Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

17, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Greenlanes have no dine-in seating. Salad is rising as the next drive-thru concept The fast-casual Greenlane is plotting growth across Florida with investor and NFL star Rob Gronkowski working the drive-thru window. By Lisa Jennings on Jun. Just drive-thru and pickup windows. Photo courtesy of Greenlane.

Fast Casual

Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even as some food and beverage businesses face financial hurdles, the resilience and ingenuity of the industry continues to shine, promising an exciting future for consumers, F&B operators, clubs, shopping centres, mixed-use precincts and landlords.

Hospitality

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Examples of variable costs for a restaurant include food and beverage costs, costs associated with labor, and utilities. For example, a restaurant can analyze its food and beverage costs to identify opportunities for cost savings, such as purchasing ingredients in bulk, reducing waste, or renegotiating supplier contracts.

Loyalty Program

The Restaurant Group

APRIL 18, 2025

Prime Cost Report A critical report for restaurants, it breaks down the combined costs of goods sold (like food and beverage inventory) and labor costs. Popular Restaurant Accounting Tools Popular tools include QuickBooks, Xero, and specialized restaurant accounting software that offer features like payroll processing and inventory tracking.

Management

Squirrel Systems

MAY 1, 2025

Optimizing the Bar Program with Digital Tools Beverages, especially alcoholic ones, offer some of the highest profit margins in the restaurant industry. Promoting event hosting for corporate gatherings, birthdays, and special occasions via digital marketing. Yet many restaurants fail to maximize this potential.

Loyalty Program

Clover - Restaurants

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Splits by seat: The bill is separated according to each seat at the table, making it easier for larger groups to settle up. How to split a check at a restaurant easily with Clover: Customizable split options Clover offers multiple ways for splitting a check, whether your customers want to divide it equally, by item, or by seat.

Dietary Restrictions

Clover - Restaurants

JUNE 30, 2025

Servers get in-real-time updates sent directly to the POS, including when a table is seated, nearly finished, and paid. past feedback, most recent visit date, special requests), from on-premise or online dining, all within the Reservations app. Table management updates. Diner data. View any saved notes about a diner (i.e.

Hospitality

Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

Konro is a Japanese-inspired concept known for a 10- to 14-course tasting menu, served at a chef’s counter with only 10 seats. The experience is available with a spirit-free beverage pairing, and the restaurant’s website notes that the chef is “over five years sober.”

Fast Casual

The Rail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Outdoor seating areas can also benefit from a seasonal refresh with potted plants and decorative planters that bring in lush greenery. String lights and lanterns can enhance the ambiance in outdoor seating areas , making summer evenings even more magical.

Seasonal Menu

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 11, 2025

Prototype locations feature flexible bar layouts, zoned seating areas, integrated digital order screens, and dedicated mobile pick-up drawers to streamline service flow and enhance the customer experience as part of the Back to Starbucks efficiency drive. Upgrades are scheduled to be completed by the end of October.

2025

Restaurant Business

JULY 1, 2025

Most of its sales are digital, though customers can order in person at the counter, and there is limited seating. Premium Financing The fast-food beverage wars have begun The Bottom Line: Taco Bell and Whataburger have introduced new beverages in recent days. Buffalo Wild Wings has big plans for the concept.

Fast Casual

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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Seasonal Menu

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 8, 2025

Redler is shifting to a seat on the board of directors for the Salina, Kansas-based coffee chain. Anthony Torres has been named vice president of food and beverage for Pyramid Global Hospitality, a hotel management company with more than 250 hotels and resorts worldwide. He succeeds Scott Redler in the role.

Leadership

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2021

The food and beverage industry is on a hiring frenzy. A recent study by The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that, despite regular hiring since this spring, the food and beverage industry still remains 1.5 It is worth noting that, even before the onset of Covid-19, the food and beverage industry was experiencing a shortage in labor.

Ordering

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Always a specialized space for members, the club setting maintained a market space for food that was based on tradition, classic preparations, and to a large degree a “food cost free zone”. The club of today is a business where food and beverage plays a significant role in the financial viability of the operation.

Beverage

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

With outdoor dining occupying the foreground, and bars and indoor dining taking a back seat to consumer preferences, it begs the question: what happens when it gets cold? Get creative and incorporate one or two beverage items if you can (alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic, is possible). One key to making this a success is marketing.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2020

Guests would be seated at every other table or booth so as to maintain a safe distance. Bar seating will be removed and reconfigured to allow six feet between bar stools. Petersburg, are open at 25 percent capacity, allowing parties of up to 10 seated six feet apart, until further notice and according to state mandates.

Food Safety

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wow visuals on the plate and in the dining room, wow views from every seat, wow service, and of course – wow flavors on the plate. If you recognize the farmer, the rancher, and the fisherman, then they might be so inclined to set aside those extra special ingredients for your kitchen.

Front of House

Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This should include all tables available for seating customers. Optimize seating arrangements: Arrange tables in a way that maximizes the use of available space without compromising customer comfort. Incentivize quick dining: Offer time-limited promotions or specials during off-peak hours that encourage customers to eat quickly.

Seating

Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Oftentimes these properties boast a few a ’la carte restaurants, room service, special property events, banquets, weddings, buffets, and three meals a day in at least one of their outlets. As an example – garde manger really only exists in these types of properties where cold food can rule the day with banquets and special events.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With real-time data into consumer behavior data, the solution offers immediate, location-specific food and beverage insights into an industry that is changing faster than ever before. ” “Tastewise has been incredibly valuable in helping us to uncover white spaces in the food and beverage industry. BIBO Beverage Debuts.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Two out of three gift cards were bought to commemorate a special occasion and 87 percent featured a written note. Failure to adapt will make securing a seat at the table an uphill battle for tech companies. Expect to find creations like a salmon martini or beverages using unique washing ingredients such as duck confit and spam.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Seated Acquires VenueBook. Seated acquired digital event booking platform VenueBook. With Seated Events, Seated at Home, and Seated, restaurants can drive demand to their three primary sources of revenue in a single, easy to use rewards platform.” and the surrounding region. . and the surrounding region. .”

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

After moving to Maquoketa in 2011, Radtke began creating special moments for Happy Joe’s guests as a server a year later. The enhanced Bar Program now offers an extensive line of standard drinks, beers, and wines along with 7 new, exciting signature drinks that have special ties to the Dickey’s Brand and story.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we have news on understanding customer loyalty, beverage insights, restaurant supply loyalty, the influence of discounts, the state of payments and the evolution of gift cards. " Beverage Insights. So, what could a better designed and delivered beverage program mean for the channel?

2021

7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Are there high-top, bar-style tables, regular seating, or a mix of both? But, don't limit your research to just that!

License

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2022

“This year’s collection of Top 10 Trends signals a shift, whereby younger consumers are indeed in the driver’s seat when it comes to food and beverage trend inspirations,” says Cathy Nash Holley, Flavor & The Menu’s Publisher/Editor-in-Chief.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Can you have an outdoor patio with seating? Pitfall #5: Hiring an architect without food and beverage experience. Pitfall #3: Not Hiring local construction professionals. Does your restaurant need floor drains? What type of fireproofing is required? What are the inspection wait times?

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A lot of places are also offering dine-in only specials or dishes that can only be ordered in-house. Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. The sleeping giant is virtual kitchens.

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

To apply for a liquor license, consult the Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Agency) in your state. How much seating will you have? Make sure there is enough seating for everyone who's coming, including staff. Example of a retreat beach bar floor plan Tip: Your design needs to capture the concept and ambiance you want to create.

Bar

ChowNow

JULY 30, 2024

Revenue Metrics Sales Revenue Sales Revenue measures the total income generated from food and beverage sales. Upsell high-margin items, introduce specials, and create combo deals to increase the average check size. Beverage Cost Percentage Beverage cost percentage measures the percentage of sales revenue spent on beverages.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The 2020 James Beard Awards will mark the 30th anniversary of America’s most coveted and comprehensive honors for chefs, restaurants, journalists, authors, and other leaders in the food and beverage industry. Both indoor and outdoor seating will accommodate up to 400 guests.

Brewery

EATER

MAY 9, 2023

It’s not a straightforward rule, but they tend to be a little bit more cost-effective because food and beverage is already in-house, their flatware is typically all in-house, you don’t have to go outside and do too many rentals,” says Amy Shack Egan, founder of the nationally operating, “unconventional” wedding planning company Modern Rebel.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Now available through Grubhub, it is a delivery-only concept that specializes in antibiotic-free, oven-baked, boneless chicken bites. The bites will also be served with the option of twelve different dips, along with regular or sweet potato Tyga Tots, chocolate chip cookies, and beverages. Credit: Tyga Bites. Classic Cobbler (MWBE).

Food Safety

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

trying to put new people in seats, a customer retention strategy seeks to spend time bringing existing customers back. Once you have access to a guest’s contact info, it creates the opportunity to reach them via email or text and let them know about special offers, new menu items, changing hours, and more.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The design includes dining room seating zones, dedicated third-party delivery and pickup shelving, a closed kitchen, digital menu boards and a redesigned logo. "The “Our teas have become one of the most ‘instagrammable’ beverages on the market and a true winner with our Gen Z customers.”

Franchising

EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Next, the cars pulled up to a second tent, where volunteers loaded boxes of food into open trunks, back seats, and any other space they could find. Contacts from the beverage world offer everything from corporate sponsorship to makeup kits. Meghan McCarron is Eater’s special correspondent.

Back of House