7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

You may discover that your target customers enjoy an afternoon pick-me-up and are sensitive to price. This research will dictate your hours of operation and pricing plans! Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Expected menu prices. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Further Optimize Delivery, Takeout and Curbside Experiences Many QSRs already relieve congested drive-thrus with distinct lines or protocols for call-ahead orders and third-party pickups. One of our clients, a well-known QSR legacy brand, added an express drive-thru lane for customers ordering ahead on the brand’s app.

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Restaurant Engine

JULY 27, 2020

In order to understand why fees range from 13% to 40%, a bit of math is required. For example, GrubHub charges restaurant owners a base commission rate for food orders of 10% plus a processing fee of 3.05% + $0.30. Finally, the restaurant often splits the delivery fee with the customer, paying up to an additional 4% of order total.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

"Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— From there, you can make vital decisions about price, service capacity, table turnover, and your menu to boost revenue and profits. But how do restaurants increase revenue? The result?

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Again, turn to the National Restaurant Association for guidance. [] PRICING YOUR MENU BY COMPARISON. More often than not – the success of your restaurant begins with effective menu planning, proper pricing, and consistent execution. Every business requires controls in pricing, consistency, quality, and cash handling.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These restaurants take orders through online apps and use 'ghost kitchens' or virtual kitchens that offer virtual menus to take-out customers. Need to manage the impact on staff morale of working online orders without receiving tips. Cons: You have higher overhead costs because you need more seating and servers.

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Squirrel Systems

APRIL 11, 2024

This piece looks at the role tableside ordering technology, like mobile POS systems, can play in adding efficiencies to the overall restaurant and specifically to restaurant patio operations. How can Mobile POS technology impact patio dining business at your restaurant?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2022

David Portalatin, NPD Food Industry Advisor and author of Eating Patterns in America, said there are three ways consumers are responding higher menu prices: they trade down to lower-priced items; cut back on the number of items ordered; or reduce restaurant visits altogether. Since May’s calculation ended at 8.6

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Ideal menu price. Your CoGSs is an essential number to have when determining your menu prices, inventory and impacts your net profit margin. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Employee turnover rate. Table turnover rate. Sales per labor hour. Average customer headcount. Customer Acquisition Costs. Check Average.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The system can also help to streamline front- and back-of-house processes to increase employee workflow and production efficiency, as well as customer capacity requirements, allowing outdoor orders to be handled quicker and with better service.

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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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Cheetah

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Increasing average order size at your restaurant is crucial for improving your bottom line. Especially today, with the limit on seating capacity according to the new color coded reopening plan for California restaurants. For example, if you make $1,000 for 40 tickets per day your average order size is $25. Cross-selling.

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Sling

JANUARY 4, 2023

It was conceived as a type of perk that a landlord might run out of the basement of an inn or apartment in order to increase their income. As the concept evolved — and eventually crossed the pond — it came to be characterized by three variables: food, price, and formality. The modern bistro.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2022

Many restaurants toss a paper menu into every takeout order, but try posting a QR code near your register instead. If a QR code is already on the table when your guests are seated, you don’t have to worry about getting fresh menus to them right away. It’s one less thing to worry about! They’re Easier to Update.

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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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2022

Assuming that 80 percent of seats are filled for both sittings and that each customer orders something of average price, Chloe can establish a rough baseline calculation for a day’s trading. for her daily lunchtime menu, she just puts “lunch” and an average price. So, she starts doing some calculations.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 6, 2021

On a micro level, forecasting helps a restaurant plan for inventory orders and how many employees need to work each shift to make and sell food. Break the sales forecast down by menu items - based on historical data - to better plan for inventory ordering and employee staff scheduling. Get granular. Plan your schedule.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Create a fixed-price ‘Mix and Match’ menu with soups, salads, and sandwiches for customers to choose from. (If If you’re stuck on how to price, $9.95 With a BOGO (Buy One, Get One) deal, guests pay full price for their first item and receive a discount on a qualifying second item. is a common one.)

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

This is a special place where quality, service, and sincerity are always on the menu and price is judged in relation to value. This is the place where your coffee cup was always full, where the check was delivered before you had to ask, where after a few visits the waiter remembered what you wanted and placed the order for you.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

In March, social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic came into effect and restaurants en masse were forced to close in order to stop the spread of the virus. If, prior to the pandemic, your restaurant had a seating capacity of 120 seats, that may be reduced by 20 percent or more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates. They need alignment with practical operational realities and bandwidth.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2020

By now, many states and provinces have either mandated reductions in seating or the closure of dining areas, with most restaurants turning to takeout and delivery. Your prices – Last, but surely not least, are your prices. If you need to increase your profits, the quickest thing to do is raise prices.

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Xtra Chef

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A recent study conducted by the National Restaurant Association showed that 60% of restaurant orders occur off-premises —a fancy way to say that the majority of consumers are now enjoying restaurant-prepared meals outside of an actual restaurant. But it simply can’t be done manually in order to get the real-time numbers that operators need.

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EATER

DECEMBER 13, 2021

At some fast-casual places you could order from a tablet at your table, never speaking to a server, and apps let you order your Starbucks on the go and have it waiting when you arrive. The technology is there for the QR code to provide not just a menu, but an entire ordering system. All of a sudden, QR codes were everywhere.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Take advantage of the software’s assignment recommendations to maximize seats. The best table management systems today know when to assign a party of 2 to a two-top instead of a 4-top and when it’s okay to seat a smaller party at a larger table. People also appreciate being able to place an order and pay for delivery online.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These challenges are impacting menu availability, raising the prices of menu items, leading to short staffs, increasing wait times for diners, and changing operating hours and offerings. Digital waitlists and reservations help consumers minimize wait times at restaurants to get seated sooner upon arrival.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

There were eighteen or twenty seats (mostly deuces) and in better weather maybe two more tables on the street or alleyway in front or beside these tastes of a chef. There was little waste since managing twenty seats was much easier than trying to fill expansive dining rooms with a turn or two on busy nights.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2023

Now, McDonald’s and other fast food and fast casual giants are betting on the “digital kitchen” — sleek, compact stores that harness automation and digitalization to have diners ordering through mobile apps or digital kiosks — to get diners in and out in record time.

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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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Open for Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Prix fixe, a French term for “fixed price,” is a menu offering a complete meal at a set rate. À la carte, on the other hand, is the typical choose-as-you-go ordering found in most restaurants. Some restaurants provide a middle ground, allowing limited customization within a set price.

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EATER

MARCH 2, 2022

With only 22 seats and a strong reputation (built over a series of pop-ups and collaborations, with profits funneled to charities), Dame is popular enough to be booked solid every night. Monday diners at Dame tend to be more industry veterans who order the whole menu and full bottles of wine. Menu price: $29. Profit: $5.07.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Earlier this week, the FTC filed a lawsuit alleging that the deal would eliminate competition and raise grocery prices It’s likely that the place you shop for groceries every week is owned by one of two companies — Kroger, or Albertsons. Kroger and Albertsons own more than 5,000 supermarkets across the country.

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Restaurant Clicks

DECEMBER 5, 2021

From takeout sushi to delivery options to dine-in seating, restaurants across the East Village offer guests and residents most anything! I ordered the Bluefin Tekka Don, bluefin tuna sashimi on a bed of sushi rice, for an entree. Order Online. Order Online. Check out our list of the best sushi in the East Village.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2020

So, we slashed four-to-seven percent off wholesale prices, which is a significant price cut. We ask that those "seated" at the table give a $50 dollar minimum donation. Social distancing may push restaurants to seat their clients further apart while offering more personal attention from waitstaff, sommeliers and chefs.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The swanky wine bar offers relaxed seating among a dim-lit space with contemporary artwork and interior design. You can order your wine by the glass or by the bottle here too. Located in Brooklyn, The Four Horsemen provides indoor and outdoor parklet seating, expanding their space to make room for tons of guests. Order Online.

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Tableo

JULY 27, 2023

This must be done in order to minimise waste and ensure that older stock is used first. Use inventory management software to keep track of stock levels, automate purchase orders and produce reports. Develop trusting connections with suppliers to bargain for better payment terms and lower prices.

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