Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 25, 2025

The real estate opportunities for fast-casual businesses are only increasing and the spaces that are becoming available are only growing more creative – the latest development we’ve seen is former office buildings that are being transformed into renovated dining destinations. What kind of space are brands interested in?

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 25, 2025

If We Have an Opportunity for Curbside Dining, is that Space Considered our Premises? Specifically, you will want to ensure your liquor liability, general liability, and umbrella policies are in place and ready to protect you if problems arise in your outdoor dining area.

Insurance

ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

The truth is that the average restaurant profit margin is razor-thin, leaving almost no room for error. A spike in food costs, a drop in sales volume, or one slow season can wipe out months of hard work. If your restaurant profit margins arent healthy, it doesnt matter how busy you areyoull always be playing catch-up. added up to $60,000.

Point of Sale

The Rail

MARCH 14, 2025

Authentic Experiences An international staff can also creative for an authentic dining experience. This has always been my number one location when it comes to dining and choosing Italian cuisine, because its simple, tasty, quick, and as authentic as it gets in terms of atmosphere and taste.

Restaurant Law

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 22, 2025

Mississippi has a strong barbecue scene rooted in tradition and local pride. From small towns to bigger cities, you’ll find spots that have been serving for years alongside newer places gaining attention. What makes these restaurants stand out isn’t just the food, but the people behind them and the way they stick to what works.

Back of House

The Rail

JUNE 26, 2025

By Ellie Gabel, Contributor Plumbing problems can shutter your dining room faster than a bad Yelp review. To keep pipes off your capital expense list, try these: Insist on licensed installs: A pressure test and video scope cost less than one night of closure. Every crew member touches the trap's fate — dish, prep and front-of-house.

Front of House

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun. 23, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The restaurant tech vocabulary keeps expanding. Image by Nico Heins/Midjourney Want to sound smart at the next restaurant tech cocktail party? .

Hiring

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Now, as a copywriter at SpotOn, he helps restaurant owners and managers learn how to run a more profitable operation. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs. Contribution margins.

License

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

Opening an in-house dining space isn’t just a perk—it’s a strategic move for businesses looking to boost employee satisfaction and streamline operations. Workplaces are increasingly launching corporate cafeterias to provide employees with convenient and accessible dining options within the premises.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2025

Dining out should be a relaxing experience for customers. Schedule regular electrical wiring inspections by licensed electricians. However, the restaurant industry can present significant safety hazards for employees. An unsafe work environment is a leading cause of injury and illness in restaurants. Keeping the back straight.

Kitchen Safety

Lavu

MAY 23, 2025

If youre wondering how to open a deli that stands out in a competitive food market, this guide walks you through every critical step from business planning and licensing to choosing the right equipment and location. Delis and sandwich shops continue to be popular with customers because they provide versatile, quick dining options.

2025

Lavu

AUGUST 8, 2025

Orders are sent to the kitchen instantly, cutting down trips to fixed terminals, speeding up service, and improving the overall dining experience. This leads to fewer mistakes and a smoother dining experience. In today’s fast-paced foodservice industry, efficiency and flexibility are non-negotiable. The benefits are undeniable.

POS

The Food Corridor

APRIL 29, 2025

Virtual Brand, Defined A virtual brand is a food business that operates entirely online — without a dine-in area, a pickup counter, or a traditional storefront. They don’t have a dine-in area or customer-facing service. In the golden age of delivery apps and ghost kitchens, virtual brands are the culinary chameleons of the food world.

Food Truck

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

These include rent, utilities, licenses, equipment, repairs, credit card processing fees—anything that's not labor or COGS. Gross and net profit margins for restaurants What is the average restaurant profit margin? Depending on your restaurant type, your percentages might look different. Labor costs. Overhead costs.

Operations

SpotOn

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Corkage fees are typically found in casual dining and fine dining restaurants, encouraging guests to select a bottle from the restaurant, instead of bringing their own.  Check the restaurant's wine list or dinner menu if there's some curiosity about corkage fees while dining out. What is the average corkage fee?

Fine Dining

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. This blog aims to give readers an inside look at how accounting is not just “done” but mastered in this unique sector. Key Takeaways Understand the key functions and principles of hospitality and leisure accounting.

Hospitality

The Restaurant Group

JUNE 7, 2025

Customers return more frequently when visuals accurately represent their dining experience, improving overall retention. Set clear expectations about image licensing, shot list creation, and overall shoot planning. Restaurant food photography can transform your business, enhancing customer attraction and boosting sales significantly.

Food

Paper Chase Accountancy

AUGUST 5, 2025

This statistic highlights the critical role of effective restaurant accounting services. While it’s clear accounting plays a key role in the success of any hospitality business, many owners are left wondering, “what exactly should I be looking for in a good accounting service?” Learn more about our Accounting Services !

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2025

The world’s largest 3D-printed restaurant interior design recently debuted at MYATA Platinum Lounge, a hookah lounge with a restaurant and bar in the C2 Licensed District in Dubai's City Walk. The lounge boasts innovative lighting that enhances the sensory experience. How did this project come about, and what was the process?

Design

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If you’re planning on starting a restaurant, you are probably looking forward to a packed dining room, happy guests, and empty plates; however, it also takes a lot of money to get your restaurant off the ground. The expenses related to remodeling your kitchen and dining room can vary widely from place to place.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2023

Set the Tone for Customer Dining Experience Music sets the tone and creates a mood that adds to the experience, which can have a significant influence on guests. Restaurants can easily stream licensed music while supporting artists through legal B2B music streaming platforms. Consumers in the U.S.

License

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You have the advantage of a built-out kitchen with equipment, bars and dining rooms, technology, parking lots, and more. Tack on obtaining permits and licenses, and you could be in for a pretty big check. There are generally two ways to go about opening a new restaurant: buying an existing one, or starting from scratch.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

And while automation and robotics can help streamline some elements of operations, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a newfound appreciation for human connection and dining experiences. We've reached a point where we're recognizing the value and limits of these technologies.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2023

Get Your Licenses in Order Starting a restaurant business involves registering with the authorities and procuring the relevant licenses. Ignoring these licenses and regulations might attract hefty penalties and fines, so make sure you’re aware of the local, state, and federal regulations before opening up for business.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

We are witnessing the evolution of fine dining. A rise in number of vegan restaurants is witnessed as younger population especially women are preferring vegan diet over traditional fine dining options. Astonishingly veganism is a chief enabler of this culinary transformation. Bn at an impressive 22 percent CAGR in 2022.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Today’s restaurants are expected to deliver an Amazon-like experience: know customers’ preferences and dining habits and deliver food, whether tableside or to their front doors, without delay. As such, it’s crucial for restaurants to find ways to increase efficiency and improve the dining experience. Bottom line?

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2024

For restaurants with liquor licenses, catering to millennials is key. Rethinking Beverages The typical drink upsell—soft drinks and coffee or tea—has decreased over the past few years as customers increasingly eat restaurant food at home. These drinks offer a profit-making opportunity at a time of declining sales and foot traffic.

Beverage

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Offering delivery services creates an added liability for restaurant owners beyond typical dine-in exposure, so it is critical to ensure you are implementing the right procedures to help mitigate unexpected claims and expenses that could damage your business. Recheck to make sure that the employee is still using the same vehicle.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Many areas across the country are in the midst of a “second lockdown,” as state and local governments are again restricting businesses with indoor dining to help curb COVID-19’s spread. These licenses can include: Business operation. The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way restaurants do business. Food service.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. 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.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

JUNE 23, 2020

With COVID-19 shutting down businesses worldwide in 2020, restaurants were forced to shut down their dining rooms and pivot to off-site dining only—takeout and delivery. While restaurants have begun to reopen , dining rooms still cannot be filled to full-capacity to ensure safe distancing amongst customers. No added fees.

FOH

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature help for small business owners and products for the 'new normal' for restaurants as they reopen. On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store. “This new feature helped us keep our doors open and continue serving our customers during the recent downturn,” he said. Visa SMB Help.

Guest Recovery

EATER

MARCH 22, 2022

Interest in the Toronto’s now-closed GarfieldEats and its owner Nathen Mazri endures like Garfield’s love of lasagna Toronto is a world-class food city, overflowing with top-quality dining options ranging from dim sum to curry-stuffed Caribbean roti. Jim trusts this young man with his license, and boom, a GarfieldEats restaurant.”.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2020

As the largest rare wine retailer and wholesaler in the country, we work with fine dining restaurants all across the nation including many that are Michelin ranked, Wine Spectator Grand Award winners. Being a fully licensed retailer, distributor and importer allows Benchmark to buy wine from virtually all sources throughout the country.

Retail

7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2020

With dine-in officially off the menu, we’re sharing a few options for restaurants to consider to pivot their business model during COVID-19. It’s no surprise that restaurants have been hit hard during the COVID-19 health crisis. Offer meal kits ?? Alcohol delivery ?? You don’t have to be a brewery or bar to get into the delivery game either.

FOH

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

“The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. . “The post-COVID dining experience will no doubt be different. Operators will need to consider new procedures and processes that will be critical to providing the right environment. Up to 50 percent discount on cover fees in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Webinar

EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2022

By presenting cuisine that has not traditionally been championed in a fine dining, wine-tasting setting, Mistry hopes to challenge people’s expectations about cuisine — and the people who make it. Over the past few years, one-off guest chef appearances and chef-in-residence programs have proliferated in the fine dining industry.

Fine Dining