Restaurant365

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Maybe it’s organizing the walk-in, folding the napkins for the front of the house, or reworking the menus. Daily issues with your inventory control can lead to food waste levels that skew your monthly margins. In a restaurant, there’s always something that needs to be done. What is restaurant operations management?

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

The back-of-house (BOH) at a restaurant is the behind-the-scenes area of the restaurant — it works like an engine and keeps the restaurant going. While it is not visible to the customers, the restaurant’s services get hampered without back-of-house. Why is Back of House Important? And, well, every world needs its own lingo.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. 71 percent rely on delivery for 11 percent or more of sales. 33 percent rely on delivery for more than 20 percent of sales. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 6, 2023

As opposed to profit, which is demonstrated as a dollar amount, your restaurant’s profit margins are its profits represented as a percentage of annual sales. As opposed to profit, which is demonstrated as a dollar amount, your restaurant’s profit margins are its profits represented as a percentage of annual sales. Read along!

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2020

Your staff is hard-working and diligent—but tensions are high, and sales are lower than expected. Your team of employees can only do so much with what they’re given, so you might consider improving their modes of communication. This permits your restaurant—both front and back of the house—to work at the fast pace of consumer spending.

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Open for Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Information in this article is presented “as-is” and may not constitute the most up-to-date information. All liability with respect to actions taken or not taken based on the contents of this article is hereby expressly disclaimed.

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Apicbase

AUGUST 19, 2022

Without a long-term approach, hotels – and large-scale food service companies – run into all sorts of problems down the line, leading to: costly software patch-ups, difficulties with staff training, low adoption by employees, and underwhelming ROI. Whether investing in so many different technologies makes sense is hardly ever discussed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6 percent in November, which represents the third consecutive month of positive sales growth and the strongest since January. Thanksgiving typically represents lower sales volumes for most industry segments.

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

Fortunately, driving more restaurant sales isn't particularly difficult. The key is to reduce your costs and increase your sales. As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. So, why do it? Why run a restaurant at all?

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

Fortunately, driving more restaurant sales isn't particularly difficult. The key is to reduce your costs and increase your sales. As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. So, why do it? Why run a restaurant at all?

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Email Marketing Merchandise Website Management Point of Sale 52

iTab POS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

By introducing a POS system in your restaurant, you can dramatically boost your daily sales. As payment technology evolves, it is becoming increasingly important for restaurants to upgrade to a comprehensive restaurant POS system to not only process payments, but also to manage inventory, reviews sales reporting quickly, and do a lot more.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Restaurant sales in the US grew from $842.3 It is estimated that the US food service sector wasted 13 million tons of food in 2022, up from 9.15 It is estimated that the US food service sector wasted 13 million tons of food in 2022, up from 9.15 At first glance, some stats might seem to contradict each other. Let’s dig in.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

However, restaurant owners and leaders can take clear, actionable steps towards understanding and managing their labor cost percentage without taking a toll on employee productivity, customer satisfaction, or their bottom lines. Benefits (Health Care, Employee Discounts, etc.). What is Restaurant Labor Cost Percentage? Payroll Taxes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform.

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Apicbase

JUNE 16, 2023

Whether you’re looking to improve customer satisfaction, increase sales, or reduce costs, tracking these metrics will bring clarity to your restaurants’ performance and help you achieve your goals. In practice, however, successfully managing a group of busy restaurants is an awfully tough undertaking. Why Are Metrics Important?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation has launched the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund to support U.S. restaurant employees financially impacted by the coronavirus crisis. Clic here to d onate to the Foundation’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. This fund is designed to help those struggling employees.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The challenges our teams have faced over the last two years specifically has made us value our employees now more than ever. As it relates to the labor crunch, we’re seeing in restaurant brands across the board: An impact in top-line revenue because customers aren't being served. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To counter the challenge, dark kitchens are increasingly pivoting towards a hybrid model with sales channels that go beyond delivery and pick-up. Back-of-house Cloud Kitchen Management Software Optimise your menus and kitchen procedures for delivery, while keeping costs down and quality up. #1 We wouldn’t either.

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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. New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature restaurant community support endeavors, new tech and a little holiday fun. Supporting Independents. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. launched the Ocean Spray Farmers for Chefs Alliance with the goal of helping as many qualifying independent restaurants as possible cover rent, utilities, and payroll costs.

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Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Problems like knowing the what but not the why behind it; non-existent or limited back-of-house visibility; and essential information buried under a mountain of trivia. How do they relate to each other? Some POS-side examples include sales, payment, and footfall reports. Here’s what we’ll cover: What is restaurant reporting?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The National Labor Relations Board will issue its final rule tomorrow, February 26, governing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act. The National Labor Relations Board will issue its final rule tomorrow, February 26, governing joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2020

Replacing error-prone handwritten scribbles and shouts, Ultimate is a digital workflow solution, connecting the front- and back-of-the house directly with diners and creating a transparent view into their order status – whether diners order for pickup or delivery on Grubhub, at an in-store kiosk, or directly with a cashier.

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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. Participating restaurants will donate 15-25 percent of sales to their local food bank and over 1500 restaurants nationwide have already joined the initiative. Takeout For Good.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

We would like to thank Derek Jones and all of the employees at Smart Foodservice for their dedication in building a highly differentiated business in the cash and carry industry, and we know the company will be in great hands with its new owners.” US Foods to Acquire Smart Foodservice. reducing to approximately 3.0x

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature real-time data on consumer behavior and the move to #cutoutcutlery. SpotOn Secures $60M Funding. SpotOn Transact, Inc. secured $60 million in Series C funding.

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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. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding. Ordermark closed its $120M Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2[1] and joined by returning investor Act One Ventures.

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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. Even cost of sales may go down as the ghost kitchen typically has a smaller, more manageable menu. Food Halls – the numbers for current and future growth are substantial.

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EATER

JULY 22, 2021

And that was before the fall and winter surges, which resulted in an exponential rise in virus-related hospitalizations and deaths , followed by new rounds of closures and restrictions. Chef Russell Jackson opened the fine dining restaurant Reverence in Harlem just months before the pandemic began. Chef Russell Jackson was tired.

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