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Best Practices for Outdoor Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

In the restaurant industry, spring means the beginning of outdoor dining. The outdoor dining season is much anticipated not only because it is enjoyable for diners, but it also benefits restaurant owners and employees by vastly expanding the amount of dining space available to customers. Prioritizing Staffing.

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Keep Your Outdoor Dining Space Compliant for Guest Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

As people begin venturing out to eat again after a year of lockdowns and restrictions, 75 percent say they are not comfortable with dining indoors. Ensuring adherence to city and state regulations, keeping parking lots and sidewalks safe and obtaining the necessary city permits are keys to a successful outdoor dining season.

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Four Questions to Consider Before Opening an Outdoor Seating Space

Modern Restaurant Management

With the recent influx of cold weather throughout most of the Northeast, businesses have been able to continue attracting patrons through a shift to outdoor operations. However, before putting up your tent or enclosures, there are important safety considerations to address first: 1. Do you need or have the proper permits?

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8 Outdoor Dining Ideas to Increase Your Winter Patio Sales

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The resurgence of the virus will increase the demand for outdoor dining options. The good news is that many cities have loosened zoning regulations on patio dining, making it easier for operators who do not have existing patios to create spaces to accommodate diners. Add warmth and ambience with fireplaces and heaters.

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Winter Is Coming. Does Outdoor Dining Have a Future? 11 Great Tips for Restaurants

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Outdoor dining in parklets, aka streateries, saved millions of restaurants and bars around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s great news for many restaurants who rely on outdoor dining as the only lifeline to tug them through winter. California Formalizes Outdoor Dining Through 2024.

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Key Takeaways from the 2022 FDA Food Code

Modern Restaurant Management

In the waning days of 2022, FDA issued an updated Food Code with several important updates. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. Let’s examine the key new provisions of the 2022 Food Code. Many of the key changes in the 2022 Food Code relate to food allergens.

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Pandemic Aside, Outdoor Dining Has Been a Godsend for Parents With Young Children

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But with outdoor dining, it doesn’t have to be. I had to take what I could get, so to fancy birthday lunch my daughters went, sitting outdoors in designer high chairs at a socially distanced table, coloring with crayons while I enjoyed a glass of wine, then another, and my first meal out since the pandemic began.

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