Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Captivate your diners with a unique story and consistent branding. Yet, they also frequent your restaurant because of your story and your unique identity. You can do this through your story and your branding. In this article, we look at how to tell your restaurants story through branding. Why Tell a Story?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2025

By sharing genuine stories and engaging transparently, social media can flourish when its focus is on spreading goodness. Our #GrouchosGoodness and #TasteTheGood campaigns go beyond showcasing delectable dishes — they embody a commitment to community, gratitude, and tradition.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 6, 2024

By regularly sharing and reposting moments like these with high-quality photos, engaging stories, and thoughtful responses to comments, we keep our audience excited about the Health Nut experience. In addition, partnering with local influencers extends our reach authentically.

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EATER

MAY 8, 2025

Lorraine Bracco and Talia Shire in Nonnas | Jeong Park/Netflix The new Netflix film, which is based on a true story, is chock-full of Italian restaurant tropes. This would all feel a little too neat and tidy, too unrealistic, if it wasnt based on a true story. But its delicious cast helps it go down easy.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Finally, the visual impact of food in a professional kitchen is the cook’s opportunity to paint the story of their career, to demonstrate their signature, and show the world how much they care about the ingredients they work with, the sheer joy they feel about the work they do, and their willingness to place their art on display.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Glassware helps tell the story of each cocktail or dish to engage audiences through sight, touch, and taste. This artistry extends beyond the table to social media, where visually striking glassware plays a starring role, drawing in followers and creating a buzz.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2023

Every brand has a story, and that’s what makes customers, employees and franchisees take notice, choose you and keep coming back. Let’s talk about how to tell your story. Build Your Brand Story Once you’ve considered all of your audiences, now think about how to build and tailor your brand messaging.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Thomas Keller Arguably one of the greatest chefs of the last generation, Keller reflects on the important role of the cook and chef to tell their story of life and living through the recipe, to add their personal signature to a dish while elevating it from a transactional process to communicative art. – Jose Andres What is your story?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

In case you were wondering why they chose the name The Plaid Pengun, Haubenhofer tells the story. It’s a feeling, a story, an experience that resonates with guests. Every touchpoint, from packaging to playlists to plating, needs to reinforce the brand story. A strong restaurant brand goes beyond a logo.

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Restaurant Business

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Financial Impact and ChallengesThe adoption of AI in restaurants is not just about improving operations; it's also driving significant financial benefits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Every story deserves an unforgettable ending. Auggie’s became more than just a success story; it became the centerpiece of my book, Drafting a Dream. Are you ready to unlock the real secret to building wealth in the restaurant industry? In 2018, I opened a self-serve tap house and sports bar called Auggie’s Draft Room.

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EATER

MAY 22, 2025

The boom-and-bust rhythm shaped not just the states economy but its identity a place built on promise, reinvention, and stories that survived long after the mines ran dry. Its easy to picture Nevada as a stretch of dusty nothing between Las Vegas and Reno. But the state is more than its desert scrub.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The menu, which includes the ever-popular fry bread taco, tells a story of connection, innovation, and respect for legacy and Indigenous culinary traditions. The menu tells a story of connection, innovation, and respect for legacy and Indigenous culinary traditions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2025

My inbox isn’t filled with lighthearted stories like mine. And then hit REPLY and tell me about it, let’s fill my inbox with new versions of these intergenerational stories. They keep me on my toes, and sometimes, they save me from digital despair. ” “Work-life balance is important, but in this industry?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2025

It's not exactly as sexy as a superhero origin story, but the founding of Tock does involve problem solving. Tock's origin story is all about problem solving. Nick Kokonas was trying to solve Alinea's costly no-show problem and the resistance they faced when introducing prepaid reservations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2024

By creating a cohesive, story-driven branded environment, what were once “cookie-cutter” chains, can transform into sanctuaries where customers find respite from daily chaos. The key is to create an 'on-brand response' that aligns with your brand story.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2025

Developing Your Skills Maria’s and James’s stories highlight that you don’t have to choose between being a manager and a leader—you can, and should, strive to embrace both. Blending these approaches will elevate the reach of your contributions.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Control Your Brand and Story Social media is great for engagement, but it comes with a major downsideyou dont control it. Its a space where you can fully shape your restaurant brand , tell your story, and connect with customers on your terms while not being at the mercy of changing trends or third-party rules.

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EATER

APRIL 30, 2025

Subscribe now for more stories like this. This send is the first of a four-part series on restaurant growth, presented by Square. Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 6, 2025

Product recalls and market withdrawals that were major stories in 2024—McDonald’s onions, Boars Head deli meats and produce-related products—haven’t helped the situation." " Kafarakis said a sluggish legislative environment is holding up almost $120 billion in federal funding to help food-insecure Americans.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2022

With new leadership and Bounteous as a growth partner, Blaze evolved their digital strategy, started communicating using their brand story and segmenting based on customer behaviors and brand interactions. This winning combination of cultural relevance + brand story + seamless digital experiences has been a recipe for growth.

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Goliath Consulting

MAY 26, 2025

A great content creator doesnt just make your food look goodthey help tell your story, build trust with your audience, and drive real traffic through your doors. Start Small Before committing long-term, offer a paid trial project or limited campaign. This gives both sides a chance to see if its a good fit without a big investment up front.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Social Media Campaigns : Posts and stories featuring the merch, styled in real-world settings, paired with teasers leading up to the launch. Marketing new merch is all about leveraging the community and creating buzz: In-Venue Displays : Eye-catching displays in high-traffic areas of the bar to immediately catch patrons’ attention.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The story made me think about what I did for a living and my zest for cooking delicious food, traveling to special parts of the world, working and dining in great restaurants, learning from exceptional chefs, enjoying incredible wines from the hands of vintners, harvesters, and wine makers. I remember how the book moved me.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 7, 2025

The data tells the same story: 72 percent of people now tip in more places than before , but two-thirds dislike how tipping has evolved. Tipping expectations have skyrocketed, and consumers are pushing back. According to a recent Bankrate survey , nearly one in three Americans think tipping has gone too far.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2025

How to Write a Solid Claim Response When responding to an unemployment claim, you need to tell a clear, professional story. If a manager says one thing and HR says another, guess who looks unreliable? Your company, not the employee. Policy Violations : Reference the specific handbook policy that was violated.

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EATER

MAY 14, 2025

Subscribe now for more stories like this. This send is the second of a four-part series on restaurant growth, presented by Square. Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Your branding should tell a clear, compelling story that connects with your audience on an emotional level. Crafting Your Brand Story Theres a great book called Start With Why that drives home the point that inspiring people to take action starts with sharing your purpose. Why do you do what you do?

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 23, 2024

It’s time for the GREAT to stand up and tell a different story. It’s up to those who believe in this and work to execute it right every day, to tell the story and pay it forward. Invite your local newspaper and TV station to watch your kitchen in action – they’re always looking for an interesting story to tell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2025

That’s a different story. It’s like training a pilot to fly but not teaching them how to fuel the plane or maintain it. They can get off the ground, but staying airborne? Well, today we are going to explore some strategies to take some of that money out of your vendors pockets and put it in your pocket.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2025

Package it with reverence and class, and by all means, tell the story in the same way that is suggested for sandwiches and pizza. Make sure everything is made in house just like that fine dining chef would do for a ten- course tasting menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2025

That doesn't necessarily mean that I have more of my own stories about working in restaurants to share (though who knows!), I know it’s so soon after the publication date, but what kind of responses have you received and what do you hope readers take away from your story? Those people are free to write their own books.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2025

Younger consumers are overindexing in seeking real stories, real experiences, and validation from real people – and they are no longer relying on one platform to find it. The 2025 CBI shows that Gen Z bounces between an average 3.6 platforms before deciding on even simple purchases.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 21, 2025

Richard Melman of Lettuce Entertain You fame is notorious for feeding dreams, for storytelling, and for building a restaurant concept from those stories. Some of those ideas never find a home but continue to exist as incentive to drive the dreaming process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Were there any particular stories that resonated with you? Having worked in the hospitality industry for many years before becoming a professor, there are many stories. While this research did not investigate employee stories, many of my other studies do. What surprised you most about the results?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 22, 2025

At the age of 63 (most of those years as a cook, chef, and culinary educator) I felt that I had enough experience, enough stories to tell, and a litany of success and failure to offer something of value to clients and readers. The blog was meant to parallel the start-up of Harvest America Ventures Consulting.

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