Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Providing benefits like career development and on-the-job training is critical, especially as we continue our mission of serving thoughtful food that supports healthier, more sustainable living. In addition, the state carved out a special 45 percent increase to $20 per hour for fast-food employees. per hour difference.

Front of House

ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

Somewhere in between is the number that makes sense for your food costs, your market, and your restaurants unique position. Food Costs: How to calculate the cost of each dish Lets start with the basics: how much does it actually cost you to make each item on your menu? You dont know their food costs, rent, or labor volume.

Pricing

ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

In this article, you will learn: The five most important restaurant costs to track and manage Easy strategies for controlling food costs and labor costs Tactics to save money without hurting your guest experience Lets start with the big picture and learn where your money is actually going.

Operations

ChowNow

APRIL 15, 2025

One of operators most difficult challenges is balancing restaurant operating costs without compromising the food, service, and customer experience that makes your restaurant unique. Heres the catch, though: unlike reducing food costs or renegotiating vendor contracts, labor is personal.

Operations

Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

Mileage: Drive Off Some Taxes Delivering food or catering events? Employee Meals: Free Food, Free Savings Feeding staff on-site? Its 100% if part of food costs, non-taxable to them. Keep it separate or bundled with food costs. Charitable Donations: Give and Get Back Donating extra food? Keep it reasonable.

Point of Sale

The Food Corridor

MARCH 3, 2025

Food trucks may serve on the streets, but their success starts in a commissary kitchen. These licensed commercial spaces give operators a place to store inventory, prep food, and clean their equipment—ensuring they meet health codes and run efficiently. Why Do Food Trucks Use Commissary Kitchens? In many locations, yes.

Food Truck

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

SpotOn

JANUARY 13, 2025

This will be helpful for filing insurance claims and applying for state or federal aid programs as they become available.  There are many organizations helping connect people to free meals: World Central Kitchen , Feed the Streets LA , and Project Angel Food are just a few.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2025

Participants reported continued food and labor cost increases, with 89 percent experiencing rising staff expenses, well exceeding the 79 percent of last year's survey who predicted labor cost increases. More than half of those coping with food cost inflation this year are seeing a 1 percent to 5 percent increase. percent 11.4

2025

Goliath Consulting

MARCH 3, 2025

For restaurant owners and operators, success depends on more than just great food and excellent serviceit requires staying informed, connected, and supported. Whether its labor laws, food safety regulations, or tax policies, these associations work to ensure fair legislation.

Food Safety

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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. Costs are what you pay for resources, like equipment, food, and labor.

License

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Participants reported continued food and labor cost increases, with 88 percent experiencing rising staff expenses, compared to 89 percent in last year’s annual survey, and 86 percent reporting an increase in food costs. This was the only fast-food sales channel that saw positive traffic compared to the previous month.

Franchising

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Running a successful restaurant in 2025 means more than just great food—it requires smart financial decisions. Use these Calculations to Maximize Cost Reduction The food cost percentage is the number one calculation that restaurants can use today to maximize their cost reduction. Food cost control is crucial.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

From a legal perspective, Insurance : the pandemic highlighted the limitations of insurance policies. Several high-profile restaurant groups brought litigation against insurance companies for their coverage position, but were ultimately unsuccessful. PIRG Education Fund. Technology changed during this time as well.

Mobile Ordering

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But not entirely because of inflation, labor shortages, and high food costs. Gross profit margin subtracts only the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) to determine the profitability of your food and beverages, while net profit margin subtracts all your costs to determine the profitability of your entire operation. We all know it. Labor costs.

Operations

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

Paper Chase Accountancy

JUNE 30, 2025

Bars typically have a simpler food menu but a more complicated drink menu, while restaurants deal with a more extensive food inventory and simpler drink lists. Taxes also differ; bars often face higher tax rates on alcohol than restaurants do on food. This affects how inventory is tracked and costed.

Bar

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

EATER

MARCH 11, 2025

Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship to food and dining has undergone some permanent changes I got COVID for the first time this past February. Most restaurant and food service workers did not have access to sick leave or any other safety net , and yet were deemed essential. Sound familiar?

Food Supply

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

With arabica trading above R $2,000 per sack, cargo thefts have surged; 40% of Q1 incidents targeted food and drinks across ten states—pushing exporters to boost security spending and insurers to hike premiums. San Pedro Sula, Honduras) Fri, 4 Jul – Food & Drinks Malaysia attracts 18,000 visitors and 500 exhibitors.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A significant loss of undocumented labor could force both the cost of labor and food for restaurants considerably higher. However, proposed changes to Medicare which give more control of the program to the states and proposed work requirements in exchange for coverage, may serve to limit the total number of insured.

Small Business

The Food Corridor

MAY 16, 2025

If you’ve ever tried to register your shared kitchen or food business incubator and found yourself stuck trying to figure out which NAICS code to use, you’re not alone. These codes are used in everything from registering your business to applying for grants, insurance, and government contracts. Producing food?

Insurance

PathSpot

JULY 1, 2025

We are delighted to announce our new collaboration between Rainbow Insurance and PathSpot Technologies. Bringing together state-of-the-art food safety innovation with highly specialized insurance solutions tailored for restaurants, cafes, and hospitality businesses. Claim Your Benefit Today!

Kitchen Safety

Society Insurance

MARCH 4, 2025

Society Insurance has spent 110 years helping protect businesses and has seen firsthand how nuclear verdicts have evolved in the U.S. Nuclear verdicts can occur as the result of a dispute in a restaurant parking lot, because of food safety issues, or even for reasons that exist outside the restaurant industry.

Insurance

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Up to this point, certain food businesses have been able to operate with the thought that eggs will always be available at a reasonable price, he says. When See has to inevitably restock eggs at the even-higher rates, Im going to have to see how that affects the food cost and how much of that I have to pass on, he says.

Food Supply

EATER

APRIL 28, 2025

Its sort of like an insurance policy against a dried out dough. Since I dont own a spice grinder I ground the black sesame in a small food processor. The dough feels like a milk bread, but instead of the extra step of preparing a tangzhong (a milk and flour roux) to ensure moisture, Yeh relies on potato flour.

Uniforms

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2025

Society Insurance has spent 110 years helping protect businesses and has seen firsthand how nuclear verdicts have evolved in the U.S. ” Nuclear verdicts can occur from a dispute in a restaurant parking lot to a food safety issue as well as exist outside the restaurant industry. Recent data shows that U.S.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 23, 2025

Society Insurance shares valuable tips and resources to help your team stay prepared, reduce risk, and maintain a safe environment for everyone. Consider offering food and water. As an alcohol-serving establishment, your business can be especially vulnerable to legal challenges. Do your servers know when to stop serving patrons?

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 16, 2022

Even with robust growth, the restaurant industry faces steep challenges right now, with labor shortages, higher inflation, challenges with home food and drink deliveries, and ongoing food and supply chain shortages. What are the big insurance issues impacting restaurants going forward? Food Delivery Issues.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. While there is some overlap in coverage needs, it’s important to understand the differences when it comes to insuring your business. Traditional Sit-Down Restaurant Insurance Needs. Dram shop law.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For more than 100 years, Society Insurance has been providing coverage to hospitality businesses. The Future of Nuclear Verdicts Society Insurance expects more of a discussion around nuclear verdicts and, ideally, an elimination of nuclear verdicts in favor of fair and just verdicts for restaurants.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2022

” No truer words were spoken by Benjamin Franklin and is a mantra that resonates deeply for businesses in the food service industry—many of whom are in recovery mode in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s five to seven times more energy used by food service than in a commercial space.

Food

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to a recent study , 44 percent of Americans use food delivery services, and the entire country spends over $100 billion on food delivery in a year. Customers log into the service’s app, select food options from nearby restaurants and submit an online payment. Question #3: Who is responsible for order errors?

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Consider the following in your risk management and business continuity programs: Use of Food Delivery Services vs. Company Employees – By using a hired food delivery service, a restaurant can reduce the chance of employees having an accident by using their cars or the owner’s vehicles.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2023

One study found that in 2016, the food and beverage industry accounted for ten percent of all data breaches. That's why it's essential for restaurants to consider cyber liability insurance. With cyber liability insurance, the costs of hiring attorneys and other legal expenses can be covered.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2022

Whether we speak about a traditional restaurant, a chain of Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), or dark kitchens, there is a strong need to set up a website or app to accept consumer orders or collaborate with third-party carriers for food delivery. Here’s how food delivery software can help. Customer Feedback on Food and Delivery.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2023

Restaurant insurance is complicated. Just as owners have to play many roles in management, marketing, and menus, their insurance has to protect their finances, patrons, and employees. And who has the time to read a 100-page insurance policy? These are often excluded from standard policies and be potentially costly.

Insurance