Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. Grubhub launched its latest report, "State of the Plate", looking at trends across the more than half a million orders placed a day. Top Foods of 2020.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We have also learned that our guests are willing to try new things and have really embraced our touchless ordering system as well as our new takeout offerings. We realized how important transparency and communication were this year, both with our staff and our customers, in order to make everyone feel comfortable and feel safe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

It’s one more way we can show how much we care about our employees. “We’re thrilled to partner with the KFC Foundation to provide KFC restaurant employees with the tools they need to quickly build emergency savings funds and establish long-term saving habits,” said Leigh Phillips, President and CEO, SaverLife.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

Golden Chick’s modular restaurant design will feature a drive-thru as well as an area for online order pick-ups in a 1,920-square-foot space. A 1,400-square foot model without interior seating is also currently in development and will be equipped with a drive-thru and walk-up order window. " Pielogy Expands in Ohio.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Finding and retaining employees remain among the biggest obstacles operators struggle with. First, at 2.1

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

Because the facility includes a kitchen for restaurants to prepare foods, the only equipment needed to operate a Dickey’s location is a smoker and a warming cabinet. Virtual kitchens handle food delivery and have additional staff at the facility, so the barbecue brand will only need to employ a limited number of team members.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The study also found that 8 million employees were laid off or furloughed during the height of the pandemic. These features include tableside mobile ordering, NFC contactless payments, and direct online ordering. Each member of the coalition is committed to responsibility.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). In Taiwan and South Korea, where restaurant dining rooms remained open during the pandemic, frequent users actually reported ordering more takeout and delivery.

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2020 Fast Casual Food Safety Guest Recovery 191

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Together, the initiative supported the food and beverage community by providing more than 500,000 freshly cooked meals and much needed supplies across 19 relief kitchens nationwide. Sharebite launched Sharebite Stations, a streamlined, post-COVID compliant solution for facilitating contactless food delivery at offices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Participating restaurants will donate 15-25 percent of sales to their local food bank and over 1500 restaurants nationwide have already joined the initiative. ” Over 200 food banks face a surge in demand for emergency food aid in the wake of COVID-19. Aramark Creates Safety Plans.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

The most popular COVID-related safety offerings people look for when booking a venue included outdoor spaces (47 percent) and socially-distanced floor plans (40 percent). The more seamless this experience is for customers, the more likely they are to order through a venue today and in the future. ” Optimism Is Returning.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management. – Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. "As

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. "With colder weather setting in and new restrictions going into effect across the country, our ongoing commitment to helping restaurant operators adapt during the pandemic has never been more important," said Jim Osborne, senior vice president of customer strategy and innovation at US Foods. "Our

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

Did not reduce the salaries or wages of their employees by more than 25 percent, and did not reduce the number or hours of their employees; OR. Experienced reductions in business activity as a result of health directives related to COVID-19, and did not reduce the salaries or wages of their employees by more than 25 percent.

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Food Safety Customer Experience Website Management Employee Relations 145

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. The funding will be used to help more restaurants transition to online ordering during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Mentors on the platform harbor vast expertise on a variety of culinary related topics, bringing a range of perspectives and backgrounds to chefs around the country in need of support and advice. He began his life-long career in the hospitality business at the food service division of Stouffer in Newark, N.J., Plamondon, Sr. Dies at 88.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

“Cities such as San Francisco and Honolulu, which have had some of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders, are now seeing the highest numbers of closures relative to the number of businesses in their respective cities.” Meanwhile, grocery related businesses are on the decline as people spend less time at home.

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Franchise Franchising Mobile Ordering Kitchen Safety 177

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to a new survey released by the National Restaurant Association, nearly one in six restaurants (representing nearly 100,000 restaurants) is closed either permanently or long-term; nearly three million employees are still out of work; and the industry is on track to lose $240 billion in sales by the end of the year. Comfort Food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The economic model makes more sense than traditional brick and mortar so many food businesses are moving in this direction. FAT Brands Chairman and CEO Andy Wiederhorn.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In many cases, safety is their primary concern. Meeting or exceeding their expectations for safety is rewarded by positive feedback online. Sentiment for restaurant service and food improved significantly in December compared to a year ago. For food, 50 percent of all mentions and reviews during the month had positive sentiment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

Brands and The Habit, Chase and DoorDash, Waitr, Local Foods, C3 Signature, Pudu Tech, Southern Glazer's, Voodoo Doughnut, The Friendship Café and Digital Signage Expo. parent company of fast-casual restaurant chain The Habit Burger Grill, for approximately $375 million in a cash transaction. . Local Foods Eyes Austin.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature top foods of 2021, customer satisfaction, the Good Food 100 and shopping sentiments, State of the Plate. And while last year's top food, the wildly popular spicy chicken sandwich, didn't make the list, the Nashville hot chicken sandwich still made the top 10.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

It may turn out to be a good investment, since previous Rewards Network consumer surveys have indicated that people expect to order delivery more in the coming months than previous fall/winter periods. Now more than ever, consumers want to get their food and go, quickly. Convenience is the main ingredient driving restaurant demand.

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EATER

AUGUST 5, 2020

Customer mask mandates from other fast food and fast casual chain restaurants soon followed. Chain restaurants have stepped up to do what the federal government won’t: issue sweeping directives aimed to protect the safety of guests and employees. Most require employees to wear masks at work.

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