Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2023

Inventory, Ingredient Costs, and Seasonality Inventory management and controlling ingredient costs are critical for any restaurant's profitability. Employing efficient cash management software can help you track expenses and optimize cash flow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strategic Alignment Restaurant management businesses must deal with rapidly evolving markets, higher costs, supply chain shifts and delays, defensive business structures, higher interest rates and growing costs of borrowing. Businesses in the restaurant industry heavily rely on customer loyalty to maintain steady cash flow.

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Sculpture Hospitality

JULY 7, 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, bar owners around the world have learnt a number of lessons about managing their businesses during challenging times. Perhaps no lesson, however, has been as important as understanding cash flow.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Every business requires controls in pricing, consistency, quality, and cash handling. All of the tools are available for inventory control, purchasing systems, cash handling, costing templates, and quality assessment. Social media is very inexpensive, but someone needs to effectively manage it every day and every way.

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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. Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory. All of this (and more!)

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 4, 2020

Running a successful restaurant business is all about spending your cash wisely. You invest a large amount of your budget in inventory. When that inventory is wasted, stolen or spoiled before it’s sold, it must be written off as an expense in the books. What is restaurant inventory management?

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Restaurant365

MARCH 10, 2022

With food costs running at approximately 30% or higher, learning importance of inventory management and how to prevent common mistakes is critical in successfully driving down costs and maximizing profits. First, let’s break down the two types of inventory costing, Actual and Theoretical. Theoretical Variance.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2020

They include: Labor management software Order management software Inventory management software Guest engagement software Contactless, mobile payment processors 5 Tools to Use to Increase Operational Efficiency in Restaurants Did you know that 48% of restaurants use three or more tech vendors?

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The Restaurant Group

MARCH 11, 2024

Managing a restaurant involves so many moving parts, including sourcing high-quality ingredients, purchasing a seemingly endless list of supplies, managing staffing and scheduling, and budgeting for a profitable restaurant – all within a set budget. One example is our restaurant remote management service.

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The Restaurant Times

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Most restaurant owners fail to keep a tight check on restaurant inventory, and this is the biggest mistake they make. By not tracking inventory, you may be unwittingly increasing the food costs. This article discusses how restaurants in the UAE can monitor their restaurant inventory and control food costs.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 11, 2020

You won’t have cash coming in until you open your doors, so you’ll have to depend on your life savings, investments, and loans to get you through your first few weeks or months of business. If your space is worth $1 million, for example, you’ll need $100,000 in cash to lock in the space. You’ll need roughly 10% down on your space.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Small business owners in nearly every industry struggle with cash flow and how to best utilize their working capital. Nearly 60 percent of failed businesses cite cash-flow issues as a primary reason for their failure, which shows how cash flow management can make or break your business. Get Paid Faster.

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7 Shifts

JULY 21, 2020

From small business loans to microgrants to business credit cards, cash is available; it just takes a bit of application work and a little know-how. Best for: Businesses who need cash to keep their doors open and their staff employed. Best for: Small businesses that need substantial cash to do big things.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2024

They've also shared about shifts and growth in the pizza industry and three ways to increase a pizzeria or pizza chain’s cash flow. Ways to Increase Cash Flow Pay attention to internal issues and delivery orders – especially during peak hours. percent of pizza order cancellations happen between the same window.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Rapid inclination of restaurateurs to adopt POS software for better management of operations will complement the restaurant POS terminals market by 2027. Restaurant point-of-sale (POS) terminals are steadily replacing the now obsolete cash registers used in restaurants.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are short-term band aid solutions such as takeout, delivery, or even conversion into retail markets where wine inventories and local necessities take over space once occupied by diners, but they are not a replacement for a steady turn of tables. Even the best operators are at a loss for solutions.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. As long as the checkbook has a credit balance they are in good shape (until predictable sales slump and cash flow turns the corner).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

One study found that internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages and about 4 percent of restaurant sales. There are all kinds of different types of restaurant theft, ranging from food and inventory, theft at the register and checkout counter, external grease theft, time theft and employee product theft.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2023

It takes a lot to become an entrepreneur including learning actively from mistakes, understanding operations, and managing finances. Many entrepreneurs who are new to the business might not consider issues like cash availability, inventory costs, and overhead costs.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2021

This process includes focusing on your daily finances , such as cash flow, payroll, and inventory. Invest in Technology Accounting and inventory management software are just a couple of the technologies that small business owners should invest in. Or check out how 7shifts optimizes your restaurants labour management.

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Hot Schedules

JULY 15, 2021

Mitigating Cost Price Inflation Via Supplier Management. Not only does this deliver greater control, but negotiated rates also help avoid the inevitably higher costs that come from buying with petty cash. Smart operators take purchasing management further by using electronic trading platforms. Related Posts.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

STATE OF MIND: Many are approaching this challenge as a roadblock to success, something that is preventing restaurants from finally getting their groove back and watching cash flow exceed the cost of doing business. True – this will not help restaurants today, but we need to get beyond crisis management and start to think long term.

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re a bookkeeper, accountant, restaurant owner, or store-level manager, understanding the basics of accounting can pay dividends for your business. Healthy accounting procedures for restaurants can help you manage food and labor costs, understand your profits and losses, and make strategic decisions about expenses and investments.

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Focus POS

JUNE 17, 2021

Like age verification, there are other inherent hurdles to running a bar that, when poorly managed, can lead to severe issues. It’s crucial that you can produce what’s on your menu with liquor inventory integration. Cash drawer shortages. Liquor inventory integration. Multiple cash drawers on a station.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

Gone are the days of cash-only transactions. POS systems offer a multitude of benefits for businesses, including: Streamlined operations by automating various tasks such as sales transactions, inventory management and reporting. Enhanced accuracy through minimized human errors in order processing and inventory tracking.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

The reasons for the accelerated growth of this idea, the contribution of POS to these kitchens, the display systems to make the operations easier, and the automated operations used in the inventory as well in the kitchen for easy food management- are some of the ideas that will be discussed in the following paragraphs.

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As 2021 begins, there are many restaurant management best practices that can be applied to strengthen your business, in the short and long term. Manage cash flow by creating a cash flow forecast. Your total cash flow is your cash inflows (for restaurant. over a certain period of time.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 25, 2020

Comprehending your restaurant cash flow is essential to running your restaurant business. Cash flow refers to the amount of cash coming into your restaurant minus the amount of cash going out on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Common factors that cause cash flow issues. Too much inventory.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The management team. Management team. Here is also a good time to discuss processes you plan to adhere to in the back of the house, such as food cost control methods and who your inventory suppliers are. You may want to list out: Team Management. Inventory management systems. Task management tools.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 8, 2021

During a “normal” year, restaurant owners and operators face issues such as cash flow and capital, inventory management, hiring and training and providing excellent customer service. As far as restaurant challenges go, inventory mistakes can be some of the costliest. Contact us to learn more.

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Society Insurance

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

To expedite the process of wrapping up for the night, restaurant and bar owners can turn to a closing checklist that outlines tasks to be completed by front-of-house staff, back-of-house staff, and management. Taking inventory and reporting low-stock items to the chef or manager. Properly securing all cash in a drop safe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Seventy-four percent of full service restaurants (FSRs) managed to maintain or increase their sales during the pandemic; however, profit margins in 2021 declined to 10 percent, compared to 12 percent in 2019, according to third annual State of Full Service Restaurants Report released by TouchBistro.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

Improving from 20 percent margin to a 35-percent margin on a $12 dish, serving five0 covers per night translates into a $90 net increase in profits, allowing for increased cash flow to sustain operations. Optimize Inventory. Let’s say you operate a burger shop with beginning inventory valued at $5,000. Adopt Technology.

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7 Shifts

JULY 28, 2021

You would think something as second nature to people as communication would be easy to manage in the workplace. Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again. Pre-Shift Meetings.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 5, 2020

From cloud-based POS systems to mobile apps designed to improve employee satisfaction and streamline scheduling, technology is bettering business and changing the landscape of restaurant management. So why is it that alcohol management is lagging? The problem with outdated alcohol management.

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Clover - Restaurants

APRIL 23, 2024

An existing restaurant also has an established cash flow, as well as a system in place for managing inventory, staffing, and running the kitchen. There’s no guarantee that employees will stick around for a change of management or if you start changing the operating model. Is the real estate owned or leased?

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