Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Perhaps the biggest question on restaurateurs’ minds right now is: “Do I plan for the 2021 I was expecting, or can I just go back to 2019?” We've put a big pause on some of the research and exploration related to personalization that were growing in 2019, and I think the food service industry has as well.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2021

Look for available solutions, that optimize sales and allow operators and employees to focus their effort and energy where it’s needed most. Compared to 2019, many additional restaurants have an off-premise segment, and not all of them have had a chance to create their own delivery setup. Co-created with Burma Inc.,

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Hot Schedules

MARCH 31, 2020

The Small Business Administration (SBA) may provide loans of up to $10 million per business; any portion of that spent to pay employees, keep workers on payroll, or pay for rent, mortgages, or existing debt could be forgiven, provided workers remain employed through the end of June. Impact on Unemployment Insurance.

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EATER

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Dynamex stated that most workers are employees and that any company seeking to classify a worker as an independent contractor must meet a stringent burden of proof to do so. In early 2019 these efforts gained steam with a series of New York Times exposés on food delivery companies such as DoorDash. It was very exhausting.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The worker is free from control and direction of the hirer in relation to the performance of the work, both under the contract and in fact; AND. Those individuals pay for their own vehicle, gas, insurance and any other expense they may incur while performing their services. All good things an employee should have, right?

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The Restaurant Group

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

million employees (as of 2019), both of which have been especially hard hit by the necessary restrictions. This 2020 restaurant trend is likely related to a few things – a shift to working from home, a preference for foods that have not been prepared or touched by someone else, and wider availability of grocery delivery services.

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Hot Schedules

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Employee Contact Data – Make sure you have clean data going into the end of the year. Also, make sure that you have removed any terminated employees and ensure that they don’t have any outstanding balances for garnishments, vacation, or sick time. EEOC – The annual reporting for 2019 and 2020 has been delayed until 2021.

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Goliath Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

If you’re a small restaurant or business with 500 or fewer employees and you’ve had more than a 20% decline of gross receipts in a quarter compared to 2019, you may be interested in hearing about this latest news regarding the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). What is the Employee Retention Tax Credit? See [link].

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Hot Schedules

MARCH 11, 2021

The Employee Benefits Outlook Post COVID-19. How the pandemic has affected employee benefit trends and expectations in the hospitality industry. In fact, the Annual 2020 Yelp Economic Average report shows that 18,207 new restaurants and food businesses opened nationwide in Q4 2020, down only 4 percent from Q4 2019.

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Margin Edge

APRIL 16, 2020

In short order, we hope to have three additional posts covering the impacts of unemployment insurance on the PPP, creative and high impact ways to deploy your PPP funds, and the specifics around documentation as you begin to think about reimbursement. You can hire employees who would be more suited for your current operations.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2021

If you’re a small restaurant or business with 500 or fewer employees and you’ve had more than a 20% decline of gross receipts in a quarter compared to 2019, you may be interested in hearing about this latest news regarding the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). What is the Employee Retention Tax Credit? See [link].

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Restaurant365

JUNE 17, 2020

Your payroll is the process of calculating and distributing wages to your employees. The restaurant industry faces a lot of industry-specific regulations on payroll, with laws regulating hourly employee scheduling and tipped wage workers, as well as compliance with the Affordable Care Act regarding seasonal and variable hour employees.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

so implementing other purely cost-cutting strategies would lead to cutting bone and ultimately undermining both the guest and employee experience. In some cases, this can help to optimize resources and shift risks (pensions, labor unions, taxes, insurance, administrative burden) if you pay enough to keep mercenaries. January 12, 2019.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2021

With these additional loans, qualifying restaurants and small businesses can fund payroll costs (including benefits), and pay for mortgage interest, rent, utilities, worker protection costs related to COVID-19, uninsured property damage costs caused by looting or vandalism during 2020, and certain supplier costs and expenses for operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

Smart Foodservice had 2019 revenues of approximately $1.1 We would like to thank Derek Jones and all of the employees at Smart Foodservice for their dedication in building a highly differentiated business in the cash and carry industry, and we know the company will be in great hands with its new owners.” SpotOn Transact, Inc.,

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EATER

MAY 4, 2021

Pandemic-related shutdowns proved just how fragile the restaurant ecosystem has always been, while last summer’s protests put a spotlight on the work still needed to dismantle white supremacy in all aspects of American life, especially in an industry built on a history of racism and inequity. America’s food culture is at a turning point.

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EATER

JUNE 28, 2021

billion in 2020, up from $885 million in 2019; Grubhub’s revenue grew by a relatively modest but still impressive 39 percent, to $1.8 Last year, as most of the restaurant industry shifted to delivery-only, the major apps unsurprisingly had record years. DoorDash saw revenues grow to $2.8 billion in the last quarter of 2020 alone.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 19, 2020

Here is a compilation of restaurant industry-related Coronavirus updates. March 19, 2020 Cameron Mitchell Cameron Mitchell Restaurants announces it will be closing restaurants temporarily and laying-off 4,500 employees. The company said it will continue to cover medical insurance premiums for employees through mid-April.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 13, 2021

of employees rated sanitation efforts of ultra-high importance, with an average score of 4.1 Employees aren't satisfied with their current wages. Nearly half of all restaurant employees are hovering in the range of $11-15/hour (45.8%). 73% of those employees still receive tips. Employees want schedule flexibility.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Ervin Cohen & Jessup launched a Food, Beverage and Hospitality practice to more efficiently advise industry-related clients to recover from the devastating financial and logistical impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Selvin (insurance and business interruption) and Elliot N. Lef f (litigation and employment), Kelly O.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 30, 2021

California Passes COVID-19 Supplemental Sick Leave : On March 19, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 95 providing a new form of COVID-19 related paid sick leave for many California workers. The law will remain in effect through September 30, 2021. percent, which would allow Kombucha to contain up to 1.25

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

Interest for alcohol-related experiences has increased since June 1, relative to other food activities, with a rise in consumer interest for wineries (up 51 percent), cideries (up 39 percent), breweries (up 24 percent) and distilleries (up 19 percent). Meanwhile, grocery related businesses are on the decline as people spend less time at home.

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EATER

MARCH 30, 2021

Even with the pandemic-related loans and grants the two restaurants received, Mark estimates he’s lost about $75,000 over the past year. That’s a big loss — even though his restaurants made a lot of money in sales before the pandemic, Mark also spent a lot on rent, wages for his staff, insurance, equipment, and expensive seasonal fish.

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EATER

APRIL 20, 2021

Hotel restaurants without their own employee identification number, per an SBA spokesperson. One can’t use funds on business expansion, according to comments made by the SBA during a food truck-related town hall last week. Yes, $5 billion will be set aside for restaurants whose 2019 gross annual receipts were less than $500,000.

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Food Truck Document Small Business Point of Sale 120

EATER

MARCH 30, 2021

Even with the pandemic-related loans and grants the two restaurants received, Mark estimates he’s lost about $75,000 over the past year. That’s a big loss — even though his restaurants made a lot of money in sales before the pandemic, Mark also spent a lot on rent, wages for his staff, insurance, equipment, and expensive seasonal fish.

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Outdoor Delivery Point of Sale Front of House 81

Touch Bistro

AUGUST 11, 2021

hour for businesses with 4 or more employees. hour for businesses with 25 or fewer employees and $14.00 for businesses with 26 or more employees (several cities also have their own minimum wage laws). hour for businesses with 25 or fewer employees and $15.00/hour hour for employees not covered under FLSA).

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

Regan’s other efforts — especially her memoir Burn the Place , which came out in July 2019 and was longlisted for a National Book Award — sync up with Elizabeth to show that, rather than expanding outward, Regan’s interests lie in finding what’s meaningful and valuable within what’s already available to her. George R.R.

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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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EATER

JULY 22, 2021

When his New York City restaurant, Reverence, opened in August 2019, guests could sit at the U-shaped chef’s counter beneath 14-foot ceilings. And that was before the fall and winter surges, which resulted in an exponential rise in virus-related hospitalizations and deaths , followed by new rounds of closures and restrictions.

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EATER

JULY 14, 2020

Together with the hospitality-industry union Unite Here, the veteran employee and his colleagues helped garner majority support of about 800 workers at the airport’s other HMSHost-operated restaurants, such as Chili’s and Starbucks, with an election slated for late March to determine whether the union would officially represent the staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2020

The new Yelp for Business will feature COVID-19 related content and prompts intended to help business owners communicate effectively with consumers and tips to weather the storm. Also investing is Tim Ridgley, founder of Open Dining, which was acquired by Paytronix in August 2019. Missing Restaurant Sounds?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For the first time in two years, growth was negative during the third quarter of 2019 with same-store sales growth of -0.4 percent for the third quarter of 2019, it doesn’t show much of a decline from the average 0.8 All segments experienced negative same-store sales growth during the third quarter of 2019.

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