7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials. If this applies to you, you'll want to make sure that menu items are enticing, well-portioned, and profitable.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2021

It featured recruitment content and live sessions with Chipotle employees highlighting its benefits, career paths, cooking demos, and more. On Monday, May 17, Applebee’s will host a National Hiring Day event at franchise and company-operated restaurants nationwide.

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Hiring Employee Relations Recruiting Education 140

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

My managers also used code names based on menu items to “rate” female customers. I turned to him in that moment and said, 'Name any item on that menu.'” The QSR franchise started in Seattle and serves up Asian-inspired bowls and appetizers. Is there something in the hiring or recruiting process that leaves women out?

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials. If this applies to you, you'll want to make sure that menu items are enticing, well-portioned, and profitable.

Management 195

Management Management Kitchen Safety Front of House 195

EATER

JUNE 29, 2022

As she waits for her four pieces of fried chicken and a biscuit, a teenage boy hustles through the door, places his order, and sits on the edge of a bench seat, tapping his foot and singing under his breath. Together the group owns 43 Texas Chicken and Burgers locations, and while the menu is still halal, they don’t look like the other shops.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Smart brands are having to be even more creative, such as leveraging the ‘to go bag’ as a communications channel that can be used to communicate brand messages, promote new menu offerings and provide bounce back offers that favor preferred channels such as pick up. Berekk Blackwell, President of Daily Jam.

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Apicbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, we’re seeing some major shifts around menu creation, procurement, and dining habits of guests. We’re seeing major shifts in menu creation, procurement, and dining habits. OUR TOP 10 In 2022, 31% of restaurants cut the number of menu items on offer to deal with the inflation and rising food costs. Let’s dig in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill formally served on the Great Lakes Franchise Association Board, Del Taco’s Franchise Marketing Advisory Council and the Finance Excellence Advisory Council for Burger King. In 2009, Greg moved to the Del Taco brand, where we were chosen as Franchise Operator of the Year in both 2009 and 2010. Module 3: Communication.

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Apicbase

JUNE 16, 2023

For example, you can use sales data to track trends in customer spending and identify your most profitable menu items. On the other hand, if your restaurant operates with a seasonal menu, quarterly metrics could be more revealing. Consider menu engineering software as your strategic ally. Ideally, variance should be zero.

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Point of Sale Inventory Waste Employee Relations 52

Black Box Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Whether you want to take a bird’s-eye-view and track restaurant benchmarks or hone in on how guests are responding to your newest menu item, BBI’s solutions shed light on the aspects of your business performance that can’t be captured in surveys. In addition to monitoring your guest data, see how your competitors’ specials, menu items, etc.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

65 percent use a paper towel when touching door handles, faucets or toilet flushers, 44 percent operate the toilet flusher with their foot, 42 percent use a seat liner or cover, 29 percent hover above the toilet seat, 29 percent use their butt to open and close doors and 27 percent use their elbow to operate towel dispensers.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Point of Sale POS 104

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Even cost of sales may go down as the ghost kitchen typically has a smaller, more manageable menu. Plant-based Menu Items. Jim Collins, CEO at Kitchen United.

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2020 Kitchen Safety Consumer Goods Point of Sale 135

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Although the land, labor, and creativity of farm-to-table sourcing is so exciting and delicious, considerable operational disruption, scheduling, and menu management is still required to make it all a profitable business model. Brands will look to collaborate with menu splitting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

With multiple restaurants in a shared space, DoorDash will empower these merchants to offer their customers new menu offerings and pairings unique to the DoorDash Kitchens’ restaurants. “Restaurants are catching on and realizing that it isn’t as simple as adding a vegan burger onto the menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

.” Prior to joining Boston Market, Wyatt served as Operations Partner/Vice President of Operations for Panera Bread, where he was responsible for all aspects of operations, including retail, marketing, recruiting, catering, facilities and bakery at more than 40 cafes in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

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