7 Shifts

JANUARY 23, 2020

This advice were submitted by owners and managers of restaurants of all sizes, concepts, and locations in the forthcoming 7shifts Restaurant Labor Management Study in 2020 ( subscribe to get your copy when it’s published!). Thoroughly research restaurant costs (operational, labor, equipment, etc.)—both Congrats! ??

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked experts for their thoughts on trends and challenges that will affect the restaurant industry in 2023. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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2023 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 195

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Use order information with inventory management software for smarter purchasing. Restaurant Task Management. 7shifts Restaurant Scheduling Software.

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Technology Front of House Social Media Back of House 370

Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 10, 2024

With billions at stake and the need to adapt rapidly to market dynamics, understanding how REITs can support your expansion, renovation, or operational optimization is vital. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are companies that own, operate, or finance income-producing real estate across various sectors. What Are REITs?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? From the very beginning we worked to attract loyal guests seeking an authentic, family dining experience. Here are their responses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their views on trends. Fortunately, we have exceeded in our efforts to reduce our footprint and maximize profitability to effectively operate our drive-thrus and maintain team productivity. Here are their insights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Seven of ten restaurants are owned by individual operators, most of whom are independent, according to the National Restaurant Association. Operators will need to think locally. Independent restaurants and chains alike will finally make the management of local marketing channels a priority. The pandemic changed that.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2020

The dining experience of yesterday, however, with packed houses and quickly rotating tables is looking like less and less of a possibility moving forward. Luckily, biometric technology like facial recognition, offer benefits that go way beyond helping us enhance dine-in safety. Determining Proximity and Spatial Capacity.

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Fast Casual Cash Management Customer Experience Back of House 128

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

With more states lifting sanctions on dine-in options, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Yelp's Small Business Expert Emily Washcovick to learn about ways restaurants can successfully make the transition and slowly ramp up operations, while keeping guest and staff safety top of mind.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag. Mixed take-out bag.

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2020 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Fast Casual 195

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

However, servers are not the only ones who contribute to a guest's dining experience. You might see this solution at fast-casual restaurants or coffee shops, where a tip jar sits on the counter and its contents are divided among the team at the end of a shift. Table of Contents. What is a Tip Out? Tip Out Methods. Bartenders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The hardest hit have been casual dining sit-down restaurants and national chains that complied with local COVID-19 mandates to limit or ban indoor dining. Surviving are the fast-food chains, where more than 60 percent of their sales come through the drive through. Fail to pay rent and you’ll soon cease operating.

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Customer Service Cash Management Small Business Communication 170

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. The key to the industry's recovery will be the strength of each daypart. foodservice industry. Visits at P.M.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We’ve recently been asked a lot to work as an objective third party to validate new models, speed of operations, new initiatives (from changes in positioning to new prototypes to what geographies to launch into), long-term strategic plans, and brand portfolios. Will consumers like it just as much as the management team does?

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 3, 2022

There are so many things to think about — from inventory management to restaurant payment and billing and more — it can be difficult to keep track of it all. That’s where restaurant management software comes in. In this roundup, we will take a look at some of the best restaurant management software out there.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features Grubhub's State of the Plate 2020 trend report, the fragility of "open," di g ital resilience and brand intimacy. Financial Trends Insights. Quick service has reached nine consecutive weeks of strong positive comp sales growth.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Point of Sale Fast Casual 184

Lavu

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

They are a hybrid system that can take orders, process credit card payments, print receipts, operate as a server station, and display information on a user-friendly screen. The benefits of a POS system to the on-premise ordering process include: Tracking daily cash in and cash out. Recording payment methods used by each guest.

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Focus POS

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s a system that takes the place of a traditional cash register and provides much more than basic transaction functionality. Restaurant point of sale software empowers businesses to control labor costs, manage inventory, and have deeper visibility into business operations. What is restaurant point of sale (POS) software?

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Not accepting cash eliminates the risk of thefts and reduces crime rates in general. The fifth time the Park Café & Coffee Bar in Baltimore, Maryland, was held up at gunpoint, the owner decided to remove the cause: cash. The newest tech trend in restaurants? Going cashless. You read that right.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Is there a shortage of healthy fast-food options? Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons. Craft a comprehensive financial blueprint to manage your restaurant’s expenses.

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Lavu

MARCH 27, 2020

The words “restaurant management system” rarely cause excitement. Food is fascinating, and dining out often leads to cherished memories, but a restaurant’s transaction system does not make it into those memories. The point is that restaurants and dining habits have changed dramatically in the past two centuries.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

If your staff relies on outdated methods of placing orders, it’s likely that restaurant communications are strained, which means your restaurant is operating below its potential. The speeds they can work at might not be as fast as lightning, but as close as humanly possible. To meet their fast expectations, you need a fast module.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 2, 2020

You can’t run a restaurant without employees, which means that processing payroll is an essential task for restaurant owners, operators, and managers. For restaurant owners and operators, the first step in understanding your payroll is to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts, regulations, and responsibilities.

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Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Prime costs are kind of like the restaurant world’s version of a report card for management, measuring how well they are doing keeping the joint profitable. The cost of goods sold, or COGS, are hands down something anyone who’s run a restaurant knows about. What Are COGS & Why They Matter. and not much else.

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Inventory Point of Sale Waste Cash Management 83

Web Diner

AUGUST 5, 2020

According to a Gordon Haskett analysis, fast-food giants are quietly raising their menu prices for delivery orders , implementing a premium food delivery pricing strategy. According to a Gordon Haskett analysis, fast-food giants are quietly raising their menu prices for delivery orders , implementing a premium food delivery pricing strategy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Because the facility includes a kitchen for restaurants to prepare foods, the only equipment needed to operate a Dickey’s location is a smoker and a warming cabinet.

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BNG Point of Sale

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In this post, we will explore what an ideal restaurant food margin is and how to calculate it so that you can have an easier time managing your business and know exactly where you stand financially. . Understanding profit margins is a vital skill to the success of any restaurant business and common restaurant operations.

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The Food Corridor

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It may be six months or even a year before we truly see operations return to normality so be prepared to continue with the extra precautions for now. It may be six months or even a year before we truly see operations return to normality so be prepared to continue with the extra precautions for now. We all know what happened next. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Since the acquisition, SALIDO has operated in stealth mode, strengthening its product team, focusing on product development, and introducing many key features. Additionally, SALIDO has launched integrations like Oracle OPERA to support the evolving needs of SALIDO’s hospitality operators during this challenging time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

Each new brand will operate at virtual kitchen locations, which are delivery-only, and will offer new items that are off-shoots of Dog Haus’ signature menu. National Restaurant Association Show Canceled. The 2020 National Restaurant Association Show, which we had planned to hold in Chicago on May 16-19, has officially been canceled.

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Food Supply Kitchen Safety Cash Management Food Safety 93

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features recovery data, POS performance and shifting habits of diners. As for returning to restaurants, less than half (42 percent) of consumers say they will dine-in at restaurants just as they did prior to the pandemic. On the Road to Recovery.

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2020 Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Online Ordering 171

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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2019 Compost Mobile Ordering Point of Sale 116

Web Diner

AUGUST 5, 2020

According to a Gordon Haskett analysis, fast-food giants are quietly raising their menu prices for delivery orders , implementing a premium food delivery pricing strategy. According to a Gordon Haskett analysis, fast-food giants are quietly raising their menu prices for delivery orders , implementing a premium food delivery pricing strategy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this column, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine looks at newly introduced menu items from top brands. California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), is relaunching its popular Thank You Card promotion that rewards every guest with prizes just for dining at the restaurant. The best part is every card is a winner!” Value Meal.

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2023 Menu Seasonal Menu Back of House 99

EATER

JANUARY 5, 2022

At the Food on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the food service industry laid out its vision for a future in which customers never have to wait. Just don’t think too hard about how that’d work. The conference room at the Bellagio hotel swelled with the horns of “Ride of the Valkyries.” What a bold future.

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The Food Corridor

MAY 22, 2020

First of all, it might not be a post-Covid world, but more of a managed Covid world. Dining Out. We can get a clearer picture by looking at a city like Hong Kong, one of the most densely populated in the world which, despite bordering China, has managed to minimize the spread of the virus without a full lockdown.

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OpenTable

JULY 8, 2022

For example, an attorney who has 50 restaurant clients that are all fast-food chains can rightly claim that they have a lot of restaurant experience, but if you’re planning to open something closer to The French Laundry, this is not a good fit. The best way to find a great attorney is to ask trusted and respected peers for referrals.

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