SpotOn

JANUARY 13, 2025

Turn off online ordering  If you’re closed or scaling back your operations, turn off online ordering. Potential guests won’t be able to order from your restaurant, so there won’t be any miscommunications. Document everything If your physical location has been damaged by wildfires, document everything.

Online Ordering

ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

Fixed costs like rent, property taxes, insurance, and utilities are all part of your occupancy costs. You might be paying for unused software subscriptions, over-ordering supplies, or missing out on better deals from vendors. Heres how to clamp down on your food costs: Track waste and adjust orders accordingly.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This reflects the positive impact loyalty programs have on driving revenue, with 83 percent of restaurant leaders saying their loyalty program successfully drives up order or basket size, as well as repeat visits (82 percent) and return on investment (78 percent). An analysis of insurance claims processed in 2024 compared to 2023 shows a 4.4

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

However, the industry has renewed optimism, driven by the adoption of digital and mobile ordering, menu creativity and heightened expectations around AI. Similarly, 59 percent of respondents believe mobile apps that offer easy online ordering will have the greatest impact on operations over that same time period.

Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2025

An additional 35 percent of respondents reported seeing more takeout and delivery orders than in previous years, which correlates with 33 percent of participants reporting a decrease in dine-in visits. The states where people stick most with dairy and order oat milk the least are Wyoming (18.83 percent), Maine (47.41

2025

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Then costs go in order from most controllable to least controllable. Health insurance, retirement plans (401(k)), paid time off (PTO) (vacation, sick leave, holiday pay), workers compensation, and meal discounts Training and onboarding. To reduce high third-party commissions up to 30% or more) consider implementing POS online ordering.

License

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." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

Mobile Ordering

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Examples of fixed costs for a restaurant include rent, insurance, and equipment lease payments. However, finding ways to negotiate lower rent or insurance rates, or to optimize equipment usage can help to reduce fixed costs. This can help prevent over-ordering of ingredients, leading to excess inventory and unnecessary expenses.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

Even Starbucks—known for offering higher than average wages and health insurance to their employees—has problems retaining staff. Short-employment terms are the nature of the job, even at the most notable coffee shops. But like all business owners, you strive to maintain a low turnover rate.

Café

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But many owners don't account for the high fixed costs of bars —like repairs, insurance, and alcohol theft which can leave them with less profit than expected. Handhelds enable servers to take orders and payments at the table instead of running to and from the POS, making them twice as efficient.

Operations

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 25, 2025

Operating Expenses Utilities, marketing, supplies, rent, insurance. Inadequate Inventory Control: Without proper tracking, businesses can incur significant losses from spoilage, theft, or over-ordering, directly impacting profitability. Payroll Wage calculation, tax withholding, benefits administration. Maintain strict separation.

Hospitality

EATER

MARCH 11, 2025

So I isolated myself at home, using Instacart for the first time to order vegetables and Gatorade. But theres still no federal sick leave policy, and often restaurants still dont provide workers with health insurance or other benefits. We ordered by QR code as deliveristas filed through for their orders.

Food Supply

Paper Chase Accountancy

JUNE 30, 2025

Particularly, they must juggle between maintaining an adequate cash flow, coping with the sporadic nature of the business, and dealing with high-risk factors such as liability insurance and staff turnover. Furthermore, insurance costs can skyrocket due to the increased risk of incidents at nightclubs.

Bar

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

The Chinese chain opened two stores in Greenwich Village and Chelsea, offering mobile app ordering and competitive pricing. With the new equipment, MTPak Coffee now offers a minimum order quantity of 200 pieces and a one-week turnaround time after design approval. Changes aim to simplify orders and boost barista efficiency.

Pricing

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Occupancy Expenses: This refers to fixed costs like rent, property taxes, utilities, and property insurance. Your accountant can use your COGS to determine where you’re spending too much on food, if you’re ordering too much, or if someone is stealing. It is the cost incurred for a brick and mortar location of a food truck to exist.

2025

PathSpot

JULY 1, 2025

We are delighted to announce our new collaboration between Rainbow Insurance and PathSpot Technologies. Bringing together state-of-the-art food safety innovation with highly specialized insurance solutions tailored for restaurants, cafes, and hospitality businesses. Claim Your Benefit Today!

Kitchen Safety

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Waffle House, which claims to sell 272 million eggs per year, recently announced that its adding a temporary surcharge of 50 cents per egg to all orders. Even if they did, eggs will still never pose the cost challenge that covering health insurance and fair wages does, he notes.) Even large chains are reeling.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 23, 2025

Society Insurance shares valuable tips and resources to help your team stay prepared, reduce risk, and maintain a safe environment for everyone. Society Insurance has a partnership in place that provides discounts for Society policyholders to use any service offered by ServSafe–this includes alcohol service training.

Restaurant Law

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. While there is some overlap in coverage needs, it’s important to understand the differences when it comes to insuring your business. Traditional Sit-Down Restaurant Insurance Needs. Property Insurance.

Insurance

Go Hire- Restaurants

JULY 15, 2025

The FCC’s most recent order, released on July 10, 2015, elucidated that there is not a specific method by which a caller must obtain prior express consent, only that the consent must be express and not implied or presumed. See 2015 FCC Order, ¶¶ 49, 52. Illinois Farmers Insurance Co. Torchmark Corp. , In Payton v.

Recruiting

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats are among the most popular third-party ordering (“TPO”) platform services on the market, which tout online ordering and delivery solutions to restaurant owners across the country. With some TPO services, restaurants only pay a pre-set delivery amount once an order is placed.

Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In that case, there may not be any insurance outside the driver’s personal auto insurance. If you’re contracting with a third-party delivery service, let your insurance agent know. Your agent can review the contract to determine what types of insurance you may need to protect your restaurant.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2021

With the laundry list of everything bar and restaurant owners need to handle on a daily basis, proper insurance coverage should be top priority. Proper communication with the insurance agent about all the ins and outs of the restaurant can help set up the policy right from the get-go.

Bar

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2021

For the 12 months ended March 31, 2021, their pace of digital orders was up by 207 percent, versus 98 percentthrough direct restaurant ordering. In this changing environment, the right and adequate amount of insurance protection has never been more important. Risks to Look Out For.

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2020

For that reason, restaurant and business owners typically carry business income coverage, also referred to as business interruption coverage, which is insurance coverage intended to replace lost income in the event business is halted or interrupted for some reason, such as a natural disaster.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Monitor Order Sources. It’s crucial that you know where every online order is originating from. This will allow you to know when adjustments need to be made, whether to your own ordering site or your third-party listings. Maintain a Similar Customer Experience. Use Your Own Drivers Whenever Possible.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2020

If you’re like me, chances are you’ve probably ordered food online or through an app at least once in the last couple of weeks. We’re not alone — market research company Frost & Sullivan projects that online/mobile ordering will be a $200 billion dollar industry by 2025.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. Using LPR, restaurant staff can link an order to a customer's car and use it as an identification to deliver their order once ready.

2024

7 Shifts

JUNE 23, 2020

The first option is to use a third-party delivery app like UberEats and Doordash, and while they’re great options to increase your restaurant’s reach, they are known to charge a large percentage of the total bill—often upwards of 20-30% in order to use their services. You must establish a system for managing the orders that come in.

FOH

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2022

Imagine that your restaurant uses 500 onions a week: with this new technology, once you get down to a certain pre-set amount, an automated order request can be sent out to your supplier to ensure that you receive your next shipment before you run out. Retaining and Attracting Employees.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2020

restaurant delivery revenues are expected to reach nearly $80 Billion by 2022 and digital ordering and delivery has grown 300 percent faster than dine-in traffic since 2014. consumers order delivery or takeout once a week. 20 percent of consumers say they spend more on off-premise orders compared to a regular dine-in experience.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2020

Insurance coverage is an excellent resource to have as part of your risk response strategy. Insurance policies cover injury to employees or customers on your premises, damage from inclement weather, and much more. When deciding which policy is best, consider all types of risks that you might face. Remain Aware of Current Events.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Here is a set of suggested practices for companies and drivers to help minimize the adverse effects of this pandemic especially for restaurants who are now delivering orders since dine in opportunities have been restricted. It is recommended that any locations where delivery people wait for orders are separate from food preparation areas.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This is the appropriate strategy for a smaller operator with a single restaurant or with a limited number of restaurants that has to be fully insured. The brokerage approach focuses on a simple analysis of per unit cost. For larger operators, especially those with multi-state operations, the analysis becomes far more complicated.

Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 25, 2021

As a compromise, tenants are agreeing to pay at least the maintenance, taxes and insurance with rent being prorated based upon the level of occupancy permitted by the government restriction. However, there should now be a greater emphasis on better financial planning and enhanced insurance benefits to cover unexpected business interruption.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2022

Whether we speak about a traditional restaurant, a chain of Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), or dark kitchens, there is a strong need to set up a website or app to accept consumer orders or collaborate with third-party carriers for food delivery. Easier Order Management. Digitizing and Automating Order Allocation.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

restaurant industry has a loaded plate as 2021 picks up steam – especially from an insurance and financial protection point of view. “The prospects for fine dining and sit-down restaurants are going to remain strained for all of 2021,” said Doug Groves, founder at Program Insurance Group, in College Station, Tex.

Insurance