Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

As good as restaurant people are at reacting to situations – they are not typically astute at planning for things to go wrong and designing actions that will get them through difficult times. Does your model work better as a mobile restaurant or strictly on-line through a ghost kitchen? What if……happens? How will we react?”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 29, 2021

For a mobile business like food trucks catering to multiple locations, it is relatively harder to keep everything clean and be eco-friendly. Source Your Raw Materials Locally. When you source your raw materials from local sources, they are actually fresh. Design Your Menu Efficiently. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Consumers are increasingly aware of the environmental impact of their food choices, leading to a surge in demand for locally sourced, organic, and plant-based options. Contactless services, mobile ordering, and AI-driven personalization will become more prevalent, reflecting the growing integration of technology into the dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. For example, there will be fewer human interactions when ordering takeaways during busy lunch hours, quick customer seating, or bill payments.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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Mobile Ordering Front of House Fast Casual Customer Service 212

OneDine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Menu Engineering: The Art of Profitability Menu engineering is a strategic approach to designing your menu that goes beyond listing dishes. With a digital interface, such as OneDine’s mobile ordering interface, you can prioritize these high-profit items with images, or higher in the menu.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Menu Design Once you analyze all of your menu items’ popularity and profitability, you can carefully engage in restaurant menu planning for your customer-facing menu to maximize profits. Look into lowering ingredient cost to keep menu prices the same by sourcing less expensive ingredients or acquiring new vendors. Design Your Menu.

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Mad Mobile

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Meanwhile, a restaurant’s bar program represents a significant source of total revenue. It also has one of the most complex stock lists. Because liquor, wine, and beer have such wildly varying prices, it pays to keep tight controls on ordering and inventory. Take these lessons to heart. Monitor your portion sizes (and pour sizes).

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Restaurant365

APRIL 14, 2020

Much of the typical food and beverage inventory in restaurants tends to have a relatively short shelf life, making accurate inventory numbers essential to run a functioning kitchen, make economical orders, and adapt to long-term trends. Plan for flexibility in menu to prevent wasted inventory. Forecast demand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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2022 Food Supply Back of House Kitchen Safety 177

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will enable brands to better manage off-premises orders and balance their hybrid operating models. Ghost kitchen and virtual brands are prime strategies for this growth strategy, both of which require a thoughtful approach to menu design, production and fulfillment. – Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. "As

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. NCR Corporation added technology that builds diners’ confidence by empowering them to both order and pay via their own mobile device.

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Food Safety Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 203

Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Food Truck Golden Rule: Get Practical So You’ve figured out the cost of your truck, designed a delicious menu and set camp in the perfect location. As you probably already know, serving through rush-hour is no easy task, and mobile restaurants, especially, run the risk of running dry mid-service. Be careful not to over order.

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SpotOn

MAY 8, 2024

A transactional email is a message sent to a customer after they take a specific action on your website or mobile app. You might provide shipping notifications after a customer makes a purchase, send an email with invoice or order confirmation details, or alert someone if their payment fails. Confusion or distrust may well result.

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Small Business Email Marketing Mobile Ordering Social Media 52

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

There are plenty of solutions that can help ease the strain, such as domestically sourced products and equipment, as well as automated beverage dispensing systems, which minimizes wastage while maximizing output regardless of staffing level. Adaptation to non-sustainable and non-predictable traffic of visitors for dine-in locations.

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2022 Food Supply Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 186

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

These features include tableside mobile ordering, NFC contactless payments, and direct online ordering. SALIDO leverages design, data, and workflow management to optimize both front- and back-end operations. Market Cafe is completely contact-less: guests scan and pay for all their items and leave.

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Fast Casual Casual Menu Mobile Ordering 132

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. Increasing self-order kiosks and touchless self-checkout terminals. Expanding mobile ordering and contactless pick-up or desk delivery.

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Food Safety Kitchen Safety Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery 154

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Operators will need to be creative in finding ways to counter the increased restaurant costs and the waste being produced. Those that are continuing to prosper had their technological house in order prior to the pandemic. The trends for next year are going to be touchless and contactless ordering.

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Kounta

JANUARY 9, 2020

Trend 2: Green goes mainstream — zero waste movement will influence dining habits. The modern zero waste movement will no longer speak to a select few but impact and influence the masses. 2020 will see the development of more third-party apps that are designed to integrate into one platform. Stats from Business Insider.

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Hospitality Cash Management Influencer POS 98

Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Food Truck Golden Rule: Get Practical So You’ve figured out the cost of your truck, designed a delicious menu and set camp in the perfect location. As you probably already know, serving through rush-hour is no easy task, and mobile restaurants, especially, run the risk of running dry mid-service. Be careful not to over order.

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Food Truck Mobile Ordering Food Food Order 60

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Sandy is a graduate of Walsh College with a Bachelor’s of Accountancy and accomplished the designation of Certified Scrum Master in 2017. 7shifts launched a new solution designed to help operators and managers streamline the complicated and time-consuming tip tracking and distribution process. William (Bill) M.

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Food Tip Distribution Guest Recovery Food Safety 159

Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just selling menu items and fulfilling orders – it’s also about controlling the amount of product that you have in the restaurant, daily, weekly, and monthly. Proper restaurant inventory management can minimize loss and waste, helping you spot inefficiencies in your operations.

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Inventory Mobile Ordering Food Supply Point of Sale 60

Mad Mobile

MARCH 1, 2024

From server robots to ordering kiosks in fast food establishments, it seems like there’s always a new gimmick trying to get your attention. But data shows that it’s more than just about the flashy toys. In the first model, customers have access to kiosks or tablets at the table and can place orders and payout at their convenience.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tools like cloud-based scheduling and centralized mobile apps for employees can help make labor scheduling more efficient. Tools based on accurate inventory, like smart ordering, suggested purchasing amounts, or smart receiving (tracking when vendor ingredient costs are above normal), help maintain the profit margin of individual menu items.

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Indoor Media

APRIL 5, 2018

Is there any way for him to design a great website with no skills, limited time, and a tight budget? . Website builders are the training wheels for self-designed websites. Since many of these programs are designed for beginners, they start off with templates and resources that allow you to handle web design on your own.

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SEO Mobile Ordering Social Media Small Business 78

Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders.

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Front of House Online Ordering Kitchen Safety Customer Service 147

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. designed with high-rent urban areas in mind.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

78 percent of Canadians have ordered delivery within six months prior to the survey. 78 percent of Canadians have ordered delivery within six months prior to the survey. Quebec ordered delivery the most, with 84 percent saying they had ordered within the last six months. Delivering Excellence. ” Supporting Local.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In addition to allowing a safer, hands-free payment method, the system has been shown to make the ordering process quicker and more efficient. launched US Foods Ghost Kitchens, a program designed to guide restaurant operators every step of the way when opening their own operation, helping them easily add a new revenue stream.

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Restaurant Engine

JULY 28, 2021

The recipe costing card not only helps you make a profit, but it also helps you control portion sizes while minimizing waste. Customers want to order your specials because they want something different and unique. This might be a chef’s special, or something made with locally sourced, seasonal ingredients. The menu price.

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Specials Pricing Email Marketing Advertising 111

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. Dunkin’s transition to paper cups will remove approximately one billion foam cups from the waste stream annually. franchisees for use in their restaurants.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Food Order Recycling 121

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

James Beard Foundation Mentorship, presented by KitchenAid, is designed to empower and engage a network of culinary leaders. Tortas Frontera is now offering the same locally-sourced Mexican specialties that Chicago air travelers know and love for pickup and delivery from Kitchen United’s near north side location. Sedgwick St.,

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Allergens Kitchen Safety Guest Recovery Customer Service 118

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. The funding will be used to help more restaurants transition to online ordering during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding.

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Online Ordering Customer Service Seasonal Menu Food Order 136

Restaurant Engine

AUGUST 9, 2023

Make your dishes smaller, so there is less food waste. The biggest key here is to let your customers know if you are using locally sourced food, if you’re recycling, and/or composting. You can unleash its potential by harnessing its speed, refreshing it if needed, and making sure your online ordering system is up to par.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Get acquainted with their tastes and preferences, and make food and wine recommendations based on their likings. Customer data collection, whether you do it yourself by speaking directly to guests or by inviting them to interact with a customized mobile app, will empower your marketing efforts and help you interact with guests more effectively.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As more customers began ordering food online, third-party delivery applications became increasingly popular. Dark kitchens are highly efficient production units that don’t have a storefront and are designed for delivery. Source: Times of India. Source: www.cloudkitchens.com. Dependency On Platforms For Delivery.

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