Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

In this article, well walk you through 7 easy steps to increase table turnover effectively, helping you boost your bottom line while maintaining a great dining experience. Table turnover time refers to the average amount of time it takes for a table to be occupied by different groups of guests.

Seating

Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

It captures transaction details like sales trends, customer preferences, and dining habits. Analyze menu performance (best/worst sellers, seasonal trends). Menu Performance Best and worst sellers Seasonal trends How to use it: Refine your menu and introduce special offers. Reward customers for trying new menu items.

POS

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 14, 2025

By initiating conversations about transparent sourcing and quality, coffee shops like Faro and Luna by Faro have become a point of reference for Italians seeking a deeper understanding of their daily espresso. Rising menu prices pose a greater risk to independent cafés, which are up against large chains with greater capacity to absorb costs.

Café

EATER

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

They also reference the rise of polyunsaturated fats in the American diet over the past 100 years. But if you’re thinking that you’ve been cooking with sunflower oil your whole life and everything seems fine, you’re probably right. This is an unprecedented change in our body composition that clearly deserves a second look,” they say.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. For restaurants, it might mean analyzing peak hour sales per cover or average check size to inform menu pricing. Recipe costing: To understand the true cost of each menu item. Innovate menu offerings or guest experiences.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

Pricing

Restaurant Engine

MAY 14, 2025

Ultimately, youll increase the rate at which they dine with you, engage your customers, and increase your revenue. They are more likely to refer others to your restaurant. Promoting new menu items or events. This approach taps into status-driven motivation and is ideal for higher-end or fine-dining establishments.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It also zooms in on current challenges faced by owners/operators, menu prices and inflation, and tech/AI implementation. While guests may still be feeling the pain of rising menu prices at restaurants, fewer restaurants said that they raised prices this year compared to last year.

Point of Sale

EATER

APRIL 30, 2025

Best known today for the spectacular sugar, marzipan, and pastry sculptures he designed and built called pices montes which still exist in fine dining, but are now more commonly made of chocolate Carmes real legacy came out of his systemization, rationalization, and professionalization of French cuisine in the early 1800s.

Fine Dining

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Welcome to the LOLfood era, where as the world burns, the beautiful eat pizza rolls The pizza rolls on the menu really sealed it for me. But perusing the menu of the buzzy Corner Store and seeing five cheese pizza rolls served with ranch solidified my instinct that something was up, and just made me cackle out loud. This is LOLfood.

2009

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

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Restaurants will also explore delivery options beyond costly third-party partnerships, and hike delivery menu prices to make the channel more lucrative as off-premise demand holds steady. Simplified Menus. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Health-Conscious Food Will Dominate Menus.

2022

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. Which ones need to be single use?

Guest Recovery

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance?

Fine Dining

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Long before the restaurant chains of today, decades prior to the birth of fine dining, experience dining, and molecular gastronomy, there were neighborhood cafes that were part of small communities across the country. Full-service restaurants would later refer to this as a Table d’hote selection.

White Paper

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

You know that every chef has wrestled with this – should the menu reflect a personal philosophy to move the bar or stick with time-tested standards? Restaurants survive and thrive on the “early and late majority” that represents over 60 percent of the dining population. That is in our DNA, we can’t really help ourselves.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The premiumization of tea is a natural extension to what has been taking place in fine wine, specialty coffee, craft spirits and beer over the past several decades. Really, wherever food and beverage has an intentional focus on quality and customer experience, fine tea has a rightful place – just like wine and craft beverages.

Fine Dining

7 Shifts

JUNE 29, 2022

Put simply, franchise compliance refers to the actions that corporations, their franchisors, and their franchisees take in order to stay compliant with any applicable federal, state, and/or regional laws. Menu Consistency. A consistent menu ensures standard serving across locations. Tools For Supporting Franchise Compliance.

Franchising

7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. For fine dining, around 30 percent. Average customer headcount.

Point of Sale

7 Shifts

AUGUST 7, 2024

Why it matters Restaurant Food Cost Percentages Calculate Food Cost Percentage Food costs vs Prime costs Menu Changes and Seasonality Strategies to Reduce Your Food Costs Food Cost Management Tools FAQ What is food cost? This is commonly referred to as a percentage. It all depends on the kind of restaurant and what's on your menu.

Food

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

You'll have a document to reference during the planning or opening of your restaurant. Speak to what sets you apart from the pack, what food you'll serve, the service style (fast-food, fast casual, fine dining, etc.) Sample Menu. You don't, by any means, have to have a menu ready to go. Mission Statement.

Point of Sale

EATER

APRIL 25, 2023

The dish is equally at home sold from the trunk of a car and at the country’s finest dining establishments. Juan adds, “The combination became famous, and we started calling it caldosa,” a reference to the caldo that went into the first bag. Juan Miguel Pacheco outside Fory Fay. Where did caldosas come from?

Fine Dining

Goliath Consulting

MAY 8, 2020

Aside from boosting revenue, catering can boost business during slow performing times, reduce excess food waste, allow for menu changes, and helps to increase employee retention as they gain new skills and varied tasks that challenges and keeps them busy (1). References: [link].

Catering

SpotOn

MARCH 18, 2024

On the other side of the dining spectrum, there are restaurants with menus that offer an entire meal at a set price, also known as the prix fixe menu. The prix fixe menu is ideal for guests seeking to indulge in a larger meal for a higher price. The prix fixe menu doesn't only need to serve French food.

Menu

EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics. With a menu of compelling bites like beef heart skewers and glistening ceviche, the city has embraced Amazonia as a nightlife destination in its own right.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth. Family dining was another segment that was hit hard, which includes many buffet-based concepts. According to our survey, consumers reference these precautions before making a purchase decision.

2020

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. Parts Town and Heritage Combine. ” Reach for the Stars.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

The main takeaway: It’s led to higher prices and lower foot traffic at many of the state’s dining establishments. “Our data indicates that QSR burger chains have generally been the hardest hit by the California increase in minimum wage and subsequent increase in menu prices,” writes Hottovy. percent). .

2024

7 Shifts

AUGUST 15, 2022

Be honest and direct , reference something you read on their website or a customer review that you value in a restaurant business. It's fine if the story is a grand accomplishment of yours, but spend as much time explaining how it impacted the business as you do yourself. What would you do if you ran out of a menu item?

Customer Experience

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Halloween Specials and Menu Ideas for Restaurants and Bars ????? October is the month of pumpkins, spice, and everything nice—so adding seasonal specials to your menu can go a long way to delight customers and get them talking about your restaurant. Regular menu name. Halloween menu name. Here are a few examples.

Specials

EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You were just given a generic list of suggestions for dining options, straddling a line between ludicrously expensive and horribly grim.”. The dining room at Ruinart. “There was always a gift shop with ice buckets and t-shirts for sale. If you were a tourist, you were never invited for lunch or dinner. Perrier-Jouët. Brunch at Ruinart.

Back of House

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The Japanese would refer to them as companies focused on “Kaisen” (a pursuit of constant improvement). Which type of tomato will present the most pronounced flavor of fine ripened, deeply refreshing acid/sweet balance on the sandwich and how can we ensure this consistently throughout the year? It is your job to SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

Uniforms

7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

Create a restaurant operations manual A restaurant operations manual ensures that your business procedures are well-documented, concise, and readily available for your employees' reference. For instance, while doing your data review, you notice that one of the items on your menu is no longer profitable. In USA, the U.S.

Operations

Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Increase Profit Margins with Smart Menu Engineering. Raising menu prices is not simply a matter of adding higher-value items or raising the price of all menu items.

Customer Experience

Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Many customers relate to the plight of service staff and are fine paying for what is clearly intended to supplement higher wages. Increase Profit Margins with Smart Menu Engineering. Raising menu prices is not simply a matter of adding higher-value items or raising the price of all menu items.

Customer Experience

Lavu

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Therefore, exploring effective ways to increase sales and carefully managing expenses, pricing, and menu offerings become vital strategies in maintaining a healthy profit margin. Casual Dining Restaurants Casual dining restaurants offer relaxed atmospheres with moderately-priced menus. Their profit margins are around 6.5

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Please refer to the full list below or the GCA’s official website. Ability to Act on the Data and Analysis: Restaurant365 includes financial and operational reporting, which drives valuable insights in sales performance, menu engineering, recipe costing, labor details, and enhanced business analytics. " PFG Wins FTC Approval.

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