Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2022

We've all ordered our favorite food online at least once from a local restaurant, and it was cold when it arrived at our doorstep. Events like this not only ruined our entire eating experience, but also prevented us from ordering food from this restaurant for a while. Delivery of cold food leads to loss of customer.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, consumers want convenient and easy ways to order food from your restaurant. Luckily, that’s what an online ordering system can do for you. Statista notes that in 2020, 760 million users were using online ordering for their restaurant takeout and delivery orders, a 20% increase year-over-year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

As per a recently published report by Future Market insights, the Takeaway and Delivery Food market is going to witness accelerated demand in the coming years with online food platforms. In this blog, we will discuss the various facets being utilized to enhance the entire operation of the ghost kitchen efficiently.

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

You’re tracking deliveries, making the most of your food budget, and ensuring your staff is prepared to serve customers. The data from inventory management can help you place more accurate orders, calculate exact food costs, make informed menu changes, and address potential sources of food waste.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Inventory management Managers need to ensure the kitchen is stocked with the right amount of food so that nothing is wasted and as few items need to be 86'ed as possible. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. This wide-ranging responsibility is a lot, and it often leads to burnout.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 4, 2022

Restaurant inventory management plays a key role in overcoming rising food prices. Logistics challenges and labor shortages have fueled rising food prices at the wholesale level. Rising food prices have had an impact on the food sector for some time, with ingredient values above levels for the same time last year.

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Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There’s sales and customer data, labor performance data, and even data telling you how much food you waste. Analyzing your restaurant data to get a detailed look at your profitability, food costs, and labor costs can drive strategic decisions and improve your bottom line. Are you using restaurant analytics?

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Other issues, like ingredient management, can cause much bigger headaches and cost money — throwing away expired ingredients eats into profit margins, especially with the rising cost of food. However, the right point of sale system can help alleviate some of these restaurant challenges so business owners can stay ahead of their competition.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

The food and restaurant industry has evolved dramatically over the years. When people decide to dine in your establishment, they don’t just want to eat good food; they want to have a pleasant experience, as well. Online Ordering and Mobile Apps. Self-Service Tech.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This two-part blog series presents an overall guide to the essentials of payroll accounting for restaurant groups. Your restaurant’s two largest expenses are your food and your labor costs (together, known as your prime cost). Tracking both your food and labor costs in detail is critical to maintaining healthy profits over time.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Sustainability is about cutting costs, eliminating waste, and improving your bottom line. This will save money and reduce the amount of transportation needed to get the food from the vendor to your restaurant. This will save money and reduce the amount of transportation needed to get the food from the vendor to your restaurant.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 10, 2020

Because food and beverage costs make up a large part of a restaurant budget, your inventory method has large implications for your bottom line. If it’s not on the shelf, it can’t be stolen, spoiled or wasted. So, the key to minimizing food waste that can eat into your profits is effective restaurant inventory management.

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Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With all that in mind, now more than ever, restaurants are looking for ways to lower food costs that don’t take up too much time or too many resources from already stretched thin operations. In that case, this blog can be a reassurance that either you’re on the right track (who doesn’t love a reminder that you’re doing the right thing?)

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Restaurant365

MAY 26, 2020

If your restaurant is emerging from survival mode to a break-even point or even slight profitability, it is important to reevaluate and tune up the largest expense for your restaurant: your restaurant prime cost. Your prime cost is a fundamental metric to track, because it includes your two largest expenses: food and labor.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 15, 2021

Your restaurant is constantly generating data, whether from your sales revenue, food costs, or labor hours. You may have a hunch that you are doing fewer table turns on the weekend, or that your inventory has gotten wasteful recently. You can also use your CoGS data to analyze your actual vs theoretical (AvT) food costs.

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 11, 2020

operators, mostly sales) minus your cash outflows (your operating costs, like food and drink, payroll, rent, etc.) For instance, you may need to proactively adjust your labor to meet a seasonal drop in sales, or plan for the best time to spend cash on any needed maintenance or upgrades. over a certain period of time.

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Restaurant365

MAY 17, 2022

Food inventory management goes way beyond counting the items on the shelves. Tight integration between your r estaurant inventory management software , point of sale (POS) system and restaurant accounting software is essential for executing key restaurant tasks that help control your food costs. That’s great.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 29, 2021

You can use back-office restaurant technology to support a positive guest experience in areas such as payment, inventory and food costs, and staff scheduling. During the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants implemented new safety measures designed to encourage social distancing and limit points of contact.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 14, 2020

Successful restaurant operations, in any kind of economy, depend on well-managed restaurant food inventory. Much of the typical food and beverage inventory in restaurants tends to have a relatively short shelf life, making accurate inventory numbers essential to run a functioning kitchen, make economical orders, and adapt to long-term trends.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2022

Upgrading to a handheld point-of-sale device will save your servers valuable time when taking guest orders. Or perhaps experimenting with using QR codes, which are a great option for customers to view the menu, order, and pay from their cell phone. Add warmth and ambience with fireplaces and heaters. Create a winter menu.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 22, 2021

As a restaurant owner or operator, keeping your food costs low is a continual challenge. Food cost is one of the largest expenses for your restaurant, and because it is a controllable cost, you can influence how it impacts your bottom line. The biggest factor in reducing food waste is how invested your store-level managers are.

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Healthy accounting procedures for restaurants can help you manage food and labor costs, understand your profits and losses, and make strategic decisions about expenses and investments. Between inventory, sales, and other data points like labor, restaurants generate an enormous amount of data. Restaurant accounting cycles.

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Restaurant365

JULY 21, 2021

On any given day, you may be receiving multiple food and beverage shipments from different vendors, farmers, or distributors. How do you keep track of all these different shipments and ingredients to minimize food waste, ensure you are prepared for service, and optimize what you’re spending on your ingredients?

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Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this two-part blog post series, you’ll learn the importance of forecasting in restaurants and how to accurately implement restaurant demand forecasting. Part 2 will take a deep dive into how to forecast restaurant sales, including labor demand forecasting and food demand forecasting. Think of a budget as a roadmap.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 6, 2021

From placing the next inventory order to scheduling staff, there are many decisions to be made every single day in a restaurant. Restaurant forecasting leverages historical revenue data, information about current conditions, and knowledge of external events to help project future sales levels.

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Apicbase

JUNE 16, 2023

The metrics and calculations in this list will help you bring order to the chaos and manage the performance of each unit in the chain. By regularly tracking his inventory and procurement metrics, Fabio was able to reduce his kitchens’ food costs by 18%. Why Are Metrics Important? It’s money that went straight to his bottom line.

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There has been new systems and new changes made in touchless payments, online ordering, contactless pickup, and more. QR codes have been mentioned a few times in our blogs. Recently, restaurants have been using QR codes to innovate their ordering systems. Food locker systems. These codes helped many restaurants in 2020.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 10, 2020

Because food and beverage costs make up a large part of a restaurant budget, your inventory method has large implications for your bottom line. If it’s not on the shelf, it can’t be stolen, spoiled or wasted. So, the key to minimizing food waste that can eat into your profits is effective restaurant inventory management.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Your restaurant food cost is pivotal to your business’ financial success. While you may have already implemented some techniques, like inventory management, there is an almost infinite level of detail you can dive into to refine your food costs. Regularly schedule for inventory checks. Prioritize accurate recipe costing.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The cost of food is one of the biggest operating expenses for a restaurant business. With perishable ingredients and fluctuating sales, controlling food costs in restaurants can be extremely challenging. Your food costs and your inventory are big budget line items. How do restaurants control food costs?

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 21, 2021

Because your food costs are one of your largest expenses, creating a focused food cost strategy can have an enormous impact on your business. Your food cost percentage is key to optimizing your profit levels. How to calculate food cost percentage. Calculate your ideal food cost percentage.

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Restaurant365

MAY 7, 2020

Most states have issued executive orders that provide specific requirements that must be followed in order to reopen dining rooms. Ensure proper training for food employees with new or altered duties and require that they apply the training according to established procedures. Enhancing your health and safety protocols.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When most restaurant owners think about how to manage restaurant inventory, they think of food cost control. For restaurant owners, inventory control is closely related to accounting and food cost management. Food costs are one of the biggest budget items in a restaurant. The nuts and bolts of restaurant inventory management.

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Sling

APRIL 27, 2023

How to improve your restaurant operations management 1) Make clear plans Many things need to go right for your restaurant to open its doors each day — everything from accepting orders, prepping food, and readying the front of the house to running staff meetings and ordering supplies for the next day.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2021

Prime cost represents the two largest controllable costs for your restaurant – food and labor. When you are able to lower your prime cost, even by a few percentage points, that is profit added back directly to your bottom line. At the foundation, it is your managers who lead the day-to-day work optimizing food and labor costs.

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Focus POS

MAY 24, 2021

After all, wouldn’t you prefer having your customers come to your dining room, pick up their food, or utilize your in-house delivery service? Consumers have become accustomed to ordering the food they love with a few swipes and taps of their fingers, and now, it’s something they’ll continue to expect. Read on to learn more. .

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

For example, sales forecasts can inform smart schedules that make the most out of available labor hours. While managers may always need to make some adjustments if sales fluctuate, a strategically written schedule can minimize disruptive changes for your staff. Does your restaurant group have a profitability strategist? Reducing CoGS.

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