Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2024

Prices for real estate, inventory, and labor are rising. The results give the green light for certain restaurants to introduce more front-of-house automation. A majority (72 percent) of consumers are already loyal users of automated technologies such as self-checkout, curbside pickup, and contactless payment.

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MBB Hospitality

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Now that you’ve decided to open up your restaurant, you’ll have to determine pricing for all the delicious items you’ll sell to patrons. The right menu pricing strategy is essential for attracting customers and establishing a reliable client base. Pricing Based On Competition. Not Informing Staff About Marketing Efforts.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Again, turn to the National Restaurant Association for guidance. [] PRICING YOUR MENU BY COMPARISON. More often than not – the success of your restaurant begins with effective menu planning, proper pricing, and consistent execution. One of the most tempting forays into entrepreneurship is the restaurant business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

Let’s say the price of beef goes up. Reviewing your data from past menu adjustments may reveal an increase in the price of a chicken sandwich would create less of an impact on sales than bumping up the price of a hamburger. Understand customer cravings and business needs through data.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

These programs and APIs enable you to track your beer and liquor inventory , units, suppliers, and prices on your device. Maybe, you’ve come up with some unique concoctions for your menu that no one else in town serves, so you need a bar POS fully customized to your unique business needs. What are your profit margins?

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7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling variation. He joined us on the Pre-Shift Podcast to tell us about his new restaurant, paying fair wages, and how he feels about tipping.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since the pandemic, restaurants have endured a plethora of issues ranging from fluctuating dining restrictions to supply chain issues to rising food prices. To take some of the pressure off of an already small staff, restaurants have begun turning to technology solutions with touchpoints in the front and back of house operations.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past six months I have been committed to an exercise regimen thanks to my Apple Watch. Closing the rings of movement, exercise, and standing has been a goal since I first strapped on the watch, a goal that consumes my attention and cannot be broken for fear that I will simply fall off the pattern if the rings fail to close for one day.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 11, 2021

National Restaurant Association has partnered with LetsGetChecked to offer members exclusive pricing on-at-home tests Implement an Employee Health Tracking System to minimize infections and spread. "Winter is coming".said said every restaurateur in existence. But 2021 is the year to evolve your restaurant for whatever comes next.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry. Hospitality is greater than the sum of its parts.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Have a cocktail or menu competition The next time you are changing up your menu, open up a slot for an item that will be created by a member of your kitchen or front of house staff. Engaged employees are also less likely to turnover. This article will arm you with ideas for restaurant employee contests.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 15, 2022

It is also this potential that allows teachers to change the direction of a young student’s life, a garden expert to beautifully landscape a home, a plumber to turn copper into a work of art, an electrician to properly wire a house, or a cook to prepare a perfect restaurant meal. Each person has something to offer and a need to do so.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The system can also help to streamline front- and back-of-house processes to increase employee workflow and production efficiency, as well as customer capacity requirements, allowing outdoor orders to be handled quicker and with better service. Actionable Insights Gathered by POS Data.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Streamline the front of house. Run a smooth back of house. Streamline the front of house. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant. Keeping front-of-house activities humming like a well-oiled machine is important for every restaurant.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 7, 2024

Here are a few sample back-of-house job descriptions you can use to jumpstart your own job descriptions to help attract top notch BOH staff. Requirements: Conceive and update menus that embody our brand and showcase seasonal ingredients, featuring a diverse range of dishes with considerations for dietary preferences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Hootsuite’s top three benefits of implementing a UGC strategy include: Promoting authenticity; Building trust; and Driving purchasing decisions Put UGC to work for your restaurant by inviting diners to post a photo of their lunch on social media (tagging your business, of course) for a chance to win a meal on the house. is a common one.)

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2021

But it's the good shifts, when the front of house and back of house are flowing like a symphony, when customers are delighted, and the restaurant atmosphere feels effortless—that's the best part about restaurants. A bad shift can lead to unhappy customers and disgruntled staff. The pre-shift meeting ensures that doesn't happen.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

Restaurant back-of-house operations form the backbone of a restaurant’s success. The back-of-house (or BOH) manages crucial elements that impact cost control and profitability. The back of the house supports the front of the house (FOH), enabling the customer-facing team to focus on serving a memorable experience.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Ironically, there is always room to be great and there is plenty of room to be mediocre. With more than one million restaurants in the US we can flip a coin and hope for the great, will likely step through the doors of good, and far too often settle into the mediocre. I wonder why this is the case. Plain and simple. What are they thinking?

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EATER

JULY 7, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. This indicated a clear trend that a “restaurant” does not need to necessarily comprise of both front of house and back of house components.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2023

Owners of eating and drinking places have been compelled to increase menu prices as a survival strategy. Full-service menu prices jumped 8.8 percent and limited-service menu prices rose 7.1 Tweaking the menu to accommodate these more affordable ingredients can stabilize prices.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kitchen items should be counted separately from the front-of-house and bar inventory. Because the price of some items changes from week to week, make sure you use the latest price paid as the standard. Total Cost : Multiply the unit price of each item by the amount of that item that you have in your inventory.

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Apicbase

MAY 29, 2024

The typical menu of a virtual restaurant has food that travels well and can be eaten outside of home, such as burgers, pizzas, sushi, tacos, fried chicken, sandwiches, or stir-fries. Every few months, a media article declares the death of ghost kitchens as a viable business model. Market data, however, tells a different story.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

There are numerous multi-billion dollar chains along with countless mom and pop operations that do a great job on this front. This was (is) the design of classic coffee houses, speakeasys, and corner cafes for generations. I know what you are thinking – WHAT!!!! At least the real bad news is out of the way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online. If your cooks are mostly fulfilling off-site orders, you can do away with niceties like a slick front of house, visual merchandising, and a location with hungry walk-ins. It might not be. Clear career paths upwards and onwards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2022

They allow businesses to eliminate the up-front costs of developing an in-house application and, at the same time, remove the additional work and time required to hire, train, and manage delivery drivers. As consumers continue to feel a greater sense of normalcy, many pandemic-related concerns have started to subside. Set the Bar.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I turn on the news as background noise (there’s never any good news) and I faintly catch the key points about another mass shooting, climate anomalies, political battles, the lingering pandemic, and the rising price of goods. , I shout while frantically rubbing my calf trying to work out that Charlie horse pain.

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Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Cross training your team to fulfil multiple positions in the kitchen or front-of-house will allow you increased flexibility to staff according to demand. But Restaurants can still significantly reduce product costs by adjusting to price fluctuations in the market. Finally, look for suppliers who are upfront about prices.

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Cheetah

JULY 1, 2021

Cross training your team to fulfil multiple positions in the kitchen or front-of-house will allow you increased flexibility to staff according to demand. But Restaurants can still significantly reduce product costs by adjusting to price fluctuations in the market. Finally, look for suppliers who are upfront about prices.

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ChefMod

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Sharing a delicious meal with friends and family delivers on all fronts. People seem to be making up for the lost time on the social front, unfazed by rising fuel, food, and labor costs. With the government banning in-house dining, savvy eateries quickly pivoted their operations.

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Restaurant Clicks

JANUARY 2, 2022

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While your restaurant may feature a diverse menu, delicious food, a great ambiance, and excellent customer service, you will still struggle to build a customer base without promoting it. Others tend to emphasize their cheaper menu options. Instead of promoting items according to price or margin, promote what your customers love.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. Everything was built into the menu price. And I thought you know, I shouldn't be the one standing in front of people taking more money home.

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Squirrel Systems

APRIL 11, 2024

It surely helps to drive attention and maybe even gather a long line of hungry diners outside your door, but to make patio dining business profitable—requires focusing on ways to maximize your restaurant’s capacity, both from a front-of-house service and seating perspective.

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Open for Business

MAY 16, 2024

Menus can be refreshed and hospitality can be fine-tuned, but your restaurant’s success ultimately boils down to discoverability. Accessibility and convenience for guests Make it easy for potential customers to find baseline information about your restaurant, like location, menu, hours of operation, and contact details.

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