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How Restaurants Can Use Technology to Expand Outdoor Space

Modern Restaurant Management

If one thing is clear, it’s that outdoor dining is here to stay. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restaurants have had to rethink their spaces in order to accommodate additional outdoor dining capacity. All over the country, restaurants have gotten creative to reconfigure outdoor spaces into al fresco dining areas.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Cold Weather Lull

Modern Restaurant Management

With some outdoor dining pilot programs coming to an end as we head into the winter months, tens of thousands of restaurants across the country will be forced to operate at a fraction of typical capacity without added outdoor seating to supplement the loss. Managing cash flow can be difficult for seasonal businesses.

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2024 Emergency Planning for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots. Invest in a drop safe.

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Some Fresh Air Is Necessary to Jumpstart Restaurants Reopening

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Allowing restaurants to utilize outdoor parking space is a way for municipalities to offer additional relief to local restaurants and help consumers feel safe and more comfortable when dining out. Therefore, maximizing the ability to utilize outdoor space to increase seating capacity will be critical for restaurants during this period.

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Cashless Consumer Creates Need for Secure Connectivity

Modern Restaurant Management

Credit card payments have been outpacing cash transactions for some time now. The use of cash continues to fall, down to just 19 percent in 2021, and at the same time, spurred by the pandemic and simultaneous advances, digital payments are on the rise. Mobile POS. Self-Service Sales Kiosks.

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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Nowadays, though, owners and managers unable financially to bring back their full complement of staff are relying on the technology to facilitate almost everything with a food order, except make it. Many kiosk manufacturers don’t offer kiosks with cash options. Here’s how: Augmenting the Workforce.

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What Does Social Distancing Mean for Social Businesses Like Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

As the Coronavirus crisis continues, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked industry insiders what best practices restaurants should have in place for social distancing, as per CDC guidelines. Make it clear to the servers to limit the number of times they are touching cash and credit cards. "Social Pellegrini, Jr.