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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Even before the pandemic, there was a growing trend for the food distribution system to move from global to local. Here are 10 tips for promoting sustainability in the food industry. This means embracing sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste management. Now, we see that drive accelerating.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Tech’s impact on tipping: 56 percent of all respondents would reportedly not tip an AI system, while 22 percent would either tip or at least consider tipping, depending on the service. 65 percent of survey respondents say they are more interested in food festivals/culinary events this summer.

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What to Include in Your Restaurant Employee Handbook

7 Shifts

Having all your best practices documented in one place will reduce errors, speed up training, and give everyone a source of truth—allowing you to put your trust in your employees’ hands and let them do the job they were hired to do. First, you need to include their pay and how they will be paid, as well as your overtime and tips policies.

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The 5 Things Food Vendors Don't Want You to Know

Embrace the Suck

Most have to stock those hard to get items that you seem to have a hard time sourcing. Another thing you have to understand that the foodservice distribution world keeps secret is that a “slot” in the warehouse is gold to them. In foodservice distribution, they call them deviations. Try it a see for yourself.

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MRM Research Roundup: Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day 2024 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Other highlights include: Check Size Up, Tips Down: Guests are willing to treat themselves to menu items like steaks, caviar, truffles and tasting menus, resulting in an average 14 percent increase in their bill. However, when it comes to tipping, it seems Cupid missed the memo, and there's a 1.5 percent dip in overall gratuities.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences. It makes everything easier.

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part One

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Restaurateurs may very well look to expand beyond the typical pop up, food truck, festival or off-premises event to more interesting, intimate venues like social influencer kitchens, dining rooms and gardens. – Neal Cohen, CMO / Co-Founder of Tip Top Proper Cocktails. ” We’ll see an increased focus on music (e.g.,

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