Culinary Cues

MAY 3, 2023

The biggest, the best quality, cooked to perfection, sourced from the finest ranch, grass fed, Angus, Wagyu, Kobe, Natural, Organic, and the list goes on and on. Sweat the small stuff – it’s bigger than you think. It amazes me every time I visit a restaurant – the important things that we miss. It’s all in the details, folks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

The discussion included food, beverage, nutrition, lifestyle and unique aspects of boutique and high volume foodservice. Culinary methods and sources of inspiration for menus and venues were also part of this group’s discussion. Food trucks that bring food to patrons where they live and work has become a part of everyday life.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 5, 2024

While commodity shortages, transportation logjams and other disruptions have eased, restaurants and other food service providers continue to apply lessons learned from recent periods of instability to make logistics and resupply processes more nimble and resilient. Regionalized supply chains. Modernizing sourcing technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

Those areas of your restaurant that aren’t typically seen by customers but directly impact your business. So, even if your customers are unaware of what’s going on behind the scenes, any operational inefficiencies will eventually surface – with potentially dire consequences for your business.

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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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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

Raising prices is inevitable when the supply chain keeps beating restaurants over the head, in some cases simply because they can, but the answer is not as simple as: “pass it on to the guest”. It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

There’s an art to scaling any small business intelligently. Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

Let’s begin with some facts about the business of serving food: There are more than 1 million restaurant locations in the United States. In 2019, over 490,000 of those locations were independent, privately owned businesses. Supply chain challenges are not going away as production and logistics catch-up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The turmoil caused by the pandemic has disrupted global supply chains more than any other period in recent history. It has highlighted the critical importance of evolving supply chain systems to be more responsive and agile to the changing dynamics around us – which the past two years have been extensive.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, safety measures such as social distancing, lockdowns and mask-wearing have completely changed our understanding of how consumers spend on food. We saw customers stockpiling on groceries and supplies in homes instead of going out to eat, raising retail sales by 29 percent over the previous year (1).

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Cheetah

JANUARY 31, 2022

Another whopping $60 million was raised to continue delivering our vision, and incredible restaurant supplies to independent restaurants around the country. During the pandemic small and independent restaurants have been hit the hardest. These small, independent foodservice businesses now have that time back in their day!

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Write a Coffee Shop Business Plan. Sourcing Equipment. This step and research component is the foundation behind your business, and should be taken seriously! Visit them to learn more about what drives their business. Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? Competition and neighboring businesses.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to us all just how interconnected our food system is in the US if not, the world. The supply chain failure and the domino effect of its impact have been a wake-up call for even the veterans of the food industry. Multiple Sourcing and Backup.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

The restaurant industry is still dealing with pandemic-related issues, including supply chain disruptions, new COVID variants and surging cases, labor shortages, rising prices, and a shift in consumer demand. Make food safety and customer reassurance a priority to create a brand that customers (and employees) trust and support.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2020

So here’s the question a lot of restaurateurs are asking: how do you start drastically cutting expenses to give your business the best chance of recovery? Pro tip: Look at implementing an inventory tracking system like Xtra Chef —it might be a new cost, but it will pay for itself in better food costing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Unlike other industries, inventory management in food industry applications must take limited shelf life and peak freshness times into consideration. Mistake #7: Employee Theft Theft is rampant in small businesses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2022

Cryptocurrency has real-world applications in the food industry, with restaurants using it to create new and exciting foods for their customers and find ways to use crypto as payments. Application of Blockchain in the Food Industry. Blockchain technology has been applied to the food industry.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Americans are spending nearly 50% of their annual food budgets in restaurants and indications that this can continue to grow – is fine dining the right answer? This is great, however, those small farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to generate enough sales to offset the significant costs associated with farming. government.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Thousands of businesses and more than one million people were left without power and forced to deal with the lingering effects of standing flood waters. Emergency preparedness supplies are a good idea to have on hand at all times. Hurricanes may necessitate further emergency supplies. First aid supplies. Flashlights.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 7, 2023

For any specialty coffee roaster, one of the key factors to running a successful business is a continuous supply of fresh green coffee. Sourcing and buying green coffee is certainly a big part of this, but efficient inventory management is also paramount. Read on for more of his insight.

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Supplies Management Management Food Safety 176

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2020

So, how can the restaurant industry regain people’s trust and increase business? A good first step is to elevate your food safety culture. How Food Safety Culture Has Changed. Food safety used to mean “what you do when no one is watching.” Get a Better View of Your Business.

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Cheetah

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The busy season is underway, and for caterers and restaurants it is the biggest opportunity in the past two years to boost sales and make a hefty profit. And businesses still working remotely will be hosting online events and sending out banquet boxes with mini-proseccos and charcuterie. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Sourcing beef and pork from smaller local producers will alleviate some supply chain headaches. This article was published in Restaurant Business. November 23, 2021 by Patricia Cobe, Senior Editor Restaurant Business. Small producers will do everything they can to make things work for you,” he said. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. As food prices rise, restaurants should try to stay within their target ratio for food cost to gross food revenue in order to maintain target profits.

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EATER

APRIL 16, 2024

Though they may look like cafes around the world, these businesses distinguish Medellín as one of the few cities where high-quality coffee is grown, harvested, roasted, and consumed. They’ve also helped reshape dynamics around the supply chain and the economic significance of Colombian coffee. Pergamino Pedro Miguel Echavarría.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 30, 2022

How will you be getting more diners to eat your food this year? In tight business districts, you may not be able to have a giant mural or neon sign outside your restaurant. Image Source. Decorate your windows with decals that evoke what your business is all about! For your restaurant, that means competition.

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Advertising 2022 Social Media Email Marketing 370

Cheetah

JANUARY 28, 2022

And, as if every minute didn’t already matter to a restaurant owner, the time commitment to turn a restaurant into a more sustainable business may not seem feasible. Eventually, Vanick took the family business into his own hands. . To-go containers are only a small part of the operation. From Beirut to the Heart of SF.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Even as some of these supply chain hiccups and irregularities resolved, others popped up. Shortages and sourcing issues are becoming the new normal for restaurant operators. “We Here’s how three owners are doing it.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 8, 2022

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations , an estimated 420 million hectares of forest have been lost since 1990. At Sucafina, we’re currently working on a definition that monitors five different types of deforestation, based on severity, in our supply chain. Is it a problem in the coffee industry?

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Food Supply Sustainability Agriculture Supplies 148

Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 28, 2023

During this period, we have seen the uptake of automated systems and technologies grow across every level of the coffee supply chain – from production to roasting to brewing. Of all the actors across the supply chain, roasters and coffee shops tend to use automation and technology the most. Read on to find out what they had to say.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Unprecedented labor and supply chain pressure will drive most of the restaurant trends that will define 2022, industry analysts say. Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. These restaurant food trends can directly impact a restaurant’s profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The survey, which asked restaurant operators about the six-month impact of the pandemic on their businesses, found that overwhelmingly, most restaurants are still struggling to survive and don’t expect their position to improve over the next six months. Comfort Food. Here's what they found: The average American is ordering 2.4

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Becca Millstein went from negotiating brand deals in the music industry to dealmaking with fishing companies and canneries for her brand Fishwife In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. How did you get into the food industry?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 7, 2022

As the world continues to recover from the COVID 19-pandemic, much of the business and operational world has shifted. Labor and supply shortages continue to impact everything from grocery stores, to restaurants and distribution centers. One thing that is not in short supply for many of these commercial spaces: pests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While we all want this pandemic to end, it’s clearly a long-term problem that will take more thought, planning, and business pivots as we move forward. While everything feels overwhelming in the world, focus on these five solvable challenges: Prioritize a Food Safety Culture. Use Tech Tools to Quickly Diversify Your Supply Base.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond The changing face of Food & Hospitality. With the pandemic starting to ease in some parts of the country and lockdowns becoming a thing of the past (hopefully), 2022 brings some cautious optimism to the industry as businesses start to see light at the end of the tunnel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences.

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