Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2025

In response to rising food costs, 56 percent of respondents said they planned to increase menu prices, down from 61 percent earlier in the year, and 18 percent said they doubled down on inventory and waste tracking, up two percentage points. Baked Goods and N/A Beverages saw growth in 2025. percent on July 11, and 16.1

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Those priorities include increased marketing and sales efforts alongside new benefits and programs to attract and retain staff. For shifting consumer preferences, 34 percent expect more takeout and delivery in 2025, 28 percent expect greater demand for healthier options, and 24 percent expect less frequent dine-in visits. Franchise 2.0:

Franchising

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JUNE 6, 2025

It also makes attracting and keeping good workers easier by offering competitive pay and benefits. Plus, increasing profits means you can provide a better experience for your customers, which leads to good reviews and more people coming to your restaurant. Food cost control is crucial.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

JUNE 20, 2025

From AI-driven ordering systems to smart inventory tools and contactless dining experiences, today’s innovations are reshaping how restaurants operate, serve customers, and stay competitive. Below, we share some of the best, most useful restaurant technologies to improve sales and streamline time-consuming tasks (like recording temperature).

Technology

Lavu

AUGUST 8, 2025

Whether you run a quick-service café or a full-service restaurant, switching to an iPad POS system in 2025 can streamline everything from order-taking to inventory management. Actionable insights : Real-time analytics help optimize sales and inventory. Simplified management : Automates inventory tracking and staff scheduling.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Loyalty is a huge factor now as guests desire rewards and perks for sticking with a favorite small business, and repeat customers are keeping many restaurants going. Whether it’s speeding up order times, improving inventory management, or boosting loyalty programs, every tool should serve a purpose.

Loyalty Program

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JUNE 13, 2025

As consumers increasingly embrace digital payment methods, restaurants adapt to this shift by adopting their cash registers into cashless systems, offering numerous benefits for businesses and their patrons. This fosters customer loyalty and allows restaurants to gather valuable data and insights to inform their business strategies.

2025

Evergreen

JULY 11, 2025

Pros: Good keg tracking visuals POS integration Mobile app support Cons: Limited design flexibility Not ideal for mixed beverage or food-focused menus 3. BeerMenus BeerMenus helps you publish your beer list online and generate printable menus, but it’s more consumer-facing than restaurant-focused. READY TO UPGRADE FROM UNTAPPD?

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2025

Use technology to streamline inventory management, ordering and other day-to-day tasks. goods, foreign markets may be less open to them. You may be surprised by some of their recommendations that are inexpensive for you to implement (like rearranging tables) but increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. Optimize Operations.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

COGS Are Key as Hiring Pressures Decline In 2024, 16 percent of operators say analyzing and managing the cost of goods and services and supplier and vendor management are top pain pointscompared to 12 percent in 2023. Inflation (or the increased costs of goods and services) is still a top pain point for operators (15 percent).

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged. Despite the fact that consumers are paying more to visit and order from restaurants this year – 12.5 Despite the fact that consumers are paying more to visit and order from restaurants this year – 12.5

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

New data from the National Restaurant Association’s 2025 Off-Premises Restaurant Trends report highlights how off-premises dining has become both a consumer preference and business essential, with the convenience and availability of takeout, delivery, and drive-thru now deeply embedded in everyday life.

Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From inventory management to predictive labor scheduling, AI tools will help restaurants cut costs and adapt in real-time, while providing operators valuable data to help inform business decisions. This is why it’s essential that operators invest in comprehensive training programs and foster a positive work environment.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Ninety-five percent of those surveyed reported using some form of AI in their restaurant, with the most common being AI-assisted inventory management (35 percent), AI menu optimization (35 percent) and AI reservations/bookings (32 percent). AI usage has also skyrocketed, primarily in the back-of-house. 41 percent say to break up the week.1

2025

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

Having the right equipment to handle these time-consuming tasks helps your bar staff tremendously. Super-sizing drinks might seem like a good sales strategy, but you only take away sales from your bar. Offer themed nights, loyalty programs, and limited-time promotions to create urgency and drive foot traffic.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Cloud-based restaurant management software solutions enable food service operators to access everything from personnel to payments to back-of-house operations and incorporate loyalty programs from any channel the customer uses in real-time.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Inventory stock changed significantly. While what consumers eat won’t change, post-COVID-19, how they will get it will. By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

Over the past several months we have seen customers modify their business models to accommodate restrictions and consumer preferences. Freshii has since extended the program to include the private sector, offering meal combos ordered through their app or major aggregators (UberEats, Skip the Dishes, etc.),

Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2023

With the rise of on-demand delivery and easy-to-use checkout technology driving consumer demand for quick service, restaurant operators are implementing modern payment solutions that provide a more seamless and customer-friendly dining experience ahead of the busy holiday shopping season. remain eager to dine out.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences. Nothing is fraud proof.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As brands place emphasis on creating a meaningful guest experience, robotics companies offering tools such as tech-enabled order taking or serving, should stop calling themselves ‘robotics’ as it will likely steer some operators, consumers and investors away. Slow movers tie up inventory -and the cash needed to by that inventory.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Historically high gas prices are pushing consumers towards EV options. Additionally, growing numbers of new EV models – and government sales incentives – are sparking consumer interest. Consumers’ needs will change as they transition to EVs. Attract consumers, employees, and investors.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite challenges including inventory costs, commission fees and staff turnover, many restaurant owners are expressing optimism about moving forward, according to TouchBistro’s 2024 State of Restaurants Report. What can restaurant operators do to better handle inventory and labor challenges?

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The good news is these two priorities are not mutually exclusive. Finally, digital ordering helps restaurants foster digital relationships with their customers that can be used to drive loyalty, form personalized recommendations, and ultimately help drive revenue. Consumer brands often leverage gamification to engage their customers.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2021

Today we will take a look at how disintermediation of the guest has impacted hotels, airlines, real estate, movies, and consumer packaged goods. Today, with proper integrations, information is syndicated out in a way that reflects live inventory.

Airlines

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2022

Big data may seem like a tech-savvy buzzword, but it's a hot topic of conversation for a good reason. There's no denying that manual restaurant reporting can be time-consuming. To stay profitable, restaurants must determine their cost of goods sold (CoGS). Everything nowadays is trackable.

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From grocery to retail; offering an opportunity for consumers to linger or pop in to pick up a meal not only adds revenue opportunities but also foot traffic and consumer preference data. Loyalty will continue to get more personal and less transactional. Gamification will play a larger role in driving brand loyalty.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In essence, this shift should lead restaurants to embrace the idea of maintaining a truly “intelligent” smart kitchen, one that will be tech-equipped to continue evolving with consumer demands. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door. Integration with third party aggregators. Reduce theft.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. With BevSpot, restaurants can take inventory “any time, anywhere.”

Management

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A good operator looks back on their Business Plan on a monthly or quarterly basis to gauge where they are in terms,” says Mark Moeller, president, and owner of The Recipe of Success , a national restaurant consulting firm. Are they an island, or do they have good connections? Investors want to see that you have good people around you.

Point of Sale

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. With BevSpot, restaurants can take inventory “any time, anywhere.”

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year has shown us that the demand for drive-thru is growing, and continues to meet consumer demands with quick, efficient, and convenient service. – Frances Allen, President and CEO, Checkers Brand loyalty took priority in 2023. Those two items were key in growing our business and maintaining good margins.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

Both opportunities provide franchisees with a turnkey opportunity that includes a detailed training program, real estate/food truck leases, all kitchen equipment, inventory, supplies, and a three-month capital reserve among other benefits. With real estate flexibility on its side and consumer demand high, Wing It On! in Florida.

Franchising

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Restaurant employee scheduling software Other than having a good product, your staff and how you manage them is the ultimate marker of restaurant success.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Through this program, Dunkin’ franchisees have the opportunity to offer their restaurant employees an affordable, flexible and supportive pathway to an associate or bachelor’s degree from SNHU. Taffer’s Tavern has its eyes set on bringing its bar fare andbeverage program to D.C. ” Showing Support. .”

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