Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

Even though the COVID-19 pandemic persists across the globe, governments have started easing lockdown restrictions and allowing restaurants to reopen finally. If your customers expect you to offer a fine dining experience, they won’t be pleased to know that you’ve upturned your entire restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

" Pandemic Pivots Become Permanent The temporary "pivots" developed during the pandemic — expanded delivery services, outdoor dining options, to-go alcohol offerings, and investments in technology — are the foundation of the industry's "new normal." million by the end of 2023.

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EATER

JULY 18, 2023

Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. Blindekuh was founded by a blind pastor to generate empathy for blind people, and dining in the dark restaurants have provided reliable jobs for the chronically underemployed blind workforce. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

“The prospects for fine dining and sit-down restaurants are going to remain strained for all of 2021,” said Doug Groves, founder at Program Insurance Group, in College Station, Tex. “States continue to extend the dates for the closure of indoor dining and expanding closures into outdoor dining as well.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Once the government’s ‘ one-way road to freedom ’ was announced earlier in the year, UK travel companies cited a huge surge in enquiries from people keen to holiday on home ground this summer. Not only will we continue to shop more locally, but it’s expected that the recent staycation boom will carry on too.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We have predicted the demise of fine dining at least a dozen times in the past 25 years – is it really happening now? Americans are spending nearly 50% of their annual food budgets in restaurants and indications that this can continue to grow – is fine dining the right answer? Pretention is fading in popularity.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Athens has welcomed immigrants from Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Syria, who combine their foodways with Greek ingredients and customs in fine dining to street food. Even TV shows like MasterChef Greece have had a noticeable impact, driving interest in new dining options and highlighting industry talent.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

As restaurants face a new round of indoor dining shutdown orders amid rising coronavirus cases and colder weather, some are choosing to stay open in spite of the legal and public health consequences, arguing that it’s the only way that their businesses can make it through the pandemic. And in other news…. billion in an IPO. Bloomberg ].

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EATER

JUNE 5, 2020

Delivery apps say they have been working with local governments to provide their contractors with guidance as to where and when they can work , but these ad-hoc curfews are generally allowing police to selectively enforce the temporary rules on whoever they choose. Even with the risk, no one is in the position to decline an order.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What More than half (55 percent) said they were fed up after five minutes of waiting for food in a drive-thru, and 54 percent were annoyed waiting more than 10 minutes for food while dining at a restaurant. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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EATER

MAY 16, 2025

This financial precarity has only been exacerbated by a lack of federal and local government assistance. The Neng Jr.s team reflects on recovery. Mike Belleme Local chefs rely on resourcefulness and community in the wake of disaster. Since opening in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2022, Neng Jr.s percent the previous month.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was a good night with two full turns of the dining room. A day when offices are closed, government buildings shut, and home BBQ’s flourish in every neighborhood and many families look forward to a time of family, fun, and reflection. Those first orders require smiles on each server’s face, and quick reflexes on the part of cooks.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 29, 2022

They employ thousands of people and have served billions, and with so many people affected, it's understandable why there are franchise-specific laws and regulations in place. Here's an overview of what franchisors and franchisees need to understand about franchise compliance to ensure a smooth-running, legally-sound franchise. State Law Compliance.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Oxte Immigrant chefs are shaking up Paris’s fine dining scene with Michelin-starred restaurants, venues in five-star hotels, and Lebanese, Mexican, and Korean flavors not traditionally found in haute French cuisine When Enrique Casarrubias came to Paris from Mexico in 2007, he had no intention to stay. Prepping a dish at Oxte.

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ChowNow

MARCH 19, 2020

Many have had to close their dining rooms all together. Unfortunately, there’s some fine print here. If you believe that the restaurant industry needs government assistance, contact your local representatives and spread the word. What can you do in a time like this? Take a look at our running list of recommendations below.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Now, as summer waned and restrictions relaxed enough to allow outdoor dining on sidewalks throughout the city, Techamuanvivit was readying the Kabuki’s driveway to accommodate dinner service and waiting for the go-ahead to launch Kin Khao’s new Dogpatch location. “I Where is the conscience of the country?”. Kin Khao does between $4.5

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EATER

JUNE 30, 2020

Shutting down their restaurants due to government mandates and health concerns was hard — but for some, reopening is even harder. While Orange County announced restaurant dining rooms could reopen in late May, Salgado felt it was too early and has kept Taco María closed for dine-in service, to the displeasure of some diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2020

The restaurant industry is difficult in the best of times, let alone when a worldwide pandemic forces closures, customers are forced to stay in their homes, told to social distance for months, and state government regulation telling owners and managers when you reopen shops or when they can be at half capacity. The odds are humbling.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 1, 2020

I am a concerned spectator at a time when everything seems to be in question and every one of us lives on the edge. We fear, we adjust, we cope, and then there comes a time when our coping mechanism comes into real question. This is when leadership is most needed. It is not possible to truly lead those with whom you can’t relate.

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A restaurant with a large, sprawling dining room can pack in more diners and tables than a small one, theoretically doing more business. Even with the changes with outdoor dining, fixed costs don’t really change for restaurant owners. And while the pandemic rages on, landlords are still collecting rent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

As more restaurants focus their undivided attention on their off-premise offerings and guests adapt their consumption to this new environment, plus some of the government relief measures take effect, some small improvements may lie ahead.” Family dining was another segment that was hit hard, which includes many buffet-based concepts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

Miso Robotics understood where we could improve and stay true to White Castle’s brand of taste, innovation and best-in-class dining. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. White Castle Employs Flippy the Robot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. This was largely due to a favorable shift in the Thanksgiving holiday. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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EATER

MAY 29, 2020

Portugal reopened restaurants on May 18, but dining rooms remain far from packed | NurPhoto via Getty Images. Portugal is reopening, but its food scene is more reliant than most on tourists. So what happens now? Nowhere in Europe has tourism played as big a role in shaping the overall food scene as Portugal. Joana Freitas.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen Six chefs and restaurant owners from across the country explain why restaurants feel so expensive right now, and how they’re coping with high prices and customer complaints Dining out involves calculating the intangible: What is hospitality worth to you? Lately, the calculus is becoming more complicated. Every check is a shock.

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EATER

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s a company that exploits the vulnerabilities of gig workers, gouges its restaurant partners , preys upon restaurants that aren’t partners , and subverts government regulations. Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images. Read the archives and subscribe now. Gary He/Eater. Milk tea and egg tart soft serve at Milu in New York. —

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. Fairmont Banff Springs | Fairmont Resort Hotels. Over the course of 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Canada

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2020

THIS IS A LONG ONE – BUT IMPORTANT FOR ALL WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT PROFESSIONAL COOKING. Cooking for others is one of the oldest professions in the civilized world. I can assure you that cooking will survive and once again thrive – history has demonstrated its resilience. Escoffier even opened the Ritz in Boston – the first in the U.S.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

Our research from over 1,900 restaurant professionals shows that the main reasons employees quit are due to poor training, bad relationships with managers, and lack of team-building activities. Doesn’t it make sense to create a restaurant employee handbook that encourages a positive workplace culture through teamwork and training?

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EATER

MAY 16, 2024

Some days he’s fine. “There’s no child care at that hour of the night, that I know of, in my area. It has to be somebody’s personal home,” says Baptiste. Kennard has autism, which made it harder for him, as Baptiste puts it, to live out of a suitcase for the weekend, in someone else’s home, even if it was friends or family. “My

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EATER

APRIL 29, 2021

Two weeks in a Korean quarantine facility took my sense of time, space, and rational thought — but never my appetite We’ve all experienced some form of isolation over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic — either sanctioned by the government or by personal choice. I slept on the floor and was not allowed to leave, even for exercise.

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APRIL 21, 2021

For many, hawker centers actually serve as the convenient kitchen for local housing flats,” says Leslie Tay, a family doctor who is also a culinary advocate and member of the government’s Workgroup on Sustaining the Hawker Trade. Can Singapore’s already fragile hawker centers withstand third-wave coffee and gourmet burger stalls?

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7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

The competition in the restaurant industry is getting tighter. In fact, 45% of restaurant operators expect their competition to be much more intense in 2024 than last year. That said, we've compiled some of the best techniques for increasing restaurant sales and taking your business to new heights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Hottovy, consumer equity strategist at Morningstar., "Easterbrook, who left McDonald's "following the Board's determination that he violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment involving a recent consensual relationship with an employee", had been instrumental in the company's turnaround efforts since 2015.

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EATER

APRIL 30, 2024

Though Isan cuisine has proven popular around the world, chefs in the northeastern Thai region are still fighting for recognition domestically, using foraged ingredients and fine dining techniques to rewrite their culinary reputation Rule 1: Gather eggs between March and May. Plating ant eggs for a quick snack.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 13, 2022

I had a couple of events, private events, corporate dining events, and there were two more left on the book. Brian always has a unique understanding and view of the world. The topic for this talk was how Restaurant Culture is in Crisis. Donald Burns: Hey, welcome to the Conquer Online Restaurant Summit. they had very, very strong opinions.

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EATER

OCTOBER 18, 2023

So to ask if he has a signature dessert is a fruitless question, one he responds to with answers as lyrical as his desserts, which include the kakigori at Hestia, a mountain of finely shaved ice that hides a heart of burnt honey ice cream, and the tres leches at Canje, monochrome minimalism in the form of salted cream draped over white cake. “I

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