ChowNow

JUNE 12, 2025

And no, increasing restaurant sales doesn’t mean turning your restaurant staff into pushy upsellers trying to squeeze a few extra dollars out of every order. Create Limited-Time Offers That Drive Action Limited-time offers (LTOs) give potential customers a reason to order now, not later.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

While corporate travel is expected to pick up, helping offset a predicted slowdown in leisure spending, the broader hospitality sector must grapple with economic and operational risks. By mid-2024, 82 percent of food and beverage operators were still actively recruiting, with chefs and cooks comprising 30 percent of open roles.

2025

Culinary Cues

AUGUST 11, 2025

Prepare delicious food, advertise, open your doors and collect the money. I began to observe restaurants in my neighborhood and those that I patronized while traveling. AS others would view it…how hard can it be? This was part of my defensive reaction pointing to the lack of knowledge about restaurants that so many possess.

Back of House

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nowadays, running a successful restaurant takes more than great food and good service. Another way to get local backlinks is from local news articles, food bloggers, or restaurant directories to boost your visibility in search results. Make sure to add high-quality photos of your food, interior, and staff.

Book

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

The restaurant industry is rapidly evolving, and mobile food ordering is at the center of this transformation. These mobile food ordering statistics reveal just how quickly digital habits are shifting — and what it means for restaurants trying to stay competitive. At first, mobile ordering seemed like a long shot.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 11, 2025

The dishes in your menu that are prepared with local products tell your customers that the food is fresher, as those ingredients have a shorter distance to travel. When the customers leave your place, you can send them personalized emails featuring items they have ordered before or announce new dishes available only to loyalty members.

Menu

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” Starbucks’ deal with Empower Delivery fits the acqui-hire framework. The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers.

Hiring

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of dramatic Valentine's Day shift, best food scenes, and the evolution of c-store foodservice. Food-away-from-home spending is likely to see modest growth as softer consumer spending patterns prevail. ” A Year of Challenges U.S.

Marketing

ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

With a few key optimizations, your restaurant can rank higher on Google, get noticed by people searching for places to eat, and ultimately drive more foot traffic and online orders. Restaurants that rank higher in local search results get more foot traffic, online orders, and reservations. Leave us a review on Google!

SEO

The Rail

JUNE 6, 2025

1 Simplify the Dining Area for Comfort and Style Updating the dining area produces a friendly environment that invites guests to remain longer and enjoy their food. 2 Fresh and Local Ingredients Elevate the Menu Using fresh, locally grown foods freshens the menu and demonstrates quality consciousness.

Social Media

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler. Menus will be designed to minimize food waste, with ingredients used efficiently across dishes.

Hotels

EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Travel around and youll be rewarded.

Hotels

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 22, 2025

What makes these restaurants stand out isn’t just the food, but the people behind them and the way they stick to what works. Each one has built a solid reputation for serving food people keep coming back for. While the setup is simple, the focus is on getting the food right.

Back of House

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

No longer just a payment processing tool, your POS system can handle everything from order taking and payments to inventory tracking and customer data management. Cloud-based POS systems allow you to access real-time data from anywhere, whether youre on the floor, at home, or traveling.

2025

SpotOn

JANUARY 15, 2025

According to a Gallup poll, guests only look at your menu for 109 seconds before ordering. From here, you can calculate its food cost percentage by subtracting the gross profit margin from 100. They're designed for profit but people don't order them. Here are the formulas. Here are some ways to start. Low popularity.

Menu

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

Whether you’re serving corporate lunches or private events, building a successful restaurant catering business requires more than just great food — it takes planning, streamlined operations, and the right technology. People already love your food, so why not capitalize on it and offer catering services as well? What’s next?

Catering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

. – Jackie Abril-Carlile, Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Culinary Instructo r and Executive chef and general manager at North Mountain Brewing Everything Has Changed At the onset of COVID, most fast casual restaurants went from primarily dine-in business to mostly takeout and delivery models.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

Mobile Ordering

EATER

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Jennifer: Its not worth it for us just to have the food be good; it has to be the whole experience. We follow all the fancy spots, but sometimes well just go into Flushing and do a food crawl. Our most common date night is going to the movies together once a week we love to sneak food into the Angelika. Who plans date night?

Take-out

Restaurant Clicks

MAY 6, 2025

Barbecue holds a special place in Missouri’s food scene. The establishment’s commitment to excellence has earned it recognition among barbecue enthusiasts and food critics alike. The casual dining atmosphere, along with options for takeout and delivery, makes it a convenient choice for both locals and visitors.

Seasonal Menu

EATER

MARCH 11, 2025

Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship to food and dining has undergone some permanent changes I got COVID for the first time this past February. So I isolated myself at home, using Instacart for the first time to order vegetables and Gatorade. food prices have risen by 23.6 Sound familiar?

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While many operators struggled to keep expenses – particularly food and labor costs – under control, they also observed an increase in guest traffic and in profit margins, in part due to strong takeout and delivery sales. One strategy for reducing costs has been the increased use of technology.

2025

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.

Delivery

7 Shifts

APRIL 9, 2020

Whether you have been offering delivery and takeout for years, or have had to make a recent pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know which food travels best for delivery—and how to change up your menu to stay profitable while dine-in isn't an option. Let’s run through a little scenario.

Travel

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

Online food delivery thrives as phones become one-stop shops for ordering and tracking meals. This convenience has made the online food delivery market massive, with global revenues of over $1 trillion in 2023 alone. They must choose whether to use third-party online ordering platforms or handle delivery in-house.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2024

Here’s the scene of a restaurant using third-party delivery… Dine-in customers walk into the smell of delicious food, but the atmosphere feels more like a busy train station than a place to eat. Along the wall, food bags are lined up like an e-commerce fulfillment center. ’s order. gets Bryan G.’s

Delivery

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.

Delivery

7 Shifts

MARCH 20, 2020

However, in the wake of COVID-19, restaurants are leaning into alternative ways to move inventory, keep staff working, and delight their guests by focusing on delivery and takeout. Restaurant status by state Off-premise consumption of your restaurant’s food is the silver lining for your business during this otherwise dark time.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 4, 2023

Despite inflation taking its toll, many people are continuing to prioritize and enjoy the convenience of takeaway and food delivery with recent Deliverect data revealing that more people are purchasing delivery orders today than they were before the recent increase in the cost of living.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store. Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. The buyer receives text updates with links to live maps to track delivery progress.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. Voice Ordering. But this technology has even more applications than just ordering on guests' personal devices.

Food Order

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 16, 2020

The return of high-value customers with large business orders is a big opportunity for restaurants. Many offices are requiring individual packaging for catered food and even office snacks. The majority of ezCater orders now contain individually packaged items. Deliver on Delivery. Reinvent Your Catering Menu.

Guest Recovery

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. Better Work: Make Off-Site Kitchen Jobs the Very Best Job in Food Service. For that reason, they must become more livable.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2023

Offer a Fixed-Price Catering Menu Inclusive of Desserts The catering menu needs to be very clear on what is included in each package, and we try to wrap as much into those orders as possible. If you say to somebody “would you like dessert with your order?” Service or delivery fees should also be included.

Catering

EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But some restaurateurs are sticking with in-house delivery or small local companies instead. One of the first things Sylvan Mishima Brackett did after the mayor of San Francisco issued a lockdown order in March was walk a few blocks to a local Best Buy to buy a phone. Brands like DoorDash and Uber Eats promise volume and convenience.

Delivery

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.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While many diners understand the tough times restaurants are going through, they are also feeling their dollars stretch and want to see the value of their money reflected in the food and service they receive. By using a POS system, customers, waiters and cashiers reduce their chances of errors when entering orders.

Technology