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

MAY 6, 2020

Continue to pay attention to distributor delivery days and times : Currently, most distributors are letting the local distribution centers make the calls on delivery days and times. A few common changes we are seeing across majority of warehouses are: No Saturday Deliveries. No Hot Shot (recovery) Deliveries.

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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. Consider adjusting your delivery protocol to embrace "standoff handoffs."

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Support for no-contact doorstep delivery and minimal-exposure pickup options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

There is a new normal in the restaurant space, and we are all trying to figure out exactly what that means. 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? Overwhelming? Yes, absolutely. Many even want to.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Support for no-contact doorstep delivery and minimal-exposure pickup options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2021

In the “great reopening”, many restaurants adjusted their business plans in order to survive the pandemic, adding outdoor seating, serving takeout and delivery, or consolidating staff. ” Take a realistic approach to restaurant insurance moving forward. .” Key Insurance Issues for Restaurant Owners.

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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. Anticipation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

As the QSR industry becomes increasingly crowded, understanding operations from the inside out is more crucial than ever. Specifically, at Walt Disney World, they taught me not only the value of, but how and when to execute guest service recovery. This is where real, hands-on experience becomes invaluable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The survey results reveal that 35 percent of respondents feel the same level of comfort dining out now as they did at the beginning of the pandemic. Some highlights inlcude: Consumers' projected dining out frequency. Only about seven percent of respondents said they anticipate rarely or never eating out.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 23, 2021

They are, at least in part – etched into our brains from those early days in English Composition class – lines that stand out as an umbrella statement that encompasses a point in time from yesterday or today. Now we have an opportunity to be reborn – to change what is wrong with how we operate and come out bigger and better in the end.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Its proprietary guest engagement solution, which is used by more than 600 restaurants throughout the U.S. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. We are very pleased to welcome them to our TouchBistro family.”

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

Building a well thought out strategy for starting up the restaurant engine after we move forward is paramount and will, in the process of thinking it through, give every chef and restaurateur a spark of excitement to lean on. The planning process seems overwhelming because there are so many unknowns.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 3, 2020

As you move through IDEATION that will help to define what your restaurant concept, menu, systems, and staffing will look like as we eventually move out of this crisis, it is just as important to discuss and plan for the things that can go wrong. Assuming that it can’t happen to you is at best naïve, and at worst – tragic.

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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. Altering seating arrangements to improve spacing between guests. Expanding mobile ordering and contactless pick-up or desk delivery. Takeout For Good.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Although mandated dine-in restrictions have held back all restaurant segments, particularly full service, consumer demand for restaurant meals and the ability to serve the demand with a host of off-premises services, like digital ordering, delivery, drive-thru, and carry-out, are the silver linings that enable the industry to persevere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

The survey found that 59 percent of US and 47 percent of UK consumers plan to dine-out as soon as they are able. But while limited dining options are available, people have shown an increased desire to help out independent restaurants. Mixed take-out bag. Restaurants vs. delivery services.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

While some seized the opportunity to reopen for limited dine-in service, others have decided to simply keep doors closed, either completely or keeping on the skeleton staff necessary to continue pick-up and delivery service. Take their temperatures everyday upon arrival and throughout the day. Think Out of The Box.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Of restaurants that have stayed open, many shifted their focus to takeout and delivery. Even as people head back into restaurants, the increased interest in takeout and delivery is here to stay. Key findings for the restaurant industry include: Restaurant Closures Data. Diners are Ready, but Concerned.

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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. Companies are focusing on ways to guarantee the safety of their employees and guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To support and empower food brands, manufacturers, restaurants, and other industry stakeholders in the UK, Tastewise has accelerated growth, adding localized data of 183K restaurants and delivery menus, over 2.8B is rolling out a suite of features and extended price cuts through March 2021 to support restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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. Here are our top 5 food and restaurant trend predictions for 2021 and beyond.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

However, growth in average spending per guest remains negative for full-service restaurants. According to Guest Trends Insights: Guest sentiment for “off-premise” restaurant offerings improved in March as restaurants began shifting their efforts toward improving to-go and delivery operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

restaurant industry closed one of the most unpopular years in history moving its way out of the steepest declines the industry has experienced since the Great Recession, reports The NPD Group. The experts at 7shifts’ released a data-backed study titled “How Restaurants are Evolving Labor with Third-Party Delivery in 2021."

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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. Matthew Crompton, CGA’s Client Solutions Director, Americas said: “Recovery is well and truly here, and for many states sales may be close to returning to normal levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

Features of the new restaurant design were determined following a thorough brand study on drive-thru operations and Guest habits, and include a double drive-thru lane, parking stalls for curbside pickup, a walk-up window, and patio seating. ” Franchise opportunities remain in areas across the U.S.,

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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. Those who remained helped its restaurants pivot quickly to takeout and delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

“White Castle is an industry innovator, and we take a great amount of pride in our history – never forgetting about the future ahead,” said Lisa Ingram, CEO of White Castle. With a QR code, guests can easily scan the code safely from their own device and join the waitlist through DineTime. ” Resetting America.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

When life presents unexpected expenses, such as urgent car or home repairs, an emergency fund can help keep families afloat, and prevent them from taking on debt or missing payments. In addition to a bold brand and innovative menu with unique takes on Indian Street Food, Curry Up Now offers franchisees industry-leading unit economics.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2020

Restaurateurs who were eager to reopen their doors after lock-down only a few weeks ago are having to confront temporary product shortages and price inflation, vulnerable to spontaneous out of stock notices or unexpected shipment delays. As such, communication and transparency is a necessary component of recovery.

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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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Cheetah

APRIL 26, 2021

Food trucks are an excellent way for operators to leverage new location, market, and brand opportunities and raise a new kind of restaurant industry out of the ashes of the old one. But one thing, in particular, can make all the difference between a successful food truck business and a total debacle: Choosing the right food delivery system.

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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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Black Box Intelligence

MAY 8, 2025

Mid to Late 2024: A period of modest recovery. Lower-income groups are increasingly opting for grocery over dining out. Guests are cutting back on extrassplitting entres, skipping drinks, and avoiding desserts. Guests prioritize: Great taste Positive staff attitude Consistency Cleanliness 4. in Q4 to 0.3%.

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Black Box Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Delivery For Restaurants: What Operators Need to Know Now. Incorporating delivery for restaurants has become an essential component of doing business. Delivery exploded during the pandemic, and some operators are even exploring designing their buildings for off-premise sales. Current trends in delivery for restaurants.

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Restaurant365

MAY 22, 2020

As states begin to lean toward an incremental reopening of restaurants, optimizing your restaurant’s staffing is one of the most cost-effective practices you can utilize to maximize your staff’s productivity to best position your business for a successful financial recovery. Conclusion.

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