Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

If you want to build an understanding and even a level of competence with a variety of specific skill sets then clubs, resorts, and hotels may be the only place where that can happen. [] VOLUME: A very busy, well-branded restaurant might generate 5of 6 million in annual sales, where a club or hotel can easy boast four or five times that volume.

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ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

A spike in food costs, a drop in sales volume, or one slow season can wipe out months of hard work. A spike in food costs, a drop in sales volume, or one slow season can wipe out months of hard work. For example: Lets say your restaurant made $100,000 in total sales last month. What Are Restaurant Profit Margins?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2022

However, spending the time to create a handbook will help create the desired culture, as well as save time and money (helping to avoid employee turnover as 36 percent of employees say they quit because they wish they had better training, legal action, safety concerns). Elements from the ServSafe Certification. Safe food preparation.

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ChowNow

MAY 30, 2025

Rewarding customers for ordering direct creates long-term habits that boost your sales. Just make sure your staff is hyped and trained upwhen done right, these promos move fast. Promote the theme weekly on your restaurants social media, highlight it on your menu, and train your team to deliver a fun, on-brand experience.

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ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

It blends sales data, food cost, and menu psychology to help you stop guessing and start making decisions that grow your margins. If you want to escape the guesswork and increase your monthly profits, you need to use menu engineeringit blends psychology, data, and clever design to help you sell more of your most profitable items.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2022

Not only is your menu a key part of the customer experience but consider all major areas of restaurant operations, such as food cost, labor, marketing, accounting, and sales forecasts when making decisions about your menu. Neck and neck with the labor shortage, inflation has recently become a huge issue that operators are forced to combat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2024

Today, customers find restaurant brands through influencers, social media, review sites, and multiple channels. It increases the restaurant sales and builds a loyal customer base. Hence, we need to understand the key aspects of developing a loyalty program to increase restaurant sales and explore the ways that can be adopted.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to PwC, consumers are most influenced by their trust in a brand, which also includes places where they’re sure of safety and cleanliness. Without the widespread threat of infection, cleaning was previously more focused on appearance than protecting public health and was not as strategic as it needs to be today.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Optimize Your Restaurants Online Presence Your restaurants online presence is often the first touch point for potential guests, so make it count. Plus, reviews give curious guests insight into what kind of experience they can expect, influencing their decision to place an order. Here are two ways to make a big impact on your local SEO.

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The Rail

JUNE 11, 2025

From planning the move to training new staff and maintaining quality across locations, you’ll find valuable tips to help ensure your expansion is a success. Use training manuals, checklists, and even video tutorials to ensure that the new team follows the same guidelines. Start with your target opening date and work backward.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2014, online ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in and now accounts for roughly 40% of restaurant sales. In 2025, the US online food delivery market is expected to reach $424.9 billion in revenue. Customers expect to browse menus, place orders, and pay for their meals with just a few taps of their phones.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

For a deeper dive into brand messaging, strategy, and authenticity, creating unified guest experiences, and the orchestration of physical and experiential touchpoints, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to The Plaid Penguin’s Founder and Sir Idea Man Joe Haubenhofer. A strong restaurant brand goes beyond a logo.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry movers and shakers: "What do you feel is going to cause disruption in the restaurant industry over the next decade?” Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 13, 2025

Hacienda La Esmeralda won all three main categories, a first for the competition, and achieved record-breaking scores of 97 and 98 points for its natural and washed Geshas, respectively. With scores of 97 and 98 points, we may see a new world record for coffee prices in just a few months. The BoP auction will take place on 6 August.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour. To tackle this pressing issue effectively, businesses must invest in staff training and development, vital for retaining and upskilling their existing workforce.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2020

It seems that we have reached a point where acceptable casualties is a consideration in so many decisions. Throughout history – restaurants have been integral to civilized communities. Restaurants are more than places where we can fill our stomachs – so much more. restaurants were always one of the first signs of community spirit.

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7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2023

As part of our Serving What's Next webinar series, four restaurant managers shared their approach to hiring, training, and retaining. This is especially true for store managers, as their influence on the team is much larger. Their perfect scenario is that the store manager acts as the main point of contact for new hires.

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ChowNow

JUNE 20, 2025

An active, accurate profile helps you influence how Google will determine to rank your restaurant in search and also convince more customers to visit your restaurant or place an order online. There are two reasons every restaurant operator should actively manage their Google Business Profile. A blurry menu photo from 2018 isn’t a good look.

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Embrace the Suck

APRIL 26, 2020

Your sales or guest count for the day are great examples of lagging KPIs: they’ve happened and can’t be changed. These indicators are more predictive than reactive, providing the opportunity to influence and change the future. It’s been happening for a while—you just haven’t felt the heat yet.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. From cleaning flat tops to refilling sanitizers, it’s easy for tasks to get lost in the shuffle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2024

“Dram shop liability” refers to the body of law governing the liability of taverns, liquor stores and other establishments engaged in the commercial sale of alcohol. Owners of bars, taverns, restaurants and other establishments serving alcohol kept a close eye on a case before the Supreme Court of Florida this year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

broadline foodservice sales of plant-based meat have grown 37 percent in the past year. Despite skyrocketing demand for plant-based food across the U.S., 42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

We've reached a point where we're recognizing the value and limits of these technologies. And while automation and robotics can help streamline some elements of operations, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a newfound appreciation for human connection and dining experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Having a single supplier and point of support for all the store technology and payment processing functions also reduces administrative burden and risk. Having a single supplier and point of support for all the store technology and payment processing functions also reduces administrative burden and risk.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

In a State of the Restaurant industry report, the Natiional Restaurant Association sees a return to normal with predicted sales growth in 2023. Other top research lists how impactful the Super Bowl was for restaurants, the state of gift cards and top pizza cities. million by the end of 2023.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And it works 59% of respondents say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions. Unlike social media platforms, where the algorithm overlords dictate who will and will not see your posts, emails go straight to your customers inboxeswhich they check daily. Email marketing generates an incredible $42 for every $1 spent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2024

” The restaurant industry is the nation’s training ground. Sixty-three percent of adults have worked in the restaurant industry at some point in their lives. Sixty-three percent of adults have worked in the restaurant industry at some point in their lives.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 7, 2024

The cost of the food you serve can be affected by so many different outside influences, some of them more obvious, like the rise and fall of fuel costs or the effects of good or bad weather. But there's more to it than adding up your inventory bill and comparing it to your sales. Table of Contents What is it?

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Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

However, the barista career journey in the specialty coffee industry is rightly a major discussion point. For many people, the barista role is an entry point to developing a career in specialty coffee,” she explains. It can be difficult to transition into other roles in the sector, and opportunities to progress can be limited, too. “For

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Train staff to handle these calls well and keep people coming back. That they can get coronavirus from someone sitting next to them while dining. 'Safety' is what I believe to be most important now to help assure patrons to revisit their favorite restaurants. An app-first experience for restaurant chains. Impressions are everything.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It is the chef, after all, who makes the newspapers and magazines, receives the applause from happy customers in the dining room, is respected and feared by all who knock on the kitchen door to make a sale, and is given credit for the restaurants success by managers and owners.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2024

Building on decades of Korean Mexican cuisine in the city’s Pequeño Seúl, restaurants are crafting menus with global influences and attracting new customers The smells of Korean barbecue and Mexican street food mingle in the air of Zona Rosa, a central neighborhood of Mexico City. A variety of dishes at Dooriban in the Roma neighborhood.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

As a new initiative offering valuable education opportunities, business skills and training, and enhanced career prospects, Dunkin’ has launched a new partnership with Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) to offer low-cost college degrees to its independent franchisees and their employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news on the impact of California's minimum wage, customer satisfaction, AI use in restaurants, popular cocktails and bathroom readiness. Early Impact of California's Minimum Wage A new edition of The Anchor from Placer.ai, written by R.J.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. “I found inspiration on my travels.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen/Eater Practicality is at the forefront of the recipes in the TikTok influencer’s debut cookbook, ‘Justine Cooks’ What you don’t see in the videos are the rolls of tape: one stacked on top of the other, an iPhone leaned inside. This is how Justine Doiron — 2.3 Doiron explains. “It It felt like fake cooking.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Expert Market’s survey results also revealed that labor shortages have been cited as a top concern for nearly a quarter (23 percent) of US F&B businesses, top chart. Expert Market’s survey results also revealed that labor shortages have been cited as a top concern for nearly a quarter (23 percent) of US F&B businesses, top chart.

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