Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Additionally, as a result of the ongoing labor shortage, we anticipate more automated chatbots to support on-site team members and help streamline their work as well as operators looking for locations with smaller dine-in square footage in favor of adding more drive-thru lanes. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

This program, piloted last year, is designed to help KFC team members build short-term savings and create lasting savings behaviors. “This program is a way to empower and equip restaurant employees with tools and resources to help them succeed and achieve their goals. To be able to offer these types of resources means a lot.

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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. million over the next five years to build and sustain the program.

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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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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Kitchen management software comes in all shapes and sizes. Here are some eye-opening findings: The National Restaurant Association found that 53% of restaurants report they cut menu items because of higher food costs 53% of successful operators cite food costs as their number one challenge A study by Champions 12.3

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Sling

JULY 24, 2023

Many restaurants operate on very narrow margins and fail because of mismanagement rather than anything wrong with the menu. There is an ever-growing market of specialized software for all of the outside-the-kitchen things restaurateurs have to think about. and UK and proclaims to save managers hours per week on routine safety tasks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

“This new model will allow our franchisees to go-to-market quicker than ever before, while reducing the overall development and operational costs,” said Jim Stevens, president of Golden Chick. “We’re partnering with top-tier franchise operators who recognize our momentum and are eager to be a part of our story.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. As part of the deployment, White Castle will bring the new version of Flippy, Robot-on-a-Rail (ROAR), into kitchens for testing and future integration. White Castle Employs Flippy the Robot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Marketers who already had a text messaging programs in place discovered that consumers actually opened their texts and messages got through (In fact, 97 percent of the time!). Operators have been scrambling to fill technological and service gaps to keep up with what appears to be lasting shift to off-premise dining and digital experiences.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Is there a shortage of healthy fast-food options? Think about the flow of traffic from the kitchen to the tables. Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons. Efficiency is key.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. Operators need suppliers’ help. ” The State of Casual Dining. " Top Recovery Trends.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI). Please send plant-based news to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Finding and retaining employees remain among the biggest obstacles operators struggle with. Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. First, at 2.1

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

" The coveted “Operator of the Year” award went to Kevin and Beth Ellis (multi-units in North and South Carolina) and Lane and Lori West (single unit in Southern Pines, North Carolina). Comeback Operator of the Year : Scott Teverbaugh, Fishers, IN. Noodles & Company Launches Ghost Kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. If you think Uber Eats and Grubhub have already had a big impact on the way restaurants operate, just wait.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Through this program, Dunkin’ franchisees have the opportunity to offer their restaurant employees an affordable, flexible and supportive pathway to an associate or bachelor’s degree from SNHU. The safety of Dunkin’ franchisees, their restaurant employees, and guests remains a top priority. metro area.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2021

Flynn now owns and operates a combined total of 2,355 quick-service, fast casual and casual dining restaurants, generating $3.5 “They bring with them a wonderful team of dedicated operators and support personnel, who we welcome whole-heartedly into the Flynn family. From now through May, KFC U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’ll quickly see the emergence of Restaurants 2.0 – a new generation of restaurateurs who snatch up available real estate for ghost kitchens, virtual brands or new dine-in experiences that have a heavy reliance on digital interactions and business models that enjoy lower overhead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Aramark Creates Safety Plans. As workplaces, sports and entertainment venues, schools, colleges and universities, and other places of business begin to resume operations, Aramark developed customized plans to create safe and hygienic dining experiences for everyone the company serves. Touchless cleaning for the safety of employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill directs all operational and strategic planning and execution for the Applebee’s, Del Taco, MOD Pizza, Wendy’s and Olga’s Kitchen brands. Greg Fuchs serves as the Senior Facilities Manager for Applebee’s, MOD Pizza, Del Taco, Olga’s Kitchen and Wendy’s restaurants in the TSFR portfolio.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) plans to bring its signature California-style pizzas, pastas, salads and more to Canada for the first time. ” Samira Shariff brings nearly 40 years of experience building successful restaurant brands in Alberta as a multi-unit franchise owner and operator in Edmonton. CPK Heads North.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. We are excited to support their mission to help independent restaurants optimize online ordering and generate incremental revenue from under-utilized kitchens.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Since its inception in mid-March, more than 500 restaurants around the world have joined the program and are reporting sales ranging from several thousand dollars to up to $60,000. "The program is inventive and very attractive to our guests."

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

introduced its "Make It This Winter" platform, which offers a collection of resources, including one-on-one consultations with US Foods experts, informational webinars, new outdoor dining products, and updated online materials and tools for restaurant operators to tackle the ongoing challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. "With

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

SOBEWFF® also provides our students, many of whom come from low-income families, financial relief and motivation toward a timely graduation through its scholarship program. ru Sushi Kitchen at Legacy Hall in September 2019 to much success. in Plano, Texas. Filet Mignon Hibachi Fried Rice. Donal Neilan. Megan Gunderson.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Anthony Bourdain recalled in Kitchen Confidential being berated for asking for burn cream, and then watching a fellow cook whose hands “looked like the claw of some monstrous science-fiction crustacean, knobby and calloused under wounds old and new,” move a sizzling pan out of a broiler with his bare hand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature sobering statistics from Yelp, a ghost kitchen franchise model, franchise explosions expected and falling for for an improved PSL. Ghost Kitchen Franchise Model. After signing a franchise agreement, owners are operational on the platform within 10 days. Yelp Sees COVID Effect.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2021

When they do go out, consumers prefer local restaurants over national chains; QSR more than fast casual or casual dining; and coffee shops/casual eateries are preferred over "breakfast only" spots. Chick-fil-A holds onto its fast food crown; Subway stumbles. percent to a score of 77.6

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

survey found that of the restaurants who are operating at less than full capacity, only 29 percent said they could keep their doors open indefinitely. restaurants are operating at less than 100 percent capacity in their dining rooms. A vast majority of the U.S. Diners savor a cohesive digital experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

Department of the Treasury, issued new and revised guidance for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This guidance implements the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act (PPPFA), signed into law by President Trump on June 5, 2020, and expands eligibility for businesses with owners who have past felony convictions.

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