Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

As more states implement restrictions and seating bans on restaurants to curb the spread of COVID-19, many restaurants are offering delivery for the first time and are now more vulnerable to challenges arising from delivery services. Keep delivery cars clean and provide drivers with disinfectants to help them keep their cars clean.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

As a result, ghost kitchens, delivery-focused kitchens without a storefront or dining area, are growing in popularity. Traditional restaurants – with their huge overhead costs – just aren’t built for high delivery demand. All workers must be trained in food safety, not just upon hiring, but throughout their tenure.

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EATER

APRIL 10, 2024

Tomekah George Wonder’s big idea for food delivery is to own every aspect of the process, from recipe development to the moment it ends up at your door A few weeks ago, chef JJ Johnson launched a new restaurant concept in downtown Brooklyn. Wonder has shown a savvy curatorial eye reminiscent of the early days of delivery app Caviar.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The food your restaurant serves should taste good, look appealing, and be safe! Each year, food safety breaches sicken 48 million people in the United States and, of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. Food safety must be “baked in” to your brand’s culture so key audiences know that you prioritize it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. And when it comes to a traditional sit-down restaurant versus a mobile food business, such as a food truck, catering business, or food cart, the insurance needs of both are vastly different and unique.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The UAV industry is on the cusp of an historic decade with on-demand drone delivery solutions taking flight. Both tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet as well as startups are rolling out new models of aerial delivery in a bid to appeal to consumers’ appetite for quicker, cheaper, on-demand delivery. A New Market Landscape.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to a recent study , 44 percent of Americans use food delivery services, and the entire country spends over $100 billion on food delivery in a year. Offering delivery can, without a doubt, lead to more sales for your restaurant. The food is then delivered by drivers hired by the service.

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Deliverect

APRIL 1, 2020

With the closure of restaurant dine-in services to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, online food ordering has become a crucial business model overnight. Restaurants today have only two options: they can stay open by offering online delivery and/or takeout, or close up shop and wait for the proverbial storm to pass.

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Focus POS

APRIL 16, 2020

Though your regular in-house dining may be closed down, you can leverage pickup and delivery services to stay in business while ensuring the safety of employees and customers alike. . Set up Designated Pickup and Delivery Space. This can also streamline your pickup and delivery operations. . Download our FocusON brochure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As consumers expect more convenient ways to get their favorite meals – even more so than ever before amidst the pandemic – adding delivery has enabled restaurants to meet those demands and grow digital sales. In fact, delivery has become mission critical. Launching and scaling delivery involves a lot of moving parts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2020

Q: Would delivery work for my concept? A: Delivery –of all things– is a hot topic. Consumers demand it and the market has responded by offering several delivery options, from independent delivery companies to national firms. consumers order delivery or takeout once a week. Projected U.S.

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The Food Corridor

MAY 7, 2020

Two common themes are food businesses transitioning to online ordering for delivery or curbside pickup, and others turning to an ecommerce model. Transition to Food Delivery or Ecommerce. Create a Streamlined Delivery Menu. Your delivery menu needs to be focused and full of favorites. Delivery Logistics.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Consumer demand has majorly fueled food delivery, and traditional restaurants which used to see barely five-to-ten percent of their total revenue being driven by online orders as recently as three years ago, now see over 30 percent of their revenue come from delivery platforms.

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Cheetah

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On October 5 a new bill was approved by the governor of California requiring 3rd party delivery apps to be more transparent about charges and tips. Can restaurants reshape their relationships with 3rd-party delivery apps for the better, or will they be buried under incomprehensible charges and over-itemized bills?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Consumers visit a fast food or quick serve restaurant (QSR) with a goal in mind: secure a tasty meal incredibly quickly. Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Who makes the magic happen? Cashiers, cooks, and other QSR crew members.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A Look Back at 2023 To gauge the state of the restaurant industry, including the industry’s most pertinent worries around food and labor costs, Restaurant365 conducted a survey of over 730 customers representing 14,000+ locations in December 2022 and again in September 2023.

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Cheetah

MAY 1, 2020

In an effort to help San Francisco restaurants stay afloat in this unstable economic reality, Mayor London Breed has recently capped the fees food delivery apps can charge restaurants at 15%. “In The time has come to drop the apps and set up your own delivery system that will be profitable now and in the future.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The advent of on-demand food delivery can be traced back to the early 2000s when the use of GrubHub, Seamless and numerous other online and mobile food-ordering systems became commonplace among college students and young professionals throughout the United States. So, is menu scraping legal?

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Bingage

MAY 28, 2020

While the government has given a clean chit to online food delivery partners to resume their operations, some misinformation regarding the safety of these services has made people consider it unsafe for health. Can corona spread through food ordered online. Go for Contactless delivery. Follow Safety guidelines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2020

Restaurants are scrambling to accommodate a new kind of market – the frenzied and fearful delivery customer. What does the delivery customer expect now? Delivery customers want restaurants to follow CDC guidelines (and be vocal about it!). Delivery customers want restaurants to communicate (well and often!)

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

Food delivery aggregators: You’re well past your expiration date. While there are a slew of challenges facing both diners and restaurants as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, one notable element often omitted from conversation are the delivery drivers who actually make these services work, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2021

But as reality of the pandemic sunk in and dining rooms remained closed, it became apparent that ordering delivery and takeout was the best way to help restaurants weather the storm — and there was a significant consumer appetite to do so. By August 2020, Americans reported ordering takeout 2.4 Delivering Success with Ghost Kitchens.

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Deliverect

JANUARY 18, 2021

For some that meant stepping up their already hot delivery game using the latest tech. Many had never thought about offering delivery as a channel before because it just wasn’t right for their brand of food and service. First, let’s look at why many restaurants didn’t think delivery would ever suit their style.

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24/7 Waiter

JANUARY 4, 2024

Many restaurants are now putting their efforts into an online ordering food system. Ever since the pandemic, new and exciting virtual restaurants have been using brick-and-mortar spaces for delivery-only meals. This is a space where cooking occurs solely for delivery. Things are changing in the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2020

At the moment, delivery and takeout are the lifeblood of the restaurant industry. The team at Chowbus connected Modern Restaurnt Management (MRM) magazine with Mr. Pan, a 36-year-old living delivery driver in Chicago, to learn more about what his daily life is like now during this pandemic. What is a typical shift like now and then?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Without these pricey anchors dragging down your profitability, you just might be able to focus on making food, and not making rent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

Food safety discussions have taken on a new level of urgency, as restaurants face the enormity of consequences of COVID-19. It was not that long ago that US Foods conducted their highly-publicized survey which found that nearly 30 percent of delivery people sample the food items they’re entrusted with.

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Marketman

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

While the food you serve will either have diners waiting in line or leave your tables as barren as the Sahara, there’s more to it. When deliveries occur, you need a place to store the products you purchased. Other food purchases that need to be kept cool will require a walk-in cooler. Your dream is about to come true.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That is why multi-unit restaurants are leveraging a multitude of technologies to make every dining, delivery, drive-through, or takeout experience festive and memorable. US Foods recently surveyed more than 1,000 Americans and found that 57 percent preferred getting food for takeout/delivery, while just 43 percent preferred on-premise dining.

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 14, 2020

A restaurant’s packaging is not just a vehicle for carrying food—it’s a statement that informs customers about your business’s brand and values. According to Technomic, a food industry research firm, 64% of consumers consider high quality packaging an important factor in deciding where to order food (1). Presentation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To uphold food safety mandates and warrant uninterrupted service, consider the following: Optimize Refrigeration Systems Ascertain that your cooling units are prepared to function under increased duress. Empire Cooler Service offers a selection of high-grade equipment poised to meet any culinary challenge.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many have started offering their menus on third-party delivery websites. Some have white-labeled those same delivery services for integration within their organizations, and others have built out programs for pick up or delivery entirely in house. Looking at the data proves much of what we already know.

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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.

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Cheetah

APRIL 30, 2021

In case you haven’t noticed, the food truck market is on the rise , which means you need to up your game. The right commissary kitchen can mean the key to a successful food truck business – considering it offers all the benefits of having your own kitchen, without a lot of the associated overhead, paperwork, and hassle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Delivery, takeout and drive-thru. 5-11 with 800 US respondents, one in three (36 percent) consumers reported using delivery, takeout and drive-thru “more or much more” vs. pre-pandemic. Those using delivery “much more” jumped from 19 percent in April to 37 percent in August. Chief among those habits?

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BNG Point of Sale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How To Increase Food Delivery Sales . Food and restaurant delivery sales are of critical importance now in the restaurant business industry. In the restaurant industry, the rise of internet-based food ordering and delivery platforms has changed the way traditional restaurants operate completely. .

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EATER

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Grocery delivery platform Instacart is launching a pilot program to begin taking food stamps as payment in its app. During the pandemic demand for grocery delivery has skyrocketed. So SNAP can’t be used to cover any Instacart delivery fees, or tips.

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