Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 16, 2025

In addition, these systems allow precise temperature and carbonation control, allowing restaurants to cater to the needs of customers. Integrated, on-site systems avoid this through advanced filtration and chilling that dispenses fresh, pure water, preserving its natural minerals.

Back of House

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 2, 2025

I spoke with Marissa Childers at Tanbrown Coffee to learn how they use Rancilio ’s equipment to set up for pop-up events. However, success hinges on meticulous preparation and, crucially, having the right equipment. What equipment do roasters need for coffee pop-up events? Marissa says.

Events

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 27, 2025

These changes, however, appear to reflect a more scientific approach to coffee preparation, as baristas strive for excellence and precision in their craft, often relying on automat ed equipment and gadgets to assist the process. As market competitiveness increases, brands need to stand out even more.

Customer Service

Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

Equipment and Furniture: Deduct That Big Spend New ovens or tables can cost a chunk, often $5,000 or more. Accounting Tip: Log equipment purchases in your accounting software under equipment. Mileage: Drive Off Some Taxes Delivering food or catering events? Equipment: tables, chairs, POS systems. You can too.

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2025

The other main aspect of evolution has been in specialized techniques and equipment like sous vide cooking, fermentation, and the use of induction burners and combo ovens. If you looked at ICE's curriculum 25 years ago, it was clearly more French, with heavier food and richer sauces and that is no longer the case.

Education

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

AI-powered cooking equipment, like Middleby , uses automation to ensure consistent cooking times and temperatures, minimizing human error. Consistent food quality : AI-powered equipment ensures precise cooking every time. Personalized service : CRM data helps restaurants recognize and cater to repeat customers.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

By understanding and catering to these evolving expectations, restaurants can create more engaging and satisfying experiences for their guests. Alex Thalassinos In this time when value is highly desired by operators and guests, how does technology like Silverware help restaurants be more efficient?

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Trend-forward options, like plant-based offerings or snack-sized portions, not only cater to evolving dietary preferences but also give customers more reasons to try something new. To meet these expectations, you need to focus on the overall dining experience: delivering quality, convenience, and value that speaks for itself.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2025

Quick-service and fast-casual concepts are leading this transformation, developing layouts that can seamlessly shift between dine-in, takeout, delivery, and potentially even catering or retail components. The big challenge – and advantage – is that they don't allow for a single inch of wasted space.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Verticalized, Personalized Payments Catering to diverse customer preferences is critical in today’s market. By digitalizing processes and fostering innovation, this will help businesses unlock their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) potential while achieving their own sustainability goals 4.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 24, 2025

Producers across various districts employ a range of organic farming practices, catering to growing consumer demand and due diligence standards, while also supporting efforts to promote biodiversity and enhance coffee quality.

Sustainability

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 22, 2025

Grinders are often considered the most essential pieces of equipment in a coffee shop or home brewing setup. Santos , a French manufacturer of home and commercial coffee and kitchen equipment, entered the market in 1954 with a coffee grinder as its first product.

Equipment

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

“With equipment solutions such as multi-cook ovens, chefs can cook multiple food items, using different techniques and temperatures all at once, allowing them to experiment with new trends, without losing workspace or investing in multiple new tools.”

Beverage

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As more and more people partake in the experience and more restaurants implement measures catered specifically to solo diners, a customer-centric approach is key. Catering to solo diners is more just than seating them as restaurants would any other customer.

Customer Experience

Lavu

MAY 23, 2025

If youre wondering how to open a deli that stands out in a competitive food market, this guide walks you through every critical step from business planning and licensing to choosing the right equipment and location. Organizations and individuals looking for catering services. Busy parents picking up groceries for the week.

2025

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

A well-equipped POS system helps reduce human error, improve kitchen workflows, and build guest trust. For instance, labels can be customized for packaged meals, catering orders, or prep-line packaging. Catering and special orders 6. Labels can include allergen warnings, dietary indicators, and cross-contamination notices.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

The report includes a market-wide analysis of out-of-home food businesses, excluding restaurants and grocers, and segment-specific insights into bakers, mobile bartenders, caterers, event-based businesses such as food truck and farmers market vendors, personal chefs, and home (cottage) food businesses. percent decrease in claims.

Marketing

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

In the Superfood Salad Bowl, protein options like grilled chicken, tofu, or chickpeas are available, catering to different dietary preferences. Preparing the key ingredients in advance, such as marinating the chicken or grilling the veggies, can significantly reduce prep time and help cater to the fast-paced nature of workplace lunch breaks.

2025

Lavu

MARCH 21, 2025

Better Customer Service Cater to dietary trends and preferences. Modern POS systems now come equipped with AI-driven analytics, offering predictive insights that traditional systems can’t provide. Reduce Waste : Remove underperforming items to save costs and streamline kitchens.

Design

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 17, 2025

Although they may not always cater to mainstream coffee drinkers, these coffee shops serve an essential purpose: to bring consumers closer to innovation and excellence. Competition cafés must offer an exceptional experience in every sense, from the equipment they use to the way they make customers feel when they walk through the door. “In

Café

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

The main part of our business is catering, which of course was all but dead during the pandemic. From streamlined online ordering to AI-powered personalization, restaurants that embrace tech solutions are better equipped to navigate challenges and maximize efficiency. – Andrew Glantz, CEO of GiftAMeal

Loyalty Program

The Food Corridor

APRIL 11, 2025

As whispers of an economic slowdown grow louder and fears of rising prices for food and equipment continue to rise, many shared kitchen operators are asking the same question: How can we stay resilient if a recession hits? Delay large purchases if possible, or seek refurbished or lease-to-own equipment options to preserve cash.

Cash Management

SpotOn

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Make sure your staff is equipped to promote your loyalty program, answer any questions about how to earn rewards and know how to use the restaurant loyalty software that's integrated into your restaurant POS system. Discount for catering orders. Include loyalty program details in your employee handbook.

Loyalty Program

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 9, 2025

This rapid market growth also gave rise to prosumers – highly skilled and educated consumers who invest in premium equipment. In response, many people began investing in their equipment setups and high-quality coffee to prepare their favourite drinks at home.

Equipment

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

. – ezCater CTO Erin DeCesare Customized Catering for Flexible Occasions – The rise of personalized group dining experiences is reshaping catering trends, and L&L is already meeting the demand.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Staffing changed during this time as well to cater to the off-premises customer experience. The idea of sending food to the people through delivery, catering or carry-out services helped save many restaurants. After COVID, people were itching to get back out and craved in-person restaurant experiences.

Mobile Ordering

The Food Corridor

JUNE 23, 2025

An exclusive inside look at Bakery Pro Kitchen’s latest location in Fort Lauderdale , open as of June 2025 The Birth of Bakery Pro Kitchen Trudy’s journey began with frustration: “I was rolling fondant for wedding cakes surrounded by caterers in kitchens that didn’t fit my needs. Caterers, bakers, startups.

Franchising

The Food Corridor

JULY 10, 2025

Some of his tenants—mostly caterers—went under. They don’t offer equipment rentals, storage tracking, or automated compliance. They lend each other equipment, jump in on big orders. Trying to juggle both the kitchen and his wine tour business became overwhelming. “It Then COVID hit. Tours stopped. It’s a cool little ecosystem.

Food Truck

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

Beyond operational speed, these systems equip business owners with real-time data to make informed decisions. Overview of Lavu’s Cloud-Based POS Platform Lavu’s iPad POS system offers a user-friendly interface packed with features that cater to various restaurant types. from 2024 to 2030, hitting $14.79

POS

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. CapEx, Maintenance, and Asset Management Hospitality businesses typically have significant investments in property, plant, and equipment (PP&E). Extensive PP&E (buildings, kitchen equipment, specialized decor, vehicles).

Hospitality

Open for Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A well-structured management training program equips new leaders with essential skills while promoting ongoing development. Equipment maintenance Do hands-on demos of basic troubleshooting and upkeep for key restaurant equipment. Teach your team when to handle issues in-house versus calling in professionals.

Training

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This is all the income from your food and beverage sales, catering, branded merchandise, packaged goods, venue hire, etc. These include rent, utilities, licenses, equipment, repairs, credit card processing fees—anything that's not labor or COGS. You should be able to find this data in your POS reporting. Labor costs.

Operations

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

With the rise of digital payment platforms and mobile wallets, restaurants can offer rewards programs, targeted promotions, and personalized experiences that cater to individual customers’ preferences. Sweetgreen caters to a crowd that wants to eat something fast and healthy for lunch. The middle is going to get squeezed out.”

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2025

Restaurant equipment will be more expensive. billion worth of commercial restaurant equipment, and they won’t be subject to tariffs (unless, of course, they export to other countries). China, meanwhile, exported $55 billion in equipment in 2024, and the tariff on Chinese imports, as of this writing, stands at 145 percent.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

For QSRs, 55 percent eye first-party ordering for revenue growth, outpacing drive-thru and third-party apps. Fast casuals follow with 36 percent prioritizing direct digital channels.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

The Green Restaurant Awards include categories such as: Greenest Restaurant Greenest University Greenest Caterer Energy Efficiency Award Greenest Restaurant MUSE Global Kitchen is a 4 Star Certified Green Restaurant® in Calabasas, California which has implemented 71 environmental steps and earned 573.08 This caterer offers 25.66

Reservations

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 1, 2025

The Italian equipment manufacturer will supply its grinders to all exhibitors in the Dalla Corte Roasters’ Zone. The UK caterer will acquire Vermaat’s network of 180 restaurants, deli counters, and event venues across the Netherlands and Belgium for €1.5bn, bolstering its continental foodservice and hospitality portfolio.

Workshop