Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The survey was conducted in January 2024 among 522 US-based Food and Beverage professionals, including owners and managers from single-site establishments and small multi-site chains with fewer than 20 restaurants. Though inflation peaked at seven percent in 2021 and has since decreased to 2.97 percent in 2018.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

. | Courtesy of Marielba Alvarez / Smithsonian Institution Where to find manoomin rice cakes, “kick-ass buffalo chili,” fry bread tacos, and stunning Indigenous artwork As a We Wai Kai First Nation member , I know that food connects Indigenous people to our history, traditions, and stories. My garden is where it all starts,” Oden explains.

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Cheetah

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2019, we published The Beginner’s Guide to Opening a Food Truck Business , where we covered the basics of buying a food truck, choosing the right location, working with suppliers, and more. Which brings us to the question: Is starting a food truck in 2021 still a good idea? The short answer is YES.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

The RRF will provide tax-free grants for food and beverage venues that lost revenues in 2020. Eligible establishments include restaurants, food trucks, bars, breweries, wineries, and bakeries. Business food and beverage expenses. ” above) between February 15, 2020 and March 11, 2021. Rent payments.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

With more than a dozen restaurants set to open in the first half of 2021, Freddy’s currently boasts a development pipeline on track to open more than 45 restaurants in 2021. Among the new openings in 2021 so far, Freddy’s has celebrated new locations in key markets such as Florida, Tennessee, and Georgia.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 20, 2022

We chatted with some of those most experienced in the ghost kitchen game to find out some myths, best practices, and tips for success in this food service style. One ghost kitchen may contain multiple units where different brands can prepare food for delivery, and in some cases, pickup. Table of Contents. What is a ghost kitchen?

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When it comes to food trucks, a lack of sustainability can give rise to multiple problems. For a mobile business like food trucks catering to multiple locations, it is relatively harder to keep everything clean and be eco-friendly. Setting up a sustainable food truck is, therefore, a new concept. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2022

Food prices are soaring amidst supply chain disruptions, increasing labor costs, and processing plant shutdowns. The food service industry is scrambling to keep up with these new costs, pushing the price of a restaurant meal to a 40-year high. Restaurants must keep innovating to elevate the diner experience. First-Rate Service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Let’s start with what we are fairly comfortable saying: whatever “normal” is will likely not make an appearance until the end of 2021 – so…let’s begin our speculation with January of 2022 to be safe. Of, course the food must be tasty and appealing at some level and above all else – consistent. FOOD TRUCKS are not a passing fad.

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The Rail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While the cost of food waste isn’t a secret , you probably overlook it, considering it a part of doing business in this industry. It can help you fix discrepancies in ordering and inventory management , minimizing food shrink. The consumer price index for restaurant food costs increased by 7.7% What else can it do for you?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide. .” Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. The top entrants will be asked to submit their recipe details to be tested, tasted and photographed for PR, media and social media.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Like veritably all businesses in the post pandemic era, those operating in the restaurant, café, food truck or other type of F&B franchise space are experiencing a wave of major change—as is the franchising trade at large. GDP by 2021 year end. million people and contribute $477 Billion to the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2021

Renovations will be completed throughout the remainder of 2021, leaving each restaurant with a fresh, new and improved look and feel. In the coming months, restaurants across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma will undergo renovations without disrupting the amazing service and incredible food quality guests have come to love.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

So technicians climb into their trucks, making three extra 40-mile round trips to complete the necessary repairs. ” Simon-Kucher & Partners Global Sustainability Study 2021, surveying more than 10,000 people, also demonstrates that consumers are “voting with their feet.” Could these extra trips be prevented?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

The brand’s commitment to each guest service experience is the focal point of upcoming menu innovation, value-based choices, and a portfolio of new organic food and beverage educational content. And because our food travels so well, guests never have to choose between quality and convenience."

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Cheetah

JUNE 1, 2021

Last year all events were held online but 2021 will have some cornerstone outdoor in-person events too. For food trucks, check out options for providing food at the events. . It’s no wonder then that for years food and beverage brands have been ‘cause marketing’ under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Frameline ,?the

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. With real-time data into consumer behavior data, the solution offers immediate, location-specific food and beverage insights into an industry that is changing faster than ever before. ” Tastewise Data. social interactions, and 1.2M online recipes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In 2021, Laura added the Wendy’s brand to her role with responsibility for implementing Develop­ment Days and quarterly business plans for TSFR’s 56 Wendy’s restaurants. He started his career with Hardee’s Food Systems in 1983 ending in the position of District Manager. The Awards are one of these programs.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Ike’s Love & Sandwiches is ranked #12 on Fast Casual’s Movers and Shakers 2021 list. Real Food at BK. Burger King permanently banned 120 artificial ingredients and counting from its food menu nationwide. The team currently operates over 80 Ike’s Love & Sandwiches locations across the United States.

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Restaurant Engine

JANUARY 12, 2022

Food trucks are on target to outpace traditional diners in popularity. Did you know there are nearly 33,000 food trucks in the United States? What’s more, the food truck industry’s market size has grown by an average of 6.6% each year from 2016 to 2021. Food trucks help test out public opinion.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In the last year we’ve been able to really focus on growing our off-premise business, and we found that guests enjoy our home-style comfort food in the comfort of their own homes. Food delivery was an already booming industry, but when COVID hit it increased even more. To be better capitalized.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As a result of this trend, we’ve shifted our focus to provide more Take & Bake options and even have plans to launch additional varieties of our Take & Bake breads in early 2021. Intuit reports that by 2021, the gig economy will surge and add 9.2 billion to $25 billion. million more Americans to the gig workforce.

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Restaurant365

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

February 4, 2021: In a 90-10 Senate vote, the Restaurant Rescue Plan, a $25 billion grant relief program for restaurants, was added to the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 February 5, 2021: The Senate narrowly approved the $1.9 February 5, 2021: The Senate narrowly approved the $1.9 If the entire $1.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of dramatic Valentine's Day shift, best food scenes, and the evolution of c-store foodservice. Food-away-from-home spending is likely to see modest growth as softer consumer spending patterns prevail. ” A Year of Challenges U.S.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Festivals are coming up and it is the peak season for those in the food truck business. You can make money as a food vendor at fairs and festivals, whether you’re a restaurant owner looking to expand your customer base or a culinary enthusiast who appreciates being outside and offering your favourite foods.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2022

But several months into owning our own establishment, Joon Market, our optimism proved naive as we found ourselves in constant survival mode amid staffing shortages, increased labor and food costs, and supply chain issues that left cooking equipment and furniture stuck at the ports. Our first full-time employee started in April 2021.

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EATER

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this excerpt, from the chapter entitled “The Chef-Driven Restaurant,” Mintz calls for an end to those one-time food media darlings that saw chefs elevated at the expense of workers. It’s a busy commercial drive, a preferred route of ambulances and fire trucks, on which no one ever fantasized about dining al fresco. Monica Burton.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

. "Blendid is on a mission to make delicious and customized food accessible to all using robotics and AI. "We're proud to team up with the leading smoothie brand on this new opportunity to provide a solution for contactless food preparation and delivery which has become imperative during the COVID-19 pandemic."

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EATER

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Our national grain stockpile wasn’t depleted, and flour still flowed in train cars and trucks and pallets. The rest is used by bakeries and the food manufacturing industry. Our food supply does not particularly depend on people being able to buy five-pound bags of flour to bake at home.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

According to Zhengfei Guan, associate professor of food and resource economics at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Americans have a voracious appetite for avocados. In 2019, in the town of Ziracuaretiro, a gang robbed a truck full of USDA inspectors at gunpoint.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Along with environmental conditions triggered by global warming, COVID has snarled supply chains across the world, and food supplies are no exception. Our food supply] is not all one supply chain,” he says.

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EATER

AUGUST 12, 2021

My father, honestly not a big food lover, was praising God upon eating them. He and the Aams Dealer represent the type of Pakistani American who might pay a premium for mangoes off WhatsApp — internet-savvy, absolutely food-obsessed, and willing to spend precious time and money to acquire a taste of the fruit.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

Others were tasked with figuring out how the interns could take the skills they had learned in the restaurant and use them to make meals for food-insecure students, since schools had shut down. nonprofits have spent decades training marginalized populations to work in the food and hospitality industry. Several U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

US Foods Ghost Kitchens. US Foods Holding Corp. launched US Foods Ghost Kitchens, a program designed to guide restaurant operators every step of the way when opening their own operation, helping them easily add a new revenue stream.

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EATER

APRIL 26, 2024

They showed up like two weeks later with a tractor and a big truck to load it in,” he said. Sales of specialty mushrooms increased 32 percent between 2021 and 2022 alone , which means an equivalent increase in spent substrate, and more questions about what to do with it. It wasn’t a tough sell.

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Mobile Coffee Shops (Carts and Trucks). Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? Many food businesses have gotten their start through sites like Kickstarter , Indiegogo , AngelList , GoFundMe. Food Handler's Permit. Kitchen equipment (like ovens) if you're serving food. Coffee Shop Concepts. Coffee Bars.

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