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A Guide to Black Box Intelligence Data: How to See Current Trends Broken Down by Restaurant Category

Black Box Intelligence

Fine dining, upscale, casual family dining and casual dining restaurants fall under this category. Family dining restaurants. Family dining restaurants have average guest checks below $15. Casual dining restaurants. This segment is typically reported as the mid-range casual dining segment.

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Meeting Off-Premise Demand While Rebuilding In-Restaurant Sales to Boost Profitability

Restaurant365

The rise of off-premise dining. Off-premise dining certainly accelerated during the pandemic. Dining room closures or capacity restrictions drove restaurants to increase their sales through off-premise channels. Is off-premise dining here to stay? Many guests are eager to dine in restaurants again.

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8 Tips to Optimize Restaurant Labor Costs Despite Higher Minimum Wages

Restaurant365

However, that number can range, with quick service restaurants on the low end and fine dining establishments on the high end. Applying tools like smart employee scheduling based on SPLH percentage goals to your management, FOH, and BOH teams individually helps you optimize each part of your labor cost.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

With the rise of delivery and take-out, restaurants will start getting creative with the in-dining experience. We’ve also seen off-premise and delivery gain a lot of traction in the last year, however, in the family dining space, providing guests with unmatched hospitality will remain crucial. Off-premise dining is here to stay.

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