The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Customer satisfaction is given utmost importance in businesses everywhere, and the restaurant industry is no exception. Customer Relationship Management (CRM), being an integral part of nearly all types of businesses, helps retain customers and drive sales growth. Helps You Understand Your Customers Better.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Running a restaurant isn't just about serving great meals. It's about consistently delivering top-notch quality, exceptional service, and an unforgettable experience. Moreover, as the hospitality sector becomes increasingly competitive, tapping into the nuanced aspects of customer behavior becomes necessary.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The experience every customer enjoys needs to somehow be both effortless and memorable. The quest for providing customers with a continuously incredible dining experience is one that every restaurant must pursue. As the name suggests, such factors are often intangible to the customer themselves.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 7, 2022

A fine dining restaurant in Gulf countries like Oman is a blend of delicacies and a bespoke experience. It is thus, the right time for Omani restaurateurs—and upcoming restaurateurs—to own this bustling dining scene. Guide To Opening A Fine Dine Restaurant In Oman. You will need capital for-. Investment.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We can all choose to be great at what we do; choose to master our craft and create outstanding experiences for guests and co-workers alike, or we can choose to shrug our shoulders and surrender to mediocrity. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Plain and simple.

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3. This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

Let’s begin with some facts about the business of serving food: There are more than 1 million restaurant locations in the United States. 64% of those independent restaurants were “full-service”. fell in the category of “fine dining”. In 2019, over 490,000 of those locations were independent, privately owned businesses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many food and beverage establishments have seen success with technology — such as contactless options, automation to support changing workforces and innovative customer loyalty strategies — in their endeavors to meet the demand for safer and more convenient dining experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The last couple of years have proven that digital experiences will continue to play a central role for quick-service restaurant (QSR) operators. Luckily, QSRs have no shortage of technologies at their disposal to help them achieve the sort of customer personalization that drives profits. Easing Customer and Employee Friction.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 1, 2022

Customers in restaurants and bars have veered and stretched for a year and a half to adapt to the altering reality of going out in a pandemic. Whether at fast-food counters, neighbourhood taverns, or formal dining halls, they add up to a profound shift in hospitality as we know it.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 25, 2021

I find it very interesting how diverse the food experience is. Just as all cars can move a person from one geographic point to another yet the experience that takes place in between can be totally different – so too is this true with food. QUICK SERVICE: This is the food noise experience for both the customer and the employee.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But restaurants face a fine balance in increasing costs, as customers are also impacted by the realities of inflation. Recent surveys are showing the vast majority of Americans have been cutting back on dining out. Adopt In-House Technology to Improve Service and Reduce Errors.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Fine dining is an all-encompassing experience that includes elegant and sophisticated services as well as the highest-quality food. In a fine dining restaurant, there are normally more staff members, and the personnel have a higher degree of training and skill. A Fine Dine Experience And Its Features.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The foundational strategy focuses on two pivotal elements: maintaining rigorous standards for commercial refrigeration and ensuring a robust plan to manage increased customer flow. Engineering a Resilient Cold Chain With escalating temperatures, the cold chain experiences incremental stress.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Profit margins can also serve as a benchmark for comparing your performance to industry standards and competitors, providing insights to improve your restaurant profit. Fast- Food Restaurants Fast food chains are known for their speedy service, affordable prices, and convenient locations. Their profit margins are around 6.5

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

What will our restaurants physically look like with social distancing, how will we be able to interact with guests at service, how will our kitchen teams function as a unit, what changes will be necessary for our menus to be effective, and what role will take out and delivery play in every restaurant concept? Everything helps.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

The event celebrates another year of connecting hungry guests with discounted meals at restaurants all over the country, and 2022 is shaping up to be a different experience than in years past. The best solutions always put the focus on providing a fulfilling end-to-end experience for both your your customers and your staff.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

We’ve also included a restaurant marketing plan PDF with all the questions you need to ask (and answer) to get into the minds of your customers and create a marketing recipe for success. But would a first-time customer know what your restaurant is made of by sitting at a table? Which is where your restaurant marketing plan comes in.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

My professional life has been dedicated to the kitchen, the people of restaurants, the ingredients and their source, the process and the adrenaline, the service and an opportunity to make people happy, and of course those plates as they slide down the pass. They are all part of my passion for the preparation and service of food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

According to Black Box Intelligence and Snagajob , full-service restaurants are feeling the pinch and report approximately six fewer employees in the back of house and three fewer in the front of house. Operators will look to technology to offset labor shortages and free up staff to enhance the dining experience.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 31, 2021

Think, like the type of service it would offer. Will you provide a casual or fine-dining experience? While you’re at that, think about your restaurant’s floor plan and design and incorporate that as it will impact the customer experience. Your concept should include the details of your restaurant.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

That’s why we’ve selected 3 books that focus on people—customers and staff. Improving these relationships is a surefire way to improve your restaurant’s service and bottom line. Setting the Table focuses on Meyer’s philosophy of Enlightened Hospitality , which revolves around relationships and respect—between both staff and customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How to improve customer experience, capitalize on new opportunities, and implement innovative technologies. Even in this challenging time for the industry, restaurants are finding innovative ways to better serve the needs of their customers. Focus on Customer Experience and Personalization.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

"Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— From there, you can make vital decisions about price, service capacity, table turnover, and your menu to boost revenue and profits. Fluctuating service quality from one server to the next.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

an hour, leaving the rest of an employee's compensation up to the good will of customers in the form of tips. Tip pooling, service charges, and transparency are all ways these four restaurant operators are leading the charge into a new era for restaurants. Huang intentionally designed the service model to be simple.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2023

1856 is the first-of-its-kind, student-run culinary experience in the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center in Auburn, Alabama. Designed by The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry, the facility provides real-world experience for the next generation of chefs and hospitality leaders. How is the project multi-functional?

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Indoor Dining Blueprint Governor Cuomo recently announced their new blueprint for indoor dining , which somewhat opens up indoor-only restaurants to the public. And restaurants also pose possible risks, concentrations of people inside [for] indoor dining. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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EATER

MARCH 19, 2024

Yes, Balthazar and Jean-George still thrive, but French cuisine is no longer the be-all-end-all of fine dining. But look around and a certain nostalgia for the white tablecloths and frisée aux lardons of French dining is manifesting. French in Boston styles itself as a brasserie serving ratatouille and trout almondine.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

How to Serve in a Fine Dining Restaurant : Fine dining restaurants tend to offer elaborate food at higher price points, with attentive, often formal service. From upset customers to drama with your coworkers, here are ways to help manage the storm. Dealing with conflict or stress at work.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It eliminates some downsides of tipping, like inconsistent wages, an emphasis on “good tables,” and an individual mentality among serving staff. What about mandatory service charges? This means servers who serve food and provide table service, bartenders who make and serve drinks, or bussers who clear tables, etc.),

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2021

Is your website optimized, and does it provide a good user experience? Assume a customer discovers your website but cannot identify where you are located or how to contact you. Suppose a customer goes to a search engine like Google or Google News API and types in 'Find local restaurants near me.' Optimization of NAPs.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 3, 2021

From converting to fast casual to offering meal kits to ghost kitchen-driven expansion, restaurants are meeting customers where they are (mostly at-home!), Fast casual is king With dining rooms effectively shut down early last year (many of them still limited), restaurants had to rethink how they would be serving hungry diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2023

He made sure to recognize customers and address them by name and remember their orders. This attention to detail has been rewarded with a 75-percent customer return rate at the fine fast-casual brand. Jacquet now want his franchisees to learn from his example and keep conne[link] to their customers and community.

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360Training

JULY 9, 2020

According to market research conducted in 2017 , 11% of customers used a gluten-free “eating approach” in the previous year. It requires careful forethought, but there are ways for any business to tap into the GF market without endangering any of their customers. Not the dining experience you want to give customers, right?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. With the increasing customer inclination towards a health-conscious diet, even the restaurant industry has to adapt to the trend by adding dishes catering to their health-conscious guests. Serving smaller portion sizes. Simplified Menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

The 1950s saw the birth of the first idealized vending machine , an enormous construction made of metal and glass that served thousands of city-dwellers each day and night. The machine served sandwiches, wine, and coffee, and was considered a great success. No waiters, just steaming plates and a glass door that's opened by a coin.

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