The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Think slow-motion sauce pouring, the crispy crunch of diners breaking bread, and colorful cocktail prep behind the bar. You may need to segment your audience to create more effective videos, such as content for workday lunches, evening diners, travelers, nightlife, and Sunday brunch crowds.

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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. Travel around and youll be rewarded.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2025

The raw bar is getting pricier. Whether served raw on the half-shell, chargrilled, or Rockefeller style, theres no denying the briny appeal of a perfect fresh oyster. Sullivan is on the board of Oyster South, a nonprofit devoted to empowering Southern oyster farmers, and serves oysters from all three coasts on her menu.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. However, understanding how to calculate and improve your bar's profit margin is key to long-term success. One key area to focus on is drink sales, with cocktail sales accounting for about 23% of a bar's revenue.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

Dating back to Medieval times when cooking was reserved for nobility and later during the Renaissance when merchant travelers relied on local taverns for respite and a chance to break bread – restaurants and restaurant life has always been present. Restaurants and bars have continued in this role ever since.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Most of all, it’s not nearly as much fun as preparing food and serving customers, the reason most people love working in food service. By saving you time and money, the iCareSystem AutoDose allows you more freedom and resources to do the work you love: planning better ways to feed and serve your customers. To learn more, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For the tour, we traveled to Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, visiting a wide collection of over 80 bars and restaurants, from brand new and iconic to others that have stood the test of time. And, you don’t have to run a cocktail bar or fine dining location to play with these combinations.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Tacos are served up at Maizajo, where corn tortillas are made in-house. The most fun cocktail menu: I would have loved Las Brujas for its concept alone a women-run cocktail bar with a comic book-like menu of drinks inspired by different women throughout history. Subscribe now.

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EATER

JULY 9, 2020

The People’s Bodega is a traveling food and necessities pantry providing protesters with the fuel they need to keep going Over the past month, mass protests calling for the abolition of police and a national reckoning with anti-Blackness have spread across the country. Grabbing sustenance from the People’s Bodega | Jaya Saxena. Jaya Saxena.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

in March, local businesses that could remain open had to quickly adopt new ways of serving customers, like more convenient communications, curbside pickups, local delivery and contactless payments. Drinks served in unopened bottles and cans. As the nationwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic reached a fever pitch across the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Winter can be a tough season for restaurant and bar owners. The colder months bring a fresh set of challenges to the restaurant and bar scene. Here are a few ideas for restaurant and bar owners to consider in an effort to continue to serve up good eats and top-tier service during the winter season.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 6, 2020

Long Island City-based JetBlue and United Airlines are offering free round-trip flights for medical volunteers traveling to New York City to join the frontline in the battle against COVID-19. Social Kitchen & Craft Bar: Giving Back to the Community. JetBlue and United Airlines: Free Flights for Medical Volunteers.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

My husband and I have traveled over 1,000 miles from our home in Mumbai for a single meal: a 14-course tasting menu at Indias hottest dining destination, Naar. Diners today are not eating out just because they are hungry, says Darjeeling-born mixologist Yangdup Lama, who owns the mountain-inspired bar the Brook in Gurgaon, India.

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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. Locals and travelers linger for hours beneath the hotels glass-canopied central courtyard, sipping coffee and cocktails.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bar type restaurants such as Buffalo Wild Wings had a much higher “never” rating at 29 percent. Travel and Dining Habits Next, we looked at travel preferences and how that relates to dining, and we found some interesting patterns. 29 percent said they rarely ate at casual restaurants.

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EATER

JUNE 12, 2023

. | Missy Frederick Between packed itineraries and early flights, the iconic sandwich makes for a perfect on-the-go meal on the last day of your trip This post originally appeared in the May 27, 2023, edition of Eater Travel, a biweekly dispatch from Eater’s staff about navigating places where food is the main attraction. Subscribe now.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2025

Rapp has served as regional chef for more than 12 years, but will be stepping into the executive chef role as Gunther Emathinger retires. Austin Green, Soulmans Bar-B-Que The 20-unit Soulman’s Bar-B-Que, based in Dallas, has made a number of leadership promotions. Members help make our journalism possible.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

.” Square found that restaurants are fundamentally reimagining the way they do business to keep their operation running smoothly, improve their bottom line, and continue serving their customers. ” On the retail front, Square saw retailers increasingly turning to online and social selling to continue serving their customers. .

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EATER

JUNE 15, 2020

Due to COVID-19, the beloved self-serve travel perk is no more. Here’s what you can expect to wake up to instead There’s a particular pleasure to the travel ritual of waking up in crisp hotel sheets, meandering downstairs, and finding a fully stocked breakfast buffet splayed out before you. Getty Images.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

Coming out of the pandemic and into an inflationary period, the bar has been raised in terms of diner expectations. Coming out of the pandemic and into an inflationary period, the bar has been raised in terms of diner expectations. Everything matters. And how do all of those things reinforce what your brand is all about?

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2023

Restaurants and bars portraying these influences began to pop up first on the east coast and gradually moving westward. Prohibition and the Speakeasy: Prohibition from 1920-1933 made it illegal to produce, distribute, serve, or consume alcoholic beverages except as a sacrament in the church and for medicinal purposes prescribed by doctors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

More Business and Pleasure : “Bleisure” travel is on the rise and next year we predict more people will be combining their business travel with personal leisure, leading to extended stays and more opportunities to explore. Respondents collectively serve more than 14 million covers annually and have more than 3.2

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 21, 2024

Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar released a micro documentary “A Journey Through Appalachia,” which celebrates the unique ingredients, techniques and culinary traditions of southern Appalachia. The journey started at UNC Asheville to meet Erica Abrams Locklear, PhD.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Unsurprisingly, many examples of restaurants that already take a conscientious approach are owned by members of the culture whose food they serve. ” Both can be used to conserve the essence of a dish as it travels from one linguistic and cultural reality to another.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While diners first leaned into comfort and nostalgia, heading into the new year we’re seeing a return to health and wellness-inspired culinary and cocktail creations,” said Scott Gingerich, Kimpton’s Senior Vice President of Restaurants & Bars. Culinary: 2020 Takeaways. Treat Yourself: Restaurant Edition.

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EATER

MAY 26, 2021

For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room. If you happened to be traveling from Washington, D.C. There were tea rooms at various price levels — “Look at the prices and watch the Fords go by,” wrote one customer in an early guest book — though not all welcomed any traveler.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Bars and nightlife businesses were among the hardest hit, with consumer interest down 81 percent. “We are in daily conversations with our clients, constantly monitoring insights, and relying on our core business — analyzing data to deliver market insights — to serve the industry.” Foot Traffic Dashboard.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Overwhelming top response was fear of catching/spreading COVID-19, followed by a corresponding reduction in travel. Barring a dramatic decrease in coronavirus infections, U.S. Restaurant and bar related concerns. 57 percent of restaurants and bars believe they can stay open for more than six months if conditions continue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Now thoroughly destigmatized, more bars and restaurants will include a dedicated non-alcoholic section on their beverage menus. This is a favorable trend customer-centric bars and restaurants will embrace. Potential solutions include: Robotics : Robots can help prepare and even serve food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

All locations will serve guests via delivery through a virtual kitchen facility. In addition to virtual kitchens meeting lower labor costs, they also offer a fast-track to opening, with a location able to begin serving in just one month. ” Dickey’s is now offering a franchise discount for existing Owners Operators. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2021

Jess Lander is a wine, food and travel writer who – as a Napa resident herself – was inspired to find a way to help the struggling small restaurants and their employees in this wine country mainstay. serving food safely. These programs train restaurant, front-of-house staff, including delivery personnel on.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Food traveling via delivery and customer pickup often contend with wide windows of time, so packaging has the added job of maintaining temperature over time and through varied temperatires with both hot and cold climates. Our client, a quick-serve franchise chain, found its drive-thru menu boards were confusing to guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 22, 2022

After years of success as a wholesale operation, the Beal family opened the restaurant, Beal’s Lobster Pier in 1969 and our vision remains the same today as it was then – serve up the freshest seafood and give our guests the most authentic Maine experience at the doorstep of the waterfront that makes it all possible.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2020

While there is no form of travel that’s perfectly safe right now, there are certainly more responsible options than others for scratching the itch. Aside from the people you travel with, it’s unlikely you’ll encounter other humans here at all. Getty Images/EyeEm. The famous cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde national park.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Part of the reason you’re traveling to France is, presumably, to tap into that gastronomic reverence. Lots of travelers go wrong here by not planning accordingly. Lunch is generally served from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., and, historically, most restaurants would serve dinner from 8 to 10 p.m. Know which days to go.

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7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2020

but we've seen a great response to our heat & serve meal kits. View this post on Instagram Heat & serve taco kits, now with roasted pork shoulder! You don’t have to be a brewery or bar to get into the delivery game either. Food That Travels Well for Delivery: Tips for COVID-19 ?? Carmen Hamm Owner, Picaro.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

When designer Monica Jeffers saw the aging, dated restaurant she was going to remodel, she thought, “A T-bar grid ceiling! How the heck am I going to deliver this beautiful, elegant restaurant with a T-bar ceiling?” ” Ironically, this thought sets her apart. Photo by Martin Knowles. ????The Sight and Sound.

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