Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

The book's highlighted advice includes: Pick The Battles to Win – Ganzler helps companies gather, organize, and evaluate myriad issues they could take on. To learn more about restaurant sustainability, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Ganzler. Why did you want to write this book and why now?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Restaurant guests in cost-saving mode are eating out less and more conscious of menu prices, according to Restaurants: Consumer Trends Fall 2022/Winter 2023 a report produced by Provoke Insights in collaboration with Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“We want to take care of the customer—that’s super important, but if a customer is being uncivil, rude and aggressive, you also really need to make sure that you have the employee’s back." To learn more about the survey results, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Dr. Baker.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2024

To learn more about best practices for creating effective merchandise, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine connected with Greg Kerr, Owner of Alchemy Merch , which has made more than four million custom products for artists, brands, and creatives in all fields. How important has apparel and other merchandise become to brands?

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7 Shifts

MAY 11, 2022

It's an episode that's just packed with breakdowns, some hot takes, and knowledge bombs that you can take back to your teams. Danny Klein is the Editorial Director at Food News Media , publisher of QSR and FSR magazines. So from curbside pickup to QR codes, to the labor shortage to loyalty, Danny has a ton of thoughts to share.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Guests are dining out more often than last year and and rewarding great service, with the highest tips at bars and fine dining restaurants, according to hospitality industry data from Lightspeed Commerce Inc. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to the team at Lightspeed to learn more. percent, from 16.93

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Taking inventory is one of the most tedious processes in restaurant operations. When you don’t take timely and accurate inventory, you can end up ordering too much of something.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

. “Never again in our careers will we be able to take the boat out of water and put it in dry dock for a year to inspect every inch of its underbelly and make it seaworthy again,” “We want to make sure when we put the boat back in the water, it’s a sounder boat and does business in a better way.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 10, 2022

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Nobody has time for that when there is a crowded dining room, to-go orders flying out the window and customers complaining about their favorite menu items going up in price.

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EATER

JANUARY 31, 2024

Pan’s shop filled PacMall’s grid-like corridors with long lines of locals and out-of-towners, who made the pilgrimage from New York, Milwaukee, Detroit, and as far as Los Angeles. While I’ve tried to hire more people to help out, finding skilled labor is very difficult.” You take note of all these things.”

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2021

The fact that 60% of restaurants fail in their first year and 80% close within five years of their grand opening is an indication that few have what it takes for long-term success. If you want to open a restaurant , or if you're going to take a fresh look at where you are in your journey as a restaurateur, you must develop a business plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2023

To understand what restaurant owners and operators can learn from these findings to better run their businesses, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine quizzed Molly Burke, senior restaurant analyst at Capterra. The majority of our survey respondents feel motivated to tip out of a desire to support workers.

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Customer Service 2023 Mobile Ordering Retail 176

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 23, 2024

To learn more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine received expert insights from Gregg Majewski, Founder & CEO of Craveworthy Brands and former CEO of Jimmy John’s Sandwiches. What is your take on Restaurant Brands International (RBI) buying out Carrols, it’s largest franchisee? Were you surprised?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“As in any good relationship, consumers expect honesty and reliability when they seek out businesses online,” said Damian Rollison, Director of Market Insights at SOCi. ” Brands still stuck in the past and not optimizing their online profiles may lose out on significant market share.

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Online Ordering Consumer Goods Customer Service Customer Experience 162

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

households eating out or ordering food more frequently, according to a TransUnion report that details consumer attitudes and behaviors when engaging with QSRs. For more than half of consumers (58 percent), that amounts to dining out or ordering once or twice per week and spending less than $150 per week.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

. | Hone Stephen Satterfield’s food origins-focused media company hopes to help emerging food talent access the opportunities they want A lot has changed since 2017, when Stephen Satterfield launched Whetstone as a magazine about global food origins. In that time, the media landscape has changed more broadly.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The impulse to cross said limbs, to literally take your unfortunate hands out of the picture, worms its way into your psyche. Human limbs are inherently dangly and awkward, especially when you’re standing in front of a camera with nowhere to hide. Before you know it, you look like Mr. Clean. See what I did there?)

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Embrace the Suck

APRIL 16, 2021

They just think that’s the way “things are” Which honestly is the biggest bunch of b t out there. Connery character takes Costner’s character (Elliot Ness) across the street from the police station to do a liquor raid on one of Al Capone's bootleg warehouses. You can take that advice to the bank.

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EATER

AUGUST 24, 2023

I wanted to be the beauty director of a travel or international magazine. I knew that my magazine days were over, because the market really is in New York. I started thinking I could start my own beauty magazine through a cultural lens. What was the biggest challenge you faced when you were starting out in the industry?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Jake Brewer, Miso's Chief Strategy Officer for his views on the present and future of increased robotics and automation use in restaurants. There are continued beliefs that automation and robotics will take away jobs, which is just a myth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2023

It seems like no one goes out to eat anymore, but maybe today’s consumers are just looking for something new. Although consumers have returned to restaurants in gradually increasing numbers, behavior around eating out has changed. The act of dining out is increasingly tied to people’s social media presence.

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EATER

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Literary magazines, they’ve always had that allure to me too. Literary magazines were something I had never heard of before I got my writing degree. It’s 10 flexible classes you could take to squeeze in while you worked your two full-time jobs. My program prepared me to submit to literary magazines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2024

To answer that and more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to an expert–Daniel Hawes, Vice President of Product Design at Givex, whose work marries the worlds of technology, design, and academic research. What will the QSR of the future look like and what role will AI-integrated technologies play?

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Customer Experience Entertainment Transportation Customer Service 165

Transact

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As Everett points out, the automated printing of labels also ensures that the back-of-house team isn’t wasting time writing out dozens of labels per day. “A A team member may prep 30 containers of one item—think about how long it takes to fill out six-to-eight sections of the label 30 different times,” Everett says.

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Sports Bar Back of House Food 147

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2023

To learn about best financial planning practices, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Ben Johnston, COO of Kapitus, which provides financing for small and medium sized businesses. Restaurants are expensive to start and can take years to become important fixtures of the community.

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Small Business Magazine Pricing Consumer Goods 139

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 21, 2022

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. With less staff to support a crowded dining rooms, it’s time to think about adding more take and bake options to your menu. They say patience is a virtue.

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Food Supply Customer Experience Dine-in Customer Service 134

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2022

. “In order to keep distribution costs in check, we partnered with our distributors and suppliers by being more flexible, consolidating delivery days, and allowing later delivery window times when needed,” Corporate Executive Chef, David Cox told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Bhatia said.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2023

If rewards aren’t motivating, restaurants lose out on upsell opps (e.g. Neiman offered more advice for Modern Restauran Management (MRM) magazine readers. The most important thing to succeed here is reaching out to the guests by the collar. Value problems. No personalization.

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Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Magazine 137

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2023

Drawing on 50 years of contracting experience and inspiration from naval ships, Wesp built the two tables out of 1,500 individually-cut inlays from the building’s original wood floors. To learn more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine quizzed Brian and Amanda Light. What was the process for completing the project?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

To delve more into the results, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Matt Zibell, VP Technology at TouchBistro. So, to me, finding out that over a quarter of restaurants don’t have a website was a bit surprising. What can restaurateurs take away from the responses of their fellow operators?

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2024 Online Ordering Website Management 2023 188

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2023

Key takeaways include: More than half of consumers surveyed (51 percent), felt that independent restaurants have been impacted the most by not having enough staff to take orders, cook food, and handle deliveries – followed by major chains (36 percent) and mid-sized regional restaurants (14 percent).

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Your lunch rush chef measures out a cup of diced chicken, but your dinner rush chef just eyeballs the measurements. For example, let’s say one of your menu items is a chicken salad.

Back of House 186

Back of House Inventory Food Supply Technology 186

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2024

Nearly half of cyber-attacks target small businesses and 60% of small companies go out of business after experiencing a significant attack. This year’s Data Privacy Week is Take Control of Your Data. Since such a large percentage of cyber attacks are because of human error, there are steps you can take to mitigate the risk.

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Loyalty Program Small Business Insurance 2024 98

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

What do you hope readers take away from the book? Don’t take their outburst personally, and don’t feel like you need to compete with them. I want readers to appreciate the profound differences between hourly workers and those on salary. To feel/look important? Then meet that need. There’s no need to defend yourself.

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Coaching Franchise Franchising Leadership 106

Goliath Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

From an interview with Restaurant Business Magazine , Bruster’s Real Ice Cream reported selling 18 franchise agreements this year and now has 56 stores under construction or in development out of their 200 units (1). Those who are able are taking advantage of the open real estate.”. BETTER REAL ESTATE. MORE RESOURCES.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders to give us their insights into how the industry has been doing so far this year and where they feel it's going. Coming out of the pandemic and into an inflationary period, the bar has been raised in terms of diner expectations. Everything matters.

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2022 Fast Casual Customer Service Food Safety 174

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Walnut wood flooring is carved out to allow Italian tile to be laced in for unexpected yet functional moments. For a deeper dive, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine questioned Jared Bradley, AIA, NCARB, President and Founder of The Bradley Projects. What was the process of working on the project and how long did it take?

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