Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Diners interested in taking advantage of this offer direct-message the professional fraudster along with a screenshot of their shopping cart from a food delivery service and their delivery address to place the order. The fraudster responds via direct message offering to buy the items in the shopping cart for a fraction of the actual cost.

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Delivery Food Safety Online Ordering Food Supply 474

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Instead of ordering la carte, they see the bundle as a convenient, cost-effective option, even if they end up spending more than they originally intended. Why do bundles work? They tap into pricing psychology customers perceive greater value when multiple items are packaged together at a slightly discounted price.

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Ordering Online Ordering Loyalty Program Customer Experience 349

Goliath Consulting

MARCH 14, 2025

Restaurants that offer flexibilitysuch as shareable plates, la carte options, or modifications for dietary needscan better accommodate these evolving preferences and enhance the guest experience. As a result, diners may prefer smaller portions, slower-paced meals, or easily digestible ingredients.

Email Marketing 195

Email Marketing 2025 Customer Experience Customer Service 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2022

consumers added sides, beverages and appetizers to their cart the most so far in 2022. Only eight percent said they never try a new menu item while 92 percent will often or occasionally try new menu items. No meal is complete without the side dish! When it comes to menu categories, U.S.

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Ordering Online Ordering Social Media 2022 520

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Within a single chat interface, consumers can go through the entire menu, choose food and beverage products, add them to their cart, and make payments. Automated Ordering AI-powered chatbots can handle customer orders, reducing the need for human intervention.

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Technology Seasonal Menu Online Ordering Customer Service 538

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2022

The à la carte menu pricing has remained the same.” .” Ranbir Bhatia, General Manager of Benares in Wyckoff, NJ, says they have also been bearing the higher costs and trying not to pass them on to guests for as long as possible. “We raised our prix-fixe lunch price by $1 and have increased catering prices minimally.

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Pricing Customer Service Magazine Delivery 504

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Chef Autonomy A smaller menu with a la carte offerings or even a simplified prix fixe menu can help the customer make decisions, and has the added benefit of helping the chef minimize costs. We’ve found that people actually prefer having fewer choices, because they’re already so bogged down with choices in their daily lives.

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Seasonal Menu 2024 Customer Experience Menu 251

ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

When every item is clear, skimmable, and consistent, guests are more likely to explore, try something new, and add more to their cart, especially on a restaurant website built for conversion. These labels create clarity, helping guests make informed choices without second-guessing or abandoning their cart.

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Menu Dietary Restrictions Online Ordering Mobile Ordering 195

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2020

Many restaurants are moving to family-style options, meal prep options, or even setting up a menu a la carte style. Being open to a shift in concept is an opportunity for work for your staff, and can build relationships with future guests. Take a look at what you have, and what you can provide.

Social Media 508

Social Media Take-out Training POS 508

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2021

Do not allow employees to hang aprons on them or block them with boxes or carts. These extinguishers are your basic use extinguisher used in putting out small fires. Extinguishers also need to be free of debris for easy access. Timing is everything when a fire starts. Testing Alarms.

Kitchen Safety 531

Kitchen Safety Front of House Equipment Take-out 531

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let's review the main features food delivery apps should include: User Interface Order and Shopping cart : The app should provide an easy-to-navigate menu and shopping cart with checkout. Moreover, investment is required to add all the necessary functions.

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Delivery Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Customer Service 448

EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

In October, shortly before Halloween, Tamez saw a post on Uni’s Instagram announcing a new feature: Enjoy the restaurant’s a la carte menu in the privacy of one of the Eliot Hotel’s suites. Dishes are then carted from the restaurant into rooms all at once, and diners can enjoy them at their leisure.

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Hotels Fine Dining Dine-in Front of House 343

Culinary Cues

MARCH 25, 2021

Great chefs are constantly working on adding to and enhancing their skills. [] VARIED EXPERIENCE: Chefs who are at the top of their game are individuals who have committed themselves to building a portfolio of unique experiences in all aspects of cooking from a’ la carte fine dining to street food, from large scale catered events to formal seven course (..)

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Communication Coaching Fine Dining Influencer 450

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Now is an optimal time to rethink your cash logistics solutions and consider whether an all-in-one partner could help you better compete in the market or if there are à la carte options that could solve the individual challenges you’re facing.

Cash Management 473

Cash Management Recycling Transportation Sports 473

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2020

Therefore, you need to set up a super simple form or cart item so that your own business can get in on the action. In an era where people want to support their local businesses but can't actually leave the house to do so, gift cards have emerged as one of the best ways to accomplish exactly that.

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Mobile Ordering Email Marketing Online Ordering Back of House 585

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

From eyebrow-raising splurges and quirky simple essentials to cultural events and TikTok trends that pushed consumers to hit “add to cart,” I thought this would be of interest to you and your readers!

Beverage 450

Beverage 2025 Fine Dining Guest Recovery 450

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2021

The ordering experience must be as much about filling a cart as it is expressing your purpose. Consider a virtual host—a video recording, an interactive bot, even an open Zoom channel to say hello and help people orient themselves. Without the visuals created by space and signage, your digital channels are your best storytelling tools.

Front of House 530

Front of House Online Ordering Food Order Small Business 530

EATER

MARCH 30, 2022

Even though vending was technically legalized in California in 2018 , state public health laws still make it almost impossible for most local vendors to get the permits they need to sell food in the formal economy, requiring extensive (and expensive) cart setups and prohibiting tasks like reheating food or cutting fruit.

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Food Food Safety Kitchen Safety License 246

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Now is an optimal time to rethink your cash logistics solutions and consider whether an all-in-one partner could help you better compete in the market or if there are à la carte options that could solve the individual challenges you’re facing.

Cash Management 411

Cash Management Transportation Recycling Small Business 411

EATER

MARCH 28, 2025

Ive done a la carte restaurants, hotels, catering, Burns says. Although these stadium chefs didnt necessarily anticipate creating food for tens of thousands of fans at the onset of their careers, theyre proud of running what they call the largest restaurant without tables in their respective cities.

Serving 251

Serving Seasonal Menu Food Supply Menu 251

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Slow and steady often beats out the brands that put the cart ahead of the customers. If you’re expanding into four new cities, there should be a defined logic behind these choices, instead of the “hypergrowth” days of the past.

Food 419

Food 2023 Social Media Customer Experience 419

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A Football Field Inflatable Cooler The Infladium walked so that the TrueZoo Inflatable Football Field basically a kiddie pool for snacks could run, and run it will, 20 yards for a touchdown into my Amazon cart.

Back of House 251

Back of House Sports 2017 2021 251

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Offering Bento Packs for individually portioned meals and a la carte buffet-style trays for customizable group settings, L&L’s catering options bring Hawaiian-style comfort food to events large and small throughout our locations nationwide.

2025 419

2025 Loyalty Program Social Media Fast Casual 419

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

weekdays and 10 a.m. Saturdays the day after you place your order (or any day after that)” Self-Isolation Survival Kits.

Food Truck 468

Food Truck Social Media Customer Service Government 468

7 Shifts

APRIL 29, 2021

Food trucks, carts, or stands. For applicants that are a brewpub, tasting room, taproom, brewery, winery, distillery, or bakery: Documents evidencing that onsite sales to the public comprise at least 33.00% of gross receipts for 2019, which may include Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) Forms 5130.9 Who is eligible to receive grants?

Restaurant Law 370

Restaurant Law Document Brewery Point of Sale 370

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This could mean things like non-slip floor mats, splash guards to prevent hot oil burns, and carts to easily move heavy items. For instance, you could: Make sure that you have the necessary tools and equipment to avoid employees being injured.

Employee Relations 504

Employee Relations Insurance Equipment Training 504

ChowNow

JULY 28, 2020

Customers would describe their vehicles in the “Special Instructions” box on the menu item, and then would add the item to their carts for checkout. Up until now, ChowNow restaurant partners have offered curbside ordering by listing it as an item on their menus.

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Ordering Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Food Safety 359

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

Salata Salad Kitchen began offering free delivery and new takeout options at select locations: a meal kit that feeds four, a “farmer’s market” basket featuring fresh produce, chicken and bottles of signature dressings in the kits and as a la carte options. Salata Meal Kit.

Social Media 526

Social Media Food Order Small Business Delivery 526

ChowNow

JUNE 17, 2020

Your guests will then add this dine-in item to their carts and—depending on your preferences—indicate the size of their party or choose a table indicator for where they’ll eat their meals. Description (if using table numbers) : Add this item to the cart if you’re dining in with us for a contactless dining experience!

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Online Ordering Ordering Website Management Demo 221

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. Let me explain. [] A BETTER CHANCE AT A FULL BRIGADE: Clubs, hotels, and resorts offer dynamic kitchens where cooks are constantly multi-tasking.

Hotels 505

Hotels Point of Sale Cash Management Training 505

Restaurant Business

MAY 14, 2024

The brand’s newest location in New York City’s Soho neighborhood showcases a rotating menu, beverages in test, a sidewalk coffee cart and enhanced customer experience.

Innovation 274

Innovation Beverage Customer Experience Menu 274

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Roll out the cart with mise en place that was prepped at the close of yesterdays business, slide those first pans of bacon and sausage in the oven, set the timer, put on butter to clarify, and oil the flat top to welcome pre-cooked, diced potatoes for home fries. Fill the steam table and grab a cup of coffee.

Back of House 520

Back of House Dine-in Restaurant Law Ordering 520

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Since gift cards make excellent stocking stuffers, not to mention solid gift choices for the workplace, customers should be able to easily find them on the website and add them to their online carts. Include Gift Card Messaging in Marketing Efforts. Marketing emails leading up to the holidays should tout the ability to purchase gift cards.

Point of Sale 341

Point of Sale Email Marketing Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering 341

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

When we look at vegetables as a ’la carte only then we degrade the value of the meal and the skill of the chef. Variety on the plate helps to frame in the entrée and enhance the experience of eating. Chefs know how to plan the right combinations to maximize the experience and that is exactly how an entrée should be offered.

Fine Dining 449

Fine Dining Food Truck Back of House Pricing 449

Culinary Cues

MAY 5, 2021

The buck stops here” is, in some people’s minds – carte blanche to use and abuse employees in certain positions. *Others may point to overly demanding owners and operators who expect that a salary paid infers that managers and chefs must be present whenever the restaurant or hotel is open for business. Is this true?

Hotels 473

Hotels Coaching Employee Relations Training 473

ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

For example, clear item descriptions, attractive photos, and intuitive upsell prompts can make it easier for customers to add more to their carts. What influences average order value AOV can be affected by how your online ordering system is set up. Also, the online ordering system you use can impact AOV.

Delivery 195

Delivery Online Ordering Loyalty Program Food 195

EATER

AUGUST 28, 2020

There are Alexa kiosks located around the store, a pick-up window for anyone who has made an online order, and the “Amazon Dash Cart,” which appears to automatically charge customers for whatever is in their carts when they walk through a specific lane. Fresh will also carry more conventional brands than Whole Foods.

Food 275

Food Online Ordering Food Order Customer Service 275