Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With 59 percent of customers hanging up after calling in and waiting for a minute or less, according to Linga, restaurants are missing out on a lot of business. The average restaurant operating a sit-down dining experience can miss 15-30 percent of incoming calls on average, with that number possibly being even higher during busy hours.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

You take your seat at a table embedded with a touchscreen menu. The Tech That’s Already Here Automation in restaurants isn’t just about robots bringing food to your table or mixing drinks; it’s about redefining the dining experience altogether. This technology already exists today. Even kitchens are evolving.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2025

Rising restaurant prices and increased cost-of-living expenses are significantly altering dining out habits in both the US and UK, according to a new survey from Attest. Reduced Disposable Income : Consumers have less money for dining out, leading to fewer overall visits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

With the holiday season often comes a surge in dining out: shoppers are grabbing quick bites between stores, families are reconnecting over dinner at their favorite hometown restaurants, and people are seeking professionally-prepared meals for their various holiday gatherings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2025

In Revenue Management Solutions' (RMS) recent consumer report, Check, Please or Check Out , 24 percent of surveyed diners say they buy meals from grocery stores more frequently than a year ago. Almost four out of five RMS respondents feel restaurant and grocery prices have increased compared to the previous month. The 2,000 U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As we navigate these changes, one theme stands out: innovation. Advances in AI and customer relationship management (CRM) tools allow businesses to analyze customer behavior, predict preferences, and craft hyper-personalized dining and drinking experiences.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 10, 2025

If you are serious about a kitchen career and have the focus to map out the best path, then listen up. Every cook, at least every serious cook, seems to want to work in one of those exceptional fine dining or cutting-edge experimental operations that are depicted in shows like Chefs Table or The Bear.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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. Every year, the culinary world serves up something new to savor.

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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 At grocery retail, they are spending more on foods that support GLP-1 balance, including vegetables, eggs and nuts.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

’ This strategy is rooted in listening to our consumers and showing up authentically in the spaces they take an active part in,” Lauren Morton, Wendy’s Manager of Social & Partnership Engagement Strategy. It turns out that there are several important factors that repeatedly show up in effective creative campaigns.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2025

Over the last two decades, I’ve worked alongside operators in just about every hospitality setting—independent cafés, high-end dining rooms, food halls, and regional chains. One constant has always stood out: this industry never stays still. Take digital kitchen management platforms, for example.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2025

Among the report highlights: Cost-conscious diners are rolling back their spending, not cutting it out: 45 percent of surveyed diners report they are visiting restaurants less often due to rising prices, with nearly half saying they’ve decreased their dining-out budgets in the past six months.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2024

” How a restaurant handles review responses can have significant impact as 78 percent of potential patrons consider responses to reviews as influential in their dining decisions, but only if they are personalized and informative. “People take their time to review,” Swetlitz said.

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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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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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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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2025

" To learn more about the courses and induction cooking methods, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) reached out to Chef Chris Galarza, Founder of Forward Dining Solutions LLC and Co-founder of EcoChef, who assisted in Chatham’s induction conversion and who helped design Chatham’s ACF courses.

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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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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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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. And so Farrow’s organization set out to establish a set of standards for restaurants to implement to ensure that they’re being welcoming to breastfeeding parents.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2025

One quarter of those currently taking a GLP-1 medication increased their QSR visits in the past month with 43 percent of past users reporting more visits. One quarter of those currently taking a GLP-1 medication increased their QSR visits in the past month with 43 percent of past users reporting more visits.

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EATER

MARCH 27, 2025

population that dined out at least once in the past month, hoping to better understand how Americans are approaching dining out in this new era. The Vox Media Insights and Research team surveyed over 2,000 U.S. adults in February 2025 representing the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2025

Value-driven dining and a growing interest in regional brands are two trends uncovered in Yelp's 2025 Fastest Growing Brand s report. These metrics were then weighted.Yelp measures consumer interest by looking at select actions users take in connection with businesses on Yelp, including viewing business pages or posting photos or reviews.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 29, 2025

At our core (restaurant folks) we are in the business of taking care of people through food. What is most gratifying is witnessing clean plates coming back from the dining room, satisfied smiles on the faces of guests, and the pride that a cook feels when sliding a finished plate down the pass. Is this overly altruistic?

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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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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Prix Fixe Menu: A multi-course meal at a set price encourages guests to order more while offering an elevated dining experience. Creating a sense of urgency with time-sensitive promotions and specials encourages customers to spend more in the moment, fearing theyll miss out if they dont act fast. Why do bundles work?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Check out how New York State distinguishes between employees and independent contractors here. When restaurant owners get it wrong, it could lead to fines, broken trust among employees—as with the examples above—and even jail time for more egregious violations. Quit rates have also fallen since then.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 27, 2025

sunday.gravy Pizzana Known for their elevated take on Neapolitan pizza, Pizzana has become a staple in Los Angeles dining scene with several locations throughout the city. Los Angeles has always been a city defined by its resilience, but the recent wildfires have tested its strength in unimaginable ways.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 16, 2025

In today’s fast-paced dining world, guest satisfaction goes beyond just great food—it’s about delivering a seamless experience. When guest expectations are sky-high and every table turn counts, how quickly a team responds – both to guests and to each other – can significantly shape the dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2025

The Value Wars continue to shake up the dining industry, increasing competition for the same share of stomachs. For fast casual chains, competition includes usual suspects like casual dining and QSRs as well as c-stores and grocery chains who are ramping up foodservice offerings to capitalize on the trading down trend.

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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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