Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Pre-Travel Inquiries May Be Allowed. If applied uniformly to all employees, policies may be able to include notification of past or future travel plans to allow you as the employer to reasonably evaluate the risk to other employees or customers. In addition, you can educate employees about the risks associated with travel plans.

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Employee Relations Restaurant Law Uniforms Travel 547

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

Align with those offering scalable delivery and logistics solutions designed to adapt to your needs, whether you’re managing a small team or expanding to multiple locations. This technology calculates the most efficient delivery routes, reducing travel time and fuel costs.

Catering 354

Catering Delivery Customer Service Customer Experience 354

Culinary Cues

APRIL 6, 2020

Dating back to Medieval times when cooking was reserved for nobility and later during the Renaissance when merchant travelers relied on local taverns for respite and a chance to break bread – restaurants and restaurant life has always been present. There are some who enjoy being alone, but most humans are inherently social by design.

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Travel Back of House Customer Service Small Business 539

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler. Menus will be designed to minimize food waste, with ingredients used efficiently across dishes.

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2025 Hotels Travel Dietary Restrictions 94

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

Visa is introducing a range of locally designed programs and solutions to enable SMBs to drive efficiency and sales through acceptance of digital payments, building online businesses and incentivizing neighborhood support. 'Travel Safe' Tools. Travel Safe features are available in all 49 markets where Tripadvisor operates.

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Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Mobile Ordering Food Safety 539

Culinary Cues

APRIL 14, 2025

The important thing to note is that each story, whether entirely true or not, is designed to give a dish a unique part in the play that takes place every day that a restaurant welcomes guests. As is the case with Caesar Salad, the story sells. Chefs tell those stories each time a plate is slide down the pass and presented to a guest.

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Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Travel Presentation 339

Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2025

Cooking should be fun and designed to make all involved happy. Travel and experience what others have worked with for decades. A growing number of chefs are shifting their attention to independent operations that focus on foods with wider appeal that need a commitment to excellence. Choose your oven wisely.

Fine Dining 348

Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Front of House White Paper 348

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Moving to an entirely new model, designed with employees at the center, is a true opportunity for restaurants to flip the script. Create new foods that are designed to travel. But in a ghost kitchen, employees are the customer. Managing high turnover , training new hires, and maintaining morale are known issues in food service.

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Front of House Kitchen Safety Food Back of House 508

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The right design can ease your workflows and minimize bottlenecks in your operations. Storage areas Storage is one of the most critical areas to consider when designing a restaurant kitchen floor plan. Position cold storage near the food preparation areas to minimize the distance that staff must travel to retrieve perishable items.

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Design Kitchen Safety Food Safety Equipment 195

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 9, 2025

Brewing coffee while travelling or outdoors usually means investing in a traditional hand grinder, often requiring patience and labour to achieve the optimal grind size, especially when grinding larger doses. This demand has sparked the rise of hand grinders with different burr designs to suit various preferences,” he adds.

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Café Transportation Travel 2025 121

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2025

In 1995, ICE Chairman and CEO Rick Smilow acquired the school and expanded its offerings, adding new courses of study, creating specially-designed facilities, expanding geographically and regularly updating the curriculum to reflect the ever-evolving culinary industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2025

“Especially with the younger generation—the data shows that over half (53 percent) of Gen Z travelers are prioritizing food-focused trips, whether it’s a hidden culinary gem or a destination with a noteworthy dining scene. .

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2025 Food Travel Magazine 221

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2023

Devote a Section of Your Website to Catering I find that, usually, customers would rather interact with a well-designed and functional website than have to try to get someone on the phone to discuss catering. We want whatever we serve to be the best it can be wherever it travels to. And you’re getting them for free!).

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Catering Website Management Point of Sale Travel 493

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits unveiled the results of its 2022 Liquid Insights Tour , a coast-to-coast educational initiative designed to explore and identify the latest trends in cocktails and wine. Now instead of Capri Sun, travelers are enjoying cocktails in pouches, as well as alcohol-infused freeze pops, and boozy ice cream.

Guest Recovery 474

Guest Recovery Consumer Goods Hotels Beverage 474

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

Struggling to attract travelers during the height of the pandemic, hotels rented out their empty kitchens and banquet spaces to restaurateurs hunting for cut-rate space. In addition to the menu, restaurant layout is one of the more prominent aspects of hospitality design that can either make or break your customer base.

Hotels 450

Hotels Customer Service Customer Experience Beverage 450

Culinary Cues

APRIL 7, 2025

This model will help to create sense of ownership and establish a significant way of retaining good people.

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Kitchen Safety Food Supply 2030 Healthcare 302

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2023

These factors can determine everything about your restaurant from the menu design to the names of the selections, to the way they are arranged on the plates and delivered to the tables. Designing Your Experience Around a Concept Providing diners with a concept menu and atmosphere are huge steps toward standing out in your market.

Food 450

Food Customer Experience Social Media Food Order 450

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As we head into the new year, we expect to see consumers traveling less, shifting their discretionary travel spending to local experiences like restaurants. Because ghost kitchens are designed to churn out menu items for delivery, it can be easy for a restaurant’s brand and identity to get lost in the shuffle.

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2021 Fine Dining Online Ordering Travel 474

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

What issues have affected the industry over the last five years in the topics of marketing, design, operations, law, finance, technology and equipment? Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual.

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Fast Casual Front of House Fine Dining Mobile Ordering 391

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

When designer Monica Jeffers saw the aging, dated restaurant she was going to remodel, she thought, “A T-bar grid ceiling! All too often, designers pay little if any attention to the ceiling. Jeffers understood the design value of the expansive surface overhead. ” Ironically, this thought sets her apart.

Design 539

Design Fine Dining Retail Bar 539

The Rail

JUNE 6, 2025

A well-designed layout lets guests feel calm and lets servers move fast. The design also reveals that the company values customer comfort and takes immense satisfaction in its space. . #2 Local sourcing keeps food fresher by cutting travel time and helping surrounding farmers. It simplifies maintenance and cleaning as well.

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Social Media Consumer Goods Kitchen Safety Food Safety 130

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the decade since, restaurants have raced to incorporate 3rd party delivery into a system that was designed for something else entirely. And delivery becomes the most complex of all, with food quality dropping by the minute as it travels miles from your kitchen to someone else’s.

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Delivery Food Order Customer Experience Dine-in 449

EATER

MAY 21, 2025

This approach persisted long after African nations won their independence in the 20th century, upheld by assumptions among safari operators that luxury travelers expected Western food and imported ingredients instead of local flavors. Africas rich culinary traditions were largely excluded. Today, some safari menus tell a different story.

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Outdoor Fine Dining Tourism Food Supply 226

EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Instant is perfect for camping or when you’re traveling. The form is designed for grading fresh-ground coffee, not instant, so categories like aroma (the powder doesn’t smell like much of anything) and uniformity (all instants from a batch are the same) don’t apply. Why do I want instant coffee?

Back of House 304

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EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

I loved the menu design here so much that I kept checking out the merch T-shirts, stickers, and more and ended up nabbing a brightly colored tote bag as a souvenir. My only regret is not having a larger group to order the seafood tower that every other table seemed to be enjoying.

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Back of House Food Order Book Sports 226

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

A survey conducted by Morning Consult commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) found that only 44 percent of Americans are planning overnight vacation or leisure travel in 2020, with high interest in road trips, family events, and long weekends over the summer months. ” Cabin Fever is Real.

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2020 Travel Food Safety Consumer Goods 450

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Leveraging food delivery automation platforms ensures route optimization minimizes excessive travel time, making better use of fossil fuel types, from unleaded gas in a moped to diesel in an 18-wheeler. It empowers drivers to reduce unnecessary detours or idling that can lead to massive increases in emissions.

Sustainability 251

Sustainability Delivery Food Recycling 251

EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Locals and travelers linger for hours beneath the hotels glass-canopied central courtyard, sipping coffee and cocktails.

Hotels 198

Hotels Book Seasonal Menu Fine Dining 198

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The type of food has a much greater impact on carbon emissions than the distance it has travelled. When considering the transport element, the method of transport is more significant than distance travelled and avoiding food that has been air-freighted will have the most significant travel-based impact.

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Food Supply Transportation Compost Waste 520

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

Vegan burgers, pizzas and coffees are gaining popularity as cafes and restaurants are designing their business models to not only accommodate vegan consumers but also to provide delicious vegan food items. As the food has to travel less to reach the restaurant, the emission of carbon is reduced. The Rise of Vegan Restaurants.

Seasonal Menu 508

Seasonal Menu Beverage Sustainability Fine Dining 508

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I grew up in a family where food was ubiquitous at home and while traveling and in a country with a strong culinary heritage. I am in charge of marketing for a global food ingredient company and travel often for my day job. I love traveling and go on culinary adventure. My passion for food started when I was a kid in France.

Food 450

Food Book Leadership Travel 450

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2021

In the 1970s, Southwest Airlines sold tickets by phone, at airports, and at their offices to avoid commissions from travel agents and remain competitive with car travel routes. The concept of direct bookings long precedes the digital era in other industries.

Airlines 493

Airlines Consumer Goods Point of Sale Hotels 493

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2025

Not only do I do this in Atlanta, I also like to travel to unique destinations and try new things. For instance, with my brunch concept, I traveled to nearly all 50 states and tried brunch items. I choose my concepts by truly tapping into what I love most: eating! Some items I loved, others not so much.

Social Media 221

Social Media Customer Service Customer Experience Influencer 221

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Cultivating Global Connections The rising popularity of food tourism is fueling consumer curiosity to experience authentic flavors from across the globe, with travelers taking to TikTok and Instagram to showcase their culinary adventures. ” “In 2025, dining experiences will be heavily centered around connection and exploration.

2025 450

2025 Beverage Fine Dining Guest Recovery 450

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Customers drive up to the designated lane, scan their order code and are rewarded by getting their food quicker. Food traveling via delivery and customer pickup often contend with wide windows of time, so packaging has the added job of maintaining temperature over time and through varied temperatires with both hot and cold climates.

Operations 449

Operations Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Online Ordering 449

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2022

Not only do they improve restaurant operations, but their cute and innovative designs also make them a great attraction to draw customers. Traditionally, waiters/waitresses spend more than 50 percent of their time traveling between the kitchen and customers' tables, which could be significantly reduced with the help of robot assistance.

Mobile Ordering 507

Mobile Ordering Social Media Online Ordering Food Order 507

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This research, from the March edition of the Digital Economy Payments report, “Going Digital to Pay for Travel and Restaurant Dining” also found that credit cards account for the greatest share of food spending with consumers using credit cards to purchase an estimated $29.8 According to a PYMNTS survey of 3,250 U.S.

Consumer Goods 449

Consumer Goods Customer Service Restaurant Law Audits 449