Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Managing Inventory The first area of focus for any waste elimination strategy is your restaurant’s approach to ingredients. By managing your food more effectively, you’re minimizing costs and reducing pressure on the environment. When designing your dishes, establish realistic portion control for each meal.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

The challenges can be overwhelming, from managing multiple orders to coordinating staff and ensuring timely deliveries. You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should. Growing a restaurant or catering business is no small feat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2024

" That's what Jason Cortellesso, Partner & Creative Director at Sport & Leisure , told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine when discussing the merch program at his latest estabilshment in East Greenwich, Rhode Island that is seeing people to line up before they open on drop days to get their hands on the items.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

With restaurant tech investments on the rise, the industry is witnessing the emergence of sophisticated enterprise platforms specifically designed for multi-location operations. The operational trifecta of inventory management, financial oversight, and labor scheduling represents a major drain on resources for most chain restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

What can restaurant owners and managers do to better engage workers and increase retention in the long run? Often, this leads to rushed, poor communication between managers and employees, which in turn creates frustration among staff and even disgruntlement.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, leveraging IoT is revolutionizing the sector by optimizing supply chain management, enhancing the customer experience, and facilitating data-driven decision-making. Consider cold chain management, quality control, inventory management, and/or any other aspect that can be optimized. Elevating customer experiences.

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The Restaurant Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Introduction In the fast-paced world of restaurants, keeping a close eye on your inventory is as vital as the secret sauce in your signature dish. Proper inventory tracking helps reduce waste, control costs, and boost profits. What Is Restaurant Inventory Management? Key Components of Restaurant Inventory Management 1.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 3, 2025

Owning a restaurant is difficult enough on its own, without the added challenge of managing payroll. With tight budgets and slim margins, many owners try to cut costs by managing tasks like payroll, tip outs, and compliance themselves—often using manual methods or a patchwork of tools. Here’s what to do instead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2025

An integrated response plan should include a designated response team that includes IT staff, management, legal counsel and an insurance representative. Monthly meetings between IT directors, risk managers, legal counsel, and insurance brokers can foster a culture of collaborative security awareness.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2025

To learn how these layouts can help maxmize efficiency while still providing optimal guest experience, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine received insights from Aleksandra Kaplan, partner at Swan Dive Design Studio. Among her design tips: Form Must Follow Function, Go Big in Little Ways and Design to Grow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Looking at the decades to come, expectations will only deepen: wellness programming, ecological design, and culturally rooted hospitality will be baseline, not bonus. Tools that automate prep lists, or show real-time menu data don’t replace chefs and managers–they give them more time to lead.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. But there are several different tools to help you manage your restaurant—from single shifts and tasks to top-level overviews showing your business's health. That’s where task management software comes in. Task management software maintains historical data of tasks completed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Having strong management of your menu enables improvement across all areas of your inventory and food management. Or you can cut waste by finding out they are prepping too much or too early and creating better prep schedules for employees to follow.

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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. Manage and Optimize Your Increased Holiday Inventory. The holidays bring an increase in beverage inventory, particularly kegged inventory for bars and restaurants centered around draft programs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Fuel and e-commerce order management systems help streamline delivery routes. Finding ways to align inventory management with more environmentally friendly packaging helps reduce such waste. Reducing Food Waste One-fifth of the food produced for human consumption is lost or ends up in waste management.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques.

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Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

One of the most effective tools for achieving this is mobile inventory management. This system helps restaurant owners and managers track stock in real-time, reduce waste, and maintain optimal inventory levels. By automating inventory processes, restaurants can save time, improve accuracy, and enhance overall efficiency.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

One study found that internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages and about 4 percent of restaurant sales. There are all kinds of different types of restaurant theft, ranging from food and inventory, theft at the register and checkout counter, external grease theft, time theft and employee product theft.

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The Rail

JUNE 11, 2025

Whether you’re moving into the next town or setting up a shop across the country, managing a multi-location restaurant requires planning, patience, and a whole lot of practical know-how. This guide is designed to help you navigate the complexities of opening your second restaurant location. Use early setbacks as learning opportunities.

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The Rail

JANUARY 31, 2025

By Sierra Powell, Contributor In the busy world of restaurants, a chef's influence is fundamental in everything, from designing great cuisine to making sure the kitchen functions without problems during the busiest times. Managing a chef is not always as easy as it first sounds, though.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Meanwhile, restaurants must effectively manage inventory, staff, and customer data. As a result, many establishments struggle with slow service times, inefficient inventory management, and inadequate customer engagement — all of which can lead to decreased satisfaction and lost business.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They help with reservations and table management, staff scheduling and time management, inventory tracking, rewards programs, automated marketing, and more. These apps make it easier to manage digital orders, streamline kitchen operations, and reach more customers. Reservation and table management apps.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The key to achieving this is proper staff training, adopting and leveraging technology to enhance the dining experience and manage operations, as well as cultivating a personalized experience and welcoming environment for all solo diners. Cultivating a Personalized Experience and Welcoming Environment Casual dining or fine dining?

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Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

Managing food costs is a growing challenge for restaurants as ingredient prices fluctuate and margins shrink. Real-Time Inventory Tracking offers a powerful solution by giving operators instant visibility into whats in stock, whats being used, and what needs to be reordered.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2025

By optimizing operations and adopting smarter management practices, restaurants can dramatically cut food waste without overhauling their entire business model. By optimizing operations and adopting smarter management practices, restaurants can dramatically cut food waste without overhauling their entire business model.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Fuel and e-commerce order management systems help streamline delivery routes. Finding ways to align inventory management with more environmentally friendly packaging helps reduce such waste. Reducing Food Waste One-fifth of the food produced for human consumption is lost or ends up in waste management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2025

Ballas shares his insights with Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine and discusses issues that must be on the radar for franchises and brands including AI, automation, sustainability, staffing, training, and more. What are some key trends you expect to affect the franchise landscape this year and in years ahead?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

"These tariffs could deeply affect the food service and hospitality industries on both sides of the border," Alex Thalassinos, President of Silverware POS, one of the first tech providers dedicated to Canada’s hospitality industry, told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. by about one percent.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

An inventory management system with automated restocking alerts keeps your stock levels in check. Order Management : Reduce human error and speed up service with tableside ordering, kitchen display system (KDS) integration, and self-service kiosks. Look into AI-driven scheduling and automation tools. Set clear goals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Rapid inclination of restaurateurs to adopt POS software for better management of operations will complement the restaurant POS terminals market by 2027. The advent of cloud technology has majorly driven the development of advanced cloud-based POS systems that can facilitate online ordering, inventory management, and digital payments.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Integrating mobile inventory systems with POS platforms simplifies restaurant operations by automating inventory updates, reducing errors, and providing real-time insights. Here’s what you need to know: Benefits : Real-time stock updates, improved accuracy, and smarter inventory planning.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 9, 2025

They rely on technology to help with day-to-day tasks like managing revenue and inventory, and to fill in labor shortage gaps. The state of the industry report found that 30% of restaurants planned to devote resources to kiosks, which can assist with inventory, employee trainings, menu control, and so much more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the present and future of AI use in F&B, The Splintered Path to Purchase, the Datassential 500 Awards, and where chefs are earning six figures. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent in 2024 — falling short of the 4.1

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ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

If you want to escape the guesswork and increase your monthly profits, you need to use menu engineeringit blends psychology, data, and clever design to help you sell more of your most profitable items. Menu engineering is the process of using data and design to make your menu more profitable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 7, 2023

These coolers are designed to maintain consistently low temperatures, typically ranging from 32°F to 40°F (0°C to 4°C). Energy Efficiency Commercial walk-in coolers are designed with energy efficiency in mind. This accessibility boosts efficiency in kitchen operations and enhances inventory management.

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