Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Choose Cost-Effective Ingredients to Reduce Menu Costs and Boost Profit You can look for cheaper alternatives to expensive ingredients without compromising taste. One effective way to achieve this is by using cost-effective ingredients in your menu items. and then divide that by the total revenue generated by the restaurant.

Loyalty Program

The Rail

JUNE 17, 2025

Does your menu suck? The menu is among the most mundane parts of the restaurant experience. But what if there was a way to radically transform the menu presentation into a rich and immersive experience for the guest? All this while absolutely delighting the guest with a novel and interesting menu experience. Probably not.

Menu

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 27, 2025

claims on MAHA menu alignment. suggested that Starbucks would adjust its menu to align with the Movement for a Healthy America initiative, the company stated that it has no such plans and is not working with MAHA. Salt Lake City, Utah, US) Tue, 24 Jun – Starbucks responds to RFK Jr. After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

We’ve found ways to use less plastic and recycle more. The ability to track ingredients in real time—knowing where they come from, when they’ll arrive, and what alternatives are available—has become essential for managing inventory, adjusting menu offerings, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations.

Loyalty Program

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 18, 2025

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Tue, 15 Jul – Starbucks adds secret menu to mobile app. A secret menu contest runs until 20 July, with four finalists winning US $5,000 each, and fans voting for a US $25,000 grand prize. Vancouver BC, Canada) Thu, 17 Jul – Kaffeeform launches reusable cups from recycled coffee grounds.

Café

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

The Darden Restaurant-owned brand rated top for fast service, fresh food, accurate orders, and customizable menu options. YouGov’s State of the plate: US casual dining report 2025 finds Olive Garden leading the highly competitive restaurant category, especially middle class Americans. GreenPoints™ in the Water category.

Reservations

Restaurant Engine

JULY 9, 2025

Add a flyer with exclusive specials or new menu items. Consider compostable or recyclable packaging and send a note along telling your customers you care about the environment. Include a QR code for your loyalty program. When they sign up, offer them a free dish or dollar amount off. Make sure it looks as good as your dining room.

Loyalty Program

The Rail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A menu update with spring-inspired cocktails and dishes will help tie the seasonal theme together. Seasonal fruit displays, like lemons and pineapples, can double as decor and inspiration for menu items. A winter-inspired menu featuring warm, spiced beverages and hearty comfort foods will round out the seasonal experience.

Seasonal Menu

EATER

DECEMBER 4, 2024

“It felt like nickel and diming people to also charge them a few bucks for sparkling water,” says David Barzelay of San Francisco’s Lazy Bear , where dinner is $295 a person for a set tasting menu. There is a lot of waste in restaurants in general, even though we recycle and compost,” says Gregory Gourdet of Kann in Portland, Oregon.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The survey examines top restaurant industry trends across categories including menu offerings, beverages, flavors, global inspirations, packaging/off-premises trends and industry macro-trends. Sustainability will continue to influence menus and how restaurants make decisions across the board.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2021

Growing your produce is an especially great way to: Choose fruits and vegetables you want to feature on a menu. But, when it comes to both front and back-of-house operations, there are things you can do to cut back on waste production, including: Setting up a recycling program. You can also cut back on waste by simplifying your menu.

Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Customers will be able to order voter-registration forms directly from the menu at every Nando’s PERi-PERi in the United States. When customers order spicy flame-grilled chicken from the Nando’s app, from a food-delivery service, or in-person at a restaurant, the menu will read: “Voter Registration Form: Free.”

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Monogram® Tamper Evident Container : This recyclable, easy-to-close container has a tight perimeter seal. From screen to plate, the menu is expected to feature signature dishes and recipes that have been prepared on the show. Its size and wide opening can accommodate most dishes. It is also easy to carry and open by the diner.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Simplifying Menus. We don’t need endless menu options that ultimately drive waste. Despite conventional approaches, we simply don’t require huge menus with so many choices. We use these to ensure that we work as efficiently as possible, which can get complicated in teams. For example, we once helped Buffalo, N.Y.-based

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2023

Smart kitchen equipment, such as automated stove tops and automatic recycling oil fryers, make order fulfillment easier, faster, and more consistent. During the pandemic, menu prices frequently changed, and products were often out-of-stock due to supply chain shortages. Thus, automation of product updates was essential.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Restaurants will also explore delivery options beyond costly third-party partnerships, and hike delivery menu prices to make the channel more lucrative as off-premise demand holds steady. Simplified Menus. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Health-Conscious Food Will Dominate Menus.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2021

Whichever your specific goals are, they will fall under one of the following categories: reduce waste production, reuse and recycle. After reducing the food expenses and cutting back on food that is likely to go to waste, you can also change your menu or reduce the food servings. Reuse and Recycle. now recycle their waste.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

As a restaurant owner, you can tailor your solution to accommodate complex menu options. The technology simplifies the entire process, from selecting menu items to making payments. Restaurant Management Panel Menu management : Restaurant owners and employees should have the option to add, remove, and edit menu items.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

For the necessary packaging, try to opt for biodegradable materials and packaging with a high recycled content. And a restaurant’s commitment to sustainable practices is perhaps most easily visible through the packaging that they chose. Using less delivery packaging is a great way to begin.

Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2020

No Menu Sharing. Prior to the pandemic, menus were the one communal piece of your restaurant picked up and handled by almost every customer. Because of it, menus were one of the most-germ ridden surfaces in the restaurant, with cold and flu pathogens able to live on them for up to three days. Show that you have a strong team.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

High-end restaurants that tend to have a pricier menu should look to add more affordable items. Instead, you can reach a compromise in your menu. Disposable menus are a great sanitary alternative to traditional ones. Identify your most well-received dishes and continue to serve them. Offer Safe and Contact-Free Services.

Social Media

Cheetah

APRIL 10, 2020

How to Run a Restaurant and Reap the Benefits of Recycling . So when someone brings up food recycling, you’re probably asking yourself when you’ll ever have time to give it any thought. So when someone brings up food recycling, you’re probably asking yourself when you’ll ever have time to give it any thought.

Recycling

Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Essentially, the concept of zero waste is based on the elimination of waste, mainly through reusing and recycling products, materials, and packaging. This is a daunting task considering that a staggering 91% of all plastics ever produced haven’t been recycled – ending up in landfills and oceans around the world instead.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

Dunkin’ is also on track to fully transition to new, recyclable hot coffee cup lids in all of its U.S. The company is also on track to be fully transitioned to recyclable hot coffee cup lids in its U.S. The new lids are made of #5 polypropylene that can be recycled in cities and towns that offer #5 recycling.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Ingredients are clean and sourced from local vendors whenever possible, and the menu is designed to support vegan, gluten-free, and Halal diets in an effort to accommodate all guests, no matter their dietary preferences. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide.

Franchising

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 21, 2022

As they’re difficult to recycle, we can also conclude most of these cups end up going to landfill, where they contribute to a growing waste problem. You may also like our article on why recycling single-use coffee cups is so difficult. Can you recycle single-use cups? Read on to learn more about what they had to tell me.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

To showcase bold new flavors, On The Border has elevated its menu, and the innovative new dishes will be available for guests visiting North Point. “This year continues to be the ‘Year of the Guest,’ where they are the focal point to everything we do, from menu innovation to technology to podcast content,” Eckles said.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

” Traditionally, to enable delivery most sellers list their menu on food delivery platforms because the restaurant doesn’t have their own couriers. Touchless menus and payment options are in-demand tools for consumers looking to have a good time dining out while reducing anxieties around hygiene and spreading germs.

Guest Recovery

Ken Burgin

JUNE 7, 2022

Now more than ever, with soaring supply prices, staff shortages and crazy weather, sustainability makes sense across all business areas – it’s much more than recycled packaging and local vegetables. So they’re big on increasing sales, recipe and menu costing, watching utility costs and having accurate figures daily.

Recycling

Goliath Consulting

MARCH 14, 2020

This probably explains the trend of previously-recycled and reusable packaging. Taco Bell, too, pledged compostable, recyclable packaging by 2025 (14). Sustainability. A Nielsen study reported that consumers are increasingly willing to pay more for sustainable brands (10). Conclusion.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2022

Regardless of whether this is proper dinnertime etiquette, the truth is that most people can pull out their smartphone to read through your menu just as easily as perusing a physical menu. Here are five reasons why you should stick with QR code menus instead of pulling those plastic menus out of storage.

Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Although the land, labor, and creativity of farm-to-table sourcing is so exciting and delicious, considerable operational disruption, scheduling, and menu management is still required to make it all a profitable business model. Brands will look to collaborate with menu splitting.

Mobile Ordering

Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

Fortunately, there are a lot of great options when it comes to recyclable and compostable takeout containers and paper products. Reusable, recyclable, and compostable are the three major categories that fall under the sustainable packaging category. Each provides something different. Support of the local food movement.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. Restaurants will up menu prices – 9 in 10 restaurant owners/operators plan to increase menu prices as they grapple with growing supply shortages and costs.

2022

The Rail

MAY 23, 2024

By Indiana Lee, Contributor Adding a popular drinks menu to your current offering is a great way to improve your profitability and pad your margins. A well-tailored alcohol menu can help you attract a different kind of consumer and may help you claw back some of the costs associated with pandemic-era inflation rates.

Sustainability

Goliath Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Veggies are being incorporated into the menu in creative ways (think jackfruit pulled “pork”, veggie rice and pasta), vegan entrees and sandwiches will keep rolling and “gut-friendly” fermented foods such as kimchi and kombucha are making its way into more restaurant menus 3. People are now craving the hottest and spiciest.

2020

Focus POS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Ways Gen Zs look for places that align with their philosophies include: Menu options that are health-conscious and help to sustain the environment. Recycling and composting, selling non-GMO foods, and phasing out non-recyclable plastics are among the other practices Gen Z seek out in a restaurant. Use of emerging technologies.

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