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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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Back in time, I remember a billboard in New York City’s Times Square that asked: “Would You Be Willing To Sign Your Work?” Name tags for front of the house employees work just as well maybe with the name of the town they are from, or the number of years they have worked in an establishment. I did this, this is my work”!

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 13, 2021

Now, before you say, “ But Coach, you are an anomaly and my situation is different.” I have coached thousands of independent restaurant owners like you to seek that elusive state of finally breaking free from your restaurant running you. Back then my number one solution to fix a problem was to just work through it.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 5, 2022

However, some restaurant technology is actually true to its potential - and the numbers back it up. Trusted by restaurants internationally, 7shifts is backed by industry giants like Danny Meyer and his investment firm Enlightened Hospitality Investments. Helping Restaurants Save Time on Scheduling. No more spreadsheets or whiteboards.

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7 Shifts

JULY 28, 2021

At times, it's a civil war between your front-of-house and back-of-house teams. Recommended Reading: Data-Backed Ways to Engage Employees and Reduce Restaurant Turnover. This is when you can transition from a boss to a coach by keeping your staff informed and encouraged. Table of Contents. Field questions.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2021

But it's the good shifts, when the front of house and back of house are flowing like a symphony, when customers are delighted, and the restaurant atmosphere feels effortless—that's the best part about restaurants. This section of the meeting gives managers time to teach and coach their team. What is a pre-shift meeting.

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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.” Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. “I found inspiration on my travels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

For more information, visit: sba.gov/paycheckprotection. According to Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin SBA resumed accepting PPP loan applications on Monday, April 27 at 10:30AM EDT from approved lenders on behalf of any eligible borrower.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

For more information, visit: sba.gov/paycheckprotection. According to Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin SBA resumed accepting PPP loan applications on Monday, April 27 at 10:30AM EDT from approved lenders on behalf of any eligible borrower.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 4, 2022

Thinking that the way to recover from the financial pains of a once in a century pandemic is to cut back on quality product and service and push the ceiling on pricing is short-sighted and ill-conceived as a strategy. Well then – what will? Try apathy on for size. It infects others who are easily convinced that it is the way it needs to be.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Knowing these customer experience factors can help you create a positive and welcoming environment that will keep guests coming back for more. These days, a restaurant's reputation is built on more than the taste of its food. They must also focus on creating memorable experiences for customers at every touchpoint.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After exploring wine and home bartending during the pandemic, consumers are now more educated than ever before when it comes to ordering drinks at a restaurant. Because of this, it’s critical for operators to capitalize on “what’s next” to complement existing programs. working to help our restaurant partners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 24, 2022

Restaurant sector employees are particularly impacted by the increase in fuel costs (they do not have work from home options), rent increases (owning a home is insulation against housing inflation, but rental costs have exploded) and food. This article focuses on one of the aspects of well-being, financial assistance. What Does the Data Say?

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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 26, 2021

The Handy Landing Tea Room and Store in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire | weirsbeach.com. For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room. If you happened to be traveling from Washington, D.C. Lucky for you, it’s Sunday, when the restaurant offers 75-cent dinners of fried chicken or Smithfield ham.

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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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7 Shifts

APRIL 24, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, and subsequent social distancing and self-isolation protocols have wreaked havoc on restaurant workers everywhere. With most restaurants operating on dine-out only, and many having closed their doors, restaurant staff are left with hours reduced—or out of a job entirely.

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EATER

JUNE 28, 2023

Deep dish gets the fine dining treatment | Chuck Hodes/FX A 15-year restaurant veteran, The Bear ’s culinary producer is responsible for the show’s food as well as the cast’s cooking skills Courtney “Coco” Storer has worked in some of the world’s most vaunted kitchens, including Verjus in Paris, both as a chef and in the front of house.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 13, 2022

I want to share with you some of the challenges that I faced back in the 90s when I opened my first restaurant… Up to that point I had been in the industry for 15 years. Back then I thought that knowing how to run a restaurant was all I needed. I can look back now and I describe it as falling into quicksand.

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Cheetah

MAY 11, 2021

Once you have a grasp on your establishment’s total allowed capacity, give some thought to the following: Inventory stock Back of house staff Social distancing and a better dining experience These 3 key pillars can make the difference between a streamlined restaurant reopening and a stalled one. Restaurant Reopening Requirements.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

She begrudgingly put the books back up, at least until all the recipes were duplicated on the site. Digital cookbooks have been a hard sell for big publishing houses, despite the promise of Amazon’s Kindle and other e-readers. Those numbers both rose coming into 2021, to 3.6

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

They also learned how to make money by filling up empty trucks going back to their market with what is known as the backhaul. Having worked as a consultant for a large foodservice distributor for 4 years, I learned a lot about their business. A lot of stuff they don’t want you to know! In foodservice, it’s their operations team.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

BWW Franchisee Acquisition Completed. CV Partners, LLC, completed the previously announced acquisition of Diversified Restaurant Holdings, Inc. (“DRH”), one of the largest franchisees for Buffalo Wild Wings® ("BWW") with 64 sports bars across five states. DRH’s common stockholders received $1.05 per share in cash.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. World’s First Mobile Restaurant Powered by Advanced Robotics. Ono Food Co.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 29, 2023

What is your brand doing to give back? He joined us on the Pre-Shift podcast to chat about bartaco's embrace of tech, their unique approach to training and career development, radical wage structure, and how all of those practices have them poised for growth in 2023. What does your brand mean? How is your brand involved in the community?

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The Rail

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Food Preparation and Handling Let’s start with the back-of-house since this is the area where food is prepared and most likely to be handled. Back-of-house hygiene practices are key, as this can be one of the main places where foodborne illness spreads through your restaurant.

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Hot Schedules

MAY 10, 2021

So how do you stack your bench and coach your own team to maximum efficiency? Seasonal Staff Playbook: Hiring, Training & Retaining Great Teams. E very sports team has a series of plays – running plays, passing plays, defensive plays and so on. Finding skilled talent isn’t easy. PLAY #1: Hire Quality Seasonal Staff. User Network.

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EATER

JUNE 9, 2023

Getty Images Long before they were the stars of tropical drinks or controversial pizzas, pineapples were the obsessively hoarded, perpetually pursued symbols of the elite Pray join us, gentle reader, for a quick spot of time travel. It’s the early 1700s, and you are a lady or lord attending a formal dinner at an English country estate.

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Embrace the Suck

APRIL 18, 2022

Many of my clients when they first start my coaching program do a big sales number. I can tell you from working with over 2200 independent restaurants over the last 12 years that in any market regardless of current economic conditions…a lot of restaurants struggle (20%), and some just survive (60%). They focus on the wrong things.

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EATER

JULY 14, 2021

The earliest cookbooks were light on instruction and heavy on assumed knowledge — a style our recent, prescriptive recipe-obsessed food culture is now looping back to You don’t need a recipe. So chastises the back cover of Sam Sifton’s new book New York Times Cooking: No-Recipe Recipes , which, despite its own pretensions, is full of recipes.

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Full-Service Back-Of-House Staffing Improves, But Training and Coaching Needs Increase as Average Tenure Drops. At the end of Q3 and before the heavy volume holiday season commences, full-service restaurants have shored up their back-of-house staff. In fact, October’s same-store sales growth of +5.2%

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

He continued by highlighting areas where the company outperformed the industry in growth and how the organic quick-serve restaurant continues to meet and exceed serving its guests amidst the unique demands of COVID-19. million guests. “The Juicey Awards are about honoring our passionate store owners.

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Ken Burgin

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Maybe the in-house facilitator’s job is to set up the structures, organise the times, and let people get on with it. What about extending this to online coaching and skill development for staff? Subscribe to Hospo Reset Podcast on Apple Podcasts. on Google Podcast s, on Spotify or your podcast app of choice.

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SpotOn

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Clearing downed Bud Light bottles and empty glasses of the house red, Don came away with a positive impression of the hospitality industry that he carried with him through college. Don’s challenge was to cater to all tastes—and coach his staff on how to do the same. SpotOn is a better solution.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Curry Up Now attracted a new investment from seed-stage venture capital firm Liquid 2 Ventures (L2V). " Benihana Plans Franchise Expansion. Select U.S.

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Bar and Restaurant Coach

APRIL 2, 2019

If that number seems reasonable, it’s back to business as usual. It’s a bit like the fox guarding the hen house. appeared first on Bar and Restaurant Coach. What we know from working with thousands of operators over the last two decades is that bars and restaurants lose tons of money every day. Compare to par guide.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. More Tropical in Colorado. Tropical Smoothie Cafe signed two multi-unit franchise agreements to develop 38 new cafes across the state of Colorado, including a 27-unit deal and an 11-unit deal.

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