The Rail

MAY 30, 2025

Recruiting and keeping seasoned front-of-house and kitchen employees calls for careful handling of leadership, culture, and compensation. By Tracie Johnson, Contributor A restaurant is a destination, an experience , and a reflection of the cultural moment -- not just a place to eat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the present and future of AI use in F&B, The Splintered Path to Purchase, the Datassential 500 Awards, and where chefs are earning six figures. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent in 2024 — falling short of the 4.1

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

These changes have become permanent shifts in how they target customers, market themselves, and design their offerings." " As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry. This trend has held on in the last five years.

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Qu

JUNE 16, 2025

The Kitchen Gets Its Tech Glow-Up After years of innovation in front-of-house technology, kitchen technology is finally having its moment. We gathered top industry leaders to discuss the trends surfaced in our 2025 State of Digital Report. They shared what’s working, what’s not, and where the smart money is going.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

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QSR Automations

MARCH 4, 2025

Jennifers leadership, innovation, and vision have been instrumental in driving our success. From streamlining kitchen operations to improving communication between front- and back-of-house or enhancing the guest experience, Im drawn to solutions that ease the workload for operators and staff. How did you begin your journey?

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Future Food

MAY 29, 2025

It allows leadership teams to scale with confidence, knowing their standards are being met site-wide. At its core, its a payments platform, but one with a twist: 50% of its profits from transaction fees are channelled into Australias creative industries. For fast-paced environments, it balances power and usability.

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EATER

MARCH 12, 2025

Randi Lee and his wife, Jeanette Zinno, took over the storefront that would become Leland Eating and Drinking House in Brooklyn in February 2020, ready to fully demo the space. Masked chefs make pizza in a restaurant kitchen in 2022. What I originally envisioned is the restaurant that exists now, says Stieber.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged. Among delivery apps, DoorDash is the clear favorite.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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Apicbase

JULY 16, 2025

IT has moved from the sidelines to the centre of hospitality operations. For a long time, technology was viewed as a support function. It was something you upgrade when workflows break or legacy systems become too painful to manage. In fact, 94% of restaurants only adopt new tech when absolutely necessary. But that’s starting to change.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 1, 2025

He was also CEO of its parent company, Front Burner Brands, from 1985 until this past October. He was also CEO of its parent company, Front Burner Brands, from 1985 until this past October. He has held various franchise and operations leadership roles. He has held various franchise and operations leadership roles.

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Gecko Hospitality

JULY 17, 2025

Managing these unpredictable moments requires sharp decision-making, unshakeable composure, and top-tier leadership skills. Leading by Action, Not Delegation Leadership in this industry isn’t about issuing instructions from an office. This is not a job where managers shuffle papers at a desk with a cup of coffee in hand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

Even with this good news for restaurant operators, many challenges still remain – particularly around staffing in both the front and back of the house. The landscape of the restaurant industry has changed forever due to Covid and the operational complexities that the pandemic introduced. And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 22, 2024

The restaurant industry has dominated both the financial and front pages of late as Roark completed its acquisition of Subway and Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy. "This To gain insights, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine turned to Phil Kafarakis, President & CEO, International Foodservice Manufacturers Association.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The importance of (and need for) managers’ frontline leadership spans both back-of-house and front-of-house, extending from the kitchen when cooks need help to the dining room handling guests’ needs. So, what did we find? A desire for better pay is the No.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 27, 2020

Our leadership team quickly realized if we wanted our staff to trust us during such an uncertain situation, we had to increase our transparency. On March 3, Columbus canceled the Arnold Sports Festival, one of the largest events of the year for the city. Stories like ours played out in restaurants across the country over the next few weeks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

And communications is front and center, particularly for restaurants that might not be as well known for out of restaurant food. Among the findings: Most diners are not overly fearful, with 57 percent making no change to their dining behaviors. 34 percent of respondents saying they plan to prepare more meals at home. "It's

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Gives front-of-house teams the resources to provide better customer service. MOD Pizza, a fast-growing QSR brand with nearly 500 locations and 10,000 MOD Squad members, is built on a bottom-up leadership approach. Digital tools can help restaurant leaders tackle this ongoing problem. The real money is with repeat business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 29, 2023

In a people-powered industry dependent on sophisticated coordination, management strategies prioritizing mutual respect and enabling communication between the Front and Back of House can cultivate inclusive environments where relationships matter and memories are made.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Invest in an Online Presence Social media platforms provide an unparalleled opportunity to get in front of the right audience at the right time. It allows businesses to engage with current customers and help build organic brand ambassadors while also serving up content in front of new customers. In many cases, trends are a good thing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2020

There are several considerations that owners and managers must take when establishing new cleaning procedures, including: Frequency – Enhanced cleaning and disinfection, in both front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) areas, will reduce the spread of potentially harmful germs throughout the restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2020

For restaurants, it’s a chance to cement your culinary philosophy into a system of thinking that informs kitchen techniques, front of house behavior, interior design, social media presence and more. When taken to heart by leadership, they can inform business decisions, staffing choices and much more. Balance Your Tensions.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 23, 2022

Executive Summary. Region: Great Lakes. Number of Locations: 16. Restaurant Type: Quick Service. Problem : Manual scheduling processes that took too much time, siloed operations, and didn't resonate with a younger, tech-saavy workforce. The food and hospitality hasn't changed all that much since '65. The restaurant industry has. Table of Contents.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 19, 2024

Keep in mind, that mise en place rarely just happens without leadership setting the example and building in those expectations. You can assess the quality of an operation and the effectiveness of a chef to lead a team within the first minutes of walking into a kitchen. Cooks don’t have to work at mise en place, it simply “is.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. A better description might be a balancing act that presents new and unique challenges every day. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. This part of the job is arguably the most multi-faceted.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Inventory management software is one great resource to help cut down on food waste, food cost and ensure that everything in your back-of-house is streamlined for transparency and profitability. If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have. But that was the 90s.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Your POS system reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory. If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have. It's a necessity for building a modern and future-proof restaurant. Third-party delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

" In an effort to help franchisees overcome the business challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis, Huddle House has announced a program of relief measures being temporarily offered to franchisees to support the system head-on during this crisis. "Cox Media has been very supportive to us during this difficult time. . "In

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

There is so much to learn about food, service, operating a business, people and traditions, and leadership. It might be an in-service training session, a one-on-one demonstration to a young cook, a pre-meal session with front-of-the-house, or even a simple “words of wisdom” post on the employee bulletin board. HAVE A PLAN.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

The leadership team redid the staffing model to allow people to work from home as needed. For many organizations, the first step in dealing with pandemic shutdowns was just to help their participants and alumni get through the initial weeks On the evening of Saturday, March 14, 2020, the staff at Café Momentum served only seven diners.

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yet, here you are still slugging it out every single day doing battle on the front line. You’ve heard it said to you by every consultant out there.You need to work ON your restaurant and not IN your restaurant. While working ON your business sounds great, it appears to you to be more like a mythical creature that you will never catch.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

“This alignment, along with TouchBistro’s global market leadership and powerhouse team of restaurant industry veterans, represents a great opportunity to get the proprietary capabilities we’ve built into our guest retention solution into the hands of significantly more restaurants.” TouchBistro Acquires TableUp.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

BWW Franchisee Acquisition Completed. CV Partners, LLC, completed the previously announced acquisition of Diversified Restaurant Holdings, Inc. (“DRH”), one of the largest franchisees for Buffalo Wild Wings® ("BWW") with 64 sports bars across five states. DRH’s common stockholders received $1.05 per share in cash.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It reduces ordering errors, increases front-of-house and back-of-house efficiency, and helps you control inventory. Restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have: it’s an absolute necessity for building a modern, resilient restaurant that can become and stay competitive.

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EATER

JUNE 9, 2021

The pins were initially designed to represent the restaurant’s COVID safety checklist; but in March, when California hospitality workers became eligible for vaccination, Bililies and the senior leadership team at Souvla had the idea to make the pin a limited-edition run and offer it to staff as they got their vaccines.

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