Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

To tackle the concerns of customers and employees while focusing on business growth, restaurant owners will need to look to innovation and reimagine how they once operated. Promoting Safety. For workers, many restaurants provided masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment (PPE).

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The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 26, 2023

How Important Is A Commercial Kitchen Design? Where commercial kitchen design is concerned, more is expected and demanded. These kitchens are used more heavily than residential kitchens and their effective design contributes to a restaurant’s success. Consider your employees’ health and safety needs too.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Restaurant inventory management software is a tool that helps digitally track and manage your kitchen inventory. Restaurant technology has seen innovation in the form of smart devices for the commercial kitchen. And a live Kitchen Display System can cut down on the back-and-forth with tickets and keep your line efficient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Restaurants must adopt tech solutions to boost safety, quality, accuracy, transparency, consistency, and compliance – all factors that contribute to brand excellence. When you invest in modern training programs, your employees better understand (and comply with) safety and QA protocols and deliver safer experiences for guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ghost kitchens, you’ve got spirit, but not much soul. 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. Not up for opening your own off-site kitchen?

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 14, 2023

Leadership: The Missing Ingredient The best restaurants are those led by individuals who understand that their role extends beyond the kitchen or the management office. Restaurant Excellence Guideline #14: Equip your team with strategies to handle challenging guests. Restaurant Excellence Guideline #21: Regularly innovate your menu.

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Ken Burgin

JUNE 6, 2023

Health and Safety Compliance: Develop interactive health, safety, and cleanliness standards modules. Compliance Training: Use ChatGPT to design interactive modules covering local health codes, safety regulations, and employment laws to ensure managers are well-versed in their compliance responsibilities.

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

Restaurant owners are using intelligent packaging to keep food warm, hygienic, presentable, and ready to eat from kitchen to customer plate. Cross-contamination at a restaurant refers to the transmission of germs or other hazardous microorganisms from food, equipment, or humans to food. What Makes Intelligent Packaging So Popular.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Innovation is needed in several areas, including: Staff management. Kitchen operations. Food safety and restaurant cleanliness. Kitchen Operations. Diners have always placed a high priority on fast service and food safety, but since the COVID-19 crisis, these factors have garnered even more prominence.

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Sante

JUNE 9, 2020

As the country faces the challenges brought on by COVID-19, two food service industry leaders join forces to revolutionize the dining experience with an innovative sous vide solution. Safety is a key concern for our dining customers and that is what makes the Cuisine Solutions sous vide preparation so compelling.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Think behind-the-scenes kitchen tours or insights into who the people are that work at the restaurant, offering patrons a chance to immerse themselves in the brand. 2024 will be a year of value and beverage innovation. Restaurants will invest in beverage innovation to give consumers choices beyond alcohol and CSDs.

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The Restaurant Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Commercial Kitchen Layout. So restaurant owners need to pay close attention to the design and layout of their kitchens and bars to maximize the efficiency of their service. In this article, we’ll take a look at why commercial kitchen and bar design influence a restaurant’s growth and success. Increased Staff Safety.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

Restaurant’s safety protocols were done “behind the scenes,” and guests most likely didn’t care about the sanitation of high-touch surfaces or whether they were sitting within six feet of other tables. Employees began participating in new tasks, learning more about safety protocols. The Demand for Transparency.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 30, 2020

The restaurant industry had to adapt to changes in consumer behavior during the COVID19 pandemic, testing out operational innovations and relying on technological solutions that allowed for social distancing and ensuring sanitation (1, 2). A growing demand for hands-free, no-touch equipment will result from the COVID-19 pandemic (7).

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Harbor Touch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Restaurants of all sizes embrace software technology to improve the customer experience and streamline operations, from ordering systems to kitchen automation. Innovating online ordering. One of the biggest trends in the industry is innovating online ordering. Introducing kitchen automation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Innovative and inviting outdoor seating is going to be crucial in order for restaurants to survive. Also, innovative and inviting outdoor seating is going to be crucial in order for restaurants to survive. Chipotle recently announced its first digital-only restaurant called the Chipotle Digital Kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Chris Prociv, VP Marketing & Innovation at La Brea Bakery. The bakery, which distributes to grocery stores nationwide, is now built to better accommodate both customer and consumer needs while continuing to put the safety of employees and customers first. Even in the worst of times comes innovation.

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Cheetah

APRIL 10, 2020

You want to make sure you have high-quality staff preparing the food in your restaurant kitchen and serving customers. Let your restaurant kitchen do the cooking for you. Why should your restaurant kitchen stop operating just because you or your chef aren’t there? Food safety. Sound about right? 1-3% cost saving in labor.

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Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Applicants may wonder about the restaurant’s culinary direction, commitment to sustainability, sourcing ingredients, and how innovation is balanced with tradition in the kitchen. What is the kitchen’s work culture like? How are creativity and input from the kitchen staff valued?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

Fresh prepared produce delivers many benefits to foodservice operations from cost and labor savings along with increasing back of house efficiency, food safety, and freshness. For years we have seen increased consistency and food safety by simply purchasing prepared produce. Ghost Kitchen Roll Out.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 11, 2022

And, with innovations in technology, the latest automated restaurant manager logs have now increased their usefulness beyond just handing off the day’s activities to the next manager and keeping above store operators apprised of what’s happening at their locations. Ensure health and safety protocols are met.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 11, 2022

And, with innovations in technology, the latest automated restaurant manager logs have now increased their usefulness beyond just handing off the day’s activities to the next manager and keeping above store operators apprised of what’s happening at their locations. Ensure health and safety protocols are met.

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The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 31, 2020

While the hurdles of 2020 may not end when the clock strikes midnight on December 31 st , the restaurant landscape is better equipped to deal with whatever comes its way. Ghost Kitchens Will Likely be Short-Lived. The past year saw the rise of ghost kitchens as a way to operate with lower overhead and labor costs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 1,400-square foot model without interior seating is also currently in development and will be equipped with a drive-thru and walk-up order window. for the first time, including innovative designs that give a modern touch to the brand’s Southern Brazilian heritage, as well as a standalone butchery.

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Foodable

APRIL 30, 2020

Check out the Restaurant Recovery Resource to keep up to date for the latest innovations and ideas to help your business recover from the crisis. Episode Highlights: The industry must incorporate new spacing concepts to adhere to safety concerns and guidelines. New FOH positions will be created to sanitarily conduct business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is expanding its franchise opportunities to feature another nontraditional franchise model – virtual kitchens and has executed area development agreements to bring more of Dickey’s slow-smoked, Texas-style barbecue to Chicago, Houston and Orlando, as well as make its debut in Providence, Rhode Island.

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The Restaurant Group

JULY 29, 2022

Your layout determines how many customers you can accommodate, how much space you’ll need for kitchen equipment and storage, and how employees will move within your space. It includes physical elements like your dining area, kitchen, storage, bathrooms, and waiting area. What Is a Restaurant Floor Plan Layout?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. With drive-thru equipped buildouts as low as 1,200 sq.

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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. The kitchen staff should have hairnets and gloves at all times. Offer Disposable Menus. Ensure On-Premise Sanitization.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

These tools help connect commercial kitchens to cloud kitchens so that the tools can analyze how much food is wasted every day. When chefs are provided with real-time data, they are able to make necessary improvements and tweak their production processes to decrease food waste and make their kitchens profitable. Quality Control.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

. “Preparing to reopen a restaurant in the face of a changing pandemic can be complex and challenging without the right resources to help guide your planning efforts,” said Jim Osborne, senior vice president of customer strategy and innovation at US Foods. Staying nimble given the fluid environment.

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Front of House Back of House Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 206

The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This can also be used to announce discounts and your latest innovations. It’s essential that the restaurant works on innovative solutions for creating a strong customer experience. . Food Safety Issues. Food safety is a very critical concept for any restaurant. Not Creating A Strong Customer Experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 12, 2021

Automation and innovation are too often viewed in the context of replacing restaurant workers, but real value lies in their ability to retain staff and reduce turnover (which hovers between 130 percent and 150 percent) by enabling manageable workloads and allowing workers to focus more on the guest experience. AI Voice Automation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

Diners’ main concerns about visiting restaurants again include cleanliness and safety. Health and safety when dining out – What matters most? 62 percent of respondents answered that frequent sanitization of all surfaces would be their most important safety initiative. Cloud Kitchen Market.

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Goliath Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Once the lockdown restrictions were lifted, many people were still concerned about their health and safety when dining at restaurants. The company focuses on online ordering, and it also works with many restaurants, bars, food halls, ghost kitchens, and other food and beverage restaurant and venues. Physical menus.

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Hot Schedules

JANUARY 29, 2020

Accurate allergen information is critical to guarantee your guests’ safety. Your chefs can then focus their energy on creating innovative and delicious dishes. It can also be tough on your staff if they aren’t equipped with the right information in real-time. Equip Guests with the Info They Need. Ensure Accuracy.

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