Lavu

MARCH 21, 2025

Multilingual Menus for Restaurants are transforming the dining experience by breaking language barriers and enhancing customer satisfaction. By leveraging this technology, restaurants can optimize their operations and deliver a seamless dining experience, ultimately improving customer retention and driving higher profits.

Customer Experience

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A packed dining room is great, but without the right system, long wait times and disorganized seating can lead to frustrated customers and lost business. Popular options like 7shifts , Homebase , and Schedulefly cater to different types of restaurants, from small independent spots to multi-location operations. The best approach?

2025

Lavu

MARCH 21, 2025

Restaurants can now use customer data to enhance restaurant menu design, creating smarter menus that increase profits and improve the dining experience. Better Customer Service Cater to dietary trends and preferences. A well-designed menu that not only improves the dining experience but also boosts the bottom line. The result?

Design

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 14, 2025

Traditional Italian coffee culture continues to cater to a quick stint standing at the bar and sipping espresso with little attention paid towards its origin, processing, or unique attributes. Faro opened Luna to support this movement, showcasing how fine dining and specialty coffee are complementary.

Café

Lavu

MAY 9, 2025

Lightspeed : Excellent for complex menus and inventory management, ideal for fine dining or multi-location setups. From quick-service spots to fine dining restaurants, it offers tools to meet a variety of operational needs. Its automatic discount feature is especially handy for happy hours or daily specials.

POS

Web Diner

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Building Your Digital Guest List: More Valuable Than Premium Real Estate Your email list isn’t just data it’s a direct connection to people who’ve already experienced what makes your establishment special. Imagine sending your breakfast crowd early bird specials, while your evening patrons receive happy hour announcements.

Email Marketing

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

In this article, well walk you through 7 easy steps to increase table turnover effectively, helping you boost your bottom line while maintaining a great dining experience. Turnover rate may be higher in fast-casual or quick-service restaurants compared to fine-dining establishments.

Seating

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the hospitality industry continues to evolve, the dining experience at hotels and resorts has become a crucial element in shaping guest satisfaction. From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

Mobile Ordering

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

We’ll explore the specialized functions, the day-to-day realities of managing finances, and critically, how modern solutions like outsourced bookkeeping and cloud-based tools empower these businesses to not just survive, but thrive and stay profitable in a highly competitive market.

Hospitality

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

In a full-service restaurant, the POS is usually located in a discreet location so as not to interfere with the ambiance or the dining experience. How Customization Enhances POS System Performance and User Experience Your POS should work for your specific location out-of-the-box, especially if your operation has any special requirements.

POS

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This is all the income from your food and beverage sales, catering, branded merchandise, packaged goods, venue hire, etc. For restaurants that don't already have online ordering, this creates another stream of revenue other than on-site dining. Here are the speculated profit margins for each restaurant-type. Labor costs.

Operations

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

Furthermore, we’ll explore how modern tools and specialized outsourced services can transform what might seem like a daunting task into a seamless, efficient, and even empowering process. IRS Audits: Inaccurate or incomplete records can trigger costly and time-consuming IRS audits, leading to significant penalties and fines.

Bar

Lavu

MAY 23, 2025

In today’s fast-paced dining environment, even a few seconds of lag can create a ripple effect that impacts your entire service flow. All of these factors lead to longer lines, irritated customers, and a less efficient dining experience. Special requests and modifications are clearly highlighted to avoid confusion.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As restaurants look to the next 12 months, they anticipate placing a greater emphasis on revenue streams such as on-premise dining, off-premise dining, and catering. Out of 25 brands, 17 are QSR or casual dining restaurants, marking a significant shift in why people are primarily visiting malls – to eat.

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We are witnessing the evolution of fine dining. A rise in number of vegan restaurants is witnessed as younger population especially women are preferring vegan diet over traditional fine dining options. Astonishingly veganism is a chief enabler of this culinary transformation.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Restaurants will focus on creating story-driven dining experiences, harnessing technology and local partnerships to deepen emotional engagement with guests, according to the "2024 State of the Industry: Future of In-Restaurant Dining" report by Incisiv in collaboration with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions.

Loyalty Program

7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

Full-service restaurants Full-service restaurants offer a complete dining experience with table service. This type of restaurant can charge higher prices for their meals because of the full dining experience and quality service. Customers sit down, order from a menu, and are served by waitstaff.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

People love to eat out and return when the experience is special. What’s on our collective horizon for the future of dining? They want a flexible, fast, customized, and “frictionless” dining experience — one without the “drag” of unnecessary steps or interactions. Some things never change.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The holiday season offers opportunities for catering orders, off-site catering, in-store limited-time offers of holiday favorites, and all of the increased revenue that comes with them. Do cold foods require pre-chilling, special coolers or transport containers, or the addition of ice packs?

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

If you want to ensure that you are catering to the needs (or demands) of the modern market, you need a website that is geared towards mobile users. Consumers want to eat out, and they love a good special. Advertise in-restaurant specials, competitions, and even themed evenings. What does this even mean?

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Beverage industry experts Terri White and Mark Lester joined forces in creating BIBO Beverage Group, LLC, an agency specializing in helping boutique and family-owned wine, beer and spirits producers find strategic success in key markets. BIBO Beverage Debuts. Before the coronavirus affected the way U.S. billion valuation in 2017.

Serving

ChowNow

JULY 19, 2024

It’s a strategic tool that influences diner choices, enhances their dining experience, and ultimately drives your restaurant’s success. Additionally, think about recommended pairings, special combos, or offers that can encourage customers to try more items. A well-thought-out menu is more than just a list of dishes.

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

Children in school are far from incentivized to work in the catering sector. Employee turnover rates are one of the highest in the catering industry, though the top services stand out with excellent retention rates. With the COVID-19 social disruptions, many restaurants still struggle to return to what they might call "normal."

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2024

62% of consumers use the search engine to find restaurants, while 51% cite it as the best tool to get more information on a dining establishment, so you should maximize your online presence. When someone types "best dining spots near me" into Google, they're looking for a place to eat right now. That's where Google Ads comes in.

Website Management

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The new restaurants — as well as upgrades to existing locations — will adapt the company’s new, modern, and inviting “Fresh Forward” design and meet the needs of today’s consumer with comfortable guest indoor dining spaces as well as numerous delivery and order ahead options, with a strong digital first strategy.

Franchising

Touch Bistro

MAY 26, 2021

The short answer is offering enticing 4th of July specials. The right 4th of July specials will drive traffic to your restaurant, helping you take advantage of one of the biggest celebrations of the year. Planning 4th of July Specials for Your Restaurant. 4th of July Restaurant Specials and Promotion Ideas for 2021.

Specials

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers.

Coaching

EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Capital-T Trends have had the space to take root as customers crowded into dining rooms and traveled around the country, bringing their excited energy with them to red-sauce Italian joints, vibey supper club-inspired spots, and so many pop-ups turned full-fledged restaurants. Some restaurants take time to reveal what makes them special.

2022

EATER

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Of course no job is just about money, but it’s unfair and unrealistic to think workers in any sector of the restaurant industry will go above and beyond to create special experiences for diners simply because that’s a central philosophy of the company they work for.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

What menu inspiration will chefs use as they create new and fine tune traditional favorites? Wellness is a still a top trend in catered events for 2020. Caterers are going after green certifications and highlighting sustainable practices and products on their websites. What will inspire event themes and design in 2020?

Events

EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You were just given a generic list of suggestions for dining options, straddling a line between ludicrously expensive and horribly grim.”. “There was always a gift shop with ice buckets and t-shirts for sale. If you were a tourist, you were never invited for lunch or dinner. AR Lenoble. degrees warmer than average for the region.

Back of House

7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

Giving them incentives for being loyal patrons of your establishment makes customers feel appreciated and, in a sense, special, as there are perks and discounts that only they can get access to. For instance, millennials dine out an average of 241 times yearly.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2019

" Said Silvestri, "Daniel Boulud is considered a true a pioneer of the revolution and evolution of fine dining and to nurturing emerging talents, and despite the many additions to the list of most celebrated fine dining chefs we see today, Daniel remains one of the most highly-awarded and recognized chefs in America and the world.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

The majority of fast-casual and fine dining operators are meeting this challenge head-on by adding new offerings monthly,* driving increased competition with bar-and-grill operators. I know catering companies across the country are really going to benefit.” Two-Hens Growth Fueled by Accelerator Program.

Bar