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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. To capture their attention and loyalty, businesses, including restaurants, must prioritise easy access and convenience. Read the first part, here.

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Tip Pooling Tools to Easily Manage Tips at Your Restaurant

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Tipping practices are in constant conversation in the restaurant industry. There have been a number of ways in which restaurant owners have tried to create a more equitable system for employees to earn consistent, fair wages to improve retention. You can't keep up with local labor laws. Table of Contents. What is tip pooling?

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Tips for Handling Aggressive Restaurant Customers

Modern Restaurant Management

Customer satisfaction is always the top priority in the hospitality and restaurant industry, so it's essential to know how to handle aggressive customers in a way that will diffuse the situation and leave the customer satisfied. Learning how to respond to an aggressive customer is a crucial step for any restaurant owner.

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New Bill Forces 3rd Party Delivery Apps to Full Transparency. What’s Next?

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This important development aligns with the growing trend of conscious consumers demanding increased transparency, already apparent in flights, ridesharing like Uber and Lyft and mobile plans. The question for restaurant operators now is: What’s next? New Law Demands Transparency from 3rd Party Delivery Apps.

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How Much Should You Tip at a Restaurant? A Definitive Guide to Tipping Etiquette.

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Giving should feel good. Yet, the practice of giving tips has become a much-maligned and misunderstood aspect of the restaurant experience. Most restaurant guests know to tip in full-service restaurants. There's a lot that the general public doesn't understand about restaurants.

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Why Restaurant Benefit Structures Are Unique

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. The logic with high deductible plans and consumer-driven strategies in healthcare used to be that participants would be more judicious in spending their dollar for medical services.

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Staying on Top of FDD Requirements for Risk and Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s hard to escape the continuing boom in restaurant franchises. Quick-serve brands are leading the trend, and not just for restaurants, but for franchises overall. The pressures extend beyond balancing higher costs in an inflationary environment or the never-ending challenge of finding, training and keeping good staff.