The Restaurant Times

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s important to understand the dynamics of both fast food and fast casual restaurants, whether you’re considering opening a franchise, starting your food business from scratch, or simply trying to decide what kind of restaurant to eat at while on the go.

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Sling

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Dining, at its heart, is all about the food. Offer a distinctive dining experience as well as delicious food. Use them as inspiration for your own dining establishment. And if you’re worried about an eruption while dining, rest easy. These tremors are man-made, but they make for an unforgettable dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to Uber. Morgan Securities LLC served as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP as legal counsel to Postmates.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the impact of cold weather on restaurant viability, why franchises need to be nimbler and the pandemic's effect on guest expectations. restaurants are operating at less than 100 percent capacity in their dining rooms. Patio dining in colder weather. Restaurant Adaptation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Group dining is easily accommodated by private rooms in Indianapolis restaurants, making the city a great location to celebrate special occasions. Here are the seventeen best private dining Indianapolis restaurants! Best Private Dining in Indianapolis. Ocean Prime is a fine dining restaurant offering steaks and seafood.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

The pandemic has permanently altered the consumer-restaurant relationship with operators investing in technology and real estate to align with changing consumer preferences, according to the 2021 Restaurant Franchise Pulse survey, conducted by TD Bank. 43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What

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EATER

JULY 18, 2023

Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. The blind waitstaff helps the diners find their seats, and then serves them a series of mystery dishes, which the guests taste and guess at in total darkness. On a recent trip to Crete, he and his wife went on a dining tour.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 1, 2022

Starbucks China resumes indoor dining across 800 Shanghai stores. Stores are permitted to operate at around 70% seating capacity. Brown has served as the UAE roaster’s Business Development Director since March 2022, and has previously held high-level positions at Lavazza and Selecta.

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Restaurant Clicks

JULY 21, 2021

This family-owned restaurant prides itself on only serving the freshest of meats, fish, and vegetables. The choice of seating is also an added benefit to dining guests who can choose to sit in the main level for a more relaxed experience or the cellar for a more party type of vibe. Mazadar Kabob Serves $9.95

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served. It was served with accompaniments, one of which was an asparagus relish; at another table, the server was explaining how he’d seen the chef arranging the asparagus on her bread like dragon scales while testing out the recipe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill formally served on the Great Lakes Franchise Association Board, Del Taco’s Franchise Marketing Advisory Council and the Finance Excellence Advisory Council for Burger King. In 2009, Greg moved to the Del Taco brand, where we were chosen as Franchise Operator of the Year in both 2009 and 2010.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There’s just not the same amount of volume in takeout as there is in in-person dining.” he warm summer months and the arrival of outside dining provided a lifeline for a dining and hospitality industry that has been hit immensely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Upscale/fine-dining restaurants.

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Kounta

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Australians now dine out more than Americans, and opening a restaurant has become a compelling business proposition that is hard to ignore (Eating Out in Australia 2017). Do you buy a Franchise or an Independent Business? A high priced Fine/r Dining Restaurant? Business Planning. “By A Fast-Casual?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

From the very beginning we worked to attract loyal guests seeking an authentic, family dining experience. With restaurant dining rooms closing unexpectedly and inconsistently from market to market, the industry realized the ability to communicate frequently and rapidly to their customers is critical. Shasta, California.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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BNG Point of Sale

JULY 16, 2021

As regards restaurant size, for instance, it will affect both food cost percentage (it’s easier to fill up a large area with higher-margin items), as well as occupancy costs since customers in larger spaces spend more money on average than those who dine in smaller dining rooms. What is the Average Revenue for a New Restaurant?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers.

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Apicbase

JUNE 2, 2022

However, only one strategy — the food cost percentage pricing strategy — puts you in the driver’s seat of your operation. Stay realistic — if you’re running a string of fine dining restaurants, setting ideal food costs at 25% is frustrating… and unattainable. Cost plus markup pricing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Having served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Wyatt will oversee a newly created “Office of CEO” that includes Chief Financial Officer Caryn Doyle and Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel Randy Miller. Chang’s To Go River North opened on February 3 to serve the Chicago community.

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EATER

OCTOBER 18, 2022

A scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation shows a Romulan and Klingon dining side by side. | This is especially true of stories and franchises set elsewhere: in the past, in the future, in places that don’t actually exist. Spiked with some frilly bits of lettuce they looked striking; maybe I’d serve them at a Halloween party.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Ono’s robotic food truck will begin serving the greater Los Angeles community nutritious, delicious, and affordable smoothie blends for under six dollars, and prepared within 60 seconds beginning this Fall. “Plant-based dining is not a fad that is going away. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.

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Black Box Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For sports bar franchise Twin Peaks , which has continued to grow throughout the pandemic and was part of one of the industry’s biggest restaurant acquisitions in 2021, BBI data has been essential to sharpening its strategy. Digital ordering, contactless payments and off-premise dining are up, and restaurant guest expectations have changed.

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EATER

MAY 26, 2021

There are dozens of Yelp reviews of customers saying they didn’t realize their lunch would be served in the back of a Chevron, and TripAdvisor comments imploring future customers not to be dissuaded by the fact that they would be eating food made in the same place they would be fueling up their tank. and closing at 8 p.m.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Working alongside our talented team, our Board, our franchisees and suppliers, I am committed to upholding our rich heritage of serving our customers and driving value for our shareholders and other stakeholders. By reducing food waste, we can serve those in need today and set the table for success tomorrow.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

To increase customer satisfaction, the restaurant model will have to shift to serve customers wanting a basic recipe with new customizable add-ons. With the rise of delivery and take-out, restaurants will start getting creative with the in-dining experience. Enter dark kitchens. ”-Food Fanatic Chef Aaron Gregory.

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