

Menu

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

These alerts can notify managers about low stock, unusual usage trends, or price changes. By reviewing patterns, managers can fine-tune stock levels and cut down on waste. Whether you’re running a quick-service spot or a full-service dining establishment, mobile inventory tools make stock management easier.

Inventory

SpotOn

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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.  It can range from a few dollars to a much higher price at certain high-end restaurants. Corkage fee prices depend on the restaurant type.

Fine Dining

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

In a full-service restaurant, the POS is usually located in a discreet location so as not to interfere with the ambiance or the dining experience. Casual restaurants, bars, and breweries may look to systems that split-checks and handle parties of various sizes, sell merchandise, and aid with employee management and scheduling.

POS

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. Innovative.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Data Gaps Hinder Pricing Strategies : 73 percent of operators lack full confidence in their pricing strategy, with most relying on gut instinct or competitor pricing instead of real-time cost analysis. In fact, 80 businesses on the list are priced under 30 dollars per person. 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

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

The Restaurant Group

MAY 6, 2025

Train them to check things like table turnover rate analysis , restaurant financial reporting , and dining trends analysis. This is how you power up restaurant campaign performance and dynamic pricing strategies. Ubers insights help fine-tune your restaurant marketing analytics , demand planning , and even resource allocation.

Cash Management

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.

Fine Dining

EATER

APRIL 30, 2025

Maybe your mom was actually the mother of your best friend down the street, or the proprietress of your local gay bar, or your poor college ex who taught you to do laundry and manage your temper. both offer stylish options at various price points. seems to share the wrongheaded opinion that their toaster already works just fine.

Food

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. For Gen Z in particular, easy online ordering and the use of social media as a restaurant discovery tool have become the norm.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 22, 2025

Looking back at the most recent recession, dining out dropped 8.8% Paperchase’s financial specialists in the restaurant and bar industry analyzed same store data across all restaurant sectors to detail the correlation between equity-market crashes and the food and beverage business. drop in consumer sentiment over the last year.

Hospitality

Hot Schedules

MARCH 11, 2025

🔑 The Fix: Modern procurement platforms centralize purchasing, automate approvals, and provide real-time price comparisons—so you get what you need at the best price, without the headaches. Many hotels rely on outdated or disconnected purchasing systems, leading to over-ordering, waste, and supplier inconsistencies. The Bottom Line?

Hotels

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

MARCH 17, 2022

With wholesale food prices soaring 13 percent in 2021 and labor costs rising as worker shortages continue, many restaurants are looking for smart ways to lower costs and avoid passing them on to their diners. Say a NYC restaurant sees many large groups in its bar area on Friday nights but is worried a smaller menu might turn them away.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

US Foods will finance the acquisition primarily with $700 million in fully committed financing from Citigroup and Bank of America and will fund the balance of the purchase price through its existing liquidity resources. US Foods Springs into Helping Bars and Grills. reducing to approximately 3.0x by the end of fiscal 2021.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2024

Among the reasons restaurants fail (poor location, inadequate marketing, lack of staff and inventory control, uninspired menu, unreasonable pricing), customer theft is rarely on the radar. ” Some restaurateurs consider this the price of doing business – even a form of marketing.

Back of House

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.

Fast Casual

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

JULY 12, 2024

Compare different policies and choose one that offers good coverage at a reasonable price. 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.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Restaurants will also explore delivery options beyond costly third-party partnerships, and hike delivery menu prices to make the channel more lucrative as off-premise demand holds steady. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Following are some of the major restaurant trends to watch out for in 2022.

2022

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. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent.

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