Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

They are popping up more often in conversations this year, and they point toward deeper trends in the restaurant tech market. AI agents will no doubt make their way into restaurants themselves, where they could be used to create schedules or order supplies, easing the workload on managers. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

Hiring

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

In-store sales at convenience stores hit a record $335.5 When it comes to value , three-quarters of c-store consumers said made-to-order food at c-stores is a good value, up 13 points from last year. And fast-food customers Convenience-store foodservice grew 5% last year and is expected to jump another 5.7% By Heather Lalley on Jun.

Food

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 6, 2025

The situation is the result of a number of complex factors, but is primarily driven by ongoing supply shortages in Brazil and Vietnam, the world’s two largest coffee producers. For roasters and coffee brands, it means raising retail prices, and their customers feel the pinch. lb in February 2025.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. ” Value-Driven Dining for the Modern Consumer – In a time when consumers seek out both quality and quantity, L&L continues to provide substantial portions at an accessible price point.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

Mobile Ordering

EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Chairish Ideal for: Unique prints, posters, and wall accents, directly from artists or antique dealers Much like its storied contemporary 1stDibs , Chairish is a vast online retailer for all things antique, vintage, and art-forward, from ceramics and tableware to photo prints and original oil paintings of, say, martini olives. Cevallos Bros.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

While total spending growth was nearly flat compared to January, sector-level trends showed consumers shifting more spend to retailers and restaurants in February and spending less at service-based businesses. On a year-over-year basis, small business sales (+2.1 Month-over-month sales (+0.1 percent) and total transactions (+4.0

Delivery

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 18, 2025

Top stories of the week Mon, 14 Jul – US drive-thru chain Scooter’s Coffee reportedly exploring US $1bn sale. The Omaha-based roaster and retailer hired advisers to evaluate a potential sale or merger of its roughly 445 outlets across the Midwest, seeking capital for further expansion amid intensifying competition.

Café

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

“It now accounts for a larger share of sales for 58 percent of limited-service and 41 percent of full-service operators compared with 2019—providing a critical path to restaurant resilience and growth despite ongoing economic pressures.” More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago.

Reservations

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 1, 2025

This raises questions about a potential sale, but Coca-Cola could consider new growth opportunities for its coffee business, including RTD offerings. Starbucks has reported its sixth straight quarter of same-store sales declines as turnaround strategy costs mount. But there is hope of a coffee exemption.

Workshop

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 25, 2025

explores sale options after sustained losses. The US coffee roaster and distributor is assessing sale or merger options and alternative business models, as high green coffee costs and weak US consumer confidence weigh on its return to profitability. Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the week.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Fortunately, many of these proposals appear to be starting points in a negotiation rather than settled policy. Twenty twenty-four will be remembered for many things, but the soft landing of the U.S. economy and the reelection of Donald Trump as President of the United States will likely prove most significant.

Small Business

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 17, 2025

Following reports of dwindling supplies in Brazil and Vietnam, the world’s two biggest producers, as well as uncertainty about the EU’s deforestation regulations , arabica prices surged to their highest levels since the 1970s, marking a 70% increase. These supply constraints have fuelled a bullish market. lb in February 2025.

Pricing

The Rail

MAY 23, 2025

hop production fell by 16% in 2024 , and domestic barley-malt supplies hit a record low because of severe droughts. In 2023, beer consumption fell to its lowest point in 20 years , driven partly by high costs but largely by a change in preference. While higher taxes on imports like Heineken and Guinness may seem like good news for U.S.

Brewery

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Food manufacturers and retailers are embracing a whole new world of opportunities for consumer engagement that are enabled by this newer technology. Food manufacturers and retailers are embracing a whole new world of opportunities for consumer engagement that are enabled by this newer technology.

Information

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2021

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Here are five trends in the restaurant industry to consider post-COVID: Labor Supply, Wages and Automation. million since the start of the pandemic.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Since the labor shortage across the supply chain is likely to persist past the short-term and with other costs also increasing, one of the few ways restaurants can maintain their margins without raising their prices is to find ingredients that have better yields and require less labor to prepare. per portion.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Over the past year, many restaurants have reduced the stress of the system by having consumers order online, by phone or mobile app, while additionally offering curbside delivery at the nearest point of retail. Businesses can set themselves apart from competitors by supplying niche experiences.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we have news on understanding customer loyalty, beverage insights, restaurant supply loyalty, the influence of discounts, the state of payments and the evolution of gift cards. The average $ sales velocity for units across America were down -6 percent compared to the week before (April 17 v April 10).

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

” The cashless multi-vendor open-air gastronomic market has two locations in Prague, and a total of 34 independently operated restaurants, bars and retailers. That being said, we have been starting to plan responsibly for impacts in Europe, where we see food retail starting to be affected, “ he continued.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This an excerpt from Bruce Nelson's Restaurant Management: the Myth, the Magic, the Math. Part Three – The Math. “The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” ” —Euclid of Alexandria. Oh yes, the math. This is usually the part that throws most restaurateurs for a loop. There is no math in ministry!”

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're SpotOn Secures $60M Funding.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2022

Restaurants are grappling with labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation. One of the most rewarding benefits of a gift card program for restaurants is the ability to boost overall sales. As of April 2022, restaurants were still down 794,000 jobs – or 6.4 percent pre-pandemic employment levels.

Restaurant Law

EATER

AUGUST 20, 2024

With more than 4,600 stores across the United States, Walmart is the definition of a retail behemoth. Known for its “Every Day Low Prices,” the chain is the country’s dominant grocery retailer. In 2023 alone, Walmart sold more than $264 billion in groceries, more than double the sales of its two closest competitors combined.

Retail

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2022

For example, IBM Trust is a collaborative network of growers, processors, and wholesalers who can track products as they move across the supply chain. The coffeehouse chain will become one of Bakkt's flagship retailers and embrace crypto through its payment app. Application of Blockchain in the Food Industry.

Serving

EATER

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Dynamic pricing is not new; for decades, the airline, fashion, and hospitality industries have all found that dynamic pricing — the incremental adjustments to prices to reflect inventory, demand, and supply — has helped companies cut waste and save money. Sanders says this isn’t to be confused with simple last-minute clearance sales.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features restaurant industry year-end totals, how restaurant labor is evolving, fast-food brand intimacy and top cities for locavores. An Unpopular Year. In April, the segment’s customer transactions declined by -70 percent compared to year ago, and improved its declines to -30 percent in December.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry movers and shakers: "What do you feel is going to cause disruption in the restaurant industry over the next decade?” Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

Your menu: Part love letter, part manifesto, instructions for use and a bill of goods, all rolled into one. No other artifact in your restaurant is more capable of setting the tone or telling your story. Your menu: Part love letter, part manifesto, instructions for use and a bill of goods, all rolled into one. Here’s just a bit of what we saw.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. “I found inspiration on my travels.

Coaching

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. The survey found that 59 percent of US and 47 percent of UK consumers plan to dine-out as soon as they are able.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

For BevAlc buyers, price point as a function of quality, although always important, will become crucial over the coming months and years. Finding the right balance of what local guests want, at the maximum price point and minimal cost could be the difference between surviving and closing the doors.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

Placer.believes these numbers show signs of a resilient economy in the face of health concerns and run counter to the notion that the entire retail economy is heading for a major downturn. COVID-19 Foot Traffic at QSRs. analyzed daily traffic from February 26 through March 7 and compared it to the equivalent period in 2019. Some Placer.ai

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features hot fall flavor trends, pandemic dining habits, National Coffee Day winners and what Gen Z audience wants. What Customers Want. People are dning out, according to a study by The Manifest, a B2B research firm. Local small businesses must prepare accordingly as winter months approach. percent and 18.8

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Having a single supplier and point of support for all the store technology and payment processing functions also reduces administrative burden and risk. Having a single supplier and point of support for all the store technology and payment processing functions also reduces administrative burden and risk.

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As with most other industries, the biggest talking point for restaurants in 2023 has been artificial intelligence. . Each year, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asks experts for their views on the state of the industry. Here are some of their insights. Click here for the first part.

2023