Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. Restaurant of the Future Panel. Additional Panelists include: Ryan Volberg – SVP and GM, PAR Restaurant Solutions Group. 20 at 4 p.m.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2021

When thinking about the future of the dining experience post COVID, it is easy to get caught focusing on things like digital only self-service, sci-fi-like drone food delivery and taking pills or shakes instead of food. The past year has created many challenges for the restaurant industry. But not in the way you might think.

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 26, 2021

With the Covid pandemic in 2020 and even in 2021, the restaurant industry found itself having to adopt new ideas and look deep into the future. The new reality of life during and post Covid has led many restaurants to re-imagine how the do business. With this comes a focus on innovation and new technologies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 15, 2023

Dynamic pricing would add friction to the guest experience, according to Capterra’s 2023 Dynamic Pricing in Restaurants. Sixty-five percent of consumers say dynamic pricing would make the decision of where and when to eat more difficult; 63 percent say it would make it harder to budget their restaurant spending.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked experts for their thoughts on trends and challenges that will affect the restaurant industry in 2023. 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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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. White Castle Employs Flippy the Robot. As part of the deployment, White Castle will bring the new version of Flippy, Robot-on-a-Rail (ROAR), into kitchens for testing and future integration.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees.

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Open for Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the first months of the year are traditionally slower for restaurants, this year chefs and owners have a lot on their minds. Everything they’ve been through these past few years has affected the way they think about their restaurants and the entire industry. Menus that meet reality. Ongoing staffing shortage.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 30, 2021

Post-digitization, robots are emerging as the new frontiers of the US restaurant industry. From topping pizzas to waiter-ing and delivery, robots are now managing virtually every other aspect a restaurant might involve. Prior to the pandemic, robots were not that buzzy amongst the restaurateurs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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?” Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? Here are their responses. Click here for part one. Scott Lawton, CEO and cofounder at bartaco.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The restaurant industry has changed dramatically over the past two years with technology playing a significant role in the business. The pandemic accelerated the adoption of tech even by traditionally run restaurants. As technologies such as AI and IoT pick up, robots in restaurants are becoming more and more common.

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The Food Corridor

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

New opportunities to utilize shared commercial kitchen space. A growing number of restaurants, churches, and other local community organizations offered up spare kitchen space to rent. Presumably as they looked for additional revenue channels during a time when dining in and community gatherings were not allowed. .

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Foodable

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this session from Fast Casual Global , host Paul Barron sits down with Atul Sood, Chief Business Officer, of Kitchen United to discuss how understanding third-party delivery will be a key strategy long into the future and how innovators are creating entirely new business sectors in food service today. We know who our customers are.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2024

When thinking about restaurant automation, imagining a future where AI-powered androids shake cocktails and drones drop food deliveries through your skylight is fun. The 2024 Square Future of Restaurants report surveyed thousands of restaurant owners and customers across the United States, Canada, and the UK.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. GroupRaise is inviting restaurants across the country to join their Takeout For Good initiative happening on June 2. Takeout For Good.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. The pandemic has permanently altered the consumer-restaurant relationship with operators investing in technology and real estate to align with changing consumer preferences, according to the 2021 Restaurant Franchise Pulse survey, conducted by TD Bank.

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EATER

AUGUST 26, 2021

With growing frequency, the food you order from a delivery app is being prepared in a ghost kitchen — or cloud kitchen, or commissary kitchen, or whatever you want to call it — by cooks working for a restaurant that doesn’t really exist, at least not in the traditional sense.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. The funding will be used to help more restaurants transition to online ordering during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

MRM's Franchise Feed features news on the restaurant franchise and MUFSO landscape. Per the terms of the agreement, the group will build 50 new Taco John’s restaurants by March 31, 2026 with options to develop an additional 150 restaurants. A Deal to Taco ‘Bout. Taco John’s International Inc.

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EATER

JANUARY 5, 2022

THE FIRST NATIONAL RESTAURANT TO DELIVER BY AIR.”. At the Food on Demand conference in Las Vegas, the food service industry laid out its vision for a future in which customers never have to wait. Just don’t think too hard about how that’d work. The conference room at the Bellagio hotel swelled with the horns of “Ride of the Valkyries.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a new documentary on women in the culinary world, the loss of an industry legend, a contest to create healthy recipes and products and services to help restaurant in the pandemic. 'A 'A Woman's Place' on Hulu.

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EATER

OCTOBER 13, 2020

I’d wander through new cities for days on end, eating and drinking (but mostly eating) in four-seat izakayas, farm-driven pizzerias, southern seafood halls, and boat noodle cafes, talking to locals and walking for miles. Restaurants have always been my joyous entry point to a place and its people. Nothing extravagant.

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The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

These commissary kitchens are sometimes also known as ghost kitchens, shared kitchens , or virtual kitchens with the delivery-only food brands operating within them called virtual restaurants. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. It offers certain advantages over offering delivery from a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant.

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