Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

“Through expansive experiences that inspire our guests paired with the ambiance of the space and the food on the plate, we’re setting new standards for the industry and creating truly spectacular moments for all who enter our restaurants and bars.” That’s where the NEXT Flavor Report comes in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 16, 2025

Tableside caviar service A prosciutto cart An authentic kaiseki tasting experience and members-only Japanese whiskey lounge Tableside s’mores These are just a few examples of ways restaurants across the country are hoping to attract guest by elevating the dining experience and creating a vibe highlighted by superior food and presentation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2025

People are looking for authenticity and transparency, so highlighting where your ingredients come from or how food is made can go a long way. Guests also want an experience, not just a meal, so messages that promote unique dining events, themed nights, or a fun atmosphere can create excitement.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2025

There’s a visual nature to the food and beverage industry. The rise of short-form video makes it even easier to share enticing, impactful clips of specials, cocktails, and ambiance. You can tailor your content to local events and interests, ensuring that your messaging is reaching the right people. Why Does Video Work?

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The holiday season is a huge calendar event in the restaurant industry, with bookings booming as guests look to let their hair down and enjoy a festive feast. As well as ensuring your customers are provided with a great customer experience and delicious food, accommodating for the busy period will ensure your workforce remains happy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2025

" Fink suggests promoting family-friendly experiences, such as special “family night out” events, while high-end restaurants should position themselves as an escape from daily responsibilities, offering luxurious and relaxing experiences tailored to busy parents and professionals looking for a refined dining atmosphere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2021

With today’s food trends moving toward the direction of fresh, healthy, local, and sustainable, the term “plant-based” continues to enter the conversation on every playing field.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Food waste is recognized as an endemic challenge around the world. According to Feeding America , nearly 40 percent of all food in the U.S. Historic heat waves, droughts, fires, floods and other weather events are decimating crops. restaurants lose $162 billion annually in food waste costs.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nowadays, running a successful restaurant takes more than great food and good service. Collaborate with nearby businesses for events or promotions, and ask them to include a link to your website on their site. Make sure to add high-quality photos of your food, interior, and staff. It's an active marketing tool.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 9, 2025

From elevated comfort food to trending global flavors, operators are using Philly in inventive ways that bring signature flavor and premium texture to the menu. Way #5 CREAMY QUESADILLA WITH PHILLY Mexican food is leading the charge in foodservice growth, with the highest increase in servings vs. last year. Or even on a pizza!

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2025

Hart joins food-and-games investment company Emerging The Chicago-based company is behind Puttshack, F1 Arcade, Flight Club and the upcoming Poolhouse. The growth capital firm behind the food-and-games brands Puttshack, F1 Arcade and Flight Club has added more restaurant industry firepower to its leadership team. Photo: Shutterstock.

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The Rail

JUNE 23, 2025

With the restaurant scene alive and well, there’s never been a better time for aspiring restaurant owners to launch a new brand — especially for those who wish to open their very first food truck. Crafting a menu can seem simple enough, especially if you already have some ideas — getting it perfect, however, can be another thing entirely.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Food manufacturers and retailers are embracing a whole new world of opportunities for consumer engagement that are enabled by this newer technology. In foodservice establishments, the same technology opens doors to greater food safety and ingredient transparency.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

After all, it’s not just the quality of your food that can keep customers coming back — 73% of diners base their satisfaction on the quality of service they receive. How do you prepare your team for special events or holiday rushes? How do you ensure compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations?

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Are you doing all the right thingsserving amazing food, delivering top-notch service, crafting perfectly balanced drinksbut the tables still arent filling up like they should? The problem isnt your food or serviceits visibility and customer engagementand were going to help you fix that. Upload high-quality photos.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 29, 2025

By scanning this type of QR code, customers can opt-in to receive upcoming event details, promotional drops, happy hours and more–and should they choose an event of interest, they can even add it to their own personal calendars, ensuring they never miss out on the fun.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When a restaurant participates in local events or partners with local businesses, it becomes part of the neighborhood’s fabric. Whether through supporting local charities or participating in food drives, local restaurants can become go-to places for customers who want to support their community.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This "Super" special edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup has a Super Bowl theme. As such, Restaurants may choose to focus on pre-orders and takeout specials to capture sales early! percent from a national food chain. The steepest decline happened between 6-9 p.m.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. With real-time data into consumer behavior data, the solution offers immediate, location-specific food and beverage insights into an industry that is changing faster than ever before. ” Tastewise Data. social interactions, and 1.2M online recipes.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Have you noticed how food delivery apps are becoming essential in attracting and retaining diners? In this article, we’ll show you exactly how to create a food delivery app tailored to your restaurant’s needs, while staying competitive in a booming industry. The global online food delivery market size was valued at USD 221.65

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Let’s take the guesswork out of starting your food business and set your establishment up for success. Do you want to find out which food items your customers love the most? Will you track customer satisfaction scores, sales of specific food items, or the number of repeat customers? Start by deciding what you need to know.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. Start by tracking all the income your bar generates, including sales from drinks, food, and any additional services. On the other hand, for lower-cost items like beer, you can bundle or offer happy hour specials to drive more volume and profit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As a restaurant, you’ve got the opportunity to feed into that joyful excitement with special events for the season, so grab the chance before the winter holidays takeover! Serve Special (Spooky) Food and Drinks. Half the fun of Halloween is dressing up in something special. Incentivize.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 25, 2025

Every industry comes with its own unique set of challenges when it comes to insurance, and the food industry is no exception. Getting to know your agent and the areas they specialize in is an important part of protecting your business. What Carriers Do You Represent that Specialize in the Food-Service Industry?

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Every restaurant and food related business is crying the same blues: “Where are the great employees?” You can aspire to be whatever you want to be in the food business – it just takes a few key decisions on your part. There truly has never been a better time to be engaged in the business of food, than right now.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 2, 2025

Investors are leery about fast-food chains and they’re jumping onto a few key casual-dining bandwagons. Premium Financing Restaurant stocks have been all over the place this year The Bottom Line: Wall Street is slowly dipping its toe back into restaurant industry stocks.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2025

The chain has kept its menu prices lower than inflation, and it has invested in other limited-time specials, such as its popular Never-Ending Pasta Bowl, in an effort to appeal to price-conscious consumers. Consumers want to go out and spend their hard-earned money, and we think we’re taking some wallet share from fast food and fast casual.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2021

People have more choices at their disposal, not only about the food but also the ambiance and end-to-end dining experience. It used to be that restaurateurs could compete on the quality of their food, but with consumers having been deprived for so long, focusing on food alone would be a mistake. Next, ask for their anniversary.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

The event celebrates another year of connecting hungry guests with discounted meals at restaurants all over the country, and 2022 is shaping up to be a different experience than in years past. Restaurants continue to face labor and supply chain issues, plus rising food costs. But don’t stop there.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2023

Offer gift card promotions to customers who purchase a certain amount of food or drink duringthe Super Bowl. 5 Use social media and email marketing to promote Super Bowl specials and gift card promotions to attract customers. Optimize Your Menu Amid fluctuating food costs, now is the time for restaurant owners to address menu bloat.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A well-timed email with a special offer, new menu item, or exclusive promotion can be the nudge they need to place another order. Boosts Repeat Business: Special promotions, loyalty rewards, and exclusive deals encourage guests to return. Promotions and Discounts Special offers drive customer action. can go a long way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

is the second-largest online food delivery market​ and generated an estimated $218B in revenue in 2022. In addition, restaurants should practice good record-keeping in the event that they need to present a card issuer with evidence that a transaction was legitimate. And experts predict the market will increase close to $500B by 2027.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Sally Davis said unique events like Galentine’s are great for boosting traffic, enhancing their overall brand and attracting new customers. And even if they aren't able to make it that day, it's a share-worthy event which helps to broaden our reach.” ” What Shes Having Cocktail. Russell and Sally Davis.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 2, 2025

The new menu format makes it easier for customers to pair drinks and food. Another change tested in Michigan was collapsing the beverage and food menu back into one after previously offering separate menus for food and drink. Investors are leery about fast-food chains and they’re jumping onto a few key casual-dining bandwagons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2025

Originally known as Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School, the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) has played a pivotal role in shaping the food landscape for 50 years growing from just five students in the first year to now more than 19,000 graduates.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 27, 2025

Restaurant Partners Making a Difference in the LA Fire Relief Efforts The ChowNow restaurant partners on this list have demonstrated the unbelievable power of food to bring people together and provide comfort in times of need, transforming their restaurants into hubs of community care and relief.

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