Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

Growing menu innovation and healthy fast food further drive the growth of the market. The demand for fast food is still strong because it is affordable, convenient, and offers a wide variety of menu items, which is why it is the go-to option for millions of Americans every day. billion in 2024 and is anticipated to rise at a CAGR of 3.74

Fast Casual

The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Leveraging engaging and authentic video content allows restaurants to showcase their menu offerings, build a recognizable brand identity, and create a loyal base of regulars and word-of-mouth referrals. Showcasing New Menu Items and Specials While many aspects of a restaurant shape the experience guests have, the most important is the menu.

Serving

Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From sustainable practices and health-conscious menus to tech-enhanced dining and global flavors, hotel and resort restaurants are adapting to meet the diverse needs of the modern traveler. With more travelers seeking holistic wellness experiences, dining will become an integral part of a guests overall well-being.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I often travel alone as a result of my career, and business travel is changing too: for many companies, having large numbers of employees traveling isn’t financially prudent – but being a solo diner doesn’t mean our expectations around our dining experience have changed. Cuisine type?

Customer Experience

Culinary Cues

MARCH 16, 2025

Are you developing menu concepts that shy away from typically high-cost ingredients and ones that are sensitive to market fluctuation? You can buy that new car or combi-oven once some reserves are in place. What is your menu strategy for crisis situations? The cost of goods will rarely go down.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) say they plan to increase their number of locations in 2025, and 74 percent plan to expand their menu offerings, leaning into new experiences and experimentation to power their growth. ” A Year of Challenges U.S. Hungry for Value Americans are hungry for value dining, according to a new report from Placer.ai

Marketing

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 27, 2025

Following in the footsteps of notable brands like Blank Street, Blue Bottle, and Black Sheep, smaller-scale cafés are expanding their menu options to include non-coffee drinks, such as matcha and lemonades, while still maintaining a focus on high-quality coffee offerings.

Customer Service

EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. And while these tables can be challenging to book, snagging a reservation tends to be slightly easier if youre a guest of the hotel.

Hotels

The Restaurant Group

APRIL 12, 2025

How to Track Your Campaigns Success Watch for More Online Orders or Visits Monitor your sales and reservation numbers during and after the campaign to gauge impact. Fine Dining Spot’s Influencer Tasting Event : Created buzz around a new menu launch.

Influencer

OneDine

JULY 22, 2025

Guest Traffic Patterns Shift—Especially on Weeknights The trend: According to OpenTable and Resy data, summer sees a spike in late-evening and outdoor dining, driven by longer daylight and travel/tourism patterns. Guests may be more selective with their dining dollars, especially during the back-to-school budgeting period.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

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. For us, it's all about menu optionality and community connection.

Loyalty Program

EATER

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

We reserved Sunday nights to cook a more involved meal together. At some of the places that we go, we might end up spending $200 or $300 on dinner, or reservations might not be available for months. I tend to reserve special date night for someone I genuinely really, really like. With S, we split a little more evenly.

Back of House

Squirrel Systems

JUNE 11, 2025

Real-Time Menu and Service Updates Across Locations A major advantage of a cloud-based POS system is the ability to update menus, pricing, and inventory in real time. If a menu item sells out or a promotion changes, the system updates instantly across all terminals and locations.

Hotels

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Running a successful restaurant isn’t measured solely by what’s on the menu anymore. Running a successful restaurant isn’t measured solely by what’s on the menu anymore. Today, this approach continues as we see content creators showcasing insta worthy dishes, creative restaurant menu hacks, and more.

Mobile Ordering

Web Diner

MARCH 28, 2025

Instagram: The Art of Visual Cravings A single well-lit shot of spaghetti twirled to perfection can be enough to make someone book a reservation on the spot. Diners love watching chefs plate dishes in real time, experiencing the magic of a viral food challenge, or discovering the unexpected story behind a secret menu item.

Social Media

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Sailor , Brooklyn | Vinai , Minneapolis Josh Brasted Acamaya 3070 Dauphine Street | New Orleans, Louisiana There’s a glossary attached to the menu at Acamaya , the first solo New Orleans restaurant from Mexico City-born chef Ana Castro and her sister, Lydia. The menu warns of a $150 fine for any “stolen mugs.”

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Ninety-five percent of those surveyed reported using some form of AI in their restaurant, with the most common being AI-assisted inventory management (35 percent), AI menu optimization (35 percent) and AI reservations/bookings (32 percent).

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

What’s Important to Travelers. SevenRooms released its “Checking In For F&B” report, which uncovered the most important things to today’s traveler when it comes to food and beverage at hotels. ” Building Loyalty.

Travel

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2022

One such solution has been shrinking restaurant menus. This past year, 60 percent of restaurants reported reducing their menu size , citing a 23 percent drop in the number of items. A smaller menu might limit ordering options but not the ability for restaurants to wow their guests.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Call out any new policy changes as necessary on your site, have you stopped taking group reservations for parties over six? Do people need to make reservations in advance? In order to ensure a safe dining environment we are requiring advance reservations. Add a simple banner to your site that explains this.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This research, from the March edition of the Digital Economy Payments report, “Going Digital to Pay for Travel and Restaurant Dining” also found that credit cards account for the greatest share of food spending with consumers using credit cards to purchase an estimated $29.8 billion in food items in February.

Consumer Goods

EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Part of the reason you’re traveling to France is, presumably, to tap into that gastronomic reverence. Make reservations. For restaurants that accept reservations, reserve. How far in advance you’ll want to reserve depends on the restaurant. You’ll almost never be able to view the menu in advance.

Fine Dining

7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

A seating capacity goal (such as 100% of the allowed seating capacity) or a reservation booking goal A revenue goal—such as a volume number or percentage compared to pre-COVID A follower goal on social media from gaining new interest in your restaurant A return visit goal for diners who return to your restaurant after the grand opening 2.

Events

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

More Business and Pleasure : “Bleisure” travel is on the rise and next year we predict more people will be combining their business travel with personal leisure, leading to extended stays and more opportunities to explore. Nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of all reservations were made on mobile.

2024

EATER

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But a lot has changed, even as it’s now possible to dine out as we might have previously: There’s more planning required, both within your dining party and to secure the reservation; there are more options for where, exactly, to sit in — or outside of — the restaurant; QR code menus aren’t just at chains anymore. Or to eat out at all?

Outdoor

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a topic I have presented numerous times and it seems as though whenever I travel it rises to the top of my thinking. Excellence is not reserved for fine dining. [] KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS. Whatever your concept, whatever your menu – make sure that you execute it well every time.

Fine Dining

Culinary Cues

JUNE 29, 2024

The chef invests time in building a signature menu, testing recipes, establishing plate presentations, and making sure the best ingredients are within the teams reach. MAKE the time to walk the dining room on occasion, stop at tables, offer advice on menu items and drinks, smile and thank them for choosing your restaurant.

Dine-in

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There has always been a commonsense way to build a menu knowing that in the end it is the beverage, and the bookends (appetizers and desserts) that hold the greatest opportunity for profit. A menu should thus be designed and priced to make those items seem essential.

Fine Dining

7 Shifts

MAY 11, 2020

Employees must report any symptoms and recent travel to their managers before a shift. If an employee is at risk of COVID-19—either by experiencing symptoms or having recently traveled internationally—employers must instruct the employee to stay home.

BOH

EATER

APRIL 6, 2023

But after the flurry of press releases, joyful Instagram posts, and weapons-grade whining from a few who were left off the list, a somewhat altered Vancouver dining scene has emerged from the fray with hiked prices and impossible-to-score reservations. It’s a cash-grab for sure,” said one Vancouver chef who asked to remain anonymous.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

These talented chefs go above and beyond each day, creating and serving amazing meals to millions of sports fans, students, employees, hospital patients and travelers,” said John Zillmer, Aramark’s Chief Executive Officer. Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago, top photo, opened its doors to the public on Friday, November 15.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

Takeout and delivery increased 300X in a couple of weeks relative to reservations and wait list on Yelp. The concept had a few caveats: consumers want the menu has to be the same as dine-in (not just a few menu items), food prices can't just be marked up to offset the costs, and they wouldn't want high order minimums.

2020

Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 20, 2021

What happened that day altered how we travel and our perceptions of the world around us. They didn’t have adequate cash reserves and lived for the weekend sales to keep them going. Cost out everything on your menu. Reduce your menu size so you are leaner and meaner. Get Your S**t Together. Action Steps.

Social Media

Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

Here are some thoughts. [] IT’S STILL ABOUT THE FOOD: People go out to eat for a variety of reasons – convenience, social interaction, a change of pace, business travel, vacations, celebration, or habit. Get to know them, treat them extra special, celebrate their reservation, go beyond friendly and be their friend.

Food Truck

EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

In October, shortly before Halloween, Tamez saw a post on Uni’s Instagram announcing a new feature: Enjoy the restaurant’s a la carte menu in the privacy of one of the Eliot Hotel’s suites. The menu is QR-coded, and a masked and gloved server enters the room and takes the party’s entire order in one go. Hotels have suffered similarly.

Hotels

EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

According to Aisenstat’s son, Hy’s current president and CEO, Neil Aisenstat, Hy Aisenstat simply loved Honolulu, as popular a travel destination for families in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan as the mainland U.S. Growing up, you could just walk in without a reservation. What’s old is new again.

Back of House

Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

Without cash reserves the pandemic cause thousands of restaurant casualties. The lesson learned is that menu items must be more profitable – this may mean re-assessing the ingredients used, how they are managed for waste, and the selling price formula used.

Customer Experience