Culinary Cues

APRIL 23, 2022

So, if the cost of goods is not the chef’s responsibility, then where does the buck stop? Smart buying means to look at quantity discounts when available, buying generic brands when quality still meets your standards, and shopping several vendors with quality and price in mind. Let’s look at how this works: [] SMART BUYING.

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Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

Although the point-of-sale system (POS) remains the technological heart of restaurants, numerous technologies run behind the scenes these days. This end-to-end solution uses data from your POS to provide insights into sales, food costs, menu engineering and inventory management. Restaurant technology has come a long way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2024

Play The Field : Some Super Bowl viewers prefer to watch the game in the comfort of their own homes, but that doesn’t mean you should lose out on sales. Is inflation still driving wing prices? The price of many staple items is continuing to increase throughout the beginning of this year.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Menu pricing is one of the most underestimated aspects of restaurant management. If your customers don’t think the prices on your menu are reasonable, how great your concept or your food is won’t matter much. This is where the concept of dynamic pricing comes in to help restaurants! What Is Dynamic Menu Pricing?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour. This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 6, 2021

When successful, they keep a restaurant in the black - but they require time, dedication, and a good bit of math to get right. Restaurant Sales Forecasting Method & Techniques. In a restaurant, forecasting is using data to predict how much the business can expect in sales in a given time period. Table of Contents.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

By staying on top of profit margins, you can make informed decisions about pricing, portion sizes, and operational costs, thereby improving your profit margins. Profit margin is a key metric, especially pivotal in restaurant sales, that calculates the percentage of revenue left as profit after covering expenses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2022

As consumers continue to feel a greater sense of normalcy, many pandemic-related concerns have started to subside. If services such as mobile ordering are here to stay, it’s important to understand the role they play in the relationship between brands and consumers. Set the Bar. Stay Connected. Strengthen Customer Retention.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As point-of-sale (POS) platforms exit the startup stage and developers begin looking for ways to generate increased revenue, many are turning toward processing fees for using their software. Meanwhile, restaurant owners and operators grapple with an influx of customer confusion, loss of trust in their business and missed sales.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If this is your purpose then the field is wide open and will remain so as long as the price you charge matches the level of purpose. [] OFFER CONVENIENCE: Quite often, the restaurant that is focused on nourishment is also great at providing convenience. I know what you are thinking – WHAT!!!! At least the real bad news is out of the way.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Now, this alone might not keep the average consumer or politician up at night, but what they fail to understand is that restaurants are at the center of a broad eco-system of businesses that are inter-dependent. None, however, are as devastatingly out of the operators control as this pandemic.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

iPad tipping” is growing, even in industries that don’t usually ask for them, giving consumers tipping fatigue. Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s s Union Market District, sits the modern Mexican restaurant Destino. A Forbes survey found that 1 in 3 people feel pressured to tip , and 23% report feeling embarrassed or guilty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While using credit cards is a convenience for consumers, this form of payment represents a major cost center for restaurants. Credit card acceptance is an essential part of doing business today as more consumers move toward cashless forms of payment. merchants who accepted credit cards as payment for goods and services paid $105.23

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 10, 2024

iPad tipping” is growing, even in industries that don’t usually ask for them, giving consumers tipping fatigue. Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s s Union Market District, sits the modern Mexican restaurant Destino. A Forbes survey found that 1 in 3 people feel pressured to tip , and 23% report feeling embarrassed or guilty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2023

As one of the largest generations of consumers, they continually influence the ways restaurants innovate, and there are identifiable characteristics that differentiate Gen Z consumers from their older counterparts. Dynamic pricing on these platforms might be necessary to combat some of the lost revenue due to fees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The pandemic forced restaurants to adapt to not only a new, leaner business model but also to new consumer behavior. So what makes a good contactless menu? A good mobile experience. The good news is that it’s never been easier for restaurants to design professional-looking, state-of-the-art online menus.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Earlier this week, the FTC filed a lawsuit alleging that the deal would eliminate competition and raise grocery prices It’s likely that the place you shop for groceries every week is owned by one of two companies — Kroger, or Albertsons. billion merger. antitrust concerns” over the merger.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

For BevAlc buyers, price point as a function of quality, although always important, will become crucial over the coming months and years. Finding the right balance of what local guests want, at the maximum price point and minimal cost could be the difference between surviving and closing the doors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While the restaurant industry has experienced major supply chain and labor issues throughout the pandemic, it is now reaching a tipping point. Inflation on both wages and commodities are putting major margin pressure on brands. To position themselves for sustainable growth, restaurants must respond quickly.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s fair to say that many specialty coffee brands base their marketing strategies around the idea that coffee consumers want to be more connected to farmers. And while many coffee businesses believe that consumers also want to know the same information, is this really an accurate assumption? But why is this?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Managing multiple restaurant locations is a good challenge to have. Consumers at-large prefer independent restaurants to chains, so diversifying the types of restaurants under your management can give diners more of what they love. But to be clear, multi-location restaurant management is challenging. Table of Contents.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2020

Comparing 7shifts’ internal data of 10,000+ restaurants, restaurants are seeing an average weekly decrease in sales of 50% across the board in North America. Evaluate your restaurant scheduling practices to see if you are consistently over-budgeting on labor needs based on your sales.

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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. For example, basic point of sale (POS) systems or integrated restaurant management systems are useful digital tools that enable data reporting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

Yes, the importance of a good customer experience has always been key. Ensuring guests experience true hospitality is tantamount to running a successful restaurant. However, between staffing shortages, high customer expectations, and pent-up demand due to the ever-in-flux restaurant landscape, it’s more integral than ever before.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2022

While high stock prices of crypto companies like Bitcoin grab headlines, they are gaining traction with consumers since blockchain technology helps make transactions easier without needing an intermediary such as a bank or credit card company. Application of Blockchain in the Food Industry. Examples of Crypto Restaurants in the US.

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EATER

APRIL 5, 2024

But in the past few weeks, the terms “chili crunch” and “chile crunch,” a variation on chile crisp, has become the subject of an escalating brawl between Momofuku Goods, the grocery arm of David Chang’s empire, and small independent companies using those names, The Guardian first reported.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2023

An increase in sales. Here are some ways: Ask your marketing and sales team. Your restaurant marketing and sales teams will always know what selling points your customers respond to best. You can leverage the expertise of a consumer PR agency to help you with this. It will also boost your restaurant's presence.

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Black Box Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What we’ve discovered in the data (whether or not you’ve experienced the same level of economic hardship as your peers): without good people , profitability is unsustainable. Restaurant sales, Restaurant traffic, PPA (per person average), Sales per labor hour, Daypart, Beverage versus food sales, and On and off-premise sales.

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Open for Business

JANUARY 26, 2023

Even the most creative restaurant promotion ideas won’t increase sales if they’re poorly planned and executed. Before launching any new menu promotion idea, it’s a good idea to go back to basics and get clear a few basic points first. The trick is making sure the tactic boosts sales instead of cutting into revenue.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 10, 2023

For this price, the coffee also comes with a collectible booklet featuring original Samra Origins artwork. points at last year’s CoE Ethiopia. points at last year’s CoE Ethiopia. Last week, as part of a collaboration with musician The Weeknd, Blue Bottle Coffee announced its new Samra Origins range. Read on to find out more.

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The Rail

JANUARY 13, 2023

Below, we'll outline several approaches that will help propel your restaurant forward by making it more visible than ever before -- all while boosting sales! #1 By utilizing captivating images and promotional messages , more guests can become aware of what you have to offer while driving sales up. #2 3 - Target the Right Audience.

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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.

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The Rail

MARCH 27, 2024

By Emma Carter, Contributor The 2024 National Restaurant Association report shows that sales are up and restaurants are hiring. However, labor and food costs have gone up and consumers have become more value-conscious. Servers who are good at upselling can share their tips and tricks with others.

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Sante

JANUARY 14, 2020

Teaser: Two dispatches say that American wine consumers have stopped drinking more. The IWSR reported a decline in the amount of wine consumed by American drinkers for the first time in 25 years. But I’ve always thought the financial industry rewarded companies too much for sales growth and not enough for quality of earnings.

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EATER

MARCH 24, 2023

The coalition insists that this merger is an obvious monopoly that will lead to “store closures, thousands of lost jobs, and higher food prices.” The group argues that the impacts of the merger will be devastating for workers, farmers, and consumers. billion merger.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2022

While distinct differences exist, here are some key best practices both can leverage to address growing consumer demands. Retailers have always guided customers to products, and navigation is fundamental to good store design. In line at Dunkin’, you can pick up mugs, keychains and shirts along with a French cruller and coffee.

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Lavu

MARCH 20, 2020

Boosting sales in your restaurant doesn’t have to be complicated. Add Value to Desserts to Boost Restaurant Sales. As food costs rise , (alongside labor, rent, and health care costs), restaurants are figuring out how to serve food that meets a high expectation within a comfortable price range for customers.

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