Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

– Neal Cohen, CMO / Co-Founder of Tip Top Proper Cocktails. Those who traditionally favor casual dining chains with full service may trade down to fast casual while those who typically dine in fast casual may dip into lower price points at fast food. Operators have spent years adapting to the labor crisis.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2020

percent in the first week of January across fast casual and quick service restaurants in the UK as compared to the first week of December. Oregon-based Coconut Bliss, which has been creating organic, plant-based ice cream since 2005, begun working with a number of fast-casual restaurants in order to provide customers vegan dessert options.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Fast casual: 28.9% Casual: 33.2% Upscale casual: 30.4% Pro tip : Use this labor cost savings calculator to see how much you can save on labor costs using a scheduling app like 7shifts. A platform like 7shifts offers scheduling, team communication , tip management, payroll, and more. Pizza: 31.3%

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

First, you need to include their pay and how they will be paid, as well as your overtime and tips policies. Before you distribute your restaurant employee handbook, have a lawyer—preferably one who specializes in employment law or restaurants—go through it and ensure your best interests are protected.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Other highlights include: Check Size Up, Tips Down: Guests are willing to treat themselves to menu items like steaks, caviar, truffles and tasting menus, resulting in an average 14 percent increase in their bill. However, when it comes to tipping, it seems Cupid missed the memo, and there's a 1.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

" At least 4 in 10 operators in each of the three limited-service segments — quickservice, fast casual, and coffee and snack — believe the addition of drive-thru lanes will become more common in 2023. The average Valentine’s Day dinner with food, drinks, and tip cost diners $121 in 2023. Calmer Seas Ahead The U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

As we look to celebrate Earth Day, restaurant industry insiders offer their top tips and trends. Fun tip – Become friendly with a farmer at the market. My biggest tip to bringing sustainability to the forefront in the culinary space is sourcing ingredients from local urban farms. Veggie Grill.

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Indoor Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You know you need restaurant promotions to bring in new customers, but when you’re a fast-casual restaurant owner, this is often at the bottom of a very long to-do list, especially if you’re just starting out. Check out these tips to avoid these advertising mistakes we’ve seen fast-casual restaurants make over the years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice Group are coming together to strengthen their OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts distribution capabilities. By coming together, we can create one of the truly great technology-enabled distribution businesses found in any industry. Parts Town and Heritage Combine. Plant-Based Learning.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2019

"OneDine makes the dining experience for everyone more efficient and streamlined and when customer satisfaction goes up so do server tips," said Rom Krupp, Founder & CEO of OneDine. "While ” McCain Foods Othello employs over 450 individuals who produce and distribute over 400,000 million pounds of frozen products.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 2, 2020

However, calculating, distributing, and double-checking restaurant payroll for your employees is complex, and any errors and non-compliance with government mandates can result in costly fines or taxes for your business. Payroll is the process through which a business calculates and distributes wages to employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Since the expansion with Toast Capital, we now have additional seating which allows us to accommodate more guests, grow our revenue, and increase server tips.”*. These compact and nutritionally dense meals will be distributed through school backpack programs and food banks in MOD communities across the country.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. Tip: Your competitor analysis needs to include the digital space too. How we consume food, how menus are engineered , and even how restaurants are designed all owe a hat tip to IG.

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Sling

JULY 24, 2023

3) 7Shifts 7Shifts allows you to automatically post job openings for different positions on sites like Indeed, post training videos for new hires, create schedules, calculate payroll, and distribute tips. In addition, Toast offers products ranging from payroll and tips management to inventory management , email marketing and more.

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Sante

APRIL 13, 2020

Plant based “burgers” also appear on the menu of Del Frisco’s Grille , an upscale casual eatery with 18 locations across the U.S. Then prices come down a bit as the product becomes more mainstream, and as manufacturers open up distribution.” “There’s also an adoption curve at play.

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EATER

MAY 24, 2022

A portion of the proceeds go to Rethink Food , a nonprofit started by a former EMP chef that distributes plant-based meals across New York City. Eleven Madison Home makes much of the provenance of its produce, its hyperseasonality, and the recipes that you can sometimes find at the restaurant itself.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 17, 2020

Your payroll is the process of calculating and distributing wages to your employees. The restaurant industry faces a lot of industry-specific regulations on payroll, with laws regulating hourly employee scheduling and tipped wage workers, as well as compliance with the Affordable Care Act regarding seasonal and variable hour employees.

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Marketing4Restaurants

DECEMBER 22, 2019

These Best Restaurant Podcasts for 2020 delve into all aspects of managing a restaurant and insider tips on how to craft a profitable restaurant business. Episode 41 – How Food Distribution Really Works with Bo Bryant. Secret Sauce. The Restaurant Coach. How Small Chains Can Tackle Delivery.

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Xtra Chef

APRIL 15, 2020

From completely changing their concept, like Canlis in Seattle going from fine dining institution to burger drive-thru spot, to philanthropic efforts, like José Andrés’ quick work to distribute meals to those in need, plenty of big brands in the industry have sprung into action. The Philanthropy Flip. A Special Delivery.

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Indoor Media

JULY 26, 2018

This category includes both traditional quick-service chains and the newer, booming fast-casual (also known as counter service) segment that has been growing faster than any other restaurant concept over the past five years. That’s why we distribute your ads at the grocery store closest to your restaurant. Who doesn’t love a good deal?

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The company has many single unit clients, all the way through hospitality concepts with over 60 units from all segments of the industry, including QSR, fast casual, upscale casual and fine dining. RRFMG also services the retail industry, food manufacturing and distribution, as well as hospitality industry. Beyond the U.S,

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SpotOn

JULY 15, 2024

A host at a casual family restaurant could be more involved in the dining room, ensuring guests have full water glasses and pitching in if a server needs a food runner. A good host will distribute large parties equitably since they're more profitable for servers (though they're also more work).

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EATER

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was surprised, for example, by how stern Stewart comes off in some clips, and how prescriptive her home-keeping tips can seem. All of this is useful context in understanding why Stewart’s more casual, less-stuffy public image today — even lending her name and likeness to CBD products and Bic lighters — is so compelling.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

6 Proven Tips To Create A Successful Restaurant Branding Strategy . Is your business a sit-down restaurant, a pop-up bar, a casual counter-service restaurant, or a food truck? Distribution of flyers around your locality. What measures must one take to build a loyal customer base ? Know Your Customer.

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Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

Employee tips. Similarly, if employee tips are not being processed correctly, you can utilize a more robust POS system to distribute tips fairly to the correct FOTH staff. Such a system is ideal for casual dining and fine dining restaurants struggling with long lines of customers waiting for a table.

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Black Box Intelligence

MAY 26, 2021

I remember nearly falling out of my chair a few years back at a conference where the Senior Director of Ford Motors social media casually threw out the number $75 million without batting an eye. He heard his buddies that work there talk about the $400 in tips they made on Cinco de Mayo. I can speak from experience.

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Black Box Intelligence

MAY 26, 2021

I remember nearly falling out of my chair a few years back at a conference where the Senior Director of Ford Motors social media casually threw out the number $75 million without batting an eye. He heard his buddies that work there talk about the $400 in tips they made on Cinco de Mayo. I can speak from experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The study highlights the views of consumers as well as food and beverage industry decision-makers worldwide from distribution and warehouses to grocery stores and restaurants around safety, traceability and transparency. Actionable tips for making the most of your R&M budget. "This Studying Restaurant Repairs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

.” 7shifts Launches Tip Pooling. 7shifts launched a new solution designed to help operators and managers streamline the complicated and time-consuming tip tracking and distribution process. " Tip Pooling has been designed to offer three benefits to operators and managers: Create and customize tip pools with ease.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

” “We’re ready to feed corporate America once they return,” said Hadrien Delande, Chief Marketing Officer at B.GOOD, a fast casual restaurant chain. Previously limited in availability, ExpressLine is now available for nationwide distribution. “And ezCater’s Relish service is a great way to do that.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Fans can scan the QR code available on all pint lids to find recipes, videos, and tips to enhance holiday creations. The range incorporates Microban®, a proven antimicrobial technology which is distributed evenly throughout the textured hardcoat.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Suddenly it feels like every cuisine is at the tip of our tastebuds all the time — an immense amount of info to parse, making it a full-time job just to plan a weekend getaway. Dance and dine Vendors perch on street corners near popular dance spots, distributing warm empanadas to partyers as they emerge into the morning.

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EATER

AUGUST 17, 2023

In an Instagram reel from last year, a pair of disembodied hands tips a large metal bowl full of neon-orange yolks into a well of flour, an act whose ostensible purpose is to make fresh pasta but whose effect is to freak me out. They would make the ingredients ‘refined,’ and charge more but pay less.” So too does the color of its yolk.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Tipping Culture With rising cost of goods, it is no surprise that average check sizes are up again. While diners are spending noticeably more, more than half (61 percent) of diners say there has been no change in their tipping habits this year. That is five percent less than the average tip from Boomers (18 percent).

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EATER

MAY 14, 2025

It should be thick and distribute heat well, and be sturdy enough that it wont chip easily. While the 6-quart cast iron Lodge Dutch oven is certainly passable for making your weekly pot of beans or casual meals for a crowd, I find that it has a couple of suboptimal design features.

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EATER

MAY 9, 2025

Not only is this type of discourse discouraging, but I also dont think its that helpful for the casual, at-home cook its an approach built on fear rather than confidence. And, in case youre struggling with your stainless steel cooking, Ive also included some helpful tips and tricks at the very bottom of this article. Get the pan hot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

Guests are willing to tip between 10 percent-25 percent more when dining out. Consumers on Tipping. Sense360's COVID-19 research conducted a survey on what's driving consumer behavior changes when it comes to restaurant tipping and visiting retailers. 18-34 year olds are actually more likely to be tipping more.

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