Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. An earlier version of the law was passed in 2012, but was struck down in 2019. Litigation. Oregon Mutual Insurance Co.,

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FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Predictive Scheduling has become a hot topic in the restaurant industry. This guide is designed to help you stay in front of Predictive Scheduling changes and make sure your restaurant is fully compliant. Recommended Reading: The 11 Employee Scheduling Best Practices + Tips for Restaurants. Restaurants with 30+ U.S.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s no secret that with a workforce mass exodus and rising minimum wages, the restaurant industry is long overdue for an overhaul of its business structure and compensation model. Our coalition of restaurant owners across the country come together to share best practices about wages and benefits. Rethinking Wages: Where to Start?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. These are just a few of Chipotle's many efforts to revive its damaged brand image and increase safety in their restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 22, 2020

Typically made of legumes, vegetable and assorted grains, these “meat substitutes” are now popular in grocery stores, as well as fast-food restaurants and even fine dining establishments. A 2018 study into the diet choices of 2,000 Americans found 38 percent of those polled acknowledged a willingness to try plant-based dieting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Particularly for operators in the restaurant industry, who face high-volume hiring as a result of toxic turnover, it’s critically important to be diligent regarding employment eligibility to avoid penalties. Nationwide, ICE worksite enforcement jumped more than threefold in the first nine months of 2018 alone. The solution?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

While businesses coast to coast reel from the financial and emotional impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, few have been affected more adversely than restaurants. Uncertainty in the restaurant industry could endure for months, maybe longer. COVID-19 Legislation and Tax Policy Changes. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2024

What do restaurants need to understand and meet the needs of these potential guests? To learn more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Greenspoon Marder. Irina Dashevsky is a partner and co-chair of the Cannabis Law practice group at Greenspoon Marder. billion market in 2023 projected to grow to $3.09

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 4, 2021

Across the country, the most damaging wildfire seasons have been in recent years, including 2017, 2018, and 2020, accounting for 62% of the structures lost over the last 15 years. While Texas and Colorado rank highest for high to extreme wildfire risk, these facts alone should give you pause regardless of where you operate your restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2020

history, into law. The act provides some relief for restaurant owners in forgivable paycheck protection loans and tax relief. To qualify, the restaurant must have been in operation on January 31, 2020 and have 500 employees or less.

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EATER

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joules Garcia /Eater Pastry chefs may be leaving restaurants, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the profession For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Please send plant-based news to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. The third annual Good Food Restaurant Scorecard ranks the top 100 restaurant chains in the U.S. This data covers U.S. to its menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

As Modern Restaurant Management Restaurant (MRM) magazine celebrates its fifth anniversary this month, we reached out to industry insiders to garner their insights on what issues have impacted the industry over the last five years and what issues they feel will impact restaurants in the years to come.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 21, 2020

Between 2005 and 2015, the restaurant and hospitality industry had the highest percentage (14 percent) of sexual harassment filings received by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), [1] in which the complainant's industry was specified. [2] Impact for Employers. 10, 2019), [link]. [4] 4] 29 U.S.C. §

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the latest facts and figures of restaurant operations, the state of business dining, and the mid-year gift card report. The State of the Restaurant Industry. Quick service restaurants (QSRs), representing 81 percent of restaurant visits in the U.S., foodservice industry.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

It's a constant conversation in the restaurant industry. But one can't deny that tips make up a majority of restaurant workers' take-home pay. There have been several ways in which restaurant owners have tried to create a more equitable system for employees to earn consistent, fair wages and improve retention. Tip Pooling Laws.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2020

By now, most restaurants have become familiar with Title III compliance when it comes to modifying facilities and procedures – enabling disabled patrons to have equal access to goods and services. Restaurants, however, may not have considered whether their websites are equally accessible under ADA Title III.

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EATER

MARCH 30, 2022

Though vending was technically legalized in 2018, state public health laws make it almost impossible for most local vendors to get the permits they need. A girl walks with street vendors calling for legalization of their trade in LA, May 2018. Trujillo’s situation isn’t an uncommon one for street vendors in L.A.,

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Building an equitable restaurant — where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination — will require undoing the way most restaurants are run. The only ethical restaurant I have ever heard of is on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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EATER

APRIL 17, 2024

We gathered what we needed and hustled back to the restaurant — before we attracted any unwanted attention. While only a small portion of the 283-square-mile territory is technically protected and penalties are rarely enforced, the law represents a broader cultural prohibition on foraging that essentially applies to all public spaces.

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7 Shifts

JULY 31, 2020

It's been six years that we've been in this business, and in 2018 we opened our second location in San Antonio.” 2 hours per week When Mattenga’s bought the restaurant in 2014, they had been using spreadsheets to keep track of their weekly schedules. You’re getting interrupted all the time in the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2020

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Currently, approximately 1,000 restaurants across New York City have foie gras on their menus. Legislation. Litigation.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, I worked in a restaurant that promoted itself as the future of dining. Like much of the world, new and ever-changing technology is a fact of life for restaurant workers. As restaurant owners search for solutions, many are turning to automation and other technology designed to replace humans as a silver bullet.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Picture Alliance via Getty Images Inside the Schottenhamel beer tent at Oktoberfest 2018 in Munich. Apart from formal festivals like these, breweries and restaurants around the country often put on Oktoberfest-themed celebrations of their own, serving beer and food menus highlighting German foods in late September and early October.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Every great restaurant has many parts that contribute to its success: delicious food, excellent customer service, an inviting atmosphere, and competent staff. But restaurant management is the glue that holds it all together. With so many responsibilities, running a restaurant can be tricky. What is Restaurant Management?

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EATER

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Those disparities only worsened during the pandemic, as restaurants closed and the prospect of earning a living from tips became even more precarious. With each chapter, she highlights the ways the tipped minimum wage exploits workers from a particular job category, including restaurant servers, delivery drivers, nail technicians, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

As a result, the final rule provides clear guidance in this significant area of the law. ” The NLRB issued an NPRM concerning joint-employer status under the NLRA on September 13, 2018. With plans for national expansion, Condado’s growth goals include adding six to eight new restaurants annually. William Zehnder, Sr.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Rubbermaid Brilliance Container “Years ago, my sister-in-law gave me some food inside a Rubbermaid Brilliance container and it’s still the storage container I reach for first,” says Eater’s deputy editor, Monica Burton. The lid makes a perfect seal that’s further secured with clips that click satisfyingly into place.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features Grubhub's State of the Plate 2020 trend report, the fragility of "open," di g ital resilience and brand intimacy. See the latest sales and traffic results here: Sales Improve but Restaurants Should Brace Themselves for Challenges Ahead.

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EATER

JUNE 17, 2020

When restaurants, bars, and nonessential businesses closed as a mandate of the state-imposed shutdown on April 29, millions of people found themselves out of jobs, unable to pay rent, and lacking the food they needed to survive. We didn’t ask for permission before we looked into the food laws or liability laws,” he told me.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Neither Hooters nor the law firm responded to the publications requests for comment.) As the company told Nations Restaurant News at the time, these stores were underperforming. In September of 2024, Bloomberg also reported that the chain was facing $300 million of debt and falling revenue.

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EATER

JULY 12, 2022

In 2018, chef Zia Sheikh was struggling with burnout and addiction. He wound up getting fired from his job, another victim of the restaurant industry’s pressure and churn, and he says he sought out therapy as a result. Even after high-profile reckonings, restaurant workers still report that the industry allows abuses to thrive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Top Restaurant Trends. BentoBox released its comprehensive 2020 Restaurant Trend Report. Key findings from the report include: Direct online ordering booms as restaurants recognize the need to bypass third-party marketplaces : Average monthly online order volume grew 250x since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with $59.18

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak effect on the restaurant industry, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine is compiling a list of resources available for restaurant owners, operators and managers. The National Restaurant Association has provided a list of best practices to ensure business continuity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. Restaurant year-over-year sales growth was weak during December.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers. Zagat debuted Zagat Stories.

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