Apicbase

MAY 8, 2024

MarketMan offers tools for automating invoicing, recipe costing, and food cost calculations, making it a popular choice among restaurateurs. However, with numerous similar systems available, tailored to various types of food service operations and specific use cases, you might ask, ‘Which software is the best fit for my business?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Are you trying to differentiate your brand and stand out from the competition? Give them charging stations and a reason to stay (delicious food, great service, and a comfortable atmosphere) while their cars are charging. You already provide delicious food, exceptional customer service, and an inviting atmosphere, right?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

We have seen many tech interventions in recent times that safeguard material handling in the food business. For example, W i nnow develops different digital tools that work by reducing food waste in half. These tools help connect commercial kitchens to cloud kitchens so that the tools can analyze how much food is wasted every day.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Long-time food and hospitality employees left the industry, choosing to look for positions that had more consistent hours or less potential for COVID exposure. Then demand began to rise again, and customers began dining out more and ordering more take out. Both groups are experiencing burnout and turnover is climbing.

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Sling

MAY 9, 2023

They take purposeful planning and work to build and maintain. ADD_THIS_TEXT Restaurant operations (or RO for short) is the collective term for all the activities that go into managing a food-service business — everything from the daily responsibilities that need to be done to the long-term planning that keeps the business on track.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

This has dramatically impacted the core of the food and restaurant industries, specifically healthy and organic food. Eating organic is by no means a new concept brought on by the pandemic, but the shift in mindsets has thrust this niche food sector into overdrive. The Organic Food Boom. And the numbers are impressive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2020

Practically overnight, restaurant owners had to figure out how to support their staff, pay their bills and feed their families and customers. I own a restaurant supplies delivery service and a month ago we were faced with a warehouse full of food and perishables and massive orders that were suddenly cancelled.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 14, 2023

Restaurant Excellence Guideline #31: Maintain an efficient inventory management system to avoid food wastage and save costs. The restaurant business can be unpredictable; unexpected occurrences like supply shortages, staff shortages, or even a pandemic can disrupt operations.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 9, 2020

Whether you have been offering delivery and takeout for years, or have had to make a recent pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know which food travels best for delivery—and how to change up your menu to stay profitable while dine-in isn't an option. There are plenty of options out there (i.e.

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Sling

APRIL 27, 2023

These essential activities include everything from scheduling your team , assigning tasks , and managing inventory to controlling labor costs , executing payroll , and complying with labor laws. But it’s about more than just ordering as much inventory as your storage spaces can hold and hoping for the best.

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Apicbase

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Food traceability is compulsory for many food companies in the US, Europe, and the UK. These businesses are accountable for any safety issues in their supply chain and must have information on traceability for the goods they grow, distribute, and sell. And that, in turn, drives more interest in food traceability software.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

. – Eric Cohen, Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Merchant Advocate Restaurants will need to prioritize loyalty programs in 2024 and leverage AI to make them effective Despite dining out being a regular part of social life in the U.S., restaurant loyalty programs are often rank lowest in quality compared to other industries.

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EATER

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Supply chain disruptions were a theme of 2021, but thanks to viral recipes, some ingredients were hit especially hard I learned a hard lesson on a recent trip to my local Asian supermarket, Tan A. When I found the shopkeeper and asked him where the Kewpie was, he threw his hands up in disgust: “Sold out!

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throws of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Many of the sustainability practices that we were committed to pre-COVID flew out the door when we entered this unprecedented era.

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The Rail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

By Briana Hilton, Contributor The “ slow food movement ” has been given a big push by new post-pandemic demands, with many restaurants now nearshoring or reshoring (sourcing supplies closer to their location so as to have greater control over supply). They can order products as they need, reducing inventory and waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Few scenarios strike more fear into a restauranteur’s heart than the prospect of serving food to patrons that makes them sick. However, even with the greatest attention to food safety, there is no single way to eliminate all foodborne illness because its sources are numerous and diverse. Regulatory Requirements.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

That’s why we decided to donate 10 percent of sales of our off-premise take-out and delivery platform to No Kid Hungry. As a result of this trend, we’ve shifted our focus to provide more Take & Bake options and even have plans to launch additional varieties of our Take & Bake breads in early 2021.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

Still, staying on top of what’s new can help your restaurant stand out from the pack. As guest preferences change and new developments in technology come out, keeping up to date can help you in several key ways. Instead, they show orders on a screen and can even help manage how meals are coursed out.

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Goliath Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Meanwhile, Chipotle is testing out new restaurant designs, and now have more than a 100 “Chipotlanes,” drive-thru stores where customers can pick up their digital orders (4). DELIVERY: Food deliveries have soared in the past couple of months. This is now the new norm, and we know that some of these changes are here to stay.

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The Restaurant Times

JUNE 26, 2021

One has to take care of numerous aspects before going down this road. . You can create a spreadsheet that lists all your restaurant operations and mentions essential tasks you need to take care of within a specified timeline. Do Not Forget To Integrate With Food Aggregators. Restore Customers’ Trust. Embrace Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The bottom line: clarity around sustainability, food preparation and safety is essential. While it’s no easy task, the tools needed to create clean environments for preparing and serving food and making smart decisions on resource management exist. Understand Your Supply. Here are four tips to keep top of mind.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sourcing beef and pork from smaller local producers will alleviate some supply chain headaches. Production took a nosedive during the pandemic, meat processing slowed or stopped completely as packing houses shut down, and now a shortage of truck drivers is delaying deliveries—all tangling the meat supply chain in knots. .

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 29, 2022

Besides the wastage of food and messy kitchen floor, it also forces the hungry patrons to wait longer for the new dishes that need to be cooked. Besides, a clumsy kitchen layout usually leads to poor productivity, loss of revenue, food wastage, and legal consequences for not following food safety standards.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A cloud kitchen also called a “ghost kitchen” or “virtual kitchen,” is a commercial culinary environment that provides food enterprises with the tools and resources they need to prepare menu meals for delivery and takeout. As they continue to expand, food aggregators will drive demand with a slew of discounts.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, you can streamline kitchen processes, optimize inventory management , provide staff training, and implement scheduling systems by focusing on your BOH. It can also help reduce labor costs and increase the speed of food preparation. They supervise other chefs, create menus, and handle food order costs.

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Transact

APRIL 2, 2020

Not only has it affected the health and safety of countries and citizens around the world, but it has also affected our businesses, careers, and personal finances. At this point, most restaurants and food service establishments have closed their dining areas either by choice or by mandate and have limited service to takeout and delivery.

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MBB Hospitality

APRIL 14, 2023

Let’s take a look at the following list of steps down below. Your budget should cover the costs tied to research, inventory supplies, licensing fees, staff wages, and the usual overhead costs. This includes regulations pertaining to health and safety codes. Without it, it will be like flying blind into the fog.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A restaurant kitchen’s design and layout should allow food to flow smoothly from the prep area to the line. The latter should be meticulously planned to ensure that it takes the least amount of time and causes the least amount of disruption. . Health and fire laws, as well as staff safety, practices, must all be followed. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. Climate change is causing extreme drought conditions out west, which is harming crops in California and surrounding areas. Use tech tools to manage your supply chain.

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Xtra Chef

MARCH 30, 2020

He had an opportunity to act in the best interest of Easton and help his customers stay closer to home by coming to his cafe for groceries rather than venturing out to large, national chain stores. The apples available for sale are from Scholl Orchards out of Bethlehem, PA. And other restaurants are figuring it out,” Hoy says.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 26, 2021

The violent swings in demand and supply have devastated some businesses (restaurants led the U.S. While many only think “restaurants” when thinking “foodservice,” we look at the entire global food ecosystem of $14.6T. It’s not easy to unlock the share of the global food ecosystem. Food Safety.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 24, 2020

You followed all the new health and safety regulations. Understanding how to decrease controllable costs – food and labor are the big two — helps you drive operational improvements that can increase your financial outcome. Reevaluate your supply costs. Cost out your menu items and recipes.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throes of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Many of the sustainability practices that we were committed to pre-COVID flew out the door when we entered this unprecedented era.

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2022 Compost Recycling White Paper 78

The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 23, 2022

The capacity to take vast amounts of data, segment, and analyze it is essential in developing customized strategies to engage customers. However, the full benefits of artificial intelligence in the restaurant business are yet to be determined, but they will go beyond robots that take orders, prepare food, and deliver it.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 4, 2022

With so much change brought on first by the pandemic and more recently by supply chain and labor crunches, this first stop on Restaurant365’s Restaurant Transformation Tour hit the stage at just the right time. The State of Sales, Staffing, and Food Costs. At the end of 2019, nationwide food and beverage sales reached $864 billion.

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