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Frying High: Elevating Cooking Oil Maintenance with Automation

Modern Restaurant Management

This helps the business manage its bottom line – especially given the higher cost of cooking oil in recent years – and the quality of the food coming out of its kitchens. The process was ripe with safety risks for employees and liabilities for the franchisee. “I talk about it all the time,’ Neal said.

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Would You Like AI With That? Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work in the Fast Food Industry 

Modern Restaurant Management

For starters, their plans include using AI agents to run repetitive admin; applying voice-automated AI to drive-through and back-office operations; implementing computer vision to speed up meal delivery; and sensor-tagging hard-working kitchen kit to predict maintenance needs.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Interestingly, the challenge typically doesn’t lie with restaurants—most owners and kitchen staff are already comfortable with e-commerce from their personal lives, as many regularly order from platforms like Amazon. For QSR brands, offering globally inspired menu items isn’t just a fun addition anymore, it’s a must.

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Papa Johns, Jack in the Box, Mooyah and more shake up C-suites

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She will now oversee human resources, culture, legal, risk safety and security, internal audit, and facilities. Formerly with Yum Brands, Davenport worked with Pizza Hut for more than nine years, including as managing director for global franchise markets and managing director for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. and Hardee’s.

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New Restaurant Technology that Propels Business

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This technology opens up a wide possibility of improvements and adaptations in the restaurant business that are too significant to overlook, some of which include: Restaurants can use these tabletop tablets to display their digital menu, which allows customers to place and send various orders directly to the kitchen.

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How to Read a Restaurant P&L (Profit and Loss) Statement + Free Template

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Gross profit margin Gross profit margin measures how much money you have left over after COGS and is used to measure the profitability of your menu. You can go even deeper with menu engineering , which is the process of evaluating each menu item's sales (popularity) and gross profit margin (profitability). Smallwares.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Many restaurant owners had believed they would be covered in the event of something like the pandemic, and found themselves without a safety net. Overall, the pandemic highlighted the vulnerabilities, margin issues, and lack of safety net to restaurants in a way the industry is still recovering from. – Pooja S.