7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For example, if you run a social media campaign or pay for online ordering integrations, all of these contribute to your overall marketing expenses. Total New Customers refers to how many new customers your restaurant gains during a specific period because of your marketing efforts. Another effective strategy is personalized marketing.

Loyalty Program

ChowNow

AUGUST 1, 2025

Because of this perception, many restaurant owners feel like running an influencer marketing campaign is a risky gamble: you give away free or heavily discounted food, cross your fingers, and then hope for a post that drives new business. For example, this is a collaboration between Malai Kitchen and local influencer Dallas Food Nerd.

Influencer

EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Whats the food in Sri Lanka like?

Hotels

The Rail

APRIL 30, 2025

One BBC article highlights the words of Scott Magill, owner of WhoCult Coffee + Donuts, (Bridgend, UK), who said, Food is emotional, visual, and shareable exactly what social media thrives on. AI-powered tools have also been utilized in order to analyze customer feedback and engagement metrics, the article highlights.

Marketing

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers. Add these six terms to your vocabulary.

Hiring

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of dramatic Valentine's Day shift, best food scenes, and the evolution of c-store foodservice. Food-away-from-home spending is likely to see modest growth as softer consumer spending patterns prevail. ” A Year of Challenges U.S.

Marketing

The Rail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They generate large amounts of waste and carbon emissions through food production and transportation. According to reports , more than 50% of diners claim to choose a restaurant that offers sustainably sourced food. With the rising awareness about our planet’s health, more consumers demand sustainable dining options.

Sustainability

Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

Check references carefully and run quick trials. One pro we know tested a cook with a plate this order challenge under a timer. Give them a week of shadowing seasoned staff, clear checklists like Greet tables in 2 minutes or Check orders before they leave the pass, and a full menu rundownspecials included.

Management

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

Table turnover time refers to the average amount of time it takes for a table to be occupied by different groups of guests. There are numerous ways to improve your table turnover rate, such as implementing efficient reservation systems, optimizing menu design, and training staff to handle table management effectively.

Seating

Lavu

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Proper cost tracking helps you set profitable menu prices, cut expenses, and manage inventory efficiently. Steps to calculate costs : Determine unit costs, account for waste, and break down menu item costs. Improve profits : Analyze cost data to refine menu design, negotiate better supplier deals, and reduce waste. Sauce : $0.32

Seasonal Menu

ChowNow

JUNE 20, 2025

Why Your Google Business Profile Matters for Restaurants To ensure we’re all on the same page, Google Business Profile (GBP) refers to your restaurant’s listing on Google Search and Google Maps. Add high-quality photos of your food, staff, dining space, and even signage. A blurry menu photo from 2018 isn’t a good look.

Online Ordering

EATER

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In 2017, ophthalmologist Dr. Chris Knobbe published a paper arguing that “harmful vegetable oil,” as well as other processed foods, “are the primary and proximate cause of AMD [age-related macular degeneration].” They also reference the rise of polyunsaturated fats in the American diet over the past 100 years. We must have them.

Advertising

Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

Managing food costs is a growing challenge for restaurants as ingredient prices fluctuate and margins shrink. It also streamlines the ordering process, ensuring that every ingredient is purchased and used with purpose. Controls Costs : Optimizes ordering and stock levels, avoiding unnecessary expenses.

Inventory

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Then costs go in order from most controllable to least controllable. That could simply be food sales , alcohol , and non-alcoholic beverages. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Your Cost of Goods Sold is the cost of your food and beverages. That way you'll have accurate food and beverage cost percentages for each COGS line item.

License

Lavu

JULY 3, 2025

Unlike traditional setups, these systems provide real-time access to data, seamless updates, and remote management—making them ideal for today’s fast-paced food service environment. This includes ringing up sales, tracking, and ordering. Fixing technical SEO issues can help customers discover and order them online more easily.

POS

Lavu

JULY 4, 2025

From self-order kiosks to real-time kitchen display systems, digital solutions are reshaping the way these restaurants operate. Here’s how technology is making it possible in 2025: Self-Service Kiosks : Reduce order wait times by 40%, shrink queues by 25–40%, and increase average check sizes by 30%. The impact?

2025

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

With technology playing a bigger role in dining, your POS system needs to handle payments, manage orders, track inventory, and even help with staff scheduling. Offers real-time data, easy menu updates, and scalability. Mobile POS : Perfect for food trucks, pop-ups, or tableside service. Low-cost and portable.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Theft has unfortunately become a primary concern in the food industry. It is important to understand it’s not just slipping an occasional $5 bill into a pocket, and can include: Giving free or extra food/drinks to customers without authorization. Stealing food/drinks for themselves, either while working or taking it home.

POS

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just about great food and service—it’s also about smart financial management. You probably joined the industry to make delicious food to serve and create a great environment for your patrons. It includes all the cost incurred on food and beverage, payroll, taxes, and benefits).

2025

Lavu

MAY 5, 2025

Lavu offers a cloud-based POS designed specifically for restaurants, helping streamline everything from front-of-house orders to back-of-house reporting. Here’s how: Manage orders seamlessly : Handle dine-in, takeout, and delivery orders without chaos. Running a restaurant is hard – but Lavu POS makes it easier.

POS

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Managing food allergens isnt just a best practiceits a legal and safety necessity for todays restaurants. With increasing awareness of food allergies, allergen management in POS systems has become essential to ensure customer safety and streamline kitchen operations. These features help ensure a safer and more efficient workflow.

Allergens

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. Detailed Inventory Control: Especially for restaurants, managing perishable inventory (food and beverage) requires meticulous tracking to minimize waste, control COGS margin , and ensure profitability.

Hospitality

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

By eliminating the need to count, store, and deposit cash, restaurants can free up staff time to focus on serving customers and preparing food. By tracking sales trends, customer habits, and popular menu items, restaurants can optimize their operations and marketing strategies to drive growth and profitability.

2025

EATER

OCTOBER 25, 2024

La Cocina Writer and director Alonso Ruizpalacios discusses why glossy food porn had no place in his new restaurant-set drama “You can’t dream in a kitchen,” one of the characters says in La Cocina , the latest film by Mexican director and writer Alonso Ruizpalacios. What was it like working with food on set? It is work. It is work.

Back of House

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Photo: Shutterstock Once upon a time, DoorDash was a spoke on a big wheel of restaurant ordering channels. The ads will direct back to a restaurant’s DoorDash ordering page, or, in the future, a white-labeled DoorDash website, or possibly a reservations page powered by SevenRooms. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

JULY 14, 2025

Stuff your website with keywords and other content that relates to what prospective customers are likely to be looking for, and watch the orders roll in. Beerline Cafe does not serve Thai food, but gets lumped in anyway for being vegan. I’m being sarcastic, of course. Google’s algorithm has never been that cut and dry.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Despite the fact that consumers are paying more to visit and order from restaurants this year – 12.5 28 percent of consumers say they are ordering takeout and delivery more frequently than last year. Additionally, households making less than $50k ordered takeout and delivery far less frequently than their wealthier peers.

Pricing

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. Searches are also down eight percent from 2019.

Point of Sale

Restaurant Engine

MAY 14, 2025

You stand out and above the competition with good food, amazing service , and a solid customer loyalty program. They are more likely to refer others to your restaurant. Promoting new menu items or events. With a mobile app, you also have access to a goldmine of data to inform your marketing strategy and menu development.

Loyalty Program

EATER

APRIL 30, 2025

They always served alcohol, and occasionally served food as well. Carme referred to himself in a grand manner, as the chef of kings and king of chefs. He printed his portrait in his books, so everyone knew what he looked like, says Ken Albala, professor of history and director of food studies at University of the Pacific.

Fine Dining

Qu

MARCH 12, 2025

Qu’s Winter Product Highlights offer diverse ordering options that bridge the physical and digital divide, including smarter drive-thru ordering, expanded online ordering (with curbside and tableside options), and more personalized kiosk ordering.

Tip Distribution

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Social reckonings and politics and pandemics and recessions and all kinds of horrific real-world stuff have intersected with restaurants in a way that had to happen, but which has turned the act of eating food into pretty serious business. And that’s a good thing; food is serious business. Making your own pasta?

Seasonal Menu

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 30, 2025

It’s not just about income and expenses; it’s about understanding the nuances of restaurant accounting services, like managing tips, food costs, and overhead. With numerous transactions happening daily, from food and beverage sales to room bookings, it’s essential that every cent is accounted for.

Hospitality

Restaurant Business

JULY 22, 2025

And DoorDash dominates the market for first-party delivery, which refers to delivery orders that are placed directly through a restaurant’s website or app and fulfilled by third-party couriers. DoorDash and Uber Eats are the first and second-largest restaurant delivery services in the U.S., respectively.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2022

A fragmented supply chain is also increasing ingredient costs, leading restaurants to balance staff churn with a changing menu to keep revenue consistent. According to data from the National Restaurant Association, 95 percent of restaurants have experienced significant supply delays or shortages of key food items in recent months.

POS

7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Menu engineering: while the name might suggest you need to go to college at MIT to be good at it, is actually a common and essential task that all restaurateurs should regularly undertake. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Menu Pricing and 2.

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