Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Auggie’s became more than just a success story; it became the centerpiece of my book, Drafting a Dream. The book’s success, becoming an Amazon bestseller, reinforced the power of these lessons. The book’s success, becoming an Amazon bestseller, reinforced the power of these lessons. This is critical.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 2, 2025

Cheba Hut recently released a Mural Look-Book that celebrates these artist partnerships and how this unconventional design approach supports both culture and community in each location. That’s what the book represents for us. It’s a cultural piece, not a profit play. We think the art world needs more of that.

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EATER

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The book traces Lane’s adoration of pasta from slurping cheesy noodles in his mother Cherie’s kitchen in the Chicago suburbs, to a summer spent studying and falling in love with eggplant Parmigiana in Umbria, up to making cacio e pepe in his current New York City apartment kitchen. Your Pasta Sucks is part cookbook, part autobiography.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2025

When scalpers or bots grab reservations, genuine customers can't book tables. Restaurants appear fully booked, which discourages potential walk-ins. And when scalpers can't sell the reservations they've hoarded, restaurants face costly no-shows despite appearing fully booked.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Survey results indicate diners are seeking distinctive dining experiences, planning ahead with early reservations, and seeking out earlier evening bookings The holiday season is bringing a wave of excitement among diners, with 68 percent of respondents planning to celebrate at restaurants or bars.

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EATER

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Gina Chung’s book cover cake was actually an ice cream cake. Jemimah Wei For some authors, the book cover cake has become a publishing rite of passage In the middle of the New York City launch party this spring for Gina Chung’s debut novel, Sea Change , Chung’s friend Vanessa Chan snuck out to pick up a surprise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here’s how to communicate with staff transparently: Have an Open Book Policy : Keep your team in the loop about everything, like menu changes, supply chain hiccups, price adjustments, and new strategies. It's how you build trust, foster teamwork, and empower staff to navigate challenges alongside you.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2025

By embracing flexibility, restaurants can optimize their spaces for what books best and pivot quickly as customer preferences evolve. Banquet seating, sliding partitions and retractable walls enable restaurants to transition seamlessly between lunch rushes, intimate dinners and private events.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Takeout orders increased 46 percent Shift in Guest Dining Preferences for Valentine's As restaurants prepare for Valentine's Day, new data from Tock reveals a clear shift in guest dining preferences and booking patterns. Among the highlights: Restaurants are seeing prepaid bookings up 67 percent compared to this time last year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 3, 2025

Also, I am an open book about our business, and that has helped our team feel more connected in the business instead of just someone coming in to work a shift. It’s also very important that they respect and take care of each other. Being respectful and kind to each other is something I talk about on every interview.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 10, 2025

While it’s simpler for restaurant management, it can lead to cash flow problems for smaller restaurants if they don’t keep their books properly balanced. It’s often the least liked for many employees because it leaves them to rely on only one check each month.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2025

This article is inspired by my book, 10 Rules of the Chef in the Modern Era. While the book offers a practical and concise guide, here I’d like to dive deeper into one of its core principles—highlighting how thoughtful preparation shapes true leadership in the kitchen. Why did you include this concept in your book?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This technology can boost reservations and foster customer loyalty by promptly addressing inquiries and facilitating bookings. For example, implementing AI-powered digital assistants enables restaurants to offer 24/7 customer service, transforming online interactions into seamless, personalized experiences.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 22, 2025

It's the second state to adopt a Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act, designed to stop the unauthorized sale of bookings. New York was first to make the move last year, and similar bills are pending in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Hawaii and Nevada.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2025

Team Building Activities Organize team-building events or outings, such as scavenger hunts, book clubs,or flower-arranging classes,to strengthen bonds among employeesand builda sense of community within the workplace. Engage employees in the decision-making process and involve them in designing and implementing programs that meet their needs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The violations didn’t stop there: The restaurant also paid workers off the books to avoid payroll taxes, resulting in an estimated $400,000 in unpaid FICA taxes. The owners received significant prison time and fines for their role in the scheme.

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EATER

APRIL 22, 2025

Here, she discusses the current cookbook market, what shes looking for in a proposal, and why people in hospitality are already well-poised to write a book. In recent years, we also saw the rise of a lot of pop culture crossover projects, books from celebrities or tie-ins with entertainment properties. Its more fragmented now.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2024

"Gen Z, parents, urbanites, and affluent diners are driving bookings, particularly for family gatherings and dinners with friends. . "Heading into the holiday season, it’s clear that restaurants need to deliver standout service and ensure they are ready to meet high demand," Fink added. "Gen

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A new book dropping today has some answers. " Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine caught up with Laroche to learn more about why he wrote this book, the state of restaurant culture and more. Why write this book and why now? The pandemic gave me the time to write the book.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2025

It was included in my proposal, so it was always part of the mission statement of this book. I had a brilliant recipe tester, Bonnie Benwick, who crossed all my ts for me (pro-tip: hire a whip-smart recipe tester if you ever decide to include recipes in a book) and I'm thrilled with how everything turned out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2025

Diners are booking their tables well in advance, turning “no reservations available” into a badge of honor that signals high demand and exclusivity. Trends in recent years have reflected that younger adults (18-34) drive the demand for brunch at 30 percent of bookings, Instagram friendly experiences and higher energy music.

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ChowNow

JUNE 27, 2025

OpenTable OpenTable is both a review platform and a booking engine, which means guests can find you, read reviews, and reserve a table in one seamless process. And because people book directly through the app, your visibility depends on how well your listing converts browsers into bookings.

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EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There’s no better or more thoughtful gift for any home cook than a book they’ll love along with the supplies they’ll need to get cooking. Cookbooks make fantastic gifts, and a thoughtfully chosen book can easily become a cherished addition to someone’s culinary collection.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

The book's highlighted advice includes: Pick The Battles to Win – Ganzler helps companies gather, organize, and evaluate myriad issues they could take on. Why did you want to write this book and why now? I hope the title captures the dual goals of the book. I hope the title captures the dual goals of the book.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” “Personalized sommelier experiences with paired tasting menus to the exact standards of our guest booking an event. Reservation platforms are used often to book tables, but we have seen an increase in people calling and wanting to speak with a person at the restaurant to make reservations.

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ChowNow

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Order Up More Online Profitability Solutions Our free e-book offers even more detail about how to boost your online order profitability. Download our online order profitability e-book to learn more ! The post Elevate Takeout Profits with Third-Party App Strategy appeared first on ChowNow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2022

Imagine that your restaurant has an ordering app or a website where diners can book a table. To make things easier you might allow returning customers to log in to your website with an email and password when they want to make another booking – this creates a vulnerability.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Here is one excerpt from his journal of observations: Service industry work develops the soft skills recruiters talk about on LinkedIn discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. Every time I look back on a long career, these words seem to resonate.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 8, 2025

Shared boards allow clients and designers to react to visuals intuitively, even when they don’t speak in formal design language.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

That search engine query turns into a website visit, which can then turn into a table booking. Using it will cost you nothing, and if it attracts even a single table booking, your ROI is through the roof. Those people could be past patrons who might just need the right special offer to entice them to book their next visit.

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EATER

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It was the book that ultimately helped Jell-O become profitable,” Lohman says. Leah Koenig is a food writer and the author of seven cookbooks, most recently the IACP-award winning book, Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome’s Jewish Kitchen. They are like the Trojan Horse of snacks that get people excited about their pantries.”

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