7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you handle special dietary requests or food allergies? Use this interview question to explore the candidate’s familiarity with food service operations. Aside from providing the best dining experience, order-taking accuracy can help you avoid food waste and unnecessary costs. What restaurant tools have you used?

Hiring

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

That could simply be food sales , alcohol , and non-alcoholic beverages. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Your Cost of Goods Sold is the cost of your food and beverages. That way you'll have accurate food and beverage cost percentages for each COGS line item. This helps reduce future equipment purchases.

License

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

From planning the layout to managing food services and ensuring compliance, we’ll cover what it takes to launch a profitable, well-run cafeteria in 2025. By offering a range of healthy and diverse food options, employers can create a positive work environment that fosters employee well-being and satisfaction.

2025

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

Open for Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A well-structured management training program equips new leaders with essential skills while promoting ongoing development. Health and safety Go over food safety regulations and proper handling procedures. Equipment maintenance Do hands-on demos of basic troubleshooting and upkeep for key restaurant equipment.

Training

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Not a good idea unless you want to take the chance of selling a product that is not food safe and being sued! Attend industry trade shows such as the Fancy Foods Show which is in both New York and Las Vegas and coves all food categories both National and International to discover what’s hot on the market and what is over saturated.

Retail

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 6, 2025

Under an exclusive agreement, Kaapi Solutions, a leading provider of premium coffee equipment in India, will be the sole distributor and importer of Rocket Espresso’s Sotto Banco and Doppia machines. warehouse in Riverside, Missouri, featuring hundreds of bags of specialty green coffee, a cupping lab, and roasting equipment.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Meanwhile, according to consumers, here are some opportunities for restaurants: Packaging : 90 percent say they’d order a greater variety of items if the food maintained on-premises quality during delivery; over half would pay more for premium packaging that supported quality during transport. percent for Starbucks, 4.3

Reservations

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

With the new equipment, MTPak Coffee now offers a minimum order quantity of 200 pieces and a one-week turnaround time after design approval. New Taipei, Taiwan) Fri, 4 Jul – Roastery equipment maker SOVDA names new CEO. This initiative also seeks to pursue EDGE green building certification and create over 100 local jobs for growers.

Pricing

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 25, 2025

Farmer Brothers sold assets worth approximately US $100m to TreeHouse Foods in June 2023. Estelle MacGilp, Head of Coffee Sourcing, and Gosia Lendzioszek, Account Development Manager, have both qualified as Q Graders under the newly “Evolved Q” certification programme.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 9, 2021

government created the Food Safety Modernization Act , which transformed the nation’s food safety system by shifting the attention from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it. This Act prompted even more eyes to focus on the food processing and food service industries to ensure sanitation.

Certification

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, the same challenges arise in ghost kitchens’ quality assurance and food safety protocols that plague the traditional restaurant kitchen. Food businesses should take a fresh look at some traditional kitchen challenges that may even be amplified in ghost kitchen settings: Be transparent. Continue focusing on food safety.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2022

As we close out 2022, food production is at risk. We’re still facing product shortages, exacerbated by ongoing supply chain interruptions and the Russian-Ukrainian war stalling food shipments – including 9.5 Inflation is causing food prices – and food insecurity – to soar. . Focus on Sustainable Food Production.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. The biggest learning from COVID is that food businesses must be prepared for any crisis – and ensure their suppliers all along the supply chain are also prepared and resilient.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A good first step is to elevate your food safety culture. How Food Safety Culture Has Changed. Food safety used to mean “what you do when no one is watching.” There are many quality management system software options that will enhance your food safety culture and business insights.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2022

The restaurant industry loses an astounding $162 billion each year in food waste. All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Sustainable Food Sourcing Is Worth the Effort. A fishery may also require new equipment, while aquacultures might implement more environmental controls. At Aloha Poke, we studied and researched sustainable food sourcing to offer the best, freshest, and most responsible foods available for our guests. Source Responsibly.

Sourcing

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 17, 2023

When restaurants, food businesses, and other organizations become ISO certified, they’re showing that they: Prioritize safety, quality, and compliance, following strict guidelines to ensure safe, high-quality foods. ISO certification is widely considered the global gold standard, so it carries a lot of clout.

Innovation

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

About half of consumers indicated that a “restaurant’s efforts to reduce food waste, recycle or donate food can be factors in choosing where to dine.” Apply for awards and certifications : Third-party validation goes a long way; look for award opportunities to highlight restaurant sustainability efforts.

Recycling

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2022

The idea of creating a well-thought, engaging employee handbook isn’t why restaurateurs go into the food industry. Elements from the ServSafe Certification. Keep the vital ServSafe items top of mind such as food handling, good personal hygiene and sanitizing. Safe food preparation. Storing food.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You have the advantage of a built-out kitchen with equipment, bars and dining rooms, technology, parking lots, and more. Things to consider are: Local Sentiment Finances Equipment Taxes or Violations Licenses and Permits What is the local sentiment towards the restaurant? What percentage of the total costs are food?

License

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. Despite skyrocketing demand for plant-based food across the U.S., 42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI).

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

Customers want to know where their food is coming from. They want to know what safety and quality protocols your suppliers practice to ensure that food is safe from point of origin to point of consumption. Restaurants and other food businesses have, as a result, put more focus on increasing supply chain transparency.

Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2024

Going above and beyond LEED certification, Selby Gardens is seeking “Petal” certification through The Living Future Institute and will strive for net-positive energy, be free of toxic chemicals, and lower the energy footprint many times below that of a generic commercial structure.

Certification

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Add cybersecurity risks, mix in consumer desire for transparency, then layer in the collection of consumer data collection and you’ve got a perfect storm of data management challenges across the food supply chain. How Multi-domain Data Governance Works from Farm-to-Fork.

Management

7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Sourcing Equipment. Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? This includes but is not limited to your equipment, permits, menu, and marketing. Rent, equipment costs, supplies, marketing, and paying staff are among the costs you'll incur when just starting. Conduct a Feasibility Study. Obtain Funding.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Buying the lowest priced materials or hiring the lowest-bidding contractors can lead to shoddy workmanship, cheap and flimsy furniture, furnishings, and equipment that will inevitably break down sooner than higher quality goods and materials. Pitfall #5: Hiring an architect without food and beverage experience.

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2020

For example, most closed restaurants may not maintain regularly scheduled pest control service—providing harborage to cockroaches or rodents that thrive in dark, undisturbed recesses of a vacated food facility. Addressing these now will help set up for success and not a setback as business is reopened.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

JULY 14, 2020

Some service providers offer special prices/packages knowing these are tough times for restaurants so find out if labor, materials, equipment, and chemicals are included in the pricing. Poorly maintained equipment also uses more energy increasing your electricity and water bills. A restaurant’s health code depends on it!

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2022

Some co-packers charge a one-time set-up fee to create your product for the first time—establishing the procedures they’ll need to follow, figuring in any special equipment they’ll need to retrofit or custom tool, and the like. Packaging and Design.

Retail

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. Following integration, Flippy ROAR’s zero-footprint design will be tested to improve employee and food preparation, for wider location integration. Certification. ” Valrhona Secures B-Corp.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Give them charging stations and a reason to stay (delicious food, great service, and a comfortable atmosphere) while their cars are charging. You already provide delicious food, exceptional customer service, and an inviting atmosphere, right? Are you ordering proper quantities of food? onsite charging stations.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. The act replaces previous regulations on the cottage food industry. The bill would have had a dramatic impact on fast food franchises.

2021

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It's one of the most hands-on jobs you can have - and equips employees with an abundance of restaurant skills as a result. Food Service Skills For Your Resume. 5 Restaurant & Food Service Skills for Your Resume. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Commercial kitchen equipment safety.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2020

Food service has changed forever and getting an integrated digital approach to managing all your guidelines and compliance issues, especially across multiple locations, is more crucial than ever. When you show this information to customers, it works like a real-time health inspection certificate.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has become invaluable in the food industry. Validating and verifying food safety. Here, AI can help verify suppliers’ compliance with audit and certification standards. It’s no longer enough to tell consumers that their foods are safe and have them blindly trust the process.

Supplies