Lavu

MAY 23, 2025

With the growing demand for fresh, made-to-order meals and local favorites, starting a deli can be a smart and rewarding business move. If you want to learn how to open a deli, follow these key steps to establish your brand and get the tools you need to serve customers great food and experiences. Youre not alone.

2025

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Then costs go in order from most controllable to least controllable. That could simply be food sales , alcohol , and non-alcoholic beverages. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Your Cost of Goods Sold is the cost of your food and beverages. That way you'll have accurate food and beverage cost percentages for each COGS line item.

License

Open for Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A well-structured management training program equips new leaders with essential skills while promoting ongoing development. Inventory control Understand how to keep track of your inventory, place orders efficiently, and minimize waste. Health and safety Go over food safety regulations and proper handling procedures.

Training

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Today, driving positive customer feedback via online channels is now equally as important as having a great location. No matter how much technology evolves, or trends shift, people will always come back for quality food, great value, and friendly service. These core elements never go out of style.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Managing food allergens isnt just a best practiceits a legal and safety necessity for todays restaurants. With increasing awareness of food allergies, allergen management in POS systems has become essential to ensure customer safety and streamline kitchen operations.

Allergens

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

Other bars and restaurants tout the benefits of increased safety and cleanliness (more on that below). By eliminating the need to count, store, and deposit cash, restaurants can free up staff time to focus on serving customers and preparing food. The Melt even went a step further, debuting with online, mobile, and QR-code ordering.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Yelp analyzes the millions of reviews on its platform, along with nominations from its community of users, to generate a diverse list of local eateries, from food trucks to fine dining. This edition ranks the top fraud challenges faced by global food delivery and ride-hailing companies in 2024.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

As 60 percent of American consumers order takeout or delivery at least once a week, and online ordering is growing 300 percent faster than in-house dining, many smart operators have pivoted, using ghost kitchens to adapt to these new trends. Your digital solutions should enable continuous learning and enhance safety and quality.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. Although mobile ordering isn’t the new kid on the block, it has certainly become the most popular because it’s one of the safest – and easiest – ways to order and pay for food. Dining/fast food/take out.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2021

Adopting in-house technologies became necessary for restaurants to stay open throughout the pandemic, restart operations after temporary closures, and pivot services to maintain revenue while still following enhanced health and safety protocols. Too Much Tech Is Not a Solution. As such, an industry migration is underway.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Expert food preparation results in appealing and delicious dishes, employee training reduces errors that can increase wait times and proper warewashing keeps plates, glasses and utensils spotless. Thankfully, technology is pushing the industry forward, and improving everything from reservations to ordering to dishwashing.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 30, 2021

Thousands upon thousands of restaurants were forced to close for safety reasons, some permanently. Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Highlight Your Safety and Hygiene Protocols.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As these restaurants (and others) have discovered, technology has become instrumental in improving their safety and quality programs, increasing compliance, keeping up with ever-changing regulations, improving the customer experience, and differentiating themselves from the competition. Increase quality and safety across the supply chain.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a new trend in the food service industry has risen in popularity—ghost kitchens. These restaurants, which exclusively deliver food, typically use online ordering and a cashless transaction system that allows for little physical interaction between the customer and facilitator.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store. Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. Processing is free on all on-demand delivery orders through July 8, 2020—up to $50,000 in sales.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 12, 2020

Food costs are one of the highest costs for restaurants, ranging anywhere from 20 percent to 40 percent , according to point of sale system provider TouchBistro. Restaurant operators should take time to analyze their menu and determine where ingredients can be used across multiple dishes to better manage food costs. Revamping the Menu.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Consumers visit a fast food or quick serve restaurant (QSR) with a goal in mind: secure a tasty meal incredibly quickly. Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Who makes the magic happen? Cashiers, cooks, and other QSR crew members.

Food

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The Restaurant Reopening Blueprint is informed by interviews with key stakeholders such as diners, restaurant staff and US Foods consultants and chefs. Click here to view the application and instructions.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The concept goes far beyond a simple online menu or QR code. Every dine-in experience starts with a menu, so having yours available online is the first step to going contactless. However, restaurants have discovered that not all online menus are made the same. Every restaurant should look into hosting its own online ordering.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Here is a set of suggested practices for companies and drivers to help minimize the adverse effects of this pandemic especially for restaurants who are now delivering orders since dine in opportunities have been restricted. Check with your agent to ensure any contract food delivery service has liability coverage that includes your company.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Chatbots are everything from online simulations to Alexa, assistants who in this case are designed to help connect restaurants with customers around the clock. A common complaint among 66 percent of guests is inconsistent temperatures in their food. Sometimes that means that food comes out too hot when another order comes out too cold.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2020

Now that states are beginning to loosen their lockdown restrictions and reopen small businesses like restaurants, it’s fair to wonder how drastically the dine-in experience will have to change to accommodate the new safety requirements. How does that work with the new safety requirements? It may seem like a difficult balance.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. You can save up on ingredients by discontinuing the more niche dishes that rarely get ordered. Offer Disposable Menus.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. online recipes.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. Voice Ordering. But this technology has even more applications than just ordering on guests' personal devices.

Food Order

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. Restaurants should have a robust marketing strategy and strong online presence to attract new customers these days.

Mobile Ordering

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.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2020

There are four touch-free methods restaurants can deploy now to ensure they are reopening in a way that promotes health and safety for their staff and guests as they work together to slow the spread of the coronavirus. This can be done by making interactive menus available online or in an app. Contactless Ordering.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As such, restaurants are investing in training and development programs to upskill their workforce, ensuring team members are equipped to handle the latest tools and technologies. These technologies not only help to reduce waste with precise supply chain and inventory tracking but also guarantee food freshness and authenticity.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

COVID-19 has transformed the restaurant and hospitality industry, which means that restaurants need a new approach to promoting and marketing their business to health and safety-conscious diners. Social media is an incredibly powerful tool—especially for such a universally loved (and needed) category like food and drink.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. To receive funds, the applicants must complete their grant requests online. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. military base, or any U.S.

Employee Relations

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

According to Morgan Stanley estimates, online delivery is set to grow from $260 billion in 2017 to $325 billion in 2020 – and possibly $470 billion by 2025. And be sure to include napkins with every order to promote good hygiene. Eating out, or taking out, is never just about the food. Deliver a Great Experience.

Coupons

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2020

This need to rapidly adjust how we deliver services has accelerated the pace of digital transformation across industries, including food service. Now, your online ordering app or website is the modern equivalent of a server taking the order, delivering the food and processing the payment. Invest in Your IT.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. Restaurant insurance can provide your business with a safety net when it comes to claims and risk. Tools and equipment protection. Equipment Coverage (also known as Inland Marine). Advertising protection.

Insurance