Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 23, 2021

Innovation, the late Peter Drucker pointed out in his landmark book, The Discipline of Innovation, is the “effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise’s economic or social potential.” But where are your innovators? ” Innovation is a cool word, but at its heart is change.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 21, 2025

Since Sunny Street's inception 16 years ago, Stasko has led various departments – including menu design, product strategy, the move to a bright and fresh restaurant design, and its family-centric marketing focus. These brand improvements have led to both increased revenue and improved prime cost controls.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2025

While the family-owned and operated firm has evolved from a public relations boutique into a full-service digital and design agency, their main vision has remained: helping food companies tell their stories and connect with the right audiences. At the core of our innovation was a commitment to collaboration and creativity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Still, keeping a steady team remains the top challenge, highlighting the need for ongoing innovation in restaurant workforce management. Embracing these innovations will be essential to meeting the evolving needs of the industry and its workforce. At the same time, technology is poised to play an even bigger role in the coming year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While specializing in a specific area of cuisine can be effective, designing a menu that offers a variety of dishes opens the door to new demographics, foot traffic and brand loyalty. Maintaining a balance between innovation and tradition is crucial.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2025

These licenses allow restaurants to serve beer, wine, and wine-based liquors, offering opportunities for innovation without the financial burden of full-service licenses. Innovation Through Wine-Based Cocktails Although not having a full liquor license may seem restrictive, it actually creates opportunities for innovation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2025

. "This initiative reflects a growing industry trend toward aligning business practices with global sustainability goals, ensuring that graduates are prepared to lead the way in transforming the culinary and design landscapes for a sustainable future." The courses that EcoChef is launching at Chatham University address this need.

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The Rail

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Luckily, modern technology has introduced several innovations that streamline the restaurant relocation process, making it more efficient, cost-effective, and manageable. In this article, we’ll explore the key tech innovations that are simplifying restaurant relocation and helping owners make a seamless transition to their new space.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The intricate designs and varying shapes and colors of specialty glasses offer opportunities for innovation in presentation that brings creative drink concepts to life. Chefs and mixologists are inherently creative people, seeking elements that add a “wow” factor to their presentations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It's not just the merch on the menu that is driving traffic to the brand with a misison to create spaces that blend sports and leisure and offer innovative cocktails, next-level architecture and high-end designer decor with elevated bar bites, retro games, and exclusive event nights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These innovations will allow restaurant operators to do more with less and help create smart, seamless experiences that meet rising guest expectations. In 2025, we expect to see continued growth in menu innovation with bold flavors, premium ingredients, and creative presentations, keeping loyal fans happy while drawing in adventurous foodies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2022

Vegan or plant-based culinary trends and innovative methods of eating have captured the attention of the entire world. Food businesses are evolving significantly with time, offering new designs and shapes to wedges for better product usage and to provide the same creamy flavor and delight as dairy cheese.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Expect to see functional plants like burdock, angelica, and osha root popping up more frequently, adding a fresh, innovative twist to dishes. The findings provide industry partners with exclusive data on emerging consumer preferences and innovation areas poised to differentiate brands in a highly-competitive marketplace.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2025

Trend-driven yet deeply value-conscious, they want personalized nutrition, ethical sourcing, and innovative packaging. Restaurants that offer diverse and innovative menu options can attract this group. Gen Z isn’t just eating out; they’re building relationships with brands that reflect who they are.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2025

” Restaurants should focus on tech that adds real value, not just innovation for innovation’s sake, Fink noted. “Additionally, restaurants across all categories can leverage AI for personalized deals, using consumer data to offer tailored discounts and menu recommendations that drive repeat visits.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2022

My vision as a climate advocate and inventor-turned-entrepreneur is to create innovations that reduce environmental impact. That’s why holistic, sustainable innovation is so important. That is why innovators cannot stop trying to find solutions to the ever-increasing problems that negatively impact our environment.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 21, 2025

The result: a smarter, more agile, and more responsive restaurant industry.George Wetz, CEO of Yumpingo and now General Manager of BBIs guest experience business unit, summed it up: Weve partnered with Black Box since 2022 and have been consistently impressed by their innovation pace and product vision.

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SpotOn

APRIL 14, 2025

Recent product innovations enhance operational efficiency and guest engagement for restaurant operators.   Driving Innovation: New Product Launches and Enhancements SpotOn continues to bring new updates to streamline operations, enhance guest experiences, and drive restaurant profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

“Our new store design marks a pivotal moment in our brand’s evolution, serving as a cornerstone for our growth and the next chapter of our journey,” said Tony Libardi, Co-CEO & President of Marco’s Pizza. We aimed to bring a fresh, contemporary Marco's brand aesthetic designed for the long term.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Future foodspaces will need to be designed to meet the personalized needs of diverse customer bases, according to Culinary Crossroads: How Societal Shifts Are Defining Tomorrow’s Dining , the latest whitepaper from IA Interior Architects research initiative, HumanX. "The

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2021

Permaculture is a science based on the principles of ecological design and sustainability within natural ecosystems. A circular economy moves away from the make-take-waste model and toward a model in which we design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems. Consider Permaculture.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 21, 2021

When it comes to restaurant design, Covid’s impact is probably broader than just how we plan our dining places, it will also have affected how we design them and what materials we use. Restaurants must be clever in their design and think more about how people use the space and how they can easily adapt to different group sizes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Restaurant marketing strategy, design, and internal systems will evolve for independents and chains alike in the coming year. Historically, restaurants have been slow to adopt innovative technology. Internal Systems and Restaurant Design Will Evolve. Innovators will find their own way. The pandemic changed that.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2023

“Innovation is in the sweetgreen DNA, and meeting customers where they are is the key to our brand mission; connecting people to real food,” said Jonathan Neman, CEO and Co-Founder of sweetgreen. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine quizzed the sweetgreen team to learn a bit more about the brand's latest innovation.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

SurveyMonkey and Typeform are survey tools that offer more customization in terms of design. You can also use pre-made templates specifically designed for the restaurant industry. By monitoring hashtags related to dining and your local area, you can gain insights into cuisine trends and potential opportunities for menu innovation.

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EATER

JANUARY 9, 2025

There are countless cookbooks, accessories, even actual food products designed to make the experience of air frying better and easier. Unfortunately, theres been much less innovation when it comes to the air fryer itself, especially from a design perspective. This design] is just so much more useful. Its also a toaster.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

” Smartphones are built to be intuitive and they have designed AR experiences to be the same. The world is changing and companies are innovating rapidly. Soon you’ll see innovative menus with Augmented Reality capabilities – and it’ll make you hungry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2021

This digital innovation has been helpful for small business, with roughly 20 percent of all transaction volume for Clover restaurants running through online ordering. Very early in my professional career I fell in love with user-centric product design and developed a passion for building technology that could solve problems for the end user.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 8, 2022

New technology innovations now being introduced into the hospitality industry are designed to level out those pinch points. Design Your Holiday Customer Experience. The increased challenges and stress of the holiday season often reveal pinch points in bar and restaurant operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Yelp is introducing a slew of new AI-powered updated tools designed to help restaurant operators be more efficient as well as improve the overall dining experience. The Yelp team is doubling down on AI-powered innovation in these 15 new features and updates, but tapping into AI is nothing new for the company.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2025

By refining their innovation pipelines, developing personalized solutions, and creating targeted messaging that resonates with GLP-1 consumers’ values and aspirations, companies can foster long-term loyalty while contributing to consumers’ broader health and wellness journeys.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2021

Embracing Innovation. As issues of accessibility and inclusion move to the forefront of the public conversation, such burgeoning technologies are giving real hope that innovation can help break down barriers and expand access to goods and services for all. For far too long, accessibility has had to catch up with innovation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2021

The biggest factors to consider when developing one are: location, size, and design. Customers can identify with a brand that designs for them and creates a better customer experience. When picking a sign, the three main factors to decide are the type, location, and design. Sign Location and Design. Sign Types.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

” He said the design was meant to have that “Wow” factor, not just a name of a business and a phone number. ” To help businesses get their vehicles wrapped, Wrapmate, an end-to-end digital platform, takes an owner step by step through the process from design to pricing and installation. .” ”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In that context, avoiding the cost and risk of expensive buildouts in favor of the plug-and-play potential of spaces already designed to prepare and serve food (where something as simple as a hood and ventilation system can save tens of thousands of dollars) is a natural next step. A Win-Win-Win Scenario.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2020

So, whether you are a restaurant proprietor of one, two or many locations, food or inventory supplier, menu designer, online reservation technology or delivery software company, this could be a viable funding option for you. But just applying for a grant does not mean you will secure one.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As the calendar turns towards 2024, the restaurant industry stands at a crossroads, with innovation and adaptation at the heart of its ongoing evolution. Additionally, by fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, establishments are positioning themselves as forward-thinking leaders in a competitive market.

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