Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Whether it's the utilization of AI-driven analytics to elevate menu design or the precision of robotics transforming kitchen operations, a new era in dining is taking shape. These technologies, often unseen but highly influential, are quietly revolutionizing culinary practices and guest experiences.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2022

In the dining room, the same attention to organization must be prevalent. From first-in, first-out in the walk-in cooler to how you fold side towels and where your knives are placed – it is organization that allows a kitchen to run efficiently and keeps the mood and pace of the restaurant in sync.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. It all matters – education level, income bracket, age range, frequency of dining, and food and wine preferences. [] KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO BE AND HOW YOU WANT TO BE PERCEIVED. Don’t try to be something that you are not.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 28, 2023

You know this voice is present the minute you walk into a dining room or step foot in the kitchen – there is an energy hard to deny; an energy that permeates every part of the operation. Uniforms will be pristine, the demeanor of cooks will be professional, knives will be sharp, and pans scrubbed clean.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2024

Chefs and restaurateurs are constantly seeking innovative methods to elevate dining experiences. Best practices in infusion involve maintaining low and steady temperatures to preserve the cannabinoid's efficacy while ensuring its uniform distribution within the fat.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 12, 2021

This place tucked away in the hills of the northeast represented the epitome of culinary arts in their American Plan dining room. This place tucked away in the hills of the northeast represented the epitome of culinary arts in their American Plan dining room.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For franchise owners, maintaining uniform excellence across all outlets is key. Running a restaurant isn't just about serving great meals. It's about consistently delivering top-notch quality, exceptional service, and an unforgettable experience.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

These are the restaurateurs who call me up and ask: “My dining room is full, why am I not making any money?”. [] NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW TO PLAN EFFECTIVE MENUS. Spoiler alert – nothing could be further from the truth. It really isn’t hard to know what to do – it has all been done before. Training ALWAYS pays back in dividends.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was a good night with two full turns of the dining room. Similar activity is taking place in the dining room as tablecloths are replaced and touched up, place settings aligned, glasses checked for water spots, chairs polished and carpets touched up, napkins are folded, and plants are misted.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It’s time to accept where we are, listen and understand where we might be going, put aside our frustrations and begin to establish a working strategy that is based on what is inevitable. Yes, I’m talking about what it will be like in our restaurants from this point on and into the foreseeable future.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

You may think that’s overstating, but… According to Restaurant Insider , 90 percent of guests research a restaurant online before dining there. A restaurant’s brand identity is the cumulative effect of what your guests see, taste, smell, feel and hear at your restaurant, online, and in the world at large. Your Signage.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 26, 2021

When owners are faced with a design that will cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars their first reaction is: “Kitchens don’t generate revenue – dining rooms do. “Chefs” want to create kitchens that work, spaces that are designed to correct the numerous problems that were previously faced in poorly designed kitchens.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Here are some indicators: YOU KNOW YOU HAVE MOVED BEYOND A PAYCHECK WHEN: You are proud of the uniform that you wear. What is important is that at the end of the week there is some cash in your pocket, albeit – not very much. For a few, at some point that changes. When you are walking down the street and constantly shout out “behind!”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2023

Even the most successful food joints — their walls lined with James Beard Awards and Michelin stars — may struggle to fill their dining rooms. Any time your business creates marketing materials or modifies the dining room, it should be cross-referenced against the brand book. But where to start? Think about your own life.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

If so, what it the plan for vendors and restaurants to work together in this regard? [] AT A CERTAIN POINT (before there is a vaccine) CUSTOMERS WILL BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO RESTAURANT DINING ROOMS: Terrific! Oh, but what if customers don’t want to return to dining rooms? How can we really stay on top of this challenge?

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7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2024

After all, a small, honest mistake can accumulate over time and turn into bigger operational problems— 17% of restaurants even fail in their first year due to mismanagement of finances. Regardless of how complex bookkeeping can look like in the beginning, understanding the basics is not an impossible task.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 16, 2020

Is the relationship of food and dining much less important to all stakeholders? Dining out was unavailable and we got by, we re-introduced ourselves to cooking at home and dusted off those skills that had been dormant, or added some new ones that had here-to-for not existed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2021

In order to maintain clarity with customers, messaging across all digital channels must be uniform and consistent throughout. Despite an anticipated return to normalcy, digital ordering will remain a vital component of the “new normal” dining experience. Optimize the digital ordering experience.

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Open for Business

MARCH 1, 2023

Plenty of people work not in the dining room or kitchen but in the restaurant’s office. If there’s a uniform, do your best to recreate it with what you already own. Most restaurant server uniforms are simple combinations of pants and button-down shirts in neutral colors. For these jobs, keep it business casual. Keep it simple.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus outbreak leads to state-mandated dining room closures, many food service franchisors are struggling to maintain business. Because patrons are not able to dine out, call-ahead orders have increased. We will pick ten winners to receive free bowls for a month (four free bowls!)

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Gaining steam prior to the pandemic, the idea of forgoing a dining room and optimizing kitchen space for off-premise sales only is more practical than ever. By deploying trained, uniformed personnel to bring food to the end consumer, restaurants can have better control of the customer experience and their brand.

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Culinary Digital

MARCH 20, 2024

This uniformity in food preparation and presentation is a hallmark of quality assurance, instilling confidence in both the staff and the diners. This uniformity in food preparation and presentation is a hallmark of quality assurance, instilling confidence in both the staff and the diners.

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Focus POS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

However, the regulations aren’t entirely uniform across the board for how restaurants can offer this service. However, the regulations aren’t uniform. You can re-create the same favorites your customers loved when they dined on-premises, but adapt them for to-go orders. Whereas in Hawaii, laws are a little different.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

I have been privileged to work in kitchens all my life as a prep cook, line cook, and chef. I have built a reasonable set of technical skills along the way, and have learned – through trial and error, how to become a better than average chef and manager of kitchen operations. We are the same, yet we are much different.

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Tableo

JULY 19, 2023

Customers expect convenience and efficiency in all aspects of their dining experience, including the payment process. Customization : Restaurants can add their branding to the pay-at-table interface to provide a uniform and branded payment experience. New to Tableo?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Faced with the stark reality of closed dining areas, people working from home, and home-cooked meals, COVID-19 will force a radical rethinking of Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) marketing. Overall, you have people who fear leaving their homes and won’t be quick to flock to crowded indoor dining spaces where they dine without masks on.

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Tableo

JULY 27, 2023

This preserves uniformity while minimising deviations and ingredient waste. Struggling to optimise your restaurant’s operations while keeping costs under control? In this guide we will delve into food & beverage (F&B) control methods to help you generate profitability and uphold good standards. So let’s dive in!

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Sling

JUNE 8, 2020

If you run a restaurant , for example, your primary income channel is probably food and drink sold and consumed in your dining room and bar. If you run a coffee shop , your primary income channel is probably similar to that of the restaurant — dining room sales. 2) Determine Your Total Income. 3) Divide Expenses Into Categories.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2023

By the end of 2021, dine-in visits to fast food chains had fallen to just 14 percent of restaurant traffic, compared to 28 percent pre-pandemic, according to the market research firm NPD Group. There was a time when your local McDonald’s was the ideal spot for a 6-year-old’s birthday party. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find one.

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The Restaurant Group

MARCH 6, 2023

Let’s learn more about restaurant branding and how you can incorporate it into your dining establishment. Branding is important because it allows a dining establishment to differentiate itself from its competitors. Dining areas must be comfortable and should be consistent with the theme of the venue. What Is Restaurant Branding?

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

A fine-dining steakhouse & upscale designer fashion brand. General manager Nicholas DeLuca shares that the bar staff currently receives a discount at the store for purchasing uniforms, and in return Alexander’s hosts their annual holiday party. Alexander’s Steakhouse and John Varvatos.

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 15, 2022

It can mean the difference between becoming a dining establishment of choice and a restaurant that struggles to attract customers. In this blog post, we discuss the importance of restaurant branding and how it can help you create a successful dining brand for your business. But what exactly goes into restaurant branding?

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 14, 2024

When you walk through the dining room and observe service and interactions between staff and guests, what do you see? We can take impeccable care of our chef uniform and careless about washing our hands for 20 seconds. When you watch finished plates slide down the pass ready for service, what do you see? It’s that simple.

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EATER

JUNE 22, 2020

where the impact of — and reaction to — the novel coronavirus has been anything but uniform? We’ll hear from business owners looking towards the next phase, as they discuss everything from implementing sanitary measures to considering worker safety to navigating the financial challenges of a reshaped dining scene. EST / 11:00 a.m.

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Sante

JULY 18, 2019

Teaser: When was the last time you dined out, experienced remarkable service, incredible food, and left the restaurant feeling buoyed, impressed, delighted, and overwhelmingly satisfied? Burger.jpg. Author(s): Jeffrey Spear. Be consistent. Deliver meaningful human encounters. Be creative. Demonstrating creativity can be achieved in many ways.

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The Restaurant Group

MARCH 24, 2022

The ambiance and interiors of a restaurant are a big part of the dining experience. In addition to restaurant design, we can also help with concept development, brand books, uniform design, log design, takeout packaging design, and more. Restaurant Design 3D Rendering. It’s the same principle with 3D renders of restaurant designs.

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EATER

JULY 31, 2020

How simple, streamlined white stickers ended up in pantries across America Before the pandemic , I never spent much time in my apartment’s tiny galley-style kitchen, preferring to dine out (or take out). Stay-at-home orders changed all of that. homedecor #homedecorideas #minivlog #howtodecorate #kitchenupdate #amazonfinds #etsyfinds ?

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