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How a Virtual Supply Chain Identifies Challenges and Solutions for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

While the restaurant sector shut down during the pandemic, food supply chain technologists were working hard to open new avenues to improve automated processes for restaurants. percent accuracy, saving labor, reducing waste, and making food safer across the enterprise. Online tools exist to help operators on their journey.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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Reduce Training Retirements & Manual Tasks With These Three Automation Best Practices

Modern Restaurant Management

Most notably, persistent hiring challenges, rising costs, and uncertain supply chains have made profitability more precarious. Many of these processes will remain even after the pandemic, presenting opportunities to deploy automation technologies to simplify front of house processes. Optimize Food Safety Protocols. trillion each year.

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Cost and Effect: The Role of Value Engineering in Restaurant Construction

Modern Restaurant Management

How value engineering can be a restaurant construction solution in the face of rising prices and unpredictable supply chains. As the prices of construction materials skyrocket due to rising inflation and supply chain woes, budgeting for commercial development has become significantly more challenging. Don’t Cut Corners.

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Four Focus Areas for QSRs to Mitigate Wage and Commodity Inflation

Modern Restaurant Management

While the restaurant industry has experienced major supply chain and labor issues throughout the pandemic, it is now reaching a tipping point. While supply chain issues will likely decrease over the course of 2022, wage inflation represents a new status quo on the bottom line. Optimize the Supply Chain.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

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Without a strong system in place, even the best restaurants in the world will struggle with unhappy customers, high turnover rates, wasted inventory, and razor-thin profit margins. Food Waste and Supply Chain Disruptions Unreliable suppliers, fluctuating food costs, and excessive waste can quickly eat into a restaurants bottom line.

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How AI Will Save the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Automation and robotics are going to become increasingly present in restaurants. According to estimates, the restaurant industry is by itself responsible for approximately hundred million dollars a year of food waste. How AI Will Change the Restaurants Operational Processes. Automation and Robotics in the Kitchen.