Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The food your restaurant serves should taste good, look appealing, and be safe! Each year, food safety breaches sicken 48 million people in the United States and, of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. All employees must work diligently to protect your food, customers, and brand. Prioritize training.

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Sourcing Equipment. Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? This includes but is not limited to your equipment, permits, menu, and marketing. These elements include the following: Number of guests you expect to serve in a day. Conduct a Feasibility Study. Obtain Funding. Write a Coffee Shop Business Plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

Leveraging a physical-digital-physical framework ensures that restaurant management is maximizing their digital assets, human labor, and capital equipment investments. Many restaurant managers have already moved to digital food safety programs that give them visibility into the state of their assets across multiple locations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Food and Beverage Inventory and Paper Supplies. Similar to your payroll expenses, your food and beverage expenses are going to vary depending on the type of restaurant you run. In general, overhead expenses related to food and beverages should be between 35 and 40 percent of your total revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As the winter months quickly approach, restaurants must prepare to continue serving their customers while navigating weather and health and safety challenges. Ongoing inflation, higher interest rates, escalating food prices, and a tight labor market across industries add to the uncertainty.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 29, 2021

Set your alarms and make sure you're ready, as it's expected that the demand will outweigh the supply of funds. Any establishment that serves food or beverages to guests is eligible. Food trucks, carts, or stands. Personal protective equipment (PPE) and cleaning supplies. Food and beverage inventory.

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Cheetah

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The company is also dealing with shutdowns and fines due to lack of permits, food supply disruptions , and the enduring labor crisis. Some utilize commissary kitchens serving numerous restaurants, while others bring mobile trailers or container kitchens to parking lots. There are various operational models for ghost kitchens.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Businesses in the food service industry are primarily adopting these advanced POS systems to streamline the communication between waitstaff and kitchen staff, inventory tracking, and improving team management. These systems are also being used as they support future restaurant technologies like self-serving kiosks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

” As part of the campaign launch, the JBF and the Global Food Institute at the George Washington University are releasing a new in-depth report that illustrates the impact climate change is having on independent restaurants and the farmers who supply them.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 3, 2024

Recent surveys confirm the importance of cleaning and sanitizing in food industry establishments for building customer confidence and in influencing diner choice. City and state health departments monitor local restaurants to ensure they’re following food safety management program guidelines. An estimated 3,000 people in the U.S.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 11, 2020

Furniture & Equipment Restaurant equipment can set you back between $100,000 and $300,000. You’ll also need to pay for supplies. Starting food inventory Stocking up on pantry staples and your beginning inventory of perishable foods will set you back at least $1,000. How does this break down, roughly?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2023

Full-service restaurants, for instance, are particularly subject to the effects of inflation—as consumers appear to shift some spending to limited-service establishments and QSRs to save food costs. This migration could be a goldmine for casual/fast food brands if only they had the people to support them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Most notably, persistent hiring challenges, rising costs, and uncertain supply chains have made profitability more precarious. Restaurant managers will need to identify and implement training solutions that accelerate onboarding and equip new employees to positively impact the bottom line as quickly as possible. trillion each year.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

Everything will change for the better if we (the food industry and the culinary schools that provide the talent) change as a collective group. When enrollment declines then colleges must make decisions to trim services, increase class sizes, eliminate content, reduce investment in supplies, or shut their doors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment. The key lesson both establishments teach?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 21, 2021

Restaurant employees need access to cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE). Having PPE like disposable gloves onsite is also critical for foodservice workers that interact with food and many people each day. Laundering your own mats is time consuming and places a strain on your equipment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 15, 2022

Supply Chain Benefits. Restaurants are beginning to use this tool to account for the many steps that come before serving up a steamy plate of pasta or beefy burger. Visibility in all aspects of the supply chain is important for restaurants, especially since food is a sensitive product to handle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2023

There has been an avalanche of commentary and analysis on how automation and AI have collectively helped restaurants cope with now all-too-familiar challenges: labor, supply, inflation. Traditionally, technology also equips humans (and businesses) with tools that they can use to thrive. In restaurants across the U.S.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The turmoil caused by the pandemic has disrupted global supply chains more than any other period in recent history. It has highlighted the critical importance of evolving supply chain systems to be more responsive and agile to the changing dynamics around us – which the past two years have been extensive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Inflation, scarcity in the supply chain, and labor constraints have tacked on dollars. Before we begin, we need to realize that the guacamole product served to customers is not solely factored on the price of the ingredients, but you’ll find the sneaky costs in labor, waste, food safety, and shipping. Food Safety.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Next year will bring new competitors to restaurants such as fresh food vending and more fresh grocery meal options available for delivery. Disrupted supply chains will continue to plague the food business in 2021, and end-to-end supply chain visibility will be essential to meet challenges created by shortages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 8, 2023

B – Bulk Up on Your Supplies If you’re planning on putting in a bulk order for food and supplies in the coming weeks, you might want to consider your timeline. With this influx of orders coming and shipments that need to be made, understand that the supply chain will be strained during this time of year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Fewer employees have carried the burden of prepping, cooking, and serving food while working to keep guests safe. The CDC estimates that, each year, 48 million ( one in six ) Americans get sick from contaminated food or beverages, a problem that costs more than $15.6 Ensure safety all along the supply chain.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January of 2011 and expanded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. This last initiative is perhaps the most urgent for food businesses and requires immediate attention.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Technology will be vital in the months – and years – ahead as the pandemic continues to change the conversation about food safety. Restaurants now must prioritize the overall safety of the restaurant environment, in addition to addressing food safety itself. Deploying RFID for Supply Chain Traceability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2023

Other supply chain related events, which spanned from restaurant equipment (creating issues for restaurant development and timing) to the Avian flu/eggflation issues, also negatively impacted the industry. Growth won’t be as fast as one would have hoped, and supply chain continues to be a challenge.

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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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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 23, 2022

The catering industry includes companies that provide individual event-based food services. There can be companies that cater to larger groups, or if you are starting out, you can start small for a party of 20 or 50 people depending on the experience, equipment, and capital you have. What type of food will you serve?

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Culinary Digital

JANUARY 16, 2024

With fewer menu choices, there’s a decreased need to coordinate with numerous suppliers, streamlining the supply chain and making it more efficient. Additionally, this focused ingredient inventory significantly diminishes the risk of food spoilage due to the swift use of the ingredients, maintaining freshness, and reducing waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Globally, aquaculture supplies more than 50 percent of all seafood produced for human consumption—and that percentage will continue to rise, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Sustainable Food Sourcing Is Worth the Effort. Sourcing seafood sustainably takes a bit more work but is worth it.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 24, 2022

The Specialty Coffee Business Sentiment Survey aims to collect research on how roasters, traders, producers, coffee shop owners, and equipment manufacturers perceive their individual business prospects and the challenges they may be facing. Costa Coffee to roll-out more than 1,100 new Express self-serve machines in the UK. Tue, 21 Jun.

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 14, 2023

It begins with a pinch of complacency, a dash of poor decision-making, and a generous serving of ineffective communication. Restaurant Excellence Guideline #14: Equip your team with strategies to handle challenging guests. Restaurant Excellence Guideline #37: Emphasize food safety and hygiene.

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Perfect Daily Grind

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Strong competition from larger, well-established roasters – who often have better access to more equipment and resources – can make it difficult to establish new working wholesale relationships. These are often coffee shops and other businesses which serve coffee beverages. What food do they serve?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AI-based robots cook your food and deliver meals on time without missing a beat. Local health lockdowns and limitations caused havoc for food supply chains, staffing, customer demand, and remote ordering. Many restaurants were ill-prepared to compete with food delivery services like GrubHub and DoorDash.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

That's one of takeaways in You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company by Maisie Ganzler, chief strategy and brand officer of Bon Appétit Management Company. I figured if I was curious, readers would be too.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

. “It is an extremely challenging time for the restaurant industry as restaurateurs grapple with the difficulty of operating within an uncertain post-pandemic sales environment while simultaneously combating historic levels of food inflation, labor shortages and ongoing supply-chain issues. Inflation is currently at 9.1

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Commercial kitchens with sophisticated layouts, containing all of the restaurant equipment that chefs want in the exact location that they require it, are critical to a restaurant’s success. A restaurant kitchen’s design and layout should allow food to flow smoothly from the prep area to the line.

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