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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

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There are many working parts between the kitchen and server, and everything needs to be working seamlessly to ensure customer satisfaction. While you do want to be in the driver seat for these meetings, you don't want to do all the talking. Health & safety policy changes. Poor restaurant communication equals poor service.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Virtual BBQ and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is expanding its franchise opportunities to feature another nontraditional franchise model – virtual kitchens and has executed area development agreements to bring more of Dickey’s slow-smoked, Texas-style barbecue to Chicago, Houston and Orlando, as well as make its debut in Providence, Rhode Island.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Modular Chicken and 2020 Year-End Results

Modern Restaurant Management

A 1,400-square foot model without interior seating is also currently in development and will be equipped with a drive-thru and walk-up order window. Over the past year, Bennigan’s also expanded the reach of its non-traditional brand, Bennigan’s On The Fly, to include delivery through virtual kitchens.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Frictionless QDOBA and Crisp & Greens Goes National

Modern Restaurant Management

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. designed with high-rent urban areas in mind. Salata Turns 15.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Church’s Goes Hybrid and Curry Up Incentives Now

Modern Restaurant Management

We are also leaning heavily into our People First Safety Always Plan to guide us through how we’re doing business, as we seek what’s best for all our teams, franchisees, and enterprise.” doubled the number of ghost kitchens worldwide since June 2020. ” Nathan's Gets the Ghost. Nathan’s Famous, Inc.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

The traditional media channels that brands have relied on, such as TV and radio, suddenly weren’t reaching their customers—college sports, Olympics, major league sports were cancelled, truncated or experienced significant drops in viewership. Jockey Hollow Bar + Kitchen's Chris Cannon. To be better capitalized.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

Modern Restaurant Management

PopPay follows the national roll-out of PopEntry+, the combined facial recognition and thermal temperature screening device now in use in private and government offices, factories, restaurants, assistant living facilities, sports venues and on college campuses. US Foods Ghost Kitchens. US Foods Holding Corp.