Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2025

Every day, businesses face fresh challenges that highlight the urgency of building resilient supply chains. It is no surprise that diversification has become the central theme of supply chain strategy. Businesses must evaluate costs, supplier availability, and their ability to manage more complex systems while adhering to regulations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2020

This new trend is not only how restaurants are preparing food, but also their entire logistical supply chain. Dark kitchens streamline the culinary process by creating more space for back-of-house equipment, eliminates distractions and creates a substantially higher food meal output, including 24-hour food preparation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 16, 2025

” “The volatile policy environment and the supply-chain effect is causing the entire food-away-from-home ecosystem to determine the impact on their financials. .” " What can restaurant operators do to take proactive steps to mitigate potential future shocks to their supply chains and costs?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. The biggest learning from COVID is that food businesses must be prepared for any crisis – and ensure their suppliers all along the supply chain are also prepared and resilient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How do factors like suppliers, but also kitchen layout, equipment design, and workflow patterns impact contamination risk? This invisible spread is particularly dangerous during peak service periods when multiple team members are sharing prep stations and equipment or cleaning protocols are rushed under pressure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In 2025 and beyond, restaurant executives should be on the lookout for increasing point-of-sale (POS) systems attacks, AI-powered social engineering tactics, and greater supply chain cyber vulnerabilities. But this isn’t the only way hackers can take advantage of the supply chain to target restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 23, 2025

The restaurant industry is fast-paced and demanding, with constant pressures to deliver excellent service while managing operations smoothly. Balancing staff needs, customer expectations, and resource constraints can quickly overwhelm staff and management alike.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2025

If your restaurant or suppliers are involved in a recall, there’s a lot to manage. Many restaurants still rely on manual or disjointed systems, which makes recall management slow, error-prone, and ineffective. The Benefits of Automation The benefits of automation for recall management cannot be overstated, as it improves: Speed.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Your staff, especially your restaurant manager, plays a crucial role in the overall dining experience. We’ve prepared a list of restaurant manager interview questions that can help you find the right person to lead your team and help grow your business. How do you manage the restaurant’s budget and control costs?

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 8, 2025

While cleanliness shapes a cafe’s reputation from a customer’s perspective, the unseen practices behind the bar have far broader implications for equipment longevity , coffee quality, and customer and staff health. You may also like our article on why equipment longevity needs to be a priority for coffee shops.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, leveraging IoT is revolutionizing the sector by optimizing supply chain management, enhancing the customer experience, and facilitating data-driven decision-making. Connected sensors and devices allow real-time tracking and monitoring of food products throughout the supply chain. Leverage smart equipment and sensors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

While the restaurant sector shut down during the pandemic, food supply chain technologists were working hard to open new avenues to improve automated processes for restaurants. As restaurants reopened to increased costs and staff shortages, automation has become less a future goal than an urgent need.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

What if I told you that you could solve a variety of your problems by improving your supply chain transparency? Supply chain transparency can provide vital information about suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. Doing so helps these brands: Reduce risk across the entire supply chain.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 11, 2022

Accurate inventory management is crucial to running a successful business because it directly impacts a company’s bottom line and is key to maximizing profits. “Everything in our supply chain is based on GS1 Standards. “Everything in our supply chain is based on GS1 Standards. It was a painstaking effort.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2024

There are a number of proven strategies for being proactive about possible supply chain shortages including menu optimization, building partnerships and LTO maximization. Creating a limited time offer that utilizes ingredients that are already in the kitchen to maximize sales without adding other ingredients to your supply.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Rather than making QSR forecasting a guessing game that involves massive amounts of work and risk, leveraging more granular and predictive technologies will unlock insights that allow for better decision making across inventory management, staffing and marketing campaigns. Understanding What Drives Demand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 24, 2023

AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand. For instance, AI can help drive the following benefits: Improving transparency throughout the supply chain.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2021

Waste management is one of the challenges affecting the restaurant industry. But costs aren't the only problem here; more waste means more hauling fees, landfill fees, increased equipment costs, and more. If you want to reduce waste production, plan your waste management and increase profits, you should start by mapping your goals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2020

" If an individual coughs or sneezes into their hand and accidentally touches the ice supply, they can effectively transport that disease to a customer's drink. Disinfect and Sanitize Your Kitchen Equipment – Including your Ice Machine. Cleaning the Exterior of Your Equipment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Restaurants have faced labor shortages, supply and equipment shortages, and climbing food prices, with no past playbook on how to navigate the crisis. In fact, according to the National Restaurant Association, 95% of operators said their restaurant has experienced supply chain delays or shortages in recent months.

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The Rail

MARCH 31, 2025

By Jose Chavez, Contributor Managing multiple locations is tough in the restaurant business. Restaurant businesses need to adopt technology that enables collaboration among remote teams and simplifies management if they want to succeed. Successful management and onboarding of new staff with the company vision depends on this.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2025

Practically overnight, we shifted from a scoop shop model to a full-fledged CPG business, navigating supply chain disruptions, evolving consumer demand, and the operational realities of large-scale manufacturing. Space or equipment constraints that prevent further growth in the current setup.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Controlling a restaurant kitchen’s inventory is a key to proper restaurant management and can help avoid wasting food and space. Food waste and inefficiency are two of the biggest obstacles that could be keeping you from succeeding, and how you manage your inventory plays a critical role in avoiding them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We’re in an unusual time when troubled supply chains are suddenly top of mind for the average American: supply chain woes have become fodder for late-night television hosts, and countless headlines warn us that we should’ve started our holiday shopping yesterday. New Digital and Automated Strategies Can Help.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a time where restaurants are challenged by rising costs and labor constraints, the rise in severe weather adds another challenge that owners and managers must plan and solve for to protect people and assets. Keeping one of these devices in the manager’s office ensures easy access to accurate information for timely decision making.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2024

Leading this charge are process management applications that integrate with sensors, essentially revolutionizing how catering compliance and food safety are approached within restaurants. A reactive response to catering compliance due to such will no longer do.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 9, 2025

Strong business credit gives you access to better financing options precisely when you need them—to manage those purchases or maintain cash flow during seasonal fluctuations. A strong business credit profile could mean the difference between manageable financing costs and interest payments that drain profits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Since the labor shortage across the supply chain is likely to persist past the short-term and with other costs also increasing, one of the few ways restaurants can maintain their margins without raising their prices is to find ingredients that have better yields and require less labor to prepare. So how do we get there as an industry?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And to survive this crisis (and any future crises), restaurants need to effectively manage the ongoing risks to protect their brand reputation and avoid costly liabilities. Use Tech Tools to Quickly Diversify Your Supply Base. You can update any policy or operational change instantly, making everything clear and more efficient.

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The Rail

JUNE 11, 2025

Whether you’re moving into the next town or setting up a shop across the country, managing a multi-location restaurant requires planning, patience, and a whole lot of practical know-how. Include key milestones like finalizing the lease, completing renovations, hiring staff, ordering equipment, and doing test runs of your menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

You’re also hostage to other rising costs and supply chain delays, and want to deliver the experiences your diners expect, now and into 2022. The technology empowers operators to make direct, digital connections with their equipment (e.g., Maintaining Equipment. freezers, food warmers, fryers, etc.).

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 25, 2025

While many assert that this signifies a long overdue change, as coffee has historically been an undervalued commodity, price volatility affects all levels of the supply chain in various ways. Many are facing the difficult decision to raise their retail prices , seeking new ways to streamline operations and manage cash flow more effectively.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Innovative tech tools, like AI, can improve forecasting, inventory management, scheduling, customer service, marketing, and many other essential business tasks. Elevate quality management programs. An effective quality management program can help restaurants dramatically improve their safety, quality, performance, and compliance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2020

Set up your livestream with the equipment and virtual event platform of your choice. Your restaurant already has a crew of experts: chefs, bartenders, event managers, and more. If you already have the right audio and video equipment for broadcasting livestream events, you’re ready to go. Classes and Tastings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2024

How AI Use Drives Demand and Why it Matters Overall, rising demand could mean a significant impact on energy prices, due to several key factors at play: Market dynamics: As demand rises and the supply-demand balance tightens, market volatility and scarcity pricing are more likely. Implement changes aligned with your strategy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

Restaurant management and operations personnel are always on the search for proactive ways to increase operational efficiency and reduce waste while complying with local regulations. For risk mitigation and asset protection, it is impossible to manage what you cannot inspect. Automating Workflow Management.

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