ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

From managing reservations at the host stand or firing orders straight to the kitchen from table side, tablets are changing the way restaurants run. Before you spend the money and roll out a dozen new tablets across your front of house and kitchen, its worth asking: Are these things actually built for the job?

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

A Dilemma of “Super Size” Proportions Amid rising food prices and shifting consumer preferences, the restaurant industry is facing a dilemma of “super size” proportions. 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

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use.

Training

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 18, 2025

These are the places people keep coming back to, not just for the food but also for the experience and the way they treat their customers. 30 – Blackburn’s BBQ Source: Blackburn’s BBQ Blackburn’s BBQ in Eagle Lake has become a local favorite since opening in 2017, first as a food truck before moving into a full restaurant.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant. Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant.

2025

SpotOn

APRIL 1, 2025

It's a portable POS device that fits in an apron and lets servers take orders and payments at the table. Tableside ordering and payments If a server has multiple tables ready to order, they have to go to each one, write their order down, and then go to the POS to input those orders.

Seating

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 13, 2025

JAB hired bankers to attract new investors as it considers an IPO for the coffee and food to-go chain. JAB hired bankers to attract new investors as it considers an IPO for the coffee and food to-go chain. Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the week. million bags, as exports rise 11%.

2025

Lavu

JULY 4, 2025

From managing orders and tracking inventory to analyzing sales data in real time, today’s POS systems are essential tools for restaurants of all sizes. POS systems are where you place food and drink orders and send them to the back of the house. Wondering what is a POS system for a restaurant?

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a step further, offering a flexible menu catered to solo diners – with smaller portions to reduce food waste and allow the diner to taste more dishes – provides waiters with an additional opportunity to make personalized recommendations specific to these menu offerings.

Customer Experience

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

Restaurant can improve its table turnover rate by implementing various strategies, such as streamlining the ordering process, expediting meal preparation, and ensuring prompt table clearing. If you have a bustling restaurant, having faster table turnover is one of the best ways to increase both revenue and customer satisfaction.

Seating

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

From streamlining orders to managing inventory and staff, these systems provide the tools restaurant owners need to stay competitive in 2025 and beyond. Improved Efficiency: Faster order processing, reduced errors, and better table turnover. Automatic Updates: No manual updates or downtime – systems update seamlessly.

POS

SpotOn

MARCH 24, 2025

For many, chicken and waffles are the ultimate comfort food—indulgent, sweet and savory, hard to argue with. Chef Judy’s culinary expertise had drawn acclaim on Food Network shows like Chopped and Supermarket Stakeout , but neither Moore nor Chef Judy had run full-service restaurants. Servers save 3-5 minutes per table.”

Front of House

Lavu

JUNE 30, 2025

Running a successful restaurant today requires more than great food and friendly service—it demands smart technology that drives efficiency. A well-designed POS system improves restaurant operations by streamlining order management, speeding up transactions, and delivering real-time insights that help optimize every aspect of the business.

POS

Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

Whether you’re running a food truck or a full-service restaurant, mobile inventory tools are game changers. In 2025, staying competitive in the restaurant industry means leveraging technology to streamline operations. One of the most effective tools for achieving this is mobile inventory management.

Inventory

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. Fine-tune your serving style What happens after a guest scans a QR code and places their order? Or do you want guests to use a QR code to order? Order and pay?

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

No matter how much technology evolves, or trends shift, people will always come back for quality food, great value, and friendly service. While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. One of the biggest struggles for restaurants post-covid is staffing.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

Mobile Ordering

QSR Automations

JANUARY 31, 2025

By combining these two powerful solutions, restaurants can create seamless restaurant operations, reduce wasteboth food and laborand boost profitability. By combining these two powerful solutions, restaurants can create seamless restaurant operations, reduce wasteboth food and laborand boost profitability. The result?

Waste

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

It is usually either labor or food materials, depending on the scale of your business. Labor and food costs are your restaurants most significant expenses, so knowing the exact percentage going towards paying your staff helps control the budget. Step 3: Add the values for all employees together to get the total labor cost.

2025

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

You are likely looking for the top restaurant POS systems because rather than going through hundreds of POS systems on the market, you would rather select from a shortlist of the best options. The biggest reasons to have a POS are to streamline your restaurant operations, improve guest experience, and keep more profits in your account.

POS

Future Food

MAY 29, 2025

Following our time at the 2025 FoodService Australia Food and Hospitality Week at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, one thing became abundantly clear: hospitality businesses that are embracing integrated, intelligent technologies are not only adapting to industry change, theyre leading it.

Hospitality

EATER

OCTOBER 25, 2024

. | La Cocina Writer and director Alonso Ruizpalacios discusses why glossy food porn had no place in his new restaurant-set drama “You can’t dream in a kitchen,” one of the characters says in La Cocina , the latest film by Mexican director and writer Alonso Ruizpalacios. Their differences are again symbolic of larger ones.

Back of House

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But not entirely because of inflation, labor shortages, and high food costs. Gross profit margin subtracts only the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) to determine the profitability of your food and beverages, while net profit margin subtracts all your costs to determine the profitability of your entire operation. We all know it.

Operations

EATER

MARCH 12, 2025

Randi Lee and his wife, Jeanette Zinno, took over the storefront that would become Leland Eating and Drinking House in Brooklyn in February 2020, ready to fully demo the space. Masked chefs make pizza in a restaurant kitchen in 2022. What I originally envisioned is the restaurant that exists now, says Stieber.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Despite the fact that consumers are paying more to visit and order from restaurants this year – 12.5 28 percent of consumers say they are ordering takeout and delivery more frequently than last year. Additionally, households making less than $50k ordered takeout and delivery far less frequently than their wealthier peers.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Off-Premises Dining Is Essential Nearly 75 percent of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises—meaning that almost three out of four restaurant orders are taken to go. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

Reservations

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

The Chinese chain opened two stores in Greenwich Village and Chelsea, offering mobile app ordering and competitive pricing. The new printer is capable of high-quality resolution of up to 1200 x 1200 dots per inch, and can print across the front, back, sides, and bottom of coffee bags. lb over the next 15 months.

Pricing

Restaurant Clicks

APRIL 10, 2025

Utilizing a custom-built smoker and open-fire hearth, the restaurant offers oak-smoked meats like brisket, pulled pork, ribs, and house-made sausages, each prepared with precision to highlight their natural flavors. From Memphis to Nashville and beyond, the state’s BBQ scene is full of rich traditions and unique takes on smoked meats.

Back of House

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Social reckonings and politics and pandemics and recessions and all kinds of horrific real-world stuff have intersected with restaurants in a way that had to happen, but which has turned the act of eating food into pretty serious business. And that’s a good thing; food is serious business.

Seasonal Menu

SpotOn

JULY 15, 2025

But behind the stick (industry slang for the bar), it’s not all free shots and big tips.  Photo by Kike Salazar N / Unsplash To anyone enjoying a few drinks at a bar top, bartending appears to consist of mixing and pouring drinks and talking to customers.  In this article: What does a bartender actually do?

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

Is your restaurant up to speed with the latest best practices for back of house (BOH) management? Everything from decreasing food waste to exploring how automation can increase revenue for small business restaurants is related to BOH procedures. Here are some back of office trends to watch for in 2023. Two primary methods are involved.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Bar and restaurant operators often face tough dilemmas, ranging from the daily question, “Should we be mixing more drinks or turning more tables?” With today’s technology, bar and lounge operators can have the best of both worlds. This requires effective preparation and clear communication across the house.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The Restaurant Reopening Blueprint is informed by interviews with key stakeholders such as diners, restaurant staff and US Foods consultants and chefs. Click here to view the application and instructions.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 26, 2020

One of the first groups of businesses to shutter was the food, restaurant and hospitality industry – an industry that relies on daily revenue from its patrons, those of which were now being mandated to quarantine and reside in their homes. Restaurants and bars are opening with capacity restrictions and new guidelines.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Contactless Technology.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2022

Staff training, therefore, needs to include teaching individuals to communicate swiftly, clearly, and confidently with other team members when orders go wrong, or other problems occur. The core teams that need to appreciate and cooperate are the front-of-house waiting teams, the bar staff, and the kitchen team.

Front of House