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How to Diversify Your Brand by Adapting Plant-Based Food Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Effectively educating those (bartenders, wait staff, back of the house, etc.) unaware of the dietary, sustainability and environmental benefits of plant-based alternatives is a key component to selling this addition to customers. Don’t overlook what your chef is already capable of creating.

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How Technology Tools Help Restaurateurs Do More With Less

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When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry. Hospitality is greater than the sum of its parts.

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How Virtual Brands Can Help Restaurants Expand Their Reach and Drive Sales

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These spaces are only used to prepare food for off-premises consumption; there is no dining room, curbside pickup or drive thru, which means operators can get by on skeleton back-of-house (BOH) crews. Breaking Into New Dayparts. One way to do this is by breaking into new dayparts. Connect with New Audiences and Test New Products.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Restaurants Going Digital Require Technology That Always Works

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The challenge is all this new technology needs support to keep everything working seamlessly across the front and back of the house, the internet, and for behind-the-scenes management. If they go down, it’s critical to get them back online ASAP. What’s new on the menu for today’s innovative restaurants?

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How to Feed Yourself When You’re Displaced 

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When I survived a house fire myself a few years ago, I tunneled through a complex maze that only displacement due to natural disaster can dredge up: shock at not being able to inhabit my home, loss that must now be juggled and weighed, grief that crystallized through the passing of inevitable time. And yet I still needed to feed myself.

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Great Expectations as Customers Show Increased Appetite for Swift Service and Customization

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Now that restrictions have well and truly lifted and people are returning to restaurants, their expectations for their dining experience are considerably higher. Now that restrictions have well and truly lifted and people are returning to restaurants, their expectations for their dining experience are considerably higher.

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Using Tech for Better Guest Engagement

Modern Restaurant Management

Balancing operational and guest needs involves adopting technology that makes back-end processes more efficient and improves the front-end customer experience. The report, which surveyed 127 restaurant executives across the U.S. The report, which surveyed 127 restaurant executives across the U.S.