7 Shifts

MARCH 20, 2020

While your first concern should be for the health and safety of yourself, staff, customers, and loved ones right now, it would be a lie to say you’re not allowed to be worried about your restaurant during COVID-19. Here are a few reasons to consider exploring these off-premise dining options. Don’t worry–we’re here to help.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2022

And Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solutions represent a vital component to generate revenue for restaurants by filling up dining tables with customers who feel safe and confident. " They have been selected by a growing number of diners who are conscious of cleanliness, safety, and health. Measures and Use Cases.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 18, 2020

As we continue to fight this pandemic that we still know so little about, and try to gradually open up the economy with a keen eye on public safety – it will be restaurants and other hospitality businesses that suffer the longest. Today’s jobs for cooks and bakers are in short supply, and they likely will be for a period of time.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 3, 2024

Recent surveys confirm the importance of cleaning and sanitizing in food industry establishments for building customer confidence and in influencing diner choice. City and state health departments monitor local restaurants to ensure they’re following food safety management program guidelines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

Fresh prepared produce delivers many benefits to foodservice operations from cost and labor savings along with increasing back of house efficiency, food safety, and freshness. Supply Chain Shortages. One of the biggest pain points during and after the pandemic was supply chain. Ease Labor Shortages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. All of this means that restaurants, especially fast-food places, will have to change how they operate. Voice Ordering.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Additionally, as a result of the ongoing labor shortage, we anticipate more automated chatbots to support on-site team members and help streamline their work as well as operators looking for locations with smaller dine-in square footage in favor of adding more drive-thru lanes. Here are their insights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Imagine you operate a multi-site restaurant organization known for its elegant holiday dining and delicious catering. You’re also hostage to other rising costs and supply chain delays, and want to deliver the experiences your diners expect, now and into 2022. freezers, food warmers, fryers, etc.). Maintaining Equipment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This edition of MRM News Bites features McDonalds, the Food Waste Reduction Alliance, OpenTable, Ordermark, Hudson Group, Hakkasan Group , Waitr and Checkers, ICV Partners, Restaurant Technologies, Diebold Nixdorf and Alto-Shaam. Changes at the Top for McDonald's. in January 2017. Chairman of McDonald's Board of Directors.

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Apicbase

MAY 21, 2024

That means balancing brilliant ideas with practicality and taking the time to consider all variables that can impact food costs , menu scalability, and customer first impressions. Operational realities like ingredient sourcing, kitchen workflow, pricing strategy, and branding play a role in menu development.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 9, 2020

Whether you have been offering delivery and takeout for years, or have had to make a recent pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know which food travels best for delivery—and how to change up your menu to stay profitable while dine-in isn't an option. Let’s run through a little scenario.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond The changing face of Food & Hospitality. Whilst some food and hospitality businesses chose to pivot their businesses early, out of necessity, others have elected to respond to changes in consumer preferences and are quickly reshaping the food and hospitality landscape in front of our eyes.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

An efficient restaurant kitchen design should be high on your priority list whether you’re opening a new restaurant, expanding an existing one, or remodelling an existing one. . The success of a restaurant kitchen design is defined by careful planning. Detailed Guide To Restaurant Kitchen Design .

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Apicbase

JANUARY 25, 2024

By controlling inventory and kitchen operations, you cut food waste and costs. But getting on top of restaurant COGS helps you identify areas to streamline operations , optimise kitchen prep, and make better purchasing decisions. Effective cost management starts with understanding your COGS.

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Apicbase

JANUARY 25, 2024

By controlling inventory and kitchen operations, you cut food waste and costs. But getting on top of restaurant COGS helps you identify areas to streamline operations, optimise kitchen prep, and make better purchasing decisions. Effective cost management starts with understanding your COGS.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management. For part two, click here.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 25, 2020

While some pivoted their operations to an online model, others have adopted contactless dining measures to provide a safe and hygienic environment to their customers. The program aims to gear up the restaurant and hotel industry for the post lockdown scenario, which will ultimately ensure the safety of guests and instill customer confidence.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurant operations management is about making sure everything in a restaurant works together smoothly to deliver great service, tasty food, and keep everyone happy, from the guests to the staff. Success for a waiter is in providing everything the customer needs while they barely notice what you are doing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Restaurants will continue to grapple with labor shortages and supply chain disruptions throughout 2022. Supply chain : Supply chain issues will be a key challenge in 2022. Modern Restaurant Manaagement (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders to discuss the key challenges they believe restaurants will face in 2022.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Kitchen management software comes in all shapes and sizes. Most successful food businesses are now multi-unit and multi-channel. All come with their own data sets and metrics – food cost, inventory variance, sales numbers, the list goes on. It makes choosing the system that is right for you all the more complicated.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

From the bustling kitchen to the welcoming front-of-house, this discipline centres on: streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and ultimately delivering a seamless dining experience. The process requires accurate and up-to-date sales figures, food costing, and inventory data to make the necessary calculations.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A concept known as cloud kitchen has emerged as a result of these advancements. A cloud kitchen also called a “ghost kitchen” or “virtual kitchen,” is a commercial culinary environment that provides food enterprises with the tools and resources they need to prepare menu meals for delivery and takeout.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

In a deal that creates the world’s largest online food delivery company outside of China, Just Eat Takeaway.com plans to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Grubhub in an all-stock transaction. The transaction represents Just Eat Takeaway.com’s entry into online food delivery in the United States. PPP Revisions.

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EATER

MAY 20, 2020

But when it comes to implementing safety protocols, many feel like they’re in the dark : For weeks, the Trump administration delayed a CDC report that would have provided guidelines on how to do just that — because it was “overly prescriptive” — while the FDA has published guidance that mostly defers to the CDC. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What A new survey shows that Americans love new tech-driven options for ordering and retrieving food, but the flipside is that it is making them more impatient. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off. 71 percent rely on delivery for 11 percent or more of sales.

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Cheetah

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Indoor dining in San Francisco and California is back after a long hiatus. The new indoor dining scheme allows for a max capacity of 25% or 100 people, whichever is fewer. Now that you’re no longer limited to takeout and delivery, there are a few things to take care of before getting back to indoor dining.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2020

But when it comes to implementing safety protocols, many feel like they’re in the dark : The Trump administration squashed a CDC report that would have provided guidelines on how to do just that — because it was “overly prescriptive” — while the FDA has published guidance that mostly defers to the CDC. Tisch Illumination Fund. “Our

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic related increase in demand for food delivery has given food brands, cloud kitchens and delivery only kitchens an opportunity to test and demonstrate their new order-to-go technologies. There has been no evidence to suggest that the disease spreads through food, any raw material or food packaging.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

Quick Links Technology Relationships Food and Menus Technology trends to watch People are drawn to the restaurant business because they don’t want to be glued to a screen all day. Digital kitchen display systems could make paper tickets obsolete. Other automations can make sure you never run out of supplies or ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Creating a Face-Pay Network.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

When thinking about restaurant automation, imagining a future where AI-powered androids shake cocktails and drones drop food deliveries through your skylight is fun. But automation in food service is much more than that. Production Maximise kitchen efficiency with precise production planning. What Is Restaurant Automation?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.).

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features Canadian dining trends, American eating patterns, best and worst cities for burgers and pumpkin spice to the rescue. Dining Trends in Canada. Hiring Crisis Facts. That's because a whopping 85 percent of restaurant owners now report it’s very difficult to find the right help.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more. “This milestone is significant and we could not be prouder for the contributions our team has made to our success. . Sandy Reinhardt joined Schostak Brothers & Co.,

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products.

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