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CHEFS – SIMPLE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL

Culinary Cues

Guests spending hundreds of dollars for a memorable meal and making reservations months in advance just to garner a seat. Slide the works into a custom, recyclable bag with your logo and pass it on to the customer with a smile and thanks for choosing us. Fifteen-hour workdays, no time for anything but the pursuit of excellence.

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Seven Restaurant Trends That Will Define 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

This has led to a rise in the appearance of green kitchens, where the business focuses on reducing as much waste as possible and trying to recycle and reuse leftovers whenever they can. In the past, these trends have included choosing certain suppliers, certain cleanliness practices, or even working as a "no-reservation" location.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Increasing Regulatory Pressures on the Food Service Industry I expect more states and municipalities to implement stronger organics recycling laws in 2025, mandating food waste diversion for commercial food service operators. This shift will likely be complemented by an increased focus on reducing waste generated from animal products.

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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

They are cost-effective and reduce the likelihood of contamination – buy disposable menus in bulk and recycle them. Keep customers from congregating in waiting areas by adopting a reservations-only business model. At this point, you don’t have the facility to rely on cash reserves to splurge on marketing.

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Welcoming Customers Back: How to Resell the Dine-in Experience as Restaurants Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider enforcing a more strict reservation or time limit rule. That leaves restaurants with three options: investing in laminated menus so that you can clean and disinfect them between customers, springing for disposable menus and recycle them after each use, or going touchless with online menus and menu QR codes.

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Five Reasons Why QR Code Menus Aren’t Going Away

Modern Restaurant Management

They may have discovered you from an Eater article, booked their reservation through OpenTable, or located you via Google Maps, and they will surely review their experience on Yelp — whether positive or negative — when their meal is complete. Restaurant customers do everything from their phones.