Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off. According to this year's survey, restaurant operators' early investment in delivery and mobile ordering has paid off in a big way.

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The Rail

APRIL 6, 2025

By Destiny Clarkson, Contributor As much as meal quality, guest retention determines the success of a restaurant. The Power of Personalized Communication Developing close connections with your guests calls for frequent, customized contact that makes them appreciated and noticed.

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EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Lille Allen From Refettorio Harlem in NYC to Truth BBQs partnership with Houstons Sky High for Kids, chefs are in the spirit of giving Next week, couple Amanda and Issac Toups will leave their Mid-City restaurant, Toups Meatery , load up a few vehicles, and make some deliveries to the surrounding New Orleans communities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

How will restaurants shift their labor models to follow state safety regulations, ensure social distancing, minimize contact, and support the changing tide of guest preferences? After all, people are an organization’s greatest asset – and the key to speeding recovery and emerging stronger from these uncertain times.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features COVID-19 crisis statistics and surveys about third-party delivery, guest expectations, QSR reliance and more. Takeout and delivery increased 300X in a couple of weeks relative to reservations and wait list on Yelp. Yelp Economic Average.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

Since guests cannot frequent their favorite establishments in person, they're now leaning on you to bring a "dine-in experience" to their homes. This crisis has highlighted how delivery and takeout channels are the new norms in the industry. " Greet people as they walk in to pick up their orders. ."

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

While many find hope for the industry as the country re-opens, the road to recovery is a very long and uncertain one. While the operational and financial impact of social distancing must be top of mind, nearly as important as what you do will be how you communicate these changes to your guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Included in the document are highlights of the recently released Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Best Practices for Retail Food Stores, Restaurants, and Food Pick-Up/Delivery Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. It includes documents to assist in organizing and reopening dining rooms and businesses. Employee health.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Rewards Network, together with American Airlines AAdvantage Dining and United Airlines MileagePlus Dining, surveyed their members to learn more about what they anticipate their dining habits will look like over the next few months. Some highlights inlcude: Consumers' projected dining out frequency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

How will restaurants shift their labor models to follow state safety regulations, ensure social distancing, minimize contact, and support the changing tide of guest preferences? After all, people are an organization’s greatest asset – and the key to speeding recovery and emerging stronger from these uncertain times.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. Its proprietary guest engagement solution, which is used by more than 600 restaurants throughout the U.S. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2021

With restaurants clawing back and facing new challenges like vaccine credentials and new COVID variants, it’s a good time to check on an equally important, if less prioritized corner of the American dining and drinking sector – restaurant insurance. restaurant scene. On the upside, U.S. That’s 6.6% billion versus $66.2

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features news of restaurant resiliency, dining trends in Canada, restaurant salaries across the U.S. Like digital ordering, carry-out, delivery, and drive-thru were also growing before the pandemic. Restaurant Resiliency. Throughout one of the most challenging years for U.S. ” What Feeds Us.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

“The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. . “The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Operators will need to consider new procedures and processes that will be critical to providing the right environment. Socialincs, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Takeout For Good. GroupRaise is inviting restaurants across the country to join their Takeout For Good initiative happening on June 2. Aramark Creates Safety Plans.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

“The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. . “The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Operators will need to consider new procedures and processes that will be critical to providing the right environment. Socialincs, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag. Mixed take-out bag.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

Full-service restaurant chains, which primarily rely on dine-in customers and had few if any off-premises services when the dine-in restrictions went into effect, bore the brunt of the transaction declines throughout the pandemic. An Unpopular Year. For full-service restaurants now, it’s about government restrictions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Some customers have the gift of foresight, using DoubleDash to add on recovery (or hair of the dog) essentials from nearby stores. Late Night Snacking : with the rise of trends like girl dinner this year, 2024 will be the year of late night snacking, with more consumers ordering delivery for food during late night hours.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Of restaurants that have stayed open, many shifted their focus to takeout and delivery. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the surge in online ordering, early returns on restaurant recovery and what customers want and expect from restaurants. Restaurant Recovery Stats. Dine-in sales still represent a small percentage of the total.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

The study also uncovers consumers’ QSR competitive positioning, brand preferences, delivery trends, and use of new technology. Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

In New York, California and Illinois, even as the on-premise space remains closed (for in-outlet dining/drinking), sales velocity continues to improve week-over-week, as both the market and consumers continue to adapt to the new trading style. However, growth in average spending per guest remains negative for full-service restaurants.

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Goliath Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Off-premise dining, such as take-out, curbside and delivery, have grown significantly this year as quarantines, restrictions and mandated shutdowns forced restaurant owners to look for alternative ways to cover the loss of in-dining sales. The demand for drive-thru services has also grown because of the pandemic.

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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. SpotOn Secures $60M Funding. SpotOn Transact, Inc. secured $60 million in Series C funding. The round is led by DST Global with participation from existing investors including Dragoneer Investment Group and Franklin Templeton.

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EATER

JUNE 26, 2020

Expecting the worst, they were surprised to realize at the end of May that they were doing so much business through takeout and delivery that they were on track to meet their original sales predictions. After the pandemic shut down dine-in service around the country in March, some 6 million restaurant industry workers lost their jobs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

Miso Robotics understood where we could improve and stay true to White Castle’s brand of taste, innovation and best-in-class dining. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. White Castle Employs Flippy the Robot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Hospitality Recovery Coalition. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) announced the formation of the Hospitality Recovery Coalition with the goal of supporting on-premise partners, including restaurants, bars and distilleries, facing harsh economic impacts due to the COVID-19 crisis.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

MRM Franchise Feed features news about the restaurant franchise (MUFSO) landscape. KFC Foundation Launches MyChange. “We consistently see the difference it makes to have $500 in savings, and the KFC Foundation is helping frontline workers build that emergency fund in just a few months.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

Located in Salina, Kansas, this prototype marks a new chapter for the brand’s design evolution as this option is its first model without a dining room, hosting a double drive-thru and a walk-up ordering station. MRM Franchise Feed features the latest news in the restaurant and MUFSO franchising landscape. Happy Birthday, TCBY.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 23, 2021

Now as we enter a recovery stage, the biggest challenge that's emerged has become finding enough staff to fit the demand. Staff are now tasked with policing masking, moving heavy furniture to configure outdoor dining, and packaging to-go orders. Restaurants are employing more delivery drivers than ever.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

An idea on the minds of foodservice leadership post-pandemic is the ghost kitchen – a kitchen dedicated to prepping food without maintaining a dining space. During the pandemic many existing fast casual concepts shut down their dining rooms and in essence became ghost kitchens where customers could order for delivery or pick up.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2020

According to John Davie, CEO of Dining Alliance, “Restaurateurs who are reopening and asking what they should do regarding supply chain should prepare to engage smaller suppliers who have multiple sources of product” (2). The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to us all just how interconnected our food system is in the US if not, the world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2024

Overall, “large parties,” or a party with eight or more guests, had a +2 percent increase in same-store transactions in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. Cheers to 2023: Overall, restaurant and bar guests drank approximately +11 percent more alcohol in Q4 2023 compared to the average for Q1 through Q3 2023.

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Foodable

JUNE 19, 2020

Check out the Restaurant Recovery Resource to keep up to date on the latest innovations and ideas to help your business recover from the crisis. Barron and McEnery explore the potential changes coming to the casual dining sector, and consider the manner in which guest service may evolve to meet those new needs.

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