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. Supply Chain Shortages. One of the biggest pain points during and after the pandemic was supply chain. Ease Labor Shortages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 18, 2020

This gave rise to a variety of creative solutions including expansion to curated meal kits and market baskets. Recognizing this shift, Freshii , a fast-casual franchise with hundreds of locations globally, created a corporate partnership that enables companies to offer meal kits and market baskets at a discount to their employees.

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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. We are hearing a lot of positive insights from clients about the labor market. Were you surprised about any findings?

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Foodable

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Fast Casual Nation Podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurants who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. A People-Focused Organization Bringing the “Coolest” Hospitality" on Spreaker.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2022

The supply chain issues that have intermittently plagued other industries have also left restaurants scrambling, with everything from to-go cups to chicken wings going missing, often without warning and sometimes for weeks or months on end. The so-called Great Resignation has also taken a heavy tol l on the food service industry.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

" Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door: 50 American Chefs Chart Today’s Food Culture " by Emmanuel Laroche offers insights from leading chefs and readers will walk away with advice and inspiration from noted chefs, restaurant owners, bartenders, and industry leaders, all of whom have shared their stories in their own words.

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The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

Peer into counter service restaurants, from fast food chains to trendy eateries, which play an active role in the restaurant industry. You place your order at the counter or kiosk, grab a number or buzzer, and typically receive your food at the counter. More casual, relaxed dining atmosphere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2021

According to Upserve’s 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry Report, the industry will collectively lose $240 billion, with casual dining sales volume down by 60 percent and fast casual down 50 percent. There’s no disputing that the past year has been extremely hard on the restaurant industry overall.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Intriguingly, it appears fast casual restaurants have started taking back the customers they lost to quick serve restaurants since the pandemic, with consumers visiting fast casual restaurants more often, up to 24 percent from 21 percent in May. Loyalty programs are most popular for fast food. Fast Casual.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The simplest way to collect customer data in a quick-serve or fast-casual restaurant is to have customers supply it on a sheet of paper at the register. Recommended Reading: How to Boost Customer Retention with Your Restaurant’s Online Marketing Engaging Social Media Accounts ?? It’s that simple, and it’s that hard.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

More than half of restaurant operators said it would be a year or more before businesses conditions return to normal with food, labor, and occupancy costs are expected to remain elevated, and continue to impact restaurant profit margins in 2022, according to the National Restaurant Association's 2022 State of the Restaurant Industry report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2022

Cryptocurrency has real-world applications in the food industry, with restaurants using it to create new and exciting foods for their customers and find ways to use crypto as payments. Application of Blockchain in the Food Industry. Blockchain technology has been applied to the food industry. Camboflare.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 15, 2021

They need to know if your brand is fun and casual, professional and fast-paced, or passionate and customer-service oriented. Take the Time to Understand Your Market. For example, an organic, health food restaurant might do better in urban areas than an up-and-coming sandwich chain. Don’t Just Rely on Word of Mouth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. State of the Plate 2020 – top foods across various cities. Disclaimer: The top foods below have seen the fastest growth on the Grubhub platform during the first half of 2020.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

The partnership aligns Clean Juice’s core values of healthy, clean living with a focus on raising the nutritional and educational value of organic food and beverage choices available to consumers across the nation. There aren’t a lot of products that are transparent about what is in your food.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The modern Kitchen Display System (KDS) will be more interactive to increase operational efficiencies and improve quality of food for the chefs and their teams. However, this sales growth wasn’t a function of selling more food, it was a function of selling the same amount (or less) food at higher costs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. Fatigued by cooking at home, consumers are anxious to dine at their favorite restaurants according to a new Oracle Food and Beverage study.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

According to the National Restaurant Association’s State of the Industry report, 68 percent of customers say they are more likely to purchase takeout or delivery of food than they were before the pandemic. Food and beverage sales in the restaurant and foodservice industry are projected to total $789 billion in 2021, up 19.7

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2022

As Americans reach for a potential post-pandemic world, the restaurant industry continues to reel from two years of economic, staffing and supply chain chaos. Of these, one of the biggest challenges facing independent, franchised and fast-casual restaurants is staffing. Get Creative.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

And three, above all, we see the need for digital marketing automation continuing and growing into 2021 and beyond. The younger generations don’t just want great food, they expect memorable experiences. Companies rushed to market with new digital solutions out of necessity and customers were satisfied with the initial products.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

AUGUST 15, 2023

At the same time, governments are playing an important role with initiatives that complement the development of the HORECA market on the supply side — creating the conditions for investment and labor to be poured into the space. Other times, there are just overlooked gaps in the market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

Since this daypart has increased traffic during the pandemic, operators will need to innovate their food and beverage offerings to grow traffic. "Across “Demand is up and supply is down—and when that happens we see a huge increase in velocity,” said CGA’s client solutions director Matthew Crompton.

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Xtra Chef

MARCH 30, 2020

Think Fast, Act Local. He needed to act, and fast. Hoy shared that the cash flow for his business was up by 25% over his best week operating solely as a cafe, given that as a casual spot, the usual customer check is about $20. Thanks to his customers’ support, he was able to hire back 2 employees. Sharing the Success.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Agustin Kitchen TallBoys Culinary Dropout Union Public House Prep & Pastry Signature Grill with Patio Dining Black Bear Diner Tucson Saguaro Corners Restaurant & Bar Five Points Market & Restaurant Prep & Pastry Nook Snooze, an A.M. Agustin Kitchen. Make a Reservation. Culinary Dropout.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Chris Prociv, VP Marketing & Innovation at La Brea Bakery. They continued to expand their menus to a point where inconsistency became more of the norm from market to market. Growing new markets and adding new franchisees became more important than maintaining the standards that the brand has focused on early on.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 3, 2022

We’ll explore software for inventory management, restaurant payment and billing, food delivery, dashboards, restaurant onboarding, reservation management, and ERP systems. Inventory management is one of the most important, but challenging, aspects of running a food service business. Restaurant Labor Management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In the last year we’ve been able to really focus on growing our off-premise business, and we found that guests enjoy our home-style comfort food in the comfort of their own homes. In fact, the data just came out on November 30) that all marketers (not just restaurants) have been forced to shift their media spend to digital.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2019

Britt Cloud, Goliath’s Consulting Chef, directs back of house operations and works with the current chef/kitchen manager to restructure inventory, food costing, menu, labor, and health policies. Management companies provide restaurants with a franchise like operating system without having a franchise agreement.

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Web Diner

JANUARY 10, 2019

Your restaurant may be employing some of these successful marketing tactics to reach more customers in your local market and increase your sales volume, but have you given any thought to your print marketing strategies? At first blush, it may seem as though digital marketing is where it’s at these days.

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Restaurant Engine

JUNE 11, 2020

“In May, we could see casual dining, same-store sales down still in the 40% to 60% range.” Halen explained that fast-food chains with significant drive-thru businesses like McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Jack in the Box are performing the best. “They’re doing 70% of their sales at the drive-thru.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Many restaurants perceive cloud kitchens as competition, but cloud kitchens will take market share from grocery chains rather than local bistros. In most cases, cloud kitchen companies supply the basic infrastructure required for preparing food and packaging it for delivery with the QSR doing the rest. Less Expensive Kitchens .

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Restaurant customer trends change, food and supply prices fluctuate and new competitors pop up every day. Here’s how to increase restaurant sales with the right blend of incentives and restaurant marketing strategies. in fast casual restaurants in Q3 compared to Q2. Refine your restaurant marketing strategy.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 26, 2021

The violent swings in demand and supply have devastated some businesses (restaurants led the U.S. While many only think “restaurants” when thinking “foodservice,” we look at the entire global food ecosystem of $14.6T. It’s not easy to unlock the share of the global food ecosystem. Food Safety.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

” Fast-Craft Restaurant Concept Set to Have 50 Locations Open by the End of 2022. The brand has been able to create an entirely new category of menu items, transforming the familiar comfort food of chicken and waffles into its photo-worthy and on-the-go staple. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

“The restaurant scene was the natural next step for Meatless Farm following our fast-growth in grocery stores across the globe. “We didn't want to rush to market,” says Executive Chef Venecia Willis. Pomodoro was an ideal partner for our new Meatless Monday initiative, and as the first restaurant in the U.S.

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