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Smooth Operations: Yelp Updates Aim to Increase Efficiency and Elevate Guest Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

The latest updates to Yelp Guest Manager are designed to directly address those pain points by automating and streamlining front-of-house operations, and helping restaurants optimize their limited staff time while still delivering exceptional guest experiences.”

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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Your Restaurant’s Technology Touchpoints

Modern Restaurant Management

Front-of-House. This piece in your technology stack should give your customers accurate wait times based on the tables already seated and allow them to make reservations so they can plan around current capacity limits or patronize your restaurant for special occasions. Henry is ready to order some dinner. Contactless Technology.

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Six Strategies to Improve Restaurant Efficiency

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The core teams that need to appreciate and cooperate are the front-of-house waiting teams, the bar staff, and the kitchen team. Be conscious of this when taking reservations. Be conscious of this when taking reservations. Untrained and unmotivated staff. Inefficient management of staff.

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Table for One – Elevating the Solo Dining Experience

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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.

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What Does Social Distancing Mean for Social Businesses Like Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

And communications is front and center, particularly for restaurants that might not be as well known for out of restaurant food. Up the restaurant’s hygiene and cleanliness standards: fully sanitize tables, menus and chairs after each reservation. 34 percent of respondents saying they plan to prepare more meals at home. "It's

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Restaurant Tablet Best Practices: Smart Strategies For Success

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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?