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Microclimates in Dining: Tailoring Spaces for Every Generation

Modern Restaurant Management

With a preference for authenticity and sustainability, restaurants must reflect these values if they want to align themselves with this demographic. They gravitate towards spaces that offer an interactive experience , such as eatertainment destinations, food halls, and restaurants with communal seating or areas that encourage socialization.

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Growing a Restaurant Strategically – The Keys Are Alignment, Timing and Control

Modern Restaurant Management

Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. Investors generally push hard for influence or even majority board seats directing strategy and operations.

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Reskilling, Retention and Robotics: Creative Solutions to the Restaurant Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Establishments are grappling with a complex crisis characterized by empty seats in dining areas and behind the scenes, where a shortage of skilled workers is keenly felt. The gap between available positions and willing, skilled workers has widened, putting pressure on service quality and business sustainability.

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Running a cafe with style, sustainability and kindness – a conversation with Tania Lodi

The Restaurant Times

The design reinforces this belief through its relaxed ambiance, comfy seating, delicious food, and soothing music. Although great food holds precedence over anything else, you can’t enjoy your meal if the seating is uncomfortable or the restaurant ambiance is depressing. Restaurant design and customer acquisition.

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2022: A Year of Transition for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

The past year has also continued to drive consumer demand for alcohol to-go and outdoor dining with nearly four in 10 consumers saying the availability of outdoor seating would make them more likely to choose one restaurant over another similar one. Streamlined Menus with More Plant-Based Options and Sustainable Packaging.

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78: SOKO Butcher in Takoma Park

Food Business

They are the only butchery shop for a 10 mile radius, where their following appreciates Brad's focus on animal welfare and sustainable farming practices. They do not have seating at this time, but that's a favorite topic for their customers. Remains to be seen if Brad’s superpowers will include seats.

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How The Snug Took Control of Labor and Evolved Their Restaurant

7 Shifts

Here’s how they evolved their operations to sustain their business during the pandemic. So we took over five of the parking spaces along our restaurant, which basically provides somewhere between 80 and 100 seats, which is technically more than we had inside prior to COVID. Everybody wants their food at the same time of day.

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