Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Inefficient restaurant inventory management practices, improper storage, gaps in inventory logs, theft, and waste can cause even the most successful kitchens to struggle or fail. Below are the top seven inventory management mistakes restaurants are making, and how to correct them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2025

It’s about taking friction out of operations—so staff can spend more time focused on hospitality, not paperwork. AI Is the New Secret Sauce in Restaurant Operations First, let me take a moment to say – AI isn’t just ChatGPT or image generation. This isn’t about replacing people with machines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This attack, however, is not out of the ordinary. Leveraging deepfake technology, bad actors can mimic the voices and even physical appearances of real people with startling accuracy, enabling them to carry out more realistic and more effective social engineering attacks than ever before. Some may even share login credentials.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 13, 2025

Whether you’re just starting out or expanding an existing portfolio, you need to treat it like a long game. If you’re chasing a trend, you’ll be out of the game the moment it shifts. You have to know your numbers, watch your labor, manage inventory and build relationships in your community.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

To do so, restaurants need to be mindful of these key elements of successful supply chain management. In order to reduce cost, waste, and optimize inventory, the process begins with planning and forecasting. Managing thousands of suppliers is impossible to do with manual on-premises systems. Planning and Forecasting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

The challenges can be overwhelming, from managing multiple orders to coordinating staff and ensuring timely deliveries. You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should. Growing a restaurant or catering business is no small feat.

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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. What is Restaurant Operations Management? Its tough, and cant be done passively. Great restaurant operations dont happen by accident.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It takes commitment alongside some investment in specific areas of operations. What strategic steps can you take to bring your kitchen closer to achieving zero-waste? Managing Inventory The first area of focus for any waste elimination strategy is your restaurant’s approach to ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2025

One constant has always stood out: this industry never stays still. Restaurants transitioned from reactive to proactive management, from disconnected systems to unified platforms. Today’s hospitality platforms are no longer just about taking orders or processing payments. Real-time data, once a luxury, became a necessity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

With people dining out less, some restaurant owners are increasingly trying to cut costs to stay afloat. This article will cover how implementing automation tools like IoT monitoring can save your business money, protect your inventory, and save time. People are deciding to eat- at home and purchase less.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Finding a well-rounded bar manager can be the determining factor in the success of your business. They play a big role in overseeing your inventory and attending to customer complaints. Through the right interview questions, you can find a manager who doesn’t just fit the job but can boost your bar’s reputation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2022

With the disruption that has swept across the restaurant industry in the last two years, many operators may feel overwhelmed as they work to bring food and labor costs under control, continue rolling out digital initiatives, and adapt to changing diner preferences. You’re still losing money on inventory. Reduce Food Waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2022

Inevitably, the constant stress of being short-staffed and working tirelessly to fill the staffing gaps is causing many restaurant managers to suffer from job burnout. Stress is part of the territory as a restaurant manager. The long hours, endless tasks, and physical demands are expected, but can also be managed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In fact, leveraging IoT is revolutionizing the sector by optimizing supply chain management, enhancing the customer experience, and facilitating data-driven decision-making. Consider cold chain management, quality control, inventory management, and/or any other aspect that can be optimized. Elevating customer experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2025

Getting the transactional hurdles out of the way allows diners to relax and relish what matters most — the food and the company they've chosen to share their meal with. The operational trifecta of inventory management, financial oversight, and labor scheduling represents a major drain on resources for most chain restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

As we navigate these changes, one theme stands out: innovation. Advances in AI and customer relationship management (CRM) tools allow businesses to analyze customer behavior, predict preferences, and craft hyper-personalized dining and drinking experiences.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Your staff, especially your restaurant manager, plays a crucial role in the overall dining experience. We’ve prepared a list of restaurant manager interview questions that can help you find the right person to lead your team and help grow your business. How do you manage the restaurant’s budget and control costs?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

What can restaurant owners and managers do to better engage workers and increase retention in the long run? Seven out of 10 restaurant operators reported they do not have enough staff to support current service demands. Instead, it’s a two-way street that allows both managers and restaurant staff to interact in real-time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Menu engineering, particularly for enterprise restaurant brands, has to take into account myriad details, from supplier pricing in different regions to regional menu item preferences to rapidly changing food costs.However, menu engineering doesn’t have to be a task you dread.

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The Rail

MARCH 31, 2025

By Jose Chavez, Contributor Managing multiple locations is tough in the restaurant business. Communication is hard when multiple locations can get teams and office spaces out of sync. Restaurant businesses need to adopt technology that enables collaboration among remote teams and simplifies management if they want to succeed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

One of the things large restaurants brands have realized they no longer have time for is managing an unruly tech stack. Too many restaurants, even enterprise brands, are still using manual processes for various areas of the business, such as inventory, scheduling, and reporting. Technology Consolidation. Better Team Communication.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Across the globe, and largely amongst younger age groups, more and more people are choosing to go out to eat by themselves. With solo dining on the rise globally, consumers are fundamentally changing the way they dine out. With solo dining on the rise globally, consumers are fundamentally changing the way they dine out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

It doesn’t matter if you have been in the restaurant industry for a decade or are just starting out, running a successful restaurant can be a stressful task. Management takes on multiple jobs throughout the restaurant including hiring, marketing, maintaining the budget, operations and keeping customers and staff happy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2025

While it's crucial to stay informed, stepping back and allowing experts to take charge can be key to overcoming these challenges. It can also optimize operations by forecasting busy times, adjusting staffing levels, and managing inventory, making everything run more smoothly and cutting down on waste.

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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. But there are several different tools to help you manage your restaurant—from single shifts and tasks to top-level overviews showing your business's health.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, technology exists that allows restaurant operators to take inventory in a matter of minutes, while achieving 99.9-percent Ordering and inventory capture have long been manual processes for restaurant operators, but they have become increasingly more time-consuming and inefficient.

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Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

The next youre racing to keep inventory stocked while customers wait for tables. Their stories inspire these 10 proven restaurant management tips and tricks for success. Whether youre a seasoned owner or just starting out, this advice will help you boost efficiency, keep your team motivated, and turn customers into regulars.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2022

We all know that being a restaurant manager is tough. When we think of a restaurant manager, we think of common traits such as a high-energy, service-oriented individual with strong people skills who can stay calm under immense pressure. How to Use Key Metrics for Proper Inventory.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. In addition to their main duties, restaurant managers also have to contend with all the unwritten or hidden responsibilities that fall on them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

If running a restaurant wasn’t already expensive, running one under new distancing regulations means less capacity and investment in safety infrastructure that will take a toll on costs. Third, menus should take into account changing customer bases. Optimize Inventory.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2025

. "We've also seen a significant shift in how restaurants handle guest commitments," Tock CEO Matt Tucker told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. "Pre-pandemic, When issues are identified, we take additional steps to trace and identify other reservations connected to these known problematic users.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2025

My business plan laid out my steppingstones: open three artisanal ice cream shops, create synergy, and ride out the cash flow. Tying up all our cash into aging inventory was not going to work for us. Keeping batch sizes manageable helps preserve the artisan feel, preventing the loss of what makes a product special.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques.

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The Rail

JUNE 11, 2025

Whether you’re moving into the next town or setting up a shop across the country, managing a multi-location restaurant requires planning, patience, and a whole lot of practical know-how. A well-thought-out timeline will help prevent delays and overspending. You're transitioning from being a hands-on operator to a multi-unit manager.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In this guide, youll learn: Why restaurant apps matter in 2025 and how its the consumer driving the changes The different types of restaurant apps How to make the most of your own branded restaurant app and its many benefits Lets take a closer look at why every restaurant should use apps in 2025. Reservation and table management apps.

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