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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Can Technology Help Solve the Restaurant Labor Shortage?

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite facing the pressure to stay open and operational over the last year, restaurants have gone above and beyond the “new normal” to rethink their operations, including seating arrangements and menu offerings, and in many cases reducing their staff to just the barebones. How do we entice them back into the workforce?"

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

Modern Restaurant Management

New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. “Business owners have proven their resilience throughout the course of this pandemic.

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Fun by Design

EATER

The front bar of the Mission District restaurant, awash in cadmium yellow paint and matching furnishings, including the hanging disco balls, leads into a larger back dining area that’s equally gonzo in neon green. On a psychological level, there’s something deeply comforting about the childlike feeling of being dwarfed by one’s seat.

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NLRB Joint Employer Final Rule and America’s Classics

Modern Restaurant Management

” The NLRB issued an NPRM concerning joint-employer status under the NLRA on September 13, 2018. .” ” The NLRB issued an NPRM concerning joint-employer status under the NLRA on September 13, 2018. NLRB Issues Joint-Employer Ruling. The final rule will be effective April 27, 2020.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

Modern Restaurant Management

“Now, more than ever, restaurateurs need an effective and affordable way to promote their restaurants to new and existing customers so they can bring them back again and again. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. After dropping off most of the load at my cousin’s house, I took my cut, a private stash of two boxes. It was 2018, and that order of mangoes was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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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