Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This past year has shown us the invaluable difference that a warm and welcoming dining experience can make for customers, who are increasingly choosing establishments that go the extra mile in offering hospitality. Each year, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asks experts for their views on the state of the industry.

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2023 Front of House Customer Experience Customer Service 296

Black Box Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Comp Traffic Best Region: New England Best Segment: Family Dining Best Cuisine: Breakfast Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Fast Casual Worst Cuisine: Sandwich The December 2024 Restaurant Industry Trends + A Year in Review 2024 saw many ups and downs. This combined average growth rate is stronger than any other month in 2024.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

As of 2024, they make around $26.42 On the front-of-house side, they focus on customer service, solving problems quickly to keep guests happy and returning. “Being nice to people goes for the people walking in the front door and the people walking in the back door.

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Management Management 2024 Leadership 195

EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For excellent food to go along with the stunning beaches, center your dining in and around Phuket Town, perhaps Thailand’s most underrated food destination, with a few excursions for standout meals elsewhere on the island. Most visitors beeline for resorts and hotels that ring the coastline, which do deliver the goods for beachgoers.

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Seasonal Menu Hotels Back of House Front of House 316

The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 27, 2022

Just a month ago, dine-in was showing signs of improvement. Global contactless payments are expected to increase from $2 trillion to $6 trillion by 2024 , according to estimates. With the latest wave of COVID-19 spreading rapidly, restaurant owners are considering how best to implement safety measures while controlling costs.

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Fine Dining Technology Point of Sale Online Ordering 52

Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Out of the Box: Monthly Restaurant Industry Update August 2024: Is This a Turning Point? Comp Traffic Best Region: California Best Segment: Fine Dining Best Cuisine: Chicken Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Family Dining Worst Cuisine: Sandwich August marked a potentially pivotal moment for the restaurant industry.

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Front of House Point of Sale Guest Recovery Back of House 52

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. From a legal perspective, Insurance : the pandemic highlighted the limitations of insurance policies. Workforce : COVID fundamentally changed the labor market.

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Mobile Ordering Kitchen Safety Fine Dining Food Safety 418

Lavu

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

It allows you to: Keep tabs on inventory levels at each location Move stock between restaurants when needed Maintain consistent recipe costs, ensuring uniform pricing and margins Analyze usage trends to fine-tune ordering The system’s data analysis tools offer valuable insights into inventory performance.

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POS Loyalty Program Point of Sale Online Ordering 78

Open for Business

APRIL 9, 2024

While MICHELIN stars specifically rate the quality of a restaurant’s food, the MICHELIN Recommended designation more broadly covers entire cities and countries to highlight local dining establishments. These guides are updated annually and have become trusted resources for recognising dining excellence across a wide spectrum.

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Fine Dining Hospitality Dine-in Front of House 78

Mad Mobile

MARCH 8, 2024

Restaurant industry experts have seen a massive shift in 2024 toward iPad-based POS systems. You may feel overwhelmed by the choices in front of you, but there are some factors that you need to consider first. Hardware At CAKE, we love the iPad platform for its stability and flexibility. In the kitchen, though, bigger is better.

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POS 2024 Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program 40

Mad Mobile

JUNE 26, 2024

Customer retention Since the restaurant industry includes tons of variation–fine dining, fast-casual, quick-service, and so on–it’s hard to pin down average customer retention rates. But customers also want to feel recognized, and your restaurant loyalty program can provide the acknowledgement they crave.

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Loyalty Program Operations Customer Experience Point of Sale 40

7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2023

She now co-owns Poppy + Rose, Poppy & Seed , and Root of all Food , an LA-based catering company. She joined us on The Pre-Shift Podcast to discuss her philosophy on managing a team, including how she coaches managers. But first, Reed recounts how she followed her husband into restaurants. "I It served a purpose. I seen the books.

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Front of House Back of House Take-out Book 370

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

At the beginning of 2024, the NRA reported that 73% of operators expected profit to be less or the same over the year, with 38% saying they didn't make any profit in 2023. We all know it. Restaurant profit margins are pretty low. But not entirely because of inflation, labor shortages, and high food costs.

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Operations Loyalty Program Online Ordering Fast Casual 52

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

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Pricing Technology 2025 Point of Sale 252

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

percent by 2024, and 2020 will be a catalyst year that could drive that number up. 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.

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2020 Kitchen Safety Consumer Goods Point of Sale 346

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Solo dining – a time dedicated to eating a meal alone at a sit-down restaurant – is an opportunity for diners to practice self care over a meal, whether that be by relaxing and reflecting at the end of a long day or even by engaging the mind with a book or catching up on the news. Just the “cover count.”

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Customer Experience Fine Dining Seating Catering 451

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

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2025 Loyalty Program Social Media Fast Casual 419

EATER

JANUARY 7, 2025

But many cities, towns, and businesses around the world are eager for visitors, including many places where chefs are attracting attention by putting their food cultures front and center. Lets get out of here. Lets go somewhere we dont know yet. Lets eat something new to us. A diverse coterie of restaurants fuels this new era.

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2025 Tourism Fine Dining Back of House 360

EATER

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And whether it’s as a vehicle for Chaplin’s absurdist physical comedy, or it’s offering romantic depictions of Italian cuisine in Goodfellas and Big Night , or it’s the way the The Menu uses visceral horror and biting satire to critique the extravagance of luxury dining culture, food plays a crucial role in making the movies we love feel real.

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Food Food Truck Consumer Goods Food Order 358

EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Scott Suchman This year, we found ourselves blissfully forgetting about the world outside the dining room, and settling into meals that felt exciting, confident, and joyful Dining out should be a lot of things — nourishing, thought-provoking, less than a week’s rent — but one that can be easy to forget about is fun.

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