7 Shifts

JUNE 20, 2022

We chatted with some of those most experienced in the ghost kitchen game to find out some myths, best practices, and tips for success in this food service style. One ghost kitchen may contain multiple units where different brands can prepare food for delivery, and in some cases, pickup. The ghost kitchen can take many forms.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself. Table of Contents. What does 86 mean?

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 26, 2021

million out of work, it was nothing short of devastating. Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. 2020 was a year that the restaurant industry won’t soon forget. Embrace Digital Hospitality ??

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Food Service Skills For Your Resume. Making Your Resume Stand Out. 5 Restaurant & Food Service Skills for Your Resume. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Food allergies. Food Service, Kitchen, & Hospitality Tech. Cooking and Food Preparation. Table of Contents.

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Open for Business

MAY 4, 2023

We think the food going down our throats is the product,” says Ryan Giffen, assistant professor of hospitality management at California State University at Long Beach, in the Washington Post. “We Leveling up the dining experience and taking feedback seriously can turn guests into evangelists for your brand.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many quick-serve and fast-food restaurants thrived using delivery and drive-thru channels. Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm. Now that the dust has somewhat settled, let’s take a look at what the future holds in 2021. What’s in store for 2021?

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7 Shifts

MARCH 20, 2020

Restaurant status by state Off-premise consumption of your restaurant’s food is the silver lining for your business during this otherwise dark time. However, not all restaurants were intended to be takeout-first businesses, so getting your regulars to associate your name with to-go food might seem like a challenge.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many quick-serve and fast-food restaurants thrived using delivery and drive-thru channels. Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm. Now that the dust has somewhat settled, let’s take a look at what the future holds in 2021. What’s in store for 2021?

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

We’ll show you how to deliver food and offer takeout while maximizing profits. Are there any tips for food delivery and takeout inventory management? How do you market food delivery and takeout? The order fulfillment process gets slowed down if your staff don’t know who is responsible for what.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since the pandemic, restaurants have endured a plethora of issues ranging from fluctuating dining restrictions to supply chain issues to rising food prices. Demand for Dining Out Isn’t Going Anywhere. Taking Orders with Artificial Intelligence.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 30, 2022

After two years of only being able to order takeout and having to wear a mask when not at the table, restaurants are poised to bounce back in 2022. How will you be getting more diners to eat your food this year? Online Restaurants Advertising Ideas. Don't underestimate the power of in-house advertising at your restaurant.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

The best restaurant managers take customer service a step further, recognizing regulars and personalizing service for a more memorable guest experience. Restaurant managers also either oversee or directly respond to online reviews. Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, consumers want convenient and easy ways to order food from your restaurant. Luckily, that’s what an online ordering system can do for you. Statista notes that in 2020, 760 million users were using online ordering for their restaurant takeout and delivery orders, a 20% increase year-over-year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you have been in the restaurant industry for a decade or are just starting out, running a successful restaurant can be a stressful task. Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Restaurants are now adjusting to the new normal and online ordering is paving the path to success for many restaurants. Dine-in income has dropped by over half and as a result, numerous eateries have closed or are considering transitioning to online ordering. In House Online Restaurant Ordering System – The Basics

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes. What are AI and ML?

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Think about it: no more stacks and folders full of invoices, no clipboards and checkmarks, no guessing when it comes to food costs. There’s a wide range of options available that take the entire process online. Many services also allow you to add your recipes in and calculate actual food costs. Partender 3.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2020

Ani Ramen is a boutique ramen house with five locations in New Jersey. The staff at Ani Ramen cleared out the kitchens and created ramen family meal kits to be donated to their local communities. There’s a huge demand for people to have great food and feel a little bit more comfortable and at ease. We take care of people.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Streamline the front of house. Run a smooth back of house. Streamline the front of house. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 1, 2021

Now, more than ever, restaurants are leaning into online ordering as a way to streamline takeout and delivery, and help their businesses recover from the impact of the pandemic. Get TouchBistro Online Ordering. Third-Party Online Ordering Apps vs. Direct Online Ordering. And for good reason.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. While these local favorites are great at attracting their neighbors to visit again and again, to out-of-towners, they’re just another restaurant that looks like it could do with some renovations. So, where do you start?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In fact, 77% of diners visit a restaurant’s website before dining in or ordering out. To really bring in sales, you’ll need one that’s optimized for orders. Here’s all you need to know about building a great site that drives online orders. But not all sites are created equal.

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ChowNow

OCTOBER 18, 2023

ChowNow has recently launched our Preferred Partner Program—a handpicked group of industry leaders to help take your restaurant to the next level. This program provides ChowNow’s clients with special access and exclusive discounts to unique product integrations and services, from front- to back-of-house, and everywhere in between.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Contactless Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. For starters, today’s restaurant worker prefers an employer who takes a progressive approach to technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There are more options for eating out than ever before. And the big restaurant brands are only getting bigger , making it even harder to stand out. You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Download now.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Consumers visit a fast food or quick serve restaurant (QSR) with a goal in mind: secure a tasty meal incredibly quickly. Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Who makes the magic happen? Cashiers, cooks, and other QSR crew members.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

As brands scrambled to change their business models – whether through the adoption of touchless payments, delivery and curbside pickup, or the use of QR codes to access online menus – consumers were also forced to adapt their dining behaviors. And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2023

In other words, beating inflation in the restaurant industry takes three steps: trimming food expenses, trimming labor costs and growing revenue. Step 1: Trimming Food Expenses Since food costs generally account for about 35 percent of a restaurant’s total costs , this would be the best place to start to decrease spending.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 30, 2021

Chinese food is one of those amazing meals that’s perfect for going out to eat but is also just as enjoyable to order in when you just want to stay at home or just don’t feel like cooking anything, and trust us, we know that feeling. Best Chinese Food Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. Order Online.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2021

In the past, kitchens worked by a paper ticket system, which was handwritten by the waitstaff and passed to the back-of-house (BOH) staff. Order Views – This is how your BOH staff actually sees the information. Meal Coursing – A feature that ensures that all the orders on a guest ticket come out simultaneously.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2022

To help you narrow down your search, here are 24 of out favorite restaurant management apps to start using in your restaurant today. The app is also useful for your front and back end staff, giving them the ability to check upcoming shifts, submit availability, request shift trades, and more. Top Restaurant Management Apps. QuickBooks.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

When thinking about restaurant automation, imagining a future where AI-powered androids shake cocktails and drones drop food deliveries through your skylight is fun. But automation in food service is much more than that. What Back-of-House Processes Can Restaurants Automate? What Back-of-House Processes Can Restaurants Automate?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. This indicated a clear trend that a “restaurant” does not need to necessarily comprise of both front of house and back of house components.

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