Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Staffing presents a huge challenge for restaurants trying to go back to full employment following the pandemic. Kitchen and front-of-house employees are simply harder to find. The event took place in parking lots, outdoor patios and required applicants and hiring managers to wear masks and stay six feet apart.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2023

The first is communication technology, like paging to communicate to guests or back of house communications for personnel and management. Today’s audio systems can be an all-in-one solution for a restaurant, from paging to front and back of house, to background music.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

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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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

“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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SpotOn

APRIL 1, 2025

However, getting more guests in seats through outdoor dining can also come at a cost, both in time and money. Whatever your restaurant type, we'll give you some practical and effective ways to get more profit from your outdoor space this year. Put up outdoor string lights in trees or structures so they cross over tables.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

My partner and I decided to grab a drink and a bite at a local wine bar, assuming we could order at the sidewalk window and then take the food to one of the high-tops set up in the street. PhaiApirom /Shutterstock. We picked a table in an outside corner, far away from the dozen other patrons, and started to look over the menu on our phones.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 3, 2021

The weather is beautiful, and we are all ready to dine outdoors in the Washington, D.C. Outdoor dining is a favorite amongst Washingtonians, and we have rounded up the leading restaurants you should try! Best Outdoor Dining Restaurants in DC. This article includes restaurants that are diverse, and they are all outstanding.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Brooklyn Dumpling House just opened and they're already franchising the idea. We also foresee a lot of companies will redesign locations even further to maximize efficiency. Fortunately, we have exceeded in our efforts to reduce our footprint and maximize profitability to effectively operate our drive-thrus and maintain team productivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The sports bar is equipped with several TVs for sports viewing, garage style doors, an outdoor patio with fire pits, and locally brewed craft beer and cocktails. The sports bar is equipped with several TVs for sports viewing, garage style doors, an outdoor patio with fire pits, and locally brewed craft beer and cocktails.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked experts for their thoughts on trends and challenges that will affect the restaurant industry in 2023. For part one, click here. The modern Kitchen Display System (KDS) will be more interactive to increase operational efficiencies and improve quality of food for the chefs and their teams.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The worst thing about it is the uncertainty,” says Michael Roper, who owns Hopleaf Bar in Chicago and is at high risk for severe COVID-19. “I I have only one fully functioning lung. … I don’t want to be gasping for life and have a terrible end. I’m not going to let my guard down.”. High-Risk Workers Have Only So Many Options.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Short-staffed and overwhelmed, restaurants’ hours of operation have been cut back, with signs on windows practically pleading line cooks and waiters to apply for one of many open positions. Here’s how three owners are doing it. Where eating at restaurants became an option, the experience felt different.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

The bill will likely be back before the California legislature in January 2022. Restaurant Revitalization Fund Replenishment Act Introduced : On June 8, 2021, a bipartisan group of Senators and U.S. Representatives introduced legislation to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund with a $60 billion second round of restaurant relief.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

We’re also likely to see a spike in the demand for data analysts in the back office, those who can help make sense of all the new data coming in from various digital channels. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. Here are their responses.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Over the years it housed a saloon, stage, and movie theater. Over the years it housed a saloon, stage, and movie theater. For some, it was simply home. The fire that reduced the historic town to ash on August 8, 2023 was unsparing. It took the lives and livelihoods of so many of our community members.

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EATER

AUGUST 10, 2020

But it seems like a growing list of name-brand places — Trois Mec, Broken Spanish, Augustine, Le Sia — and old-timers — 40 year-old dives and bakeries and gay bars and diners — threw in the towel alongside struggling newcomers in July. Read the archives and subscribe now. There are usually a handful of big ones every week.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The capital, Boise, has led the boom (with a surge in housing prices to match), as remote workers migrated east from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in search of more space, cheaper rent, and a quieter lifestyle. New residents brought infusions of cash and interest, but they’re building on the area’s endearing underlying character.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

restaurant industry has shown remarkable resiliency, having lost as much as 35 percent of visits at the beginning of the pandemic, but still has a ways to go to get back to pre-pandemic levels, reports The NPD Group. How is the US On Premise shaping up as it continues its journey back from COVID-19 disruption? foodservice industry.

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EATER

OCTOBER 19, 2020

These outdoor dining rooms have remade the landscape of major metropolitan centers and small towns, allowing people to spill into the streets, visit with friends and family, and — for an hour or two — forget about the looming threat of a deadly and highly contagious virus. Indoor spaces create an ideal environment for the spread of COVID-19.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Data from Restaurant365 backs up our own findings, showing that the sales recovery of New York is trending below the average (with New York sales remaining 52% below pre-COVID levels, whereas the average is 22%). As the Head of U.S. What support is available for New York restaurants 1.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 4, 2024

Well-designed outdoor projects feel organic, immersive, and enjoyable versus purely transactional retail. Consider that Easton was the most visited outdoor lifestyle center in the nation last November and December. As a longstanding lifestyle development, every year brings new opportunities to evolve its F&B offerings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a similar vein to tightly integrated systems across the business, we expect to see brands pursue simplification across all aspects of operations from how they manage payment processing to how they manage their digital expansion. End-to-end payment processing removes complexity and PCI compliance demands for operators.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. 32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. How Comfortable are Diners? Some highlights inlcude: Consumers' projected dining out frequency.

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EATER

OCTOBER 30, 2020

So have some food trucks, with an inherently outdoor nature, as well to-go cocktails enjoyed by drinkers on the go or in parks. So have some food trucks, with an inherently outdoor nature, as well to-go cocktails enjoyed by drinkers on the go or in parks. Restaurants are making moves to make winter outdoor dining doable.

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EATER

AUGUST 13, 2020

Peaches Hot House’s fried chicken packaged to-go. The staff would point guests to the bar while they waited, and despite the fact that it takes up about a third of the room, it was almost as difficult to snag a seat there as it was at a table. But despite of all of this, Peaches Hot House is busier than ever.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Review mentions of “Back-owned” (and related terms) also skyrocketed, up 426 percent, as people look to support and surface these businesses to the community. In early June, we've seen diners seated come back substantially – now down 57 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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EATER

APRIL 28, 2023

In her early 20s, Freeman worked as a front-of-house manager at a popular bar and restaurant in Washington D.C. During the open house, they mentioned they were launching this health-supportive culinary arts program. And it all started with too much partying. We’re mainly cooking with vegetables and all of our produce is organic.

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EATER

OCTOBER 13, 2020

That slowly fading memory — what it felt like to discover a new city, stomach first — is what excited me about going out on the road again, which I did a couple months ago, driving from Los Angeles to Corsicana, Texas and back, stopping to eat in places like Albuquerque, Amarillo, El Paso, and Phoenix. Nothing extravagant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” The indoor-outdoor, three-level floating vessel will feature year-round public and private events, as well as annual membership options.

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EATER

JANUARY 21, 2021

This time patios were included in the shutdown, meaning establishments around the city were staring at freshly weatherized outdoor seating areas they couldn’t use, spaces that had been lifelines to their businesses while indoor dining rooms remained closed. Mariah Pisha-Duffly was exhausted with the state of the restaurant industry.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

However, those with experience on the front-of-house (FOH) side of restaurants know there's more to server duties than meets the eye. People who don't work in the restaurant industry think that all there is to being a server is taking orders, bringing out food, and sorting out the bill.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

Furthermore, a recent study by SaverLife sponsored by the FINRA Foundation found that savings balances above just $250 are correlated with increased housing security, ability to pay utility bills, and avoiding high-cost borrowing. “We are very excited about our partnership with SaverLife. .

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EATER

MAY 19, 2020

In Texas, for example, restaurants are limited to 50 percent capacity indoors (with unlimited capacity outdoors), while in South Carolina, social-distancing measures are recommended but not enforced. The reopenings don’t necessarily reflect a successful beating back of the virus, either. America is in the early stages of reopening.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There’s nothing like a beautiful day in Miami, Florida for doing some shopping or laying out on the beach, but my favorite thing to do on a warm, sunny day is go out to eat somewhere with outdoor seating. Best Outdoor Dining Restaurants in Miami. This Latin American restaurant is easily one of the best places to eat outdoors in Miami.

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EATER

MAY 31, 2024

On a balmy Sunday afternoon this spring, Atlantans seeking sunshine and seafood walked, scootered, and biked in droves to this sprawling indoor-outdoor restaurant adjacent to the Beltline Eastside Trail, a section of the city’s popular mixed-use pathway. Breaker Breaker on a recent warm afternoon. What are you wearing today?

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