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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

After weathering years of pandemic-related challenges, the sector continues to rebound with optimism. While corporate travel is expected to pick up, helping offset a predicted slowdown in leisure spending, the broader hospitality sector must grapple with economic and operational risks.

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A Combination of Traditional, Remote Audits and Self-Auditing Will Trend into the Future

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants have traditionally relied on annual, biannual, or quarterly audits, where an inspector visits the facility and conducts an in-person assessment of health and safety protocols. Remote Audits Offer Distinct Food Safety Benefits. Luckily, our industry is resilient. Luckily, our industry is resilient.

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Managing Risk and Protecting Your Brand

Modern Restaurant Management

While everything feels overwhelming in the world, focus on these five solvable challenges: Prioritize a Food Safety Culture. With or without a pandemic, food safety culture is what you do when no one is looking. When employees feel safe, informed, and engaged, then customers will feel safe.

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Safely Reopening Restaurants in the Era of COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

As restaurants begin the process of reopening, some with an extended period of nonoperation, there are safety precautions that must be considered beyond simply ordering supplies, rehiring staff and opening the doors. Train Employees to the Written Plan. Documentation is key here noting training dates, times and attendance.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2020-COVID-19 Effects Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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 Asia, the third factor most often cited was provenance and food production methods. ” Safety, hygiene and the food supply chain. . In the U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fatigued by cooking at home, consumers are anxious to dine at their favorite restaurants according to a new Oracle Food and Beverage study. "But while consumers are anxious to get back out there to eat, they come with new expectations on everything from menus to the technology used to increase safety.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Virtual BBQ and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

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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