7 Shifts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Winterize Your Patio Seating ?? With indoor dining closed as per Governor Cuomo until further notice, outdoor dining has become a staple of dining out in New York City. Our traffic-heavy streets are now home to ad-hoc patio seating. "Winter is coming".said said every restaurateur in existence.

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Guest Recovery Online Ordering Outdoor Front of House 358

EATER

OCTOBER 13, 2020

It’s the people that make a place — but these days, human interaction is hard to come by I used to love to travel. I’d wander through new cities for days on end, eating and drinking (but mostly eating) in four-seat izakayas, farm-driven pizzerias, southern seafood halls, and boat noodle cafes, talking to locals and walking for miles.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Wow visuals on the plate and in the dining room, wow views from every seat, wow service, and of course – wow flavors on the plate. Guests will return when the effort expended to create memorable complete dining experiences is front and center. It is, and must be, a team effort. Does this seem farfetched?

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Front of House Customer Experience Workshop Dine-in 473

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Two major interstates, I-65 and I-70, intersect in the city, so many travelers move through Indianapolis daily. Group dining is easily accommodated by private rooms in Indianapolis restaurants, making the city a great location to celebrate special occasions. Here are the seventeen best private dining Indianapolis restaurants!

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Dine-in Specials Seasonal Menu Book 117

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2021

That's why it's important to provide an outstanding dining experience from the second your customer's enter your restaurant, till the moment they leave. Keep reading to learn how to do just that, as we cover what to do pre, during, and post dining service. Table of Contents. Before the meal. During the meal. After the meal.

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Customer Service Customer Experience Online Ordering Loyalty Program 369

Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Although Portland’s food scene embraces street food, specialty coffee, and its many breweries, there are plenty of places offering private dining if you’re interested in holding a festive holiday party or birthday dinner. Best Private Dining Restaurants in Portland. Departure Restaurant + Lounge.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

No matter if you’re just passing through for business, planning a formal event, looking for an epic blowout, or treating yourself and your family to a fine dining experience, you can find excellent food and private dining throughout Detroit. Check out my list of the best private dining in Detroit below! The Rattlesnake Club.

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Dine-in Seasonal Menu Fine Dining Reservations 106

Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As a well-seasoned traveler, I enjoy cities that retain a small-town organic feel, and San Antonio, TX, despite its significant population, has that ambiance in spades. They come for the history, the affordability, and the mouthwatering food served on street corners and private, fine dining settings.

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Dine-in Fine Dining Seasonal Menu Catering 108

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.

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FOH Online Ordering Delivery Food Supply 364

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Instead, management should consider adjustments that allow for a clear path for takeout and delivery drivers, whether that be through temporary (yet aesthetically pleasing) signage or an alluring component that keeps dine-in patrons to one side, and those who intend to grab-and-go to the other. Takeout is Taking Over.

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Design Fine Dining Online Ordering Dine-in 223

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— Sure, you may have a certain number of seats, but service duration is variable. If you're under capacity, demand is low with lots of available seating. Control table turnover.

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Management Management Airlines Customer Service 408

EATER

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s all-American, family-friendly dining — in Iraq. With a flagship 1,800-seat location in the city of Erbil and a second 800-seat location in Sulaimani (also spelled Sulaymaniyah), ABC is one of Iraq’s most popular restaurant brands, with often busy dining rooms, large social media followings, and billboards all over.

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Employee Relations Travel Sports Social Media 131

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a topic I have presented numerous times and it seems as though whenever I travel it rises to the top of my thinking. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Ironically, there is always room to be great and there is plenty of room to be mediocre.

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Fine Dining Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 392

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

During the pandemic, restaurants were forced to shut down or limit their indoor dining areas to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Most restaurants took advantage of al fresco dining or turned to alternative pick-up and delivery service methods to regenerate revenue. This is especially true for the hotel bar.

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Hotels Customer Service Beverage Customer Experience 180

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2021

Restaurant management can put some thought into reconfiguring any dining area to make the space feel exclusive and welcoming, not bare or half-empty; this will likely mean the removal of furnishings that don’t allow social distancing. Safety and Normalcy.

Customer Service 189

Customer Service Customer Experience Online Ordering Hospitality 189

7 Shifts

MAY 11, 2020

It’s been months since restaurants across the US, Canada, and beyond were forced to shutter their dining areas in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. This may mean limiting seating per table or reorganizing your dining area to ensure tables are over 6 feet apart. I'm so sorry, I'm not doing that anymore.’

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BOH FOH Food Safety Equipment 368

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up. As one of 7shifts’ most tech-savvy restaurant clients, the founders of The Snug always have their fingers on the pulse of the restaurant industry.

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FOH Back of House Front of House Point of Sale 284

Sling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dining, at its heart, is all about the food. Offer a distinctive dining experience as well as delicious food. Use them as inspiration for your own dining establishment. And if you’re worried about an eruption while dining, rest easy. These tremors are man-made, but they make for an unforgettable dining experience.

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Front of House Fine Dining Dine-in Back of House 148

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2021

The long-awaited joy of a bustling dining room has finally returned. 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.

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Airlines Point of Sale Consumer Goods Hotels 197

Future Food

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Melbourne based dining barriers to meet covid safe requirements (Image via Facebook). The one cautionary side to this new equilibrium is travel. Covid Safe Dining Outdoors at Entrecôte Parisian Steak House, Melbourne. Trends for 2022 Re-engaging with Food in a Design Led World. The post-COVID world is a Design-led world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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2020 Travel Food Safety Consumer Goods 180

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

More Business and Pleasure : “Bleisure” travel is on the rise and next year we predict more people will be combining their business travel with personal leisure, leading to extended stays and more opportunities to explore. Restaurant industry insiders offer their insights on F&B trends we can expect to see in 2024.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

When the economy was weak then restaurants were in the driver’s seat – more applicants than jobs available led to a competent workforce that was underpaid and overworked. The restaurant industry continues to be devastated – not just as a result of the pandemic but because the pandemic brought underlying issues to the surface.

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Customer Experience Cash Management Customer Service Front of House 387

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 10, 2021

It’s easy for restaurant experiences to be impersonal and ordinary right now, with face masks and takeout containers dictating the nature of dining. And while it’s impressive to see how many businesses pivoted to offer these services, they are sometimes executed with less care than is given to dine-in service.

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Food Safety Customer Experience Customer Service Entertainment 195

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2022

" Seated surveyed 50 of their top partners based in New York, Dallas, Boston and Atlanta to get a deeper look at how inflation has impacted their businesses – and how they are responding to it. . Uno Pizzeria and Grill is offering $5 off dine-in orders through August 31. Increase in specials and promos.

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Social Media Loyalty Program Online Ordering Pricing 180

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

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. Customer expectations are level set by their most advanced in-store and digital experiences. percent this year.

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Operations Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Online Ordering 179

EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Changes at Amtrak may revive the beloved tradition of enjoying chicken cordon bleu and Moroccan beef with chickpea salad with fellow travelers In August 2005, I rode an Amtrak overnight train from Chicago to Schenectady, New York: the Lake Shore Limited. I spent the night seated at a table in the lounge car waiting for 6:30 a.m.

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2005 Back of House Training Dine-in 122

EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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Back of House Fine Dining 2011 Dine-in 114

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2022

Different innovative payment methods are being leveraged to increase food services efficiency in fast-food joints to fine dining. Travelers would have the opportunity to order in their own languages, over their own devices, and in their own time. It will most likely take off in fast-food restaurants and drive-throughs.

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Technology Mobile Ordering Customer Service Food Order 197

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A club chef will likely be a person who is fairly well traveled, a person who has been there – done that, an individual who over a period of time has built a network of influence that is there to support and assist the chef as is needed. Each presents the executive chef with a different set of challenges and opportunities.

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Beverage Events Food Order Website Management 487

EATER

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But with outdoor dining, it doesn’t have to be. In the months since, outdoor dining came to represent one of the very few “normal” things my family can do together: What started as a way to keep my unvaccinated toddlers safe and out of indoor communal spaces turned into an enjoyable perk of otherwise monotonous pandemic life.

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Outdoor Fine Dining Seating Dine-in 124

EATER

APRIL 3, 2023

A spread of Filipino dishes from Kuya Lord’s | Bettina Makalintal/Eater Skip the constant Resy monitoring this time This post originally appeared in the April 1, 2023, edition of Eater Travel, a biweekly dispatch from Eater’s staff about navigating places where food is the main attraction. Subscribe now.

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Reservations Food Truck Social Media Travel 136

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. Uber To Acquire Postmates. billion in an all-stock transaction that brings together two top players in third-party delivery, Uber will acquire Postmates.

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Mobile Ordering Restaurant Law Seating Customer Service 192

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Restaurant Reckoning: Dynamic Diner' SevenRooms released its “Restaurant Reckoning: Dynamic Diner” report, which uncovered new diner personas to help operators understand what motivates guests to dine out in this new era of hospitality. Just over one in five (21 percent) want restaurants to perform on-site health screenings.

2020 189

2020 Food Safety Hotels Dine-in 189

EATER

JULY 8, 2020

While there is no form of travel that’s perfectly safe right now, there are certainly more responsible options than others for scratching the itch. So, with safety top of mind, here are some alternative parks to consider for your 2020 summer escape, and, of course, the best places to eat — to go, dine-in, or dine-out — nearby.

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Front of House Travel Dine-in Seating 116

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There’s just not the same amount of volume in takeout as there is in in-person dining.” he warm summer months and the arrival of outside dining provided a lifeline for a dining and hospitality industry that has been hit immensely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. percent demand decline.

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Loyalty Program Fast Casual Online Ordering Consumer Goods 145

EATER

MARCH 16, 2022

It and the road together are cohorts of a midcentury driving and dining culture in a trio of neighboring Massachusetts counties: Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk. Sophie Park. A storied stretch of Route 1 in Massachusetts was once home to restaurants with over-the-top roadside attractions. A life like that sees a lot of repetition.

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Dine-in Back of House Seating Travel 139