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28 Strategies to Cut Costs in the Restaurant Business

Lavu

By regularly monitoring and managing costs associated with having employees, restaurant owners and managers can make informed decisions about staffing levels, pricing, and overall operations to ensure the business runs efficiently and profitably. Be transparent and reward employees. However, this cost cutting tip is crucial.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Even with these enhancements in service quality, consumers still value having a real employee on the other end providing services. Also, keeping employees in a high-turnover business continues to be difficult, with QSRs requiring competitive wages and benefits to secure employees.

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For Restaurants in 2025, Change Is the Only Constant

EATER

But normalcy is increasingly a fragile concept, and in recent years, the cascade of disasters related to climate and environmental change has become its own ongoing crisis. How many of those restaurants pivoted to takeout or created outdoor seating? How many furloughed their staff while serving cocktails through a to-go window?

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Some Fresh Air Is Necessary to Jumpstart Restaurants Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

Allowing restaurants to utilize outdoor parking space is a way for municipalities to offer additional relief to local restaurants and help consumers feel safe and more comfortable when dining out. Therefore, maximizing the ability to utilize outdoor space to increase seating capacity will be critical for restaurants during this period.

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A Looming Menace for Restaurants: Winter Is Coming

EATER

But what was for some an opportunity to celebrate the early arrival of changing leaves and everything plaid was a harbinger of bad times to come for restaurateurs now reliant on outdoor seating and the warm weather that allows it to survive. That’s when the money dries up.”

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Coronavirus and Restaurants: A Year In Review

7 Shifts

Outdoor dining, warm weather, and a decline in virus cases helped the industry. Breweries and Taprooms were close to pre-pandemic levels by the end of summer—dude to to-go cans and outdoor seating. Some had to get creative with their outdoor seating and greenhouses, yurts, and igloos became the way to dine out.

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A Rare Opportunity

Modern Restaurant Management

However in the wake of the Coronavirus-related closures throughout the nation, we have recently sold products to restaurants in Colorado, Washington, DC, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. We ask that those "seated" at the table give a $50 dollar minimum donation.