ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2014, online ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in and now accounts for roughly 40% of restaurant sales. When customers order through a third-party app, you dont get access to their contact information, making it harder to bring them back. You build stronger direct customer relationships.

Online Ordering

ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Slim and stylish is fine, but in a restaurant, function beats form every time. Tablets allow your menu to have photos, ingredient details, and allergen info so guests can make informed decisions and feel confident when ordering. Also, look for a tablet that has a strong battery life.

Front of House

Lavu

MARCH 13, 2025

For instance, if your restaurant experiences a 20% sales boost every December, you can use this information to better prepare for the holiday rush in the future. These numbers show how profitable certain times are and highlight dining habits over different periods – like daily, weekly, or yearly.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

In this post, we’ll explore five essential POS features designed to reduce wait times and deliver faster, more efficient dining experiences. Real-Time Order Tracking : Keeps customers informed about their food status, reducing anxiety and follow-up inquiries. Long wait times in restaurants frustrate customers and hurt revenue.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Whether you’re launching a fast-casual spot or a fine dining concept, a solid restaurant business plan is your foundation for success. Use the information gathered to avoid many potential pitfalls and capitalize on winning tactics to optimize your planning process. How many seats will your restaurant have?

2025

Future Food

MARCH 6, 2025

Successful precinct designs are aligned to the key strategy drivers Delivering a modern dining precinct in a club environment demands a holistic strategy that goes beyond architectural or interior design plans.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

Mobile Ordering

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Scott Suchman This year, we found ourselves blissfully forgetting about the world outside the dining room, and settling into meals that felt exciting, confident, and joyful Dining out should be a lot of things — nourishing, thought-provoking, less than a week’s rent — but one that can be easy to forget about is fun.

Seasonal Menu

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 10, 2025

It involves a systematic process of understanding, anticipating, and influencing consumer behavior to maximize income, especially for perishable inventory like hotel rooms or airline seats. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System: Stores detailed guest information, preferences, and booking history. a standard room vs. a suite).

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Outdoor dining is still top of mind as owners want to keep employees and customers safe and have questions about maintaining outdoor spaces in inclement weather. That's fine for sidewalks but not very conducive to outdoor dining, including keeping tables leveled. Set seating times. Contactless payment.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Restaurants will focus on creating story-driven dining experiences, harnessing technology and local partnerships to deepen emotional engagement with guests, according to the "2024 State of the Industry: Future of In-Restaurant Dining" report by Incisiv in collaboration with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Reports show that 81 percent of fine dining establishments, 78 percent of family restaurants, and 77 percent of fast-casual spots added curbside pickup, pivoting away from dine-in services after March 2020. They also show how many people are ordering online for pickup and delivery versus dine-in.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Gen Z and millennials are likely to return to in-restaurant dining before older guests; and each group will have different concerns. It is important to communicate what you are doing for safety, but don’t forget to highlight the amazing dining experience you have to offer. Anticipation. That’s where value comes in.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Keeping brand integtrity, the interior featured a walk-up counter, digital menu boards and condensed seating/waiting areas with TVs. Burying this information in fine print at the bottom of the menu or not putting it anywhere at all can quickly drive customers away and become a social media nightmare in an instant.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

If your customers expect you to offer a fine dining experience, they won’t be pleased to know that you’ve upturned your entire restaurant. Also, depending on your local regulations, expand restaurant seating to ensure as much space as possible. Enlighten Guests on How You Provide a Safe Dining Experience.

Social Media

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— Sure, you may have a certain number of seats, but service duration is variable. If you're under capacity, demand is low with lots of available seating. What is Restaurant Revenue Management?

Management

Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This should include all tables available for seating customers. Optimize seating arrangements: Arrange tables in a way that maximizes the use of available space without compromising customer comfort. casual dining vs. fine dining). This period could be a day, week, month, or any time frame you choose.

Seating

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.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2024

The duo transfomed a dilapidated cottage themselves entirely by hand into an intimate 12-seat restaurant that has received numerous accolades. For one, I was allowed access to information in my previous jobs tha I might have had a harder time getting access to without an economics degree and law school. It did in multiple ways.

Fine Dining

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. When a destination welcomes more people than there are restaurant seats then even the mediocre seem to thrive but check back in a year or two and you will probably find a new owner, a new concept, and a different shot at success.

Fine Dining

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. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag. Can't touch this.

2020

7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2024

However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

Online Ordering

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Your marketing plan is a central place that outlines and informs your marketing strategy. Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. Or maybe it's unique to your area—like being the only fine dining spot in town. Do they prefer takeout or dine-in?

Seating

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What’s on our collective horizon for the future of dining? Outside of fine dining establishments (which constitute only a small percentage of restaurant businesses), customers no longer want to be dependent on a host to seat them or a server to take their order or process their payment. Omni-Channel Experience.

Fast Casual

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.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report. Ecolab chairman and CEO.

2020

7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

For fine dining, around 30 percent. Whereas a bakery or pizzeria's most costly ingredients maybe cheese or chocolate, a fine-dining restaurant's could be shellfish and top-of-the-line beef. To calculate, you'll need the following information: Total revenue, from all income streams. CoGS or cost of goods sold.

Point of Sale

ChowNow

JULY 10, 2024

Make sure you highlight the type of cuisine you’ll be offering and the style of your service (casual dining, fine dining, etc.) This is also a great opportunity to provide more information about the physical atmosphere you’re trying to foster at your restaurant.

Point of Sale

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.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What More than half (55 percent) said they were fed up after five minutes of waiting for food in a drive-thru, and 54 percent were annoyed waiting more than 10 minutes for food while dining at a restaurant. For more information on Oracle Food and Beverage visit: [link].

2022

EATER

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley are creating a blueprint for fine dining’s queer future with their upcoming New York City opening, HAGS The dining room at 163 First Avenue in New York’s East Village is barely big enough to fit two people standing side by side.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” “Plant-based dining is not a fad that is going away. the number of customers who leave without being seated or greeted).

Food Truck

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A business plan should include information on your target market, competition, business model, marketing strategy, and financial projections. Speak to what sets you apart from the pack, what food you'll serve, the service style (fast-food, fast casual, fine dining, etc.) you'll use, and what makes your new business special.

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This system uses geo-location services along with vehicle information customers provide at sign-up. At BIBO, she will focus on supplier-client relations, National Account development, and continue to develop BIBO’s Fine Wine division. She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency.

Serving

7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

I worked in fine dining for so long, I thought my career was always going to be in fine dining, and I'm not saying that I'm completely. He drew on his experience in fine dining, an all too common one of overwork and chasing perfection, and knew that he wanted to create a healthier work environment at Pecking House.

Fine Dining

Focus POS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Getting customers in the door is just the first step—you need to seat and serve them promptly and turn over tables as quickly as possible. Your POS solution can provide a wealth of data to help you make informed decisions about other factors that influence table turnover, from labor scheduling to average food prep times.

Management

Restaurant365

MAY 15, 2020

As you start to reopen your dining room, you undoubtedly have a lot of questions. How much dine-in sales should I expect? You might even be considering optimizing and even promoting your takeout and delivery revenue centers after you open your dining room to continue the revenue flow from those off-premise channels.

Restaurant Law