Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Eight months after the acquisition by Capriotti’s, Wing Zone is rolling out a brand refresh which features technology upgrades, a revamped menu, an energized restaurant design and experience, a new logo and other assets designed to further position the brand as one of the undisputed leaders in the chicken wing category.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2016, the Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), a Minnesota-based organization that advises and supports startup food co-ops, has seen the number of BIPOC-led co-ops it supports more than double, from seven to 17. Non-owners can shop at most co-ops as well. Even so, many of the grocery co-ops in the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Sushi Maki Ocean Tempura. “Sushi Maki is a true family affair.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Husband-and-wife team Craig and Dianne LeMieux, along with their son Kyle and his wife Saverea LeMieux, have served as the brand’s Colorado area developers since 2016. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. More Tropical in Colorado.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Curry Up Now attracted a new investment from seed-stage venture capital firm Liquid 2 Ventures (L2V). " Benihana Plans Franchise Expansion. Select U.S.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 4, 2021

are trying everything and the kitchen sink to recruit and retain employees in the face of a labor shortage the likes of which this industry hasn’t seen in decades. are trying everything and the kitchen sink to recruit and retain employees in the face of a labor shortage the likes of which this industry hasn’t seen in decades.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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Black Box Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Since 2016, the cumulative loss of traffic has been about 13%, translating to a compound annual growth rate of about -2% per year. In this article, I’ll be sharing three key takeaways from our Q2 SOTI webinar and highlighting some important factors detrimental to your brand’s future growth.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Pershing Square Capital, led by Bill Ackman, made an investment in Chipotle (NYSE: CMG) in 2016. so implementing other purely cost-cutting strategies would lead to cutting bone and ultimately undermining both the guest and employee experience. When Arex disclosed an 8.5% stake, Fiesta shares rose by 4%.

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2016, the average net profit margin across the industry was a mere 3%. As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. So, why do it?

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 26, 2021

The entirety of the global foodservice industry has been turned on its head by the most disruptive force to ever hit it. The violent swings in demand and supply have devastated some businesses (restaurants led the U.S. in bankruptcies in 2020 ). Table of Contents. Add a header to begin generating the table of contents. Scroll to Top.

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

In 2016, the average net profit margin across the industry was a mere 3%. As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. So, why do it?

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Apicbase

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Steak House. You may not have noticed, but some brilliant restaurant chains and franchises are shaking up the dining culture of the Nordic countries, both with new concepts and by revamping old ones. The level of quality, service and innovation is high. Scaling restaurant operations in: Denmark Sweden Norway Finland. Restaurants in Denmark.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2020

The report also found that businesses in states that voted Republican in the 2016 presidential election outpaced the economic growth of businesses in states that voted Democratic. starting from the fourth quarter of 2016 nationally, as well as in 50 metros and every state including Washington D.C., Yelponomics. calculated? GDP growth?.

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EATER

MAY 15, 2020

But to some hourly employees, that core concept has rung hollow during the pandemic. Jamie* was less than a month into their new job at a Waffle House in Florence, South Carolina, when they were called in to work during Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Waffle House is known for staying open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features news that consumers plan to put restaurants at the top of their shopping lists, the latest stats for on premise and why the restaurant of the future is here now. Diners Show Holiday Spirit. “This is a challenging time for both consumers and businesses. . Hassle-free holiday meals.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. When leadership began presenting these ideas to staff in 2019, a number of Stone Barns employees vocally disagreed with the new direction. Some came out crying.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

“Following the successful acquisition of the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group in 2016, the acquisition of The Strega Group is an attractive opportunity to add highly complementary Boston-based operating businesses to our hospitality portfolio,” said Danu Partners’ Leonard Ryan. New CEO at Boston Market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

Event Planning Is Back. The survey revealed that after a year of birthday, holiday, graduation and anniversary celebrations over Zoom, respondents are ready to get back to event planning. consumers to better understand their feelings about planning events in 2021.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. 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. New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Austin, Texas is one of those cities that, no matter how often I come back to it, I always find something new and exciting to do. Austin is known as The Live Music Capital of the World, so there are always cool venues to check out and concerts to attend. Check out my list of the 17 best breweries in Austin, Texas below! Jester King.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education. Food Halls – the numbers for current and future growth are substantial.

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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. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding. Ordermark closed its $120M Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2[1] and joined by returning investor Act One Ventures.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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EATER

JANUARY 25, 2021

On the Turkey-Syria border, the chef and restaurant owner — and increasingly, humanitarian — Ebru Baybara Demir is using gastronomy to give skills and hope to vulnerable Turkish and Syrian women Twenty years ago, the building that now houses Cercis Murat Kona?? Cercis Murat Kona?? As her profile has grown, so has the scope of her work.

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EATER

AUGUST 21, 2020

It had been pushed back 15 minutes — a potentially ominous sign. But that vision came with a toxic management style characterized by intimidation, a barrage of sexualized commentary, and explosive anger, according to two dozen current and former staffers. The tone of the room shifted.

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EATER

AUGUST 19, 2020

On my first road trip up north with my mother in years, a drive to Northern Michigan feels like being alone together at the end of the world. Zhang is an Eater staff writer currently isolating at her childhood home in Michigan. The worst part of going anywhere is usually, irrefutably, humiliatingly , needing to pee. What if we wear diapers?”

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EATER

AUGUST 3, 2021

A resident of Klong Sai Pattana amidst the palm tree fields in southern Thailand. The global thirst for palm oil has never been more ravenous. Caught between it and a multigenerational war on Thailand’s poor are the farmers of the Southern Peasants’ Federation, who simply want a piece of land to call their own. Around 6 p.m.

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EATER

MARCH 22, 2024

The rooftop pool at Soho House New York. Photo: Soho House The hospitality brand is growing its restaurant empire — and you’re allowed in Earlier this month, Soho House’s newest members-only club opened in Portland, Oregon. The pair’s first date apparently happened at the Soho House London location.) It is one-of-a-kind.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In an election like none before it, the residents of North Carolina’s hog- and poultry-intensive eastern counties are fighting to regain the power of their vote This story was originally published on Civil Eats. But, in a part of the state home to many people of color , Herring worries about reports of minority ballot rejection rates.

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EATER

MARCH 22, 2024

The rooftop pool at Soho House New York. Photo: Soho House The hospitality brand is growing its restaurant empire — and you’re allowed in Earlier this month, Soho House’s newest members-only club opened in Portland, Oregon. The pair’s first date apparently happened at the Soho House London location.) It is one-of-a-kind.

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EATER

MARCH 21, 2022

Harris said she had been thinking about poverty wages for food workers and broader inequities for years, but like dozens of others around the country, she was finally inspired to act in December, when a group of employees in Buffalo, New York, successfully unionized the first Starbucks. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images. This trend.

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