Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Managing food allergies in a restaurant isn’t just about good service its a critical safety responsibility. With the right POS features for allergen management, restaurants can track ingredients, flag allergens, and communicate vital information quickly between staff and customers. Lets explore each feature in detail.

Allergens

The Food Corridor

JULY 24, 2025

Putting Shared Kitchens at the Center Our work with the RFBC was grounded in one belief: shared-use kitchens are not a fringe idea — they are the foundation for a more resilient, inclusive, and scalable local food economy. This decision marked the end of a transformative chapter — but it’s not the end of our movement.

Kitchen Safety

Lavu

JUNE 20, 2025

Thankfully, one of the newest restaurant technologies available was designed specifically to tackle this problem. In the kitchen, the BOH receives the order, and on the floor, the FOH concentrates on delivering exceptional service or keeping the restaurant clean. For the restaurant, you get a faster table turn – and happier guests.

Technology

Indoor Media

JANUARY 16, 2025

Each marketing communication should align with your brand identity. From the design of your menu to the look of your pizza boxes, every element should reflect your brand’s personality and values. Open communication creates a culture where employees feel valued and heard. Is an untidy kitchen visible in the dining area?

Website Management

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Managing food allergens isnt just a best practiceits a legal and safety necessity for todays restaurants. With increasing awareness of food allergies, allergen management in POS systems has become essential to ensure customer safety and streamline kitchen operations. This reduces the chance of errors or miscommunication.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

These changes have become permanent shifts in how they target customers, market themselves, and design their offerings." The focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput. Tables and chairs take a backseat to efficient space.

Loyalty Program

Open for Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Focus your restaurant manager training on these key leadership abilities: Communication Practice delivering feedback and handling tough conversations. For instance, set up a mock kitchen line and have managers work together to prepare and plate a multi-course meal within a tight timeframe, encouraging communication and quick thinking.

Training

Lavu

MAY 5, 2025

Communicate with Your Team and Vendors Keep everyone in the loop: Staff : Host a meeting to explain the timeline, go over the training plan, and address any questions. Kitchen display systems : Send test orders to confirm proper routing. Keep both the old and new systems running simultaneously for 24 hours as a safety net.

POS

Paper Chase Accountancy

AUGUST 11, 2025

Choosing such services requires considering industry expertise, service range, communication, scalability, and technology use. The discussion will then move to the emergence and rise of accounting solutions that are specifically designed for the hospitality industry. How do they handle communication and support?

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2020

As restaurants have experienced dramatic changes in how they do business due to the pandemic, many small business owners have learned just how important a visual communication plan is for success. As restaurants reopen their doors once again, visual communication solutions help inform, direct and protect both customers and team members.

Communication

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Artificial intelligence was designed to solve for specific tasks and has applications that can dramatically impact the bottom line in your restaurant, from automating features to the burger-flipping robots of the future. Communications. Food Safety. Let’s take a look at a few that can directly benefit you today.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2023

As customers continue to feel more comfortable dining out, restaurants should have health and safety measures down pat. Exceeding health and safety standards not only ensures the well-being of customers, but it also cultivates a positive experience that fosters loyalty.

Audits

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Restaurant owners are looking for creative ways to revamp the indoor dining experience with improved health and safety standards. Restaurant owners can use these helpful tips to promote key health and safety standards in order to regain trust and improve the overall customer experience: Improve Air, Hand and Surface Hygiene.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2023

Although restaurants are increasingly interested in meeting the needs of gluten-free consumers, there’s plenty of room for improvement in the messaging used to communicate about gluten-free options. Messaging about gluten-free options and safety protocols begins with your menu. How do you prevent cross-contact in your salad bar?

Training

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Restaurants bring groups of people and that traffic often brings safety. Restaurants must build trust, communicate safety and clearly establish value. While the operational and financial impact of social distancing must be top of mind, nearly as important as what you do will be how you communicate these changes to your guests.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2020

Now that states are beginning to loosen their lockdown restrictions and reopen small businesses like restaurants, it’s fair to wonder how drastically the dine-in experience will have to change to accommodate the new safety requirements. How does that work with the new safety requirements? Improve Your Communication.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

The National Restaurant Association remains on top of the issue providing updates and resources including a fact sheet and a webpage with an FAQ, industry guidance, and food safety guidelines provided by ServeSafe to address increasing questions about COVID-19. We ensure food safety. Eat healthier.”

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When a diner with a food allergy chooses your restaurant, you’ll want to ensure that they won’t have to think twice about their safety. Likewise, ensure that you and your kitchen staff hold the necessary food safety certifications so that your guests are in good hands. Communicate Clearly. Do Your Research.

Allergens

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2021

The not-so-simple trick is doing so while remaining committed to providing clear communications and amplifying an exceptional consumer experience at every touchpoint. Additionally, offering limited menus speeds up wait times and streamlines kitchen operations which is one more benefit of having a modular and easy to update menu system.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

When paired with other products like Square Marketing and Square Loyalty, sellers can strengthen customer relationships, create open lines of communication, and incentivize patrons to keep coming back. Search filter : A new filter allows users to easily find which hotels and restaurants are taking these added safety precautions.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

US Foods Ghost Kitchens. launched US Foods Ghost Kitchens, a program designed to guide restaurant operators every step of the way when opening their own operation, helping them easily add a new revenue stream. US Foods Holding Corp. We help the operator through every major decision.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Now, restaurant owners and managers can be confident in their readiness against pathogens and reassure guests and employees by committing to cleanliness and effectively communicating their approach to the public. Communicating Cleanliness. Building Trust Through Cleanliness. What Can You Do Now?

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

With the COVID-19 pandemic surging across the country, it’s more important now than ever before to focus on employee safety. The major focus of these guidelines is keeping customers safe, but it’s equally important to consider the safety of employees. Increase Communication for Everyone.

Technology

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

With 54% of diners saying they would avoid a restaurant with table wait times over 30 minutes, you must develop an efficient kitchen floor plan that helps you serve food quickly and consistently. The right design can ease your workflows and minimize bottlenecks in your operations. What should a restaurant kitchen floor plan include?

Design

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2020

“We’ve tried to be more personal and communicate with them one on one so we understand how we can support them in a way that is most helpful to their specific situation,” he said. The prototype was designed to be flexible and adaptable for sites both large and small, including both nontraditional and traditional locations.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Overview of Network Solutions Within the restaurant industry, networking solutions encompass a broad range of technologies designed to create a more connected and efficient operational environment. The back end encompasses the kitchen operations, inventory management, and staffing.

Operations

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It shows you how the kitchen works and helps to qualify who the players are and what their roles might be. It is one of the most essential positions in the kitchen, operated by a person who is responsible for the single most expensive piece of equipment and one of the costliest inventories (China, flatware, glassware). Wax on, wax off.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 26, 2021

Secure the collection area, by communicating health and safety efforts to guests with messaging and signage at the pickup/curbside line and/or notes inside takeout bags. Secure the takeaway bag, by ensuring all bags are equipped with napkins, wipes and other appropriate hygiene products. 1-NPD Group/CREST®, October 2020.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. The kitchen staff should have hairnets and gloves at all times. Offer Disposable Menus. Ensure On-Premise Sanitization.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

Adapting with a tighter, more focused menu to allow kitchens to better plan labor and prep needs and manage enhanced sanitation routines. Embracing preparation and safety protocols as part of your restaurant's story. Seeking opportunities to create new, lasting rituals to signal safety, to claim new spaces and to innovate.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Aramark Creates Safety Plans. ” Examples of safety and service enhancements include: A culture of safety and wellbeing for employees and customers. .

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

. "First and foremost, restaurants need to address the obvious points about density and restrictions being put in place by local public officials, about cleanliness and safety and engagement. In today's world, safety is the third leg of the stool. Utmost care and attention is required today."

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

We are offering restaurateurs the opportunity to operate a second brand within their existing brick and mortar location, increasing their bottom line by also becoming a virtual kitchen owner.” DeliverThat also released an extensive driver education program to ensure the level of quality and safety during current Covid-19 conditions.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

AUGUST 19, 2020

Pro tip: Use 7shifts’ Team Communication platform to discuss ideas for improvement with all your staff. Break down roles and responsibilities into teams, so you’ll have a server training manual , as well as one for bartenders and kitchen staff. Job responsibilities for each department (Be as detailed as possible without being preachy.

Training

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

If you're new to the industry and are wondering what experience you'll acquire in a restaurant job, or if you're an industry vet looking to clearly communicate your abilities and skills on a restaurant resume, read on for 20 distinct skills learned while working in a restaurant. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications.

Front of House