The Rail

APRIL 14, 2025

While excellent content marketing presents your restaurant as an authority, paid advertising efforts on Google and social media create focused traffic. Technology investments increase long-term productivity whether they be for customer relationship management (CRM) software , point-of-sale system upgrades, or cybersecurity enhancement.

Small Business

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nowadays, running a successful restaurant takes more than great food and good service. With 90% of diners checking a restaurant online before visiting, you also need a strong online presence to attract and boost reservations. To do so, you must have an optimized website and engaging social media profiles.

Book

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Restaurant accounting is the process of interpreting and analyzing the revenue, cash flow, inventory, and income statements of a restaurant. Let’s start with some basic terms: Cost of Goods Sold (COGS): This is the cost of all the items and ingredients on your menu (Beginning Inventory + Purchased Inventory – Ending Inventory).

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Those priorities include increased marketing and sales efforts alongside new benefits and programs to attract and retain staff. Despite potential challenges, the industry is both optimistic, as total restaurant sales crested $1 trillion for the first time on record, and ready to pivot to continue growing.

Franchise

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 19, 2025

Editor’s note Specialty coffee consumption in the US has reached a 14‑year high. According to the National Coffee Association, 46% of adults in the US reported drinking a specialty coffee in the past day, up 84% since 2011 and surpassing past-day traditional coffee consumption at 42%. London September ICE robusta futures fell by 6.4%

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 29, 2025

Additionally, certified stockpiles are also running low; ICE warehouse inventories dropped below one million bags earlier this year. Coffee roasters around the world are struggling to navigate the rising tide of costs without losing loyal customers. At the same time, coffee consumers are growing more price-sensitive.

Pricing

The Rail

JUNE 11, 2025

Operationally, your current team should be self-sufficient enough that you won’t need to be present 24/7. Invest in Technology to Keep Everything Connected Managing two restaurants from one central point is challenging without the right tools. Also, consider market research for the new location.

Management

Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Integrations : Connect with loyalty programs, delivery platforms, and inventory systems for seamless personalization. Increases Sales : Personalized recommendations drive purchases. Improves Operations : Smarter inventory and menu management. Rely on inventory management tools to avoid running out of popular items.

POS

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

In today’s fast-paced restaurant industry, speed and simplicity are everything—especially at the point of sale. This collaboration introduces a restaurant POS system with integrated payments , combining advanced point-of-sale technology with secure, unified payment processing. The result? Khatri, CEO of Lavu.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Whether you’re connecting loyalty programs, online ordering, or inventory tools, open APIs make it possible to tailor your POS to match your exact operational needs. Furthermore, open API presents the ability for software vendors to specialize and really create the best products. What is an Open API?

POS

Lavu

AUGUST 14, 2025

Are you changing your point-of-sale system ? In 2025, staying competitive in the restaurant industry means keeping up with rapid changes in technology, customer expectations, and operational trends. One of the best ways to stay ahead is by attending a restaurant trade show. Not all trade shows are all-inclusive, like the NRA show.

2025

Lavu

AUGUST 14, 2025

Today’s POS systems are no longer just cash registers – they’re all-in-one tools that help restaurants manage orders, track inventory in real time, improve customer service, and boost profits. Live Inventory Tracking : Tracks stock levels in real time, cutting waste and preventing shortages. Currently, over 140,000 U.S.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Modern point-of-sale systems go beyond order processing—they streamline operations, reduce bottlenecks, and improve table turnover. Likewise, Domino’s app has become a sales powerhouse, accounting for over half of the chain’s revenue. In the fast-paced world of food service, every second counts. Restaurants For U.S.

POS

Qu

MARCH 28, 2025

This marked a significant milestone, as the restaurant industrytraditionally underrepresented at such eventsemerged as a focal point of technological innovation. Automated Inventory Management Today, general managers spend hours weekly counting inventory, often discovering shortages only after they cause problems.

Fast Casual

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

Some restaurant chain owners see the transition as a step toward going cashless in the future because restaurant point-of-sale systems make it so easy. With cashless options such as credit cards, mobile payment apps, and contactless payments, customers can make quick and hassle-free payments, reducing wait times at the point of sale.

2025

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." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

Mobile Ordering

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 24, 2025

These books aid in tracking sales, managing payroll, and handling expenses accurately. We’ll explore why these books are indispensable in daily operations, dissect their key components from sales to payroll, and highlight common pitfalls in restaurant bookkeeping.

Book

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 20, 2025

Restaurant accountants, for instance, must navigate the challenges of fluctuating inventory, high-volume cash transactions, and regular tipping practices, which are unique to the restaurant industry. In the bustling world of gastronomy, the art of restaurant bookkeeping often takes a backseat. What’s the role of outsourced services?

Cash Management

Paper Chase Accountancy

AUGUST 5, 2025

Smarter restaurant accounting solutions promise not just to streamline operations, but also to significantly boost bottom lines. But how exactly does one navigate this complex landscape of numbers and nosh? Key Takeaways Smart restaurant accounting solutions significantly enhance profitability and streamline financial operations.

Cash Management

Apicbase

OCTOBER 25, 2024

You need to manage everything from costs and inventory to menu design to get this balance right. Inconsistent menu offerings A poorly managed inventory can lead to discrepancies between what’s listed on the menu and what’s actually available in the kitchen. The more locations you operate, the bigger the loss.

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

On a year-over-year basis, small business sales (+2.1 Month-over-month sales (+0.1 Year-to-date, combined sales growth for January and February is 3.5 percentage points less than sales growth from the same two-month period in 2024. Independent operators feel the squeeze the most. percent) showed healthy growth.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Key data points: The demand for takeout and delivery has slightly outpaced the demand for dining in. This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. Among delivery apps, DoorDash is the clear favorite.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Most Restaurants Increased Sales in 2024 Approximately 63 percent of restaurant operators that manage finances said their profits in 2024 increased compared to last year. Most Restaurants Increased Sales in 2024 Approximately 63 percent of restaurant operators that manage finances said their profits in 2024 increased compared to last year.

Point of Sale

Paper Chase Accountancy

JUNE 12, 2025

Just like a key can unlock a door, innovative hospitality finance solutions can open up new avenues of growth for hotels and restaurants. In an industry where margins are often razor-thin, the right financial strategies can make a significant difference. So, what could the key to unlocking this growth look like?

Hotels

Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 21, 2025

Specialized hospitality accountants provide essential services like inventory management, accurate payroll processing, and tracking daily sales and expenses. Key Takeaways Hospitality accounting solutions streamline financial management and ensure regulatory compliance, vital for growth in the industry.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From inventory management to predictive labor scheduling, AI tools will help restaurants cut costs and adapt in real-time, while providing operators valuable data to help inform business decisions. While features like ordering and paying via QR codes have become the norm, Back-of-House systems have lagged in sophistication.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While many operators struggled to keep expenses – particularly food and labor costs – under control, they also observed an increase in guest traffic and in profit margins, in part due to strong takeout and delivery sales. outlining the top challenges facing the industry, alongside the emerging trends shaping it.

2025

Paper Chase Accountancy

AUGUST 5, 2025

They’re attuned to the specific financial challenges and opportunities that LA’s dynamic culinary scene presents. Just as a master chef stirs the perfect blend of spices into a dish, so too must restaurant owners in Los Angeles blend their passion for food with a keen understanding of financial management.

Hospitality

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Both situations could have been prevented with proper restaurant inventory management, which gives restaurant operators better oversight over what's in stock and how it is used. There are plenty of good reasons to take inventory on a regular basis: Your restaurant can avoid running out of a key ingredient mid-service. Inventory Basics.

Inventory

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2021

In addition to online ordering, many of the restaurants that were able to stay afloat did so by crafting compelling promotions and customer incentives as a way to help increase sales, leveraging data pulled from POS reports to guide promotion efforts. restaurant market. Perfecting Off-Premise and Mobile Integration.

Innovation

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.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. One of the most obvious aspects of this interaction is that there is not a single human involved besides the consumer. Voice Ordering.

Food Order

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

When we compromise on the quality of cooking, taste, and presentation then we suffer trying to win unhappy customers back and you, the chef, must look in a mirror and see the face of compromise. Get it done, no mistakes, and pick up the pace are all directives that help line cooks make it through another day or night. We made it!

Customer Service

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2021

Two key factors are driving the problem for restaurateurs: the first is the fact that delivery has become more than just another sales channel. The point isn’t just to keep a higher percentage but also to curtail operational expenses. And that’s a “necessary evil” for accessing each one’s loyal customers.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2019

RFID assigns a digital identity to food items and allows real-time tracking and inventory visibility. Using AI to identify the substances present inside a food item, even the harmful ones. TellSpec, an AI company in the States, processes the food item and lists out calories and other nutritious components present within the food item.

Technology

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants of today are infused with technology in many new ways, and it’s making a difference. A full 55% of consumers consider takeout and delivery essential to their restaurant experience. Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. Try 7shifts for free.

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

The Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury , released the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness Application and detailed instructions for the application. Step-by-step instructions on how to perform the calculations required by the CARES Act to confirm eligibility for loan forgiveness.

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