Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Technology that helps kitchens manage and time orders from multiple channels will be key to keeping pace and ensuring diners stay happy and loyal.” 58 percent of consumers rate healthy options on menu as important, with families rating this the highest at 74 percent, followed by Millennials at 71 percent. compared with $32.03

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2022 Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery Point of Sale 203

Goliath Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This holiday season, entering into 2022, there may be more people staying home by themselves and not travel as much to visit their families. The pandemic accelerated restaurant and bar trends such as ghost kitchens, e-commerce brands, and now alcohol delivery. Alcohol To-Go. Although, it varies on the location of the restaurant.

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Beverage Seasonal Menu Consumer Goods 2021 60

EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. Seasons : The Canadian Rockies are an all-year destination. Paul Zizka. Lake Louise.

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Hotels Front of House Seasonal Menu Fine Dining 98

EATER

JANUARY 5, 2022

Andy Rebhun, SVP digital and marketing officer for El Pollo Loco, noted during the drone demo that “I really don’t feel like customers should have to travel to pick up their food.” And there’s no need to fret when you travel somewhere far from home. Why should you ever have to leave the house? Restaurants already have fixed rent.

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Food Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Food Order 144

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2020

2 – Food Safety Concerns Hurt Restaurants Most. While the buzzword around packaging last year was minimization, we’re seeing a sudden shift to consumer concern about food safety and a related perception that more packaging is better. Reassure them that restaurants have always had food-safety procedures in place.

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2020 Food Safety Kitchen Safety Consumer Goods 99

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. Cleanliness – The robotic kitchen is NSF 169 certified, which is the equivalent to best in class sanitation, to ensure customers know that their blend is created in the cleanest, safest, and most sanitary environment possible. Door Dash Shared Kitchen. ?DoorDash?

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Food Truck Customer Service Customer Experience Front of House 109

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. Visits at the dinner daypart were down -5 percent in May 2021 from a year ago and -12 percent from two years ago.

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2021 Guest Recovery Online Ordering Point of Sale 186

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the case of leisure travel, we will begin to see a combination of passenger data, flight status, and restaurant capacity and availability, driving personalized offers and promotions to weary traveling families looking for a safe place to fuel up and relax. What was once considered a convenience is now viewed as a necessity.

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2021 Kitchen Safety Food Safety Mobile Ordering 169

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Among the highlights: Online Ordering sales of pizza (+9 percent), burgers (+10 percent), and fried chicken (+5 percent) were up from last year, but the largest trend in online ordering was sandwiches and wraps as guests give up on slapping bread together at home and restaurants pivot to menu items that travel well.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Merchandise 120

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

The brand’s commitment to each guest service experience is the focal point of upcoming menu innovation, value-based choices, and a portfolio of new organic food and beverage educational content. Noodles & Company Launches Ghost Kitchen. Noodles & Company launched its first ghost kitchen test in Chicago.

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Franchise Franchising Fast Casual Loyalty Program 182

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. We are excited to support their mission to help independent restaurants optimize online ordering and generate incremental revenue from under-utilized kitchens.”

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Online Ordering Customer Service Seasonal Menu Food Order 124

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 16, 2021

UNO Pizzeria & Grill will provide its General Managers at the restaurant level with two round-trip airline tickets to travel anywhere in the continental United States. UNO’s gift of travel and leisure will serve as a way to recognize all of its General Managers’ hard work throughout the past 16+ months.

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Franchise Franchising 2021 Employee Relations 141

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Aramark Creates Safety Plans. Aramark examined front and back of house processes to establish tailored playbooks for all of its businesses and market segments, leveraging innovative solutions, new service methods, and rigorous safety protocols. Touchless cleaning for the safety of employees. Added sanitizing stations.

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Food Safety Kitchen Safety Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery 137

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

But for other segments, namely fine dining and family dining, this holiday actually means an increase in sales as many families travel, get together and celebrate by dining out. According to new research from the National Restaurant Association, 72 percent of people want a restaurant gift card this holiday season.

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2019 Compost Mobile Ordering Point of Sale 96

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management. – Lori Bolin, President of BrewLogix.

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2023 Loyalty Program Fast Casual Customer Experience 157

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

During that period, McDonald's also undertook several "velocity growth accelerators," including (1) an Experience of the Future layout, which features a combination of ordering flexibility, customer experience, and a more streamlined menu; (2) mobile ordering and payments; and (3) delivery alternatives. "When in January 2017.

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Waste Food Leadership Customer Service 84

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features the Independent Restaurant Coalition, Tripadvisor, Inspire Brands Foundation, WorkJam, EZ-Chow, US Foods, Potbelly Pantry, Just Salad, Zalat Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, California Pizza Kitchen, Nando’s and Street Factory Media. Tripadvisor's Plan to Help Restaurants. Photo by Kathy Tran.

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Tip Distribution Healthcare Hospitality Food Supply 135

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Bill directs all operational and strategic planning and execution for the Applebee’s, Del Taco, MOD Pizza, Wendy’s and Olga’s Kitchen brands. Greg Fuchs serves as the Senior Facilities Manager for Applebee’s, MOD Pizza, Del Taco, Olga’s Kitchen and Wendy’s restaurants in the TSFR portfolio.

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Food Tip Distribution Guest Recovery Food Safety 141

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

No longer a polarizing dietary choice, plant-based menu items are popular for their taste and presentation well beyond any health drivers. Added benefit: plant-based menu items often have lower food costs, allowing for increased profit margins or lower price points for your guests. Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley?

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2021 Hotels Airlines Guest Recovery 199

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

. “Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Allergens Kitchen Safety Guest Recovery Customer Service 113

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

retail container ports than previously believed as factory shutdowns and travel restrictions in China continue to affect production, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. 65 percent wipe down bathroom and kitchen surfaces. Impact on Imports.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Point of Sale POS 101

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) plans to bring its signature California-style pizzas, pastas, salads and more to Canada for the first time. locations, whether joining us on vacation or business travel. . locations, whether joining us on vacation or business travel. CPK Heads North. “Every time we’ve visited the U.S.

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Franchise Franchising Fast Casual Customer Experience 120

EATER

JUNE 9, 2020

Lesley Suter, travel editor. ? Anchovy is selling khao jee pate from a to-go window, Ima Project Cafe is still packaging its popular nori paste and kimchi for home kitchens, and several restaurants are cooking free meals for people in need. What follows is something like a diary of eating on planet Earth on Tuesday, June 2, 2020.

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Government White Paper Fine Dining Dine-in 126

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.).

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2020 Kitchen Safety Consumer Goods Point of Sale 129

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2021

Seasonal Favorites. The study also intends to find a potential solution for solving these challenges, especially considering the nature of job for restaurant workers –– unlike their desk-bound peers sitting at HQ offices, these are frontline heroes constantly on the go serving customers or busy prepping in the back kitchen.

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2021 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Consumer Goods 116

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Menu price changes. Finally, they asked survey respondents if they had raised or lowered their menu prices in response to the pandemic, and how their guests have reacted to those additional costs. Fast casual and fine dining establishments need to modify their menus to tasty food that travels well.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Hotels Food Safety 216

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

The reopening kits provide independent restaurant operators with must-have supplies such as masks and safety guidance posters as well as resource guides to navigate state and local COVID-19 reopening requirements and help create a safer environment for staff and customers alike. US Foods Holding Corp. ” Carbon Footprint Labels.

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Guest Recovery Food Safety Employee Relations Mobile Ordering 132

Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Full-Service Restaurants, Travel and Recreation Among Most Improved Industries . The industries that have seen the greatest rebound in spend are travel, convenience/drug/diet, ground transportation, leisure & recreation and full-service restaurants. This may be indicating guests are using masks as a gauge of overall safety.

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Fast Casual Guest Recovery Fine Dining Point of Sale 84

EATER

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Spice and seasoning company McCormick is purchasing Cholula hot sauce from private-equity firm L Catterton, the brand announced today. Grocery workers are reliving the worst days of the pandemic as COVID cases surge, only this time, there’s no show of hazard pay or other pandemic-related safety policies like there may have been before.

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Kitchen Safety Seasonal Menu Food Safety Food Supply 132