Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The concept goes far beyond a simple online menu or QR code. Every dine-in experience starts with a menu, so having yours available online is the first step to going contactless. However, restaurants have discovered that not all online menus are made the same. So what makes a good contactless menu?

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In today’s world, that means their mobile devices. To gain more diners and drive more orders, restaurants need to optimize their mobile marketing and make it easier to order. What’s mobile marketing? Why mobile marketing for restaurants? Here are some tips and tools to help you get started.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. For example, there will be fewer human interactions when ordering takeaways during busy lunch hours, quick customer seating, or bill payments. The first gusto!

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The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

They provide a hands-on experience that lets customers place their orders and enjoy quality eats at lower costs. You place your order at the counter or kiosk, grab a number or buzzer, and typically receive your food at the counter. The order point is the counter or a self-ordering kiosk.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Check Average.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leveraging QR Codes & Mobile Pay. With QR codes, guests needn’t touch a menu or even a paper receipt. QR codes can be used to streamline how guests reserve a spot in line, as well as how a customer views a menu and places an order. Tight inventory control ensures menu item availability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

From managing an off-premise presence with online ordering platforms to navigating the labor shortage and keeping costs down, it’s clear from the emerging trends we are seeing that technology is at the heart of helping FSRs not only survive but make gains during these extremely challenging times.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Holiday Hangovers : On the days after holidays like St.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

Our business model requires too much labor: At the same time as we step back it becomes vividly apparent that our method of operation and the menus that we provide require too many hands. Our menus are too large: The days when the way to customer satisfaction was through extensive variety are probably gone.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This increased demand for online ordering and delivery, paired with various social distancing regulations, caused a massive shift in the restaurant industry. Restaurateurs struggling to stay afloat without patrons in the dining room turned to online ordering to keep revenue trickling in. Is it ultra-easy and intuitive for customer use?

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Cheetah

JANUARY 13, 2022

From their humble, though ingenious, beginnings as copper tokens and stamps, through the era of credit card clubs, to today’s mobile apps, loyalty programs have become indispensable marketing tools. million members, all driven through their mobile app. But no one forgets their mobile phone. They have roughly 14.2

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It’s important to monitor what’s selling so managers can order more in a timely manner, ensuring the most popular choices are always in stock. On the flip side, knowing what items are languishing on the shelves tells the manager to order less next time, so they aren’t stocking food they can’t sell. Adapt and Succeed.

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Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The data from inventory management can help you place more accurate orders, calculate exact food costs, make informed menu changes, and address potential sources of food waste. In addition, POS integration can automate steps like uploading invoices, auto-updating ingredient prices, and tracking recipes.

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Restaurant365

MAY 17, 2022

A POS system provides automated inventory tracking based on customer orders. It empowers your restaurant group to manage inventory end to end, automating multiple steps such as tracking recipes, uploading invoices, and auto-updating item prices. Record waste as an integral part of food inventory management. That’s great.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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MadMobile

AUGUST 5, 2022

Supply chain issues forced menu changes. In early 2022, gas prices skyrocketed. With food inflation and insecurity being at an all-time high, restaurants have a financial incentive and a duty to reduce food costs and waste. Labeling stored items are key to limiting waste. When one headache goes away, another one starts.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When you misjudge ordering or overspend on food cost, it directly affects your bottom line. Inventory tracking is an essential restaurant task – with more efficient food, beverage, and supply orders, you are saving money and adding to your bottom line. Use Inventory Tracking to Reduce Waste: purchase inventory at the right level.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 14, 2020

Much of the typical food and beverage inventory in restaurants tends to have a relatively short shelf life, making accurate inventory numbers essential to run a functioning kitchen, make economical orders, and adapt to long-term trends. When trimming menu offerings, avoid knee-jerk reactions about what items are best for your delivery model.

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Restaurant365

JULY 21, 2021

How do you keep track of all these different shipments and ingredients to minimize food waste, ensure you are prepared for service, and optimize what you’re spending on your ingredients? This means that for restaurant owners and operators, the budget you have invested in product can quickly go to waste if inventory control isn’t top of mind.

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Mad Mobile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Welcome the simplicity and efficiency of tableside ordering services. In this blog, we will share the advantages of using a tableside ordering system that can elevate your establishment from good to delicious. What is tableside ordering? There are several forms of tableside ordering where the ordering method has the same result.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

F&B CPI has further fed into the business sustainability equation recently in driving F&B pricing higher, as the slow repricing response from F&B operators lead to a game of catch up in the last year. During the last year of the pandemic, costs grew faster than prices rose.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

F&B CPI has further fed into the business sustainability equation recently in driving F&B pricing higher, as the slow repricing response from F&B operators lead to a game of catch up in the last year. During the last year of the pandemic, costs grew faster than prices rose.

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Mad Mobile

MARCH 1, 2024

From server robots to ordering kiosks in fast food establishments, it seems like there’s always a new gimmick trying to get your attention. But data shows that it’s more than just about the flashy toys. In the first model, customers have access to kiosks or tablets at the table and can place orders and payout at their convenience.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 21, 2021

Not only can your food cost help you better understand your restaurant group’s budget, but it can also drive your menu pricing and inventory control at all your locations. It helps you make data-driven decisions about your menu, and ensure you are taking every opportunity to maximize your profits.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When tightly integrated with both the accounting system and POS system, inventory tracking is a more useful, accurate tool that can be used to lower cost of goods sold (CoGS), minimize food waste, and better allocate ingredients. End-to-end inventory management covers everything from counting and transferring to ordering and invoicing.

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Mad Mobile

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It also has one of the most complex stock lists. Because liquor, wine, and beer have such wildly varying prices, it pays to keep tight controls on ordering and inventory. Loss, waste, inconsistency — without careful management of bar inventory, you’re quickly losing a decent chunk of money. Take these lessons to heart.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Consider what foods you love, what the local community loves, and what cuisines and menu items are not currently available in your region. Adults are always tired, so if you park a mobile concept serving caffeinated beverages (especially near colleges and offices), customers will certainly come. Mobile milkshake machine.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The department is responsible for purchasing and managing inventory, food preparation, cooking and plating, menu planning and pricing, food safety, and hygiene. The executive chef manages the kitchen team and oversees menu creation and food production. This person organises tickets and checks orders are going out correctly.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So you made it through part 1 of the guide , where we learned about buying a food truck, and choosing the best spots, and through part 2 where we dealt with limited storage and suppliers, and coming up with delicious menu offerings. At the minimum, your website needs to be mobile friendly. An effective tactic is to be creative with it.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders.

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Sling

JULY 24, 2023

Many restaurants operate on very narrow margins and fail because of mismanagement rather than anything wrong with the menu. Toast offers both front desk and tableside hardware for taking orders, processing payments, and allowing guests to track the status of their orders. It offers countertop, portable, and mobile options.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

Quick Links Technology Relationships Food and Menus Technology trends to watch People are drawn to the restaurant business because they don’t want to be glued to a screen all day. Digital ordering has been a game changer, and the latest trends for 2023 could change how hospitality businesses operate even more.

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Restaurant365

JULY 9, 2020

Knowing these essential metrics enables you to make more informed supply orders, and tight inventory control helps you reduce food waste, adding to your bottom line. item name, description, unit of measure, count number, unit price and total, and category total. Restaurant inventory spreadsheet basics. beef, milk, lettuce, etc.),

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 12, 2021

You are only dealing with online food orders that customers place through your website, mobile app, or an online food aggregator like Door Dash or Grubhub. Bottom line, instead of adding multiple cuisines to one menu, you can create three different restaurants from the same delivery only kitchen. The Cloud Kitchen Model.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

So you made it through part 1 of the guide , where we learned about buying a food truck, and choosing the best spots, and through part 2 where we dealt with limited storage and suppliers, and coming up with delicious menu offerings. At the minimum, your website needs to be mobile friendly. An effective tactic is to be creative with it.

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