EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Grandmas in floral cheeththa dresses deep-fry kokis (flower-shaped coconut rice snacks); cafes pour cups of frothy, milky tea; families set up outdoor fires to slow-cook baby jackfruit in coconut milk; and tappers climb kithul (fishtail palm) trees to collect sap for treacle and jaggery. Fox Jaffna A full spread at Fox Jaffna.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. Additionally, consumers continue to favor delivery transactions, which are up by 383 percent since 2020. billion transactions and $67 billion in sales in 2024.

Fast Casual

SpotOn

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Like many successful restaurant brands, fast casual restaurants offer online ordering, delivery, and custom-branded apps, using these tools to grow and connect with their customer base. While fast casual restaurants weren't originally take-out and delivery operations, many have adapted to stay competitive in the market.

Fast Casual

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Use Outdoor Seating in Good Weather to Reduce Restaurant Utility Costs Nice weather can really help restaurants save money. When it’s nice outside, restaurants can open up outdoor seating, cutting their energy and maintenance costs. Using outdoor seating during good weather helps them save on energy and utility bills.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

Mobile Ordering

Lavu

JULY 4, 2025

Integrated Systems : Syncing POS, kitchen tools, and delivery platforms eliminates errors and speeds up operations. By letting customers handle their own orders, these tools cut down wait times and free up staff to focus on food preparation and delivery. It also lays the groundwork for enhancing delivery processes and loyalty programs.

2025

SpotOn

JUNE 27, 2025

At all tables or just outdoor seating? Simply keep your SpotOn Restaurant point-of-sale menu updated, and it will automatically sync with your QR menu, as well your online ordering menu if you offer take-out and/or delivery. Where will you use the QR codes? Should guests pick up their food at a counter or window?

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2025

If the restaurant has a patio/outdoor dining, consider putting fencing around it so that it’s only accessible through the restaurant. If there’s a back door for deliveries, it might help to put a door code on it for the team and suppliers.

Design

EATER

MARCH 11, 2025

Cities eased permitting regulations, allowing restaurants to expand seating with outdoor dining sheds and transforming city streets into safer and more beautiful spaces. Many cities have all but nixed their outdoor dining programs, and there hasnt been a push to make the air indoors any safer. Didnt we?

Food Supply

Restaurant Clicks

MAY 6, 2025

The casual dining atmosphere, along with options for takeout and delivery, makes it a convenient choice for both locals and visitors. With indoor seating and an outdoor patio, it’s a flexible place for both casual dinners and relaxed hangouts.

Seasonal Menu

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 1, 2025

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Tue, 29 Jul – Food and delivery sales drive Phuc Long’s revenue growth. Masan Group’s coffee chain saw bakery, pastry, ice cream, and yoghurt sales jump 43% year‑on‑year in Q2 after investing in food and delivery channels, which the company credited as key contributors to overall revenue growth.

Workshop

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Sustainable packaging, reusable materials, and zero-waste practices will be the norm for takeout and delivery services. Think private dining experiences, chefs tables, or outdoor gourmet picnics. Menus will be designed to minimize food waste, with ingredients used efficiently across dishes.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Outdoor dining is still top of mind as owners want to keep employees and customers safe and have questions about maintaining outdoor spaces in inclement weather. That's fine for sidewalks but not very conducive to outdoor dining, including keeping tables leveled. Thankfully, outdoor dining is less expensive to build out.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

If one thing is clear, it’s that outdoor dining is here to stay. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restaurants have had to rethink their spaces in order to accommodate additional outdoor dining capacity. All over the country, restaurants have gotten creative to reconfigure outdoor spaces into al fresco dining areas.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The biggest challenge will be on-premise dining and the shift from outdoors to indoors as temperatures decrease in many regions. Outdoor dining will simply not always be possible in certain regions, no matter how much preparation has gone into outdoor dining planning. What do you see as a solution to meeting these challenges?

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2021

Home Delivery, Contactless Society, Increased Remote Work and the Gen-Z Digital Generation. The use of delivery apps, like UberEats and DoorDash, provided a much-needed revenue stream allowing restaurants to rely less on an in-person brick-and-mortar experience.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Covered outdoor dining areas are always a great addition to the dining concept as well and we have learned their increased importance this year. Getting Creative with Outdoor Space. ” In addition to the known changes the pandemic has brought, restaurants have also modified their take-out, pick up, and delivery options.

Design

EATER

JANUARY 21, 2021

It’s probably not Uber Eats, Postmates, or Grubhub 2020 was an undeniably big year for food delivery. Benefitting the most from this disruption to an already broken food supply chain are third-party delivery apps, such as UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash. When did delivery apps get so powerful? Delivery apps hurt restaurants.

Delivery

EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a time when outdoor heating can be the difference between a restaurant surviving the winter or shuttering for good, these lamps, as the thief likely knew, were more valuable than cash. Left with fewer heaters, restaurants are unable to accommodate as many outdoor customers.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As states across the country have lifted and eased restrictions, more and more restaurants have been able to open up — but how are they adapting, especially if they don’t have proper outdoor patios? Give Your Outdoor Space a Refresh. And what happens now that the temperature is starting to drop in many regions?

Outdoor

7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

It’s seen in the data how quickly restaurants are flocking to takeout and delivery options to rebuild their revenue, with 43% more delivery-related roles being scheduled since the pandemic began. Delivery and takeout will continue to be important revenue streams for restaurants. How do you market food delivery and takeout?

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2021

Restaurants and bars continue to creatively serve their customers in outdoor spaces amid concerns about the ongoing pandemic, and many are in the process of re-opening makeshift patios as weather warms. Auditing Your Outdoor Dining Space Before Permit Request. Auditing Your Outdoor Dining Space Before Permit Request.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry report, 68 percent of customers say they are more likely to purchase takeout or delivery of food than they were before the pandemic. Two new restaurant trends from the pandemic will likely remain: ghost kitchens and outdoor dining.

2022

EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But some restaurateurs are sticking with in-house delivery or small local companies instead. Even then, Brackett says he never considered signing up with a big third-party delivery service, even though the headquarters of two of the country’s largest providers, Uber Eats and DoorDash, are within walking distance of his restaurant.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Heading into the winter months, restaurants will be challenged even further as the revenue streams that have been keeping them afloat during the summer and fall such as outdoor dining and patio seating will see fewer customers with inclement weather and colder temperatures.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With some outdoor dining pilot programs coming to an end as we head into the winter months, tens of thousands of restaurants across the country will be forced to operate at a fraction of typical capacity without added outdoor seating to supplement the loss.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But casual dining restaurants still did a significant job of rapidly pivoting from 90-100 percent dine-in to curbside pickup, To-Go and delivery. "This "Smaller independent restaurants, while they certainly have also benefited from diners’ increased willingness to dine out and order delivery, are still struggling. ."

2019

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Many operators will devote their resources to online or app ordering, reservations, mobile payment, or delivery management, in addition to back-of-the-house technology. This is validated by a large number of consumers preferring the use of technology where it doesn't diminish hospitality. Roughly half of U.S. Roughly half of U.S.

2022

EATER

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Even now with a closed dining room, the Pisha-Dufflys have brought some of the restaurant’s bold design scheme to its two outdoor patios. When reimagining the dining room for the outdoors, the duo continued the theme with mismatched rugs, oilcloth tablecloths, and other delightful personal touches, all while trying to keep costs low.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2021

Whether it’s offering dining in, takeout or delivery, businesses are committed to keeping their employees safe and helping a cautious public feel more confident about eating out again. At Buffalo Wings & Rings, the health and safety of our guests and staff is our number one priority. We’ll Take Those Menus for You.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. DoorDash was named the Official On-Demand Delivery Platform of the NBA, WNBA and NBA 2K League. The Main Course. ” DoorDash Partners with NBA.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

Restaurants lucky enough to have access to outdoor dining space had to balance the needs of the business with the safety of customers and employees. Dining shifted outdoors, inside tents or into bubbles. Promoting Safety. For customers, it became a new experience. QR code menus have now become the norm.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 10, 2021

The area of restaurant operation that presents the most opportunity for improvement is takeout and delivery. Restaurants can stand out to diners by ensuring they put as much care into delivery as the rest of their operation. Delivery is still all about the guest experience and your value proposition.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As restrictions subsided, delivery and takeout supported some business and luckily their menu fit well this option," he told MRM in a follow-up interview. "Constant Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine visited with Tap 42's VP of Development Alex Rudolph at the Aventura location just prior to the pandemic.

Leadership

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

If they have outdoor dining and require all of their staff to wear masks and gloves, practicing social distancing in the restaurant, they should prominently display those things everywhere. As third-party delivery has increased a bigger percentage of your sales are now less profitable. This does not have to be super expensive for you.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 13, 2020

Restaurants have adopted a delivery/pickup model to meet the needs of their customers. This has created an increased demand for food running and delivery jobs that didn’t exist before. In fact, 70 percent of consumers are ordering takeout directly from restaurants amidst the pandemic.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

With outdoor dining occupying the foreground, and bars and indoor dining taking a back seat to consumer preferences, it begs the question: what happens when it gets cold? Outdoor dining works great during the warmer weather, and for facilitating additional curbside/delivery.

Seasonal Menu