Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2025

For example, Taco Bell is using AI-driven labor and inventory management tools to fine-tune staffing and reduce food waste. Dynamic pricing allows restaurants to adjust menu prices based on factors like inventory levels, time of day, or seasonality. Optimize pricing strategies based on real-time demand, reducing food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2025

Optimize Supply Chains : Use AI inventory tools to reduce food waste and ensure your supply chain is as efficient as possible. In the back of house, tools like inventory management systems support speed, accuracy, and cost control; in the front, customer-facing solutions such as online ordering and loyalty programs help sustain engagement."

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, AI can help QSRs make smarter inventory decisions by analyzing purchasing trends and aligning ingredient orders with demand. Start with areas where AI can make a measurable impact, such as inventory management or targeted promotions. This reduces waste and ensures menu availability, even during busy periods.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should. For example, let’s say you run out of a key ingredient because inventory wasn’t tracked accurately. It can also help you manage inventory and communicate with your kitchen staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Managing Inventory The first area of focus for any waste elimination strategy is your restaurant’s approach to ingredients. Automated inventory controls are becoming more accessible to even small restaurants, so implementing these throughout your organization is worth implementing. The rewards are certainly well worth the effort.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Improved traceability means better inventory management, as restaurants have clearer insights into what’s coming in and going out of the kitchen. Imagine being able to identify the source of a contaminated ingredient in hours instead of days, protecting customers and avoiding business disruptions.

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Restaurant Business

OCTOBER 23, 2024

One of the most impactful areas is inventory management. These technologies not only improve efficiency but also allow staff to focus on other aspects of customer service that require a human touch. Optimizing Back-of-House OperationsBehind the scenes, AI is making significant strides in improving restaurant efficiency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2025

You have to know your numbers, watch your labor, manage inventory and build relationships in your community. But if the brand feels like something you’d be proud to put your name on, you’ll put in the effort it takes to build it right. People can tell when you’re truly invested.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Invest in technology that offers meaningful insights across the board—inventory, sales, customer behavior, and more. In a world where 70 percent of digital transformation efforts fail, according to McKinsey, restaurants can’t afford to get it wrong. The solution? Get back to basics.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

If they can successfully compromise a delivery platform, then they can use that as a foothold to gain unauthorized access to a restaurant’s system to steal payment information, manipulate order and inventory systems, install ransomware, or carry out other nefarious activities.

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Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

Real-Time Inventory Tracking offers a powerful solution by giving operators instant visibility into whats in stock, whats being used, and what needs to be reordered. With real-time data guiding inventory decisions, restaurants can take tighter control of their food costs and boost long-term profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2025

If you miss the mark there, your labor, inventory, and prep levels are all off. We get granular with our sales forecasting because that forecast is the foundation for everything else. And when those are off, waste and inefficiencies climb. To encourage precision, we’ve even made it into a game.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

The operational trifecta of inventory management, financial oversight, and labor scheduling represents a major drain on resources for most chain restaurants. Enterprise-wide inventory systems provide real-time visibility across locations, preventing costly stockouts and profit-draining spoilage.

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Lavu

APRIL 17, 2025

When it comes to managing inventory, restaurants face a choice: POS inventory alerts vs. manual tracking. On the other hand, POS inventory alerts offer real-time updates, automate ordering, and minimize human mistakes. Managing restaurant inventory can be a major challenge, but the right system can make all the difference.

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Crunchtime

MAY 23, 2025

Are these 3 issues undermining your restaurant's inventory accuracy? From deliveries and data entry to transfers and reporting, inventory management in restaurants is full of moving parts. Its no surprise that even small missteps can quietly create big problems.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2025

With the right tools, operators can manage staff schedules, streamline kitchen communication, monitor inventory levels, and analyze sales trends all in one place. Or platforms that help reduce food waste by syncing inventory orders to accurate sales predictions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Too many restaurants, even enterprise brands, are still using manual processes for various areas of the business, such as inventory, scheduling, and reporting. These time-consuming tasks not only burn labor hours when you can least afford it but losing track of your inventory will eat away your margins faster than you realize.

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Crunchtime

JUNE 11, 2025

Learn how AI is helping restaurants optimize their inventory levels Managing food costs continues to be a top focus for operators nationwide. One of the key strategies to accomplish this is to improve vendor orders, ensuring that each store optimizes stock levels with just the right amount of product to meet demand in each store.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Recommended Reading: How to Effectively Manage Restaurant Inventory Productivity for Managers Problem: The self-coaching manager I conducted an interview with a restaurant staff member who put 5 years of hard work into providing excellent food service. Luckily for restaurant managers, several tech solutions exist to cure this headache.

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The Rail

JANUARY 21, 2025

Optimizing Inventory Management Spoiled or unused inventory is another major contributor to food waste. AI-powered inventory tools can optimize inventory levels by 35% as they monitor stock levels in real time, alerting staff to slow-moving or soon-to-expire ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Inventory management tools, for example, enable the real-time tracking of food stock, alerting staff to use items before they spoil and reducing waste. In quick-serve restaurants, staff can focus on preparing food rather than taking orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2022

How to Use Key Metrics for Proper Inventory. Mastering how to forecast your inventory is just the first step, you almost must control it. Inventory control traces the amount of product ordered, everything that comes out of the kitchen and bar and what is left over as sitting inventory afterward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2025

Now, restaurants across all categories recognize how these features protect their bottom line, especially with ongoing staffing challenges and inventory planning concerns." . "Pre-pandemic, only fine dining establishments typically used tools like prepayments or deposits. Tock's origin story is all about problem solving.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Think about it like this: just as your POS system predicts your inventory needs based on past sales, today's job seekers expect platforms to understand their skills and interests, then match them with the right opportunities. They expect jobs to find them, just like Netflix suggests their next show or DoorDash recommends their next meal.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, smart inventory systems can help reduce waste, while energy-efficient appliances cut operational costs and carbon footprints. The movement toward sustainable operations aligns with broader industry goals to minimize environmental impact and attract a generation of socially responsible diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

Advanced Inventory Management : Utilizing data-driven forecasting tools allows businesses to anticipate fluctuations and adjust procurement strategies accordingly. Exploring Egg Alternatives : The rise of plant-based and synthetic egg substitutes presents a viable option for bakeries and food manufacturers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Finding ways to align inventory management with more environmentally friendly packaging helps reduce such waste. E-commerce order management systems allow for real-time monitoring of current food inventory. More than 63 percent of municipal solid waste in the US was a result of food packaging.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2025

Tools such as inventory management software, kitchen display systems, and predictive analytics platforms allow operators to track food usage in real time, identify waste patterns, and forecast purchasing needs with greater accuracy. Technology plays a critical role in helping restaurants minimize waste and improve efficiency.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. How to solve it: Use data-driven ordering to track inventory closely to forecast demand accurately and avoid overstocking.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

One study found that internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages and about 4 percent of restaurant sales. There are all kinds of different types of restaurant theft, ranging from food and inventory, theft at the register and checkout counter, external grease theft, time theft and employee product theft.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2025

A strong POS system can streamline operations, inventory and menu management, assist with staffing shortages and scheduling conflicts, as well as assist with sorting through data and sales patterns to help personalize marketing campaigns in a new location. Tracking inventory can prevent unnecessary and costly food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Instead of panicking, I ran through our available inventory and identified an ingredient I could substitute if I modified the dish. I still have no idea how that happened! I pulled in the kitchen team and the FOH manager, and we agreed on the plan. The servers were informed of the change so they could guide customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2025

This means understanding and optimizing existing systems and inventory to avoid unnecessary complexity. Increasing the number of supply partners or product options adds complexity to logistics, inventory management, and compliance. This process involves a few key components: 1. But diversification brings its own challenges.

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Sculpture Hospitality

MAY 23, 2025

Running a restaurant means juggling a lot of tasks, and inventory may not feel like the most exciting one. However, implementing the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) inventory method can transform your stockroom into a well-oiled machine.

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