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JBF Study: Independent Restaurants Are Actively Evolving

Modern Restaurant Management

The research stems from in-person chef interviews and a nationwide survey of more than 400 restaurant owners and operators spanning 47 states with respondents ranging from fine dining establishments to fast-casual venues, breweries, and caterers. "This

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

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Full-service restaurant, fine dining. Cafes, breweries, some full service restaurants, casual restaurants. Fast casual, cafes, breweries, Percentage of sales. Cafes or Breweries. A brewery likely has one or two “beertenders” pouring pints and clearing tables. Casual Dining Restaurants. Fine Dining.

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Picking Up Curbside: How to Improve Your Restaurant’s Curbside Service and Why It’s Here to Stay

Modern Restaurant Management

There could be some lasting savings, such as decreased congestion in drive-thru or less interior space dedicated to dining room. Without that communication, you’re just running a very large vending machine, which is fine if you intended to be a twenty-first century automat. More like a brewery, less like a liquor store.

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Building a Better Restaurant Bathroom

EATER

Any fine dining restaurant should look at this bathroom as aspirational.”. That’s what we mean when we say ‘fine dining,’” read the restaurant’s Instagram post. Brewability, a brewery in Englewood, Colorado, takes a similarly all-encompassing approach to accessibility. We got what you need.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

B Corp Restaurants As of early 2024, almost 150 restaurants around the world have achieved the certification, from fine-dining independents to fast-casual chains, with hotels, breweries and food delivery companies also dotting the list. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue?

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2021 Edition

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Full-service restaurant chains, which primarily rely on dine-in customers and had few if any off-premises services when the dine-in restrictions went into effect, bore the brunt of the transaction declines throughout the pandemic. 37 percent of restaurants report outdoor dining as their biggest revenue driver during COVID-19.

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For Marginalized Chefs, Are Pop-Ups the Path to Success?

EATER

By presenting cuisine that has not traditionally been championed in a fine dining, wine-tasting setting, Mistry hopes to challenge people’s expectations about cuisine — and the people who make it. Over the past few years, one-off guest chef appearances and chef-in-residence programs have proliferated in the fine dining industry.