Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The day served up a multi-course menu of timely topics designed to empower restaurant marketers, including tapping into industry trends, deploying strong loyalty app campaigns, boosting ad performance with AI-powered tools, and the importance of storytelling and upleveling brand creative. The proof is, well, in the pudding.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 16, 2025

Tableside caviar service A prosciutto cart An authentic kaiseki tasting experience and members-only Japanese whiskey lounge Tableside s’mores These are just a few examples of ways restaurants across the country are hoping to attract guest by elevating the dining experience and creating a vibe highlighted by superior food and presentation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2025

It’s about taking friction out of operations—so staff can spend more time focused on hospitality, not paperwork. AI Is the New Secret Sauce in Restaurant Operations First, let me take a moment to say – AI isn’t just ChatGPT or image generation. This isn’t about replacing people with machines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2025

"By doing so, they can attract and foster repeat purchases from consumers are who either on GLP-1 medications or taking GLP-1 supplements," she said. "This ” Industries beyond food and beverage, including beauty, wellness, and pharmaceuticals, can explore cross-sector collaborations to serve this demographic.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2025

Start here: lets make the worlds best, no comparison, out-of-the-park, mind-blowing, cant even describe how good this (fill in the blank) is. [] SANDWICHES: Think about the details: either produce, or find the absolute best, crusty exterior and rich, moist interior bread to be found anywhere on the planet. Make the tomato an experience.

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EATER

MARCH 28, 2025

Although these items are still plentiful, dining at a baseball game has now become an exciting culinary affair. This shift has made dining at a baseball stadium as much a draw as the game itself. But preparing a new dish and scaling it to feed tens of thousands baseball fans takes time, effort, and culinary chops.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2022

Such advancement of technology in the food industry expanded into the use of cryptocurrency in the restaurant industry, leading to the rise of crypto restaurants taking their place in the blockchain world. Restaurants and hotels are playing their creative game too well as they establish crypto-themed restaurants across the globe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Every year, the culinary world serves up something new to savor. Remember when food trucks redefined street food in the early 2010s or when small plates turned casual dining into an adventure of endless flavors? As we look to 2025, a new wave of trends is already taking shape. In 2020, dining as we knew it disappeared overnight.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience. The restaurant sector is poised for a seismic shift as AI integration takes center stage. Data, Data, Data.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 26, 2025

The next time you walk through your local supermarket, butcher shop, fish market or bakery, take a moment to think about this. Putting aside the challenge of bird flu and the work and demands surrounding the care of animals, cost of feed, and process of harvesting and preparing eggs for market even at todays price this works out to around $.50

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 13, 2025

Sure, there are always a few players who truly stand out and supporters are quick to point to a portfolio of statistics to lend credibility to their choice. This is a time of the year when many invest personal effort in speculating who will win the honors as NFL Most Valuable Player. So, really, the MVP is the team, not any one individual.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2025

” The two large kitchens serving Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus: The Lodge and The Esther Barazzone Center kitchens use electric induction cooking improve the precision and quality of the food they serve. .” Sales of induction stoves are on the rise in the U.S., representing 18 percent of sales in 2023.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2025

Restaurants less so How the owner of Krystal and Logan's Roadhouse makes it work Financing Olive Garden sales surge on delivery and free take-home meals Same-store sales rose 6.9% at the Italian casual-dining chain as its investments in affordability and Uber delivery paid off. and get a free chilled meal to take home.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Lactation Network set out to establish a set of standards for restaurants to implement to ensure that they’re being welcoming to breastfeeding parents. It was especially ironic considering that this controversy centered around a place where food is served, and that breastfeeding infants are simply trying to eat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 20, 2025

This shift is fueled by more adventurous young palates and a desire for children's dining experiences to reflect the culinary sophistication enjoyed by adults. For example our Bao Wow takes something familiar like a hot dog, and adds a pan-Asian twist, crafting it with kewpie mayo, sweet sauce, cucumber and lettuce on a bao bun.

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. The “ PLNT Impact Tracker ” on PLNT Burger’s website wants you to think about what you’re eating.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. At the same time, it can result in consumers creating more waste if they order more than they can eat.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 27, 2025

Among these heroes are restaurantscommunity cornerstones that not only serve as gathering spaces in normal times but also become lifelines during crises. Among these heroes are restaurantscommunity cornerstones that not only serve as gathering spaces in normal times but also become lifelines during crises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2025

To learn more about how restaurant operators can best set themselves up for the upcoming summer season, Modern Restaurant Management IMRM) magazine reached out Kevin Bryla, Chief Marketing Officer, SpotOn. What details should operators pay attention to when setting up a patio for dining?

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The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

By Torrey Tayenaka, Contributor In a highly competitive restaurant industry, its crucial to stand out from the crowd and bring an influx of new guests through the door. Taking it a step further than high-quality images , video marketing taps into the sensory appeal that text and photos cant achieve. The same is true of videos.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2025

Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS. Here, co-owner, director of operations, and wine director Ryan Bailey explains what it was like taking over such a large restaurant. This send is the second of a four-part series on restaurant growth, presented by Square.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2025

"Pre-pandemic, only fine dining establishments typically used tools like prepayments or deposits. ." He saw an opportunity to create a platform that better served restaurants. Nick Kokonas was trying to solve Alinea's costly no-show problem and the resistance they faced when introducing prepaid reservations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2025

Music and dining are all about expectations. However, when going out to dine, it is all about being social, having great conversations and enjoying each other’s company. When full-service restaurants don’t have music, they are unwittingly sending a message to their guests: GET OUT.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

As the digital dining revolution accelerates, the most successful restaurant chains will be those that transform their fragmented tech landscape into unified enterprise platforms. It’s no secret that restaurants with more than one location depend on standardization to thrive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

Restaurant employees are the heart of the dining experience, and their commitment keeps the industry thriving. Day in and day out, restaurant employees are on their feet—cooking, serving, bartending, cleaning, and ensuring every guest has a memorable experience, all while often working unusual schedules or long hours.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2025

Another couple traveling from San Diego back home to Warren County, Ohio, brought their own food but also sometimes hit the dining car. To Elizabeth, the food in the Amtrak dining car was good, but she preferred her own. As a nonflier and a travel writer, I spend a lot of time on trains.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

A chief reason is due to caution or uncertainty exhibited by conscious consumers, with 48 percent saying they are taking the ‘wait and see’ approach and holding back on spending in 2024. Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? So, what’s the solution?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2025

Mother’s Day reigns queen as the largest dining-out holiday of the year, with Americans projected to spend around $35.7 Music Drives Dining Performance Music is the invisible host. As we delve deeper into the dynamics of special occasion dining, let’s now explore who is heading out to celebrate Mother’s Day.

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ChowNow

MARCH 21, 2025

Every successful restaurant has one thing in common: they know exactly who they are serving. Without a well-defined target market, restaurants risk wasting resources on strategies that dont connect and menu offerings that dont selltrying to appeal to everyone, but standing out to no one. Lets get started and find your target audience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As the nation grapples with another wave of restaurant closings and reduced dining room capacity, establishments must quickly respond to the cry for innovation in the industry. Data shows that guests want to dine out but safety concerns are the biggest factor holding them back. No-Touch Menus. Local Promotional Planning.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Survey results indicate diners are seeking distinctive dining experiences, planning ahead with early reservations, and seeking out earlier evening bookings The holiday season is bringing a wave of excitement among diners, with 68 percent of respondents planning to celebrate at restaurants or bars. early bird timeslot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. Additional findings indicate that 44 percent favor a balance of human staff and some technology, while 41 percent prefer no AI use at all in their dining experience.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Receipts A scannable link on printed or digital receipts lets customers leave a review right after dining. After a dine-in experience or an online order, you can send friendly messages asking customers for feedback. When customers are looking for a new place to eat, one of the first steps in that journey is checking reviews.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2024

How do you keep your customers safe–without compromising the overall dining experience? Let’s take a closer look at those strategies. Sourcing from reputable suppliers ensures that the food you're serving is safe. One would think that, in 2024, foodborne illnesses would be a thing of the past.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Wonder in New York City. Robert Sietsema/Eater NY Wonder wants to fix food delivery — so it just acquired Grubhub On November 13, Wonder, the company that describes itself as “a new kind of food hall,” announced its acquisition of the established food ordering and delivery platform Grubhub. As it grows, here’s what you need to know.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Off-premise dining was already on-trend in the restaurant industry well before COVID-19. Just since the beginning of the pandemic and the restrictions on on-premise dining, 62 percent of operators have or plan to implement designated takeout areas due to the re-configuration efforts. Naturally Cut Out the Waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It may sound like just an excuse to eat out, but experiencing the food and ambience of your competitors is essential to writing a persuasive restaurant business plan. Take home a copy of their menu, or take a picture if you can’t get a copy. Simply serving better food may be enough to best the competition.

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