7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it’s just the beginning. What is Restaurant Inventory Management Software? Restaurant inventory management software is a tool that helps digitally track your kitchen inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We hope you enjoy your dining experience with us. For now, restaurants are using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) to streamline operations and improve customer service in a much less tech-savvy environment. You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurant back-of-house operations form the backbone of a restaurant’s success. The back-of-house (or BOH) manages crucial elements that impact cost control and profitability. These include food production and inventory management. What Is Back of House in a Restaurant? Behind the scenes is where the magic happens.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

The benefits of a digital workplace can put restaurants in a better position to increase profits, reduce waste, and experience greater growth. Gives front-of-house teams the resources to provide better customer service. ” Digital Communication Can Increase Customer Loyalty.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

Even through the most challenging and tragic experiences, when the lessons are quite vivid – we quickly push aside the need to change in favor of a return to what is considered “normal”. Our menus are too large: The days when the way to customer satisfaction was through extensive variety are probably gone.

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Apicbase

MAY 30, 2024

Each saved second counts towards a satisfied customer and, more importantly, your bottom-line profit. It’s an all-in-one tool that supercharges every aspect of your restaurant’s performance, from order accuracy to customer loyalty, and even helps you increase profit margins. It is your secret weapon for excellence.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 7, 2024

While your customers may never meet BOH team members, these restaurant jobs are essential to delivering a fantastic hospitality experience. Here are a few sample back-of-house job descriptions you can use to jumpstart your own job descriptions to help attract top notch BOH staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, in the process of resuming and continuing restaurant operations, operators need to take steps to lower the risk of infection among employees and customers and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Both of these technological advancements are instrumental in ensuring excellent customer service and reducing food waste.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It means guests love the food you serve so much that one location simply won’t cut it — and you get to serve more customers, generate more revenue , and expand your business. It requires a manager to differentiate concepts, ensure a consistent guest experience, and manage employees and technology across multiple storefronts.

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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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7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2020

Ani Ramen is a boutique ramen house with five locations in New Jersey. Ani Ramen strives to be part of the family community by offering a place to share high-quality meals and experiences with ramen. Ani Ramen strives to be part of the family community by offering a place to share high-quality meals and experiences with ramen.

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Hot Schedules

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

B etween payroll, inventory, reporting, and more, it’s easy for a manager to get trapped in the back office, sinking under paperwork. Between payroll, ordering, reporting, and a mess of other paperwork, it’s easy for back-office operations to bog down crucial front-office efficiency. The Sinker: Inefficient Inventory Processes.

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Touch Bistro

MAY 10, 2021

And one area that is often overlooked is the question of how to reduce food waste in restaurants. Food waste costs restaurants a staggering $162 billion per year , and in America alone, restaurants generate as much as 33 billion pounds of food waste per year. Different Types of Restaurant Food Waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 2, 2023

Is your restaurant clean — both in the front and back of the house? Inventory Management If you don’t have a proper inventory management system in place, you could be wasting a lot of time and money. Proper inventory management is key. For instance, is food being handled and stored properly?

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Apicbase

MAY 29, 2024

Every few months, a media article declares the death of ghost kitchens as a viable business model. Market data, however, tells a different story. According to Statista , in 2023, the revenue of online food delivery was estimated at over $1 trillion, and it is expected to hold a 50% share of the drive-thru and takeaway food service markets by 2030.

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Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

We also analyse customer feedback from platforms like G2 and Capterra to highlight the pros and cons users have encountered. Finally, we will explore the best alternatives to MarketMan, helping you decide which restaurant inventory management platform aligns best with your needs. It can analyse the images and extract information.

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QSR Automations

MAY 2, 2024

In this realm of precision, technology is a game-changer, it can revolutionize the way bars operate and enhance the customer experience. Traditionally, bartenders relied on experience, intuition, and manual processes to craft cocktails. From the ambiance of the venue to the precision of the cocktails, every small detail matters.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders. For entrepreneurs, ghost kitchens offer the opportunity to experiment and launch their restaurant brands at minimal cost and less risk than opening a physical location.

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Deliverect

AUGUST 31, 2020

When ordering from these big delivery platforms, customers already have to make a big decision when it comes to choosing a restaurant to order from. If you then have an enormous list of options available, customers are likely to experience decision-fatigue and leave your page without making a purchase.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In terms of trends, it is clear that in 2023 technology will continue to shape and enhance the restaurant industry and we will see operators adopting new technologies to create an even more seamless and frictionless experience for guests, while still maintaining unique and engaging dining experiences. For part one, click here.

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Cheetah

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Quality supplies and quality staff are the two key factors that determine what kind of experience off-premises diners receive. Restaurant brands that are looking to tap into the eco- and social-trends in food-waste reduction , sustainable packaging and fair wages should inquire with ghost kitchens as to how they address these issues.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 15, 2021

Leveraging your front of house (FOH) and back of house (BOH) data allows you to gain more insight into your operations. You may have a hunch that you are doing fewer table turns on the weekend, or that your inventory has gotten wasteful recently. Restaurant KPIs impacting a profitable back of house.

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Deliverect

JULY 24, 2020

Is it limited to taking payments and orders, or does it also provide inventory management, a reservations system, kitchen and shift management tools? Is it limited to taking payments and orders, or does it also provide inventory management, a reservations system, kitchen and shift management tools? POS (point of sale) systems.

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Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

What are 10 ways they can use it to develop training material and activities to train restaurant FRONT OF HOUSE S TAFF? Role-Playing Scenarios : Design chat-based scenarios where ChatGPT acts as a customer with specific needs or complaints. This will help train staff in customer service skills and problem-solving.

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Restaurant Engine

JULY 13, 2022

You know that a point-of-sale system (POS) is great for your customers, enabling them to have a bit more control when ordering or paying for their meals. 1: Inventory Management. One of the best ways to improve your restaurant’s productivity is using your POS system’s inventory management feature. It also helps with food costs.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s no longer about waste and environmental damage. Restaurant sustainability refers to how restaurants reduce their environmental impact by tackling issues such as sustainable farming, carbon footprint, supply chain shortening, food waste, packaging, water conservation, energy use, recycling, and more.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Customer experience is another factor, and your interior should resonate with the brand’s personality. Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons. Are people craving a new Italian place?

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

The back-of-house (BOH) at a restaurant is the behind-the-scenes area of the restaurant — it works like an engine and keeps the restaurant going. While it is not visible to the customers, the restaurant’s services get hampered without back-of-house. Why is Back of House Important?

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Restaurant owners, operators, and managers are constantly faced with decisions about accounting, operations, inventory, customer service, and staffing. The role may cover a wide range of areas, from front-of-house to back-of-house, or customer experience in the restaurant to off-premises.

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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. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Heavenly Desserts’ digital-first approach has significantly boosted operational efficiency and enhanced customer experiences, propelling them to become the UK’s fastest-growing dessert restaurant franchise. Automating processes like inventory and workforce management. Improved customer engagement and convenience.

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Heavenly Desserts’ digital-first approach has significantly boosted operational efficiency and enhanced customer experiences, propelling them to become the UK’s fastest-growing dessert restaurant franchise. Automating processes like inventory and workforce management. Improved customer engagement and convenience.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2019

Britt Cloud, Goliath’s Consulting Chef, directs back of house operations and works with the current chef/kitchen manager to restructure inventory, food costing, menu, labor, and health policies. Front of House operations is a steady balance of guest needs, employee personalities, efficient strategies, and health and safety enforcement.

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Apicbase

MARCH 3, 2023

These back-of-house software systems have become indispensable for modern restaurants because they enhance profitability and simplify work for restaurant managers and kitchen staff. Some technologies integrate with the restaurant’s POS, allowing data to be easily shared between front-of-house (FoH) and back-of-house (BoH) systems.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

This permits your restaurant—both front and back of the house—to work at the fast pace of consumer spending. If customers are waiting in line for a table, you can take their drink orders as they wait, and even transfer their tab to their table once seated. Or could it be the systems in place?

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Restaurant365

APRIL 16, 2021

With the demand for takeout being at an all-time high, restaurants have turned to ordering services like Grubhub and UberEats to connect with new local customers looking for food. These ordering platforms charge multiple fees to your customers and also have high commission rates (typically 10-15% of the order total).

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Apicbase

MARCH 17, 2023

Doing so will help you cut costs, serve customers more quickly, increase customer satisfaction, and improve profits. You can use technology to optimise or automate various tasks , such as inventory management and ordering, which helps reduce errors and increase efficiency. There is good and bad news.

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