Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

.” According to a 2024 global survey by Lightspeed, 45 percent of consumers are taking part in solo sit-down meals, and a further 34 percent categorize the experience as a form of self care – citing the peace and quiet of the meal and the opportunity to partake in people-watching as top priorities to get out of the experience.

Customer Experience

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nowadays, running a successful restaurant takes more than great food and good service. Use data from your POS system, online ordering platform, or loyalty program to divide your customers based on factors like their dining frequency, preferences, or location. Segmenting your email list is essential for sending targeted offers.

Book

Lavu

JUNE 20, 2025

Below, we share some of the best, most useful restaurant technologies to improve sales and streamline time-consuming tasks (like recording temperature). The good news is that now you can. VR onboarding spares the restaurant from wasting food or spending excessive time on training sessions.

Technology

Lavu

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

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 27, 2025

Editor’s note This year’s World of Coffee kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday, hosting four World Coffee Championships: Latte Art, Coffee in Good Spirits, Cup Tasters, and Cezve/Ibrik. Homegrown rivals like Luckin and Cotti are outperforming the coffee giant, offering consumers similar quality drinks at a fraction of the price.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Point-of-Sale (POS) Integration: Seamless integration with POS systems is critical for capturing sales data, managing inventory in real-time, and ensuring accurate revenue reporting. COGS Tracking and Vendor Payment Cycles For restaurants and many other hospitality businesses, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) is a major expense.

Hospitality

Lavu

JUNE 20, 2025

As restaurants seek ways to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and deliver personalized dining experiences, 3D food printing offers a unique solution that blends creativity with precision. Some, like Foodini and Pancakebot , want to bring the technology to a consumer level. What are the most recent food technology trends in 2025?

Food

Apicbase

JULY 11, 2025

They can handle implementation, connect Apicbase to your POS and suppliers, train your team, and even help improve processes. Everything else depends on it, on how good these systems are. It’s time-consuming, and mistakes slip through because no one can see the whole picture. And that’s a good thing. They just use it.

Allergens

Apicbase

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Developing software is costly, time-consuming, and complex—I should know, being the co-founder of a software company. Starbucks is a good example. Order kiosks are a good example,” Peter says. After integrating with POS systems, the next challenge was stock counts, followed by semi-finished products. Turns out, very hard.

Technology

Focus POS

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Getting a gift card to a restaurant can take the pressure off that diner knowing that they can try a new restaurant and they will not have wasted their own money if they don’t like it. Blackhawk Network is reporting that consumers are planning on spending nearly half of their holiday budget on gift cards. Just sing it quietly.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Tracking food costs accurately is essential for any restaurants profitability, but manual calculations can be time-consuming and error-prone. Recipe Costing Integrations simplify this process by connecting your POS system with inventory and vendor pricing tools, ensuring real-time cost tracking and precise menu pricing.

Inventory

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 21, 2025

Inventory Shrinkage and Spoilage: Managing perishable goods, controlling portion sizes, and preventing theft are constant battles, directly impacting the cost of goods sold (COGS) and overall profitability. Knowledge of Industry-Specific Tools: Are they proficient with common hospitality POS systems (e.g., Opera, Cloudbeds)?

Hospitality

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

Without a clear financial picture, owners are essentially flying blind, unable to identify areas of waste, optimize pricing, or make strategic investments. IRS Audits: Inaccurate or incomplete records can trigger costly and time-consuming IRS audits, leading to significant penalties and fines. Note any voids, discounts, or refunds.

Bar

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Restaurant bookkeeping requires specialized tools and systems, including management software, POS systems, and a well-structured chart of accounts. POS System: A good POS system tracks sales and integrates with your bookkeeping software. What are the essential daily bookkeeping tasks for a restaurant?

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These medications are changing consumer eating habits given reduced levels of appetite. This strategic shift can attract a new wave of health-conscious customers and, surprisingly, may boost overall revenue as smaller portions allow for creative menu diversification, reduced food waste, and better customer satisfaction.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 30, 2025

And how can it be made more efficient and less time-consuming? Why Accuracy Matters in Hospitality Accounting Ensuring accuracy in hospitality accounting isn’t just good practice, it’s vital for the financial health and success of the business. This aids in avoiding over-ordering, reducing waste and theft.

Hospitality

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

Here are three examples below: Increase Bar Sales with a Modern POS System Built for Speed and Accuracy Take away human error and lag times by upgrading to a modern bar point-of-sale system. A mobile POS also opens a line of communication between the bar and BOH—a useful feature during happy hours or busy periods. Invest in a juicer.

2025

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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Food waste is recognized as an endemic challenge around the world. is wasted each year, about 119 billion pounds, estimated at over $408 billion. For restaurants, an industry with challenging profit margins, minimizing food waste is nothing less than a survival strategy. But unchecked waste can threaten the bottom line.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In order to reduce cost, waste, and optimize inventory, the process begins with planning and forecasting. This is important because the material shifts in consumer behavior are largely associated with how they choose to discover, purchase, and receive their goods from restaurants. Tracking Supply Chain Flow.

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. In the U.S.

Customer Experience

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.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2020

Some state data security and privacy statutes such as CCPA and the New York SHIELD Act can apply extraterritorially to out-of-state entities that collect or possess state residents’ personal information.

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This enables you to provide the modern eCommerce/omnichannel customer experience today’s consumers crave. Easily integrate various systems – Through APIs, multiple systems can share data and provide insights across multiple locations and POS systems quicker than ever. Say you’re overseeing 500 locations nationwide.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A short menu can slim down the food costs through streamlined inventory management, as well as reduced food waste. Water pollution and plastic waste have made many people look at restaurants. The main thing they should invest in is creating a good website for their restaurant and building a strong online presence.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2024

Fifty-six percent of consumers surveyed said they choose/will choose in the future to order from a restaurant with lower fees. As we’ve seen several times, consumers are not always the most responsive to increased fees. consumers 18 years and older. What are best practices for raising menu prices/instituting a fee?

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2023

A majority of diners report diminishing guest experience because of labor shortages at restaurants, according to a consumer survey from HungerRush. 57 percent of consumers aren’t confident that a busy store will take their order correctly. 57 percent of consumers aren’t confident that a busy store will take their order correctly.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2024

Facing harsh headwinds in the form of stiff competition, tough macroeconomic conditions, and ever-evolving consumer preferences, running and scaling a successful restaurant business requires a nimble approach that encompasses four key focuses. minimum wage or tip-credit that impacts labor costs), it’s a red flag to potential investors.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature real-time data on consumer behavior and the move to #cutoutcutlery. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're Our proprietary AI provides unprecedented, laser-focused views into consumer behavior.”

Serving

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.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

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. “Consumers can now enjoy TYGA BITES at home through our partnership with Grubhub, offering contact-free delivery for everyone’s added comfort and peace of mind.”

Food Safety

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. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

Mobile Ordering

Restaurant365

JANUARY 18, 2022

While true zero-restaurant food waste is extremely rare, it can be a meaningful goal. Implementing a zero-waste initiative can help minimize your carbon footprint and may even attract new customers who embrace your environmental friendliness. Additionally, limiting your food waste can improve your restaurant’s bottom line.

Waste

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. Invest in technology and help where you do not have expertise.”

2023

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. Upserve Is there anything Upserve's restaurant management software doesn't do?

Management

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. POS System. But to be clear, multi-location restaurant management is challenging.

Management

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. Upserve Is there anything Upserve's restaurant management software doesn't do?

Management