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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

Modern Restaurant Management

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.

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The Leftovers

EATER

Can an app promising discount, end-of-day goods make a dent in America’s food waste problem? Now, in a bid to reduce food waste, an app is using the appeal of cheap, unexpected food to motivate consumers to buy items restaurants would otherwise throw away. Lille Allen/Eater. Too Good To Go, which launched in 2015 in the U.K.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. According to a recent Forbes article , sit-down restaurants make a profit of about 6%. So, why do it?

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Trends and Tactics: How to Navigate the Changing Landscape of the European Restaurant Industry

Apicbase

Adopting technology allows you to track inventory levels in real time, streamlining the supply chain , reducing waste, and ensuring ingredients are always available when needed. Because technology integration allows your business systems to talk, it improves communication between the kitchen and front-of-house staff.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. According to a recent Forbes article , sit-down restaurants make a profit of about 6%. So, why do it?

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How to Maximise Your Restaurant Profit Margin: 5 Key Strategies

Apicbase

The restaurant profit margin takes into account all your revenue streams, from in-house dining and takeaway orders to branded merchandise and meal kits. It tells you how efficient or wasteful your operations are, helping you reduce waste and lower your food costs. On a side note, we queried operations with over 20 units.

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The Great Shortage

EATER

At its start, the pandemic brought us images of vast trenches of rotting onions, piles of abandoned produce, and lakes of wasted milk, dumped by farmers who no longer had restaurants to buy their products. Here’s how three owners are doing it. Where eating at restaurants became an option, the experience felt different.