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. “Business owners have proven their resilience throughout the course of this pandemic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

However, many of the food industry problems that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, have been aggressively simmering under the surface for years. Virtual kitchens, with their low barriers to entry and streamlined delivery focus, are a smart and inexpensive way to get your food into customers’ hands.

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EATER

JANUARY 8, 2021

How two Mexican-American birrieros made the beloved dish a sensation in America In 2005, two Mexican-American teenagers from LA met at the fair in Coatzingo, Puebla, during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, a time when countless Mexican-American families head back to their family’s hometowns all over Mexico to visit relatives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Few scenarios strike more fear into a restauranteur’s heart than the prospect of serving food to patrons that makes them sick. However, even with the greatest attention to food safety, there is no single way to eliminate all foodborne illness because its sources are numerous and diverse. Traceability Is Essential.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2021

No matter the type of restaurant you own, the type of food you serve, or the usual customers who walk through your door, you need to focus on making your off-premise sales a keystone aspect of your restaurant business. Restaurants are unique, and as such, need a unique approach to off-premise sales. Benefits of Off-Premise Sales.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Of, course the food must be tasty and appealing at some level and above all else – consistent. How convenient you might ask: we barely need to slow down our cars and roll down the window when our food arrives – that’s convenience. This was (is) the design of classic coffee houses, speakeasys, and corner cafes for generations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 12, 2020

They say we’re back. The kitchen lights are back on, deliveries arrive, the battery of ranges is fired up, and cooks (some of us) are welcomed back. Sure, there are temperature checks at the back door, masks donned upon arrival, and deep hand cleaning constantly throughout the day, but in reality no one knows if this is enough.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

January is fast-approaching, and hot lunch spots will soon be back on the mind of every highschool and college student in your area. Want to capture the hungry, back-to-school lunch crowd for January? Give BOGO a go Even though eating alone is a growing trend , food remains a fundamentally social experience.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The anxiety building up to a full house in the hotel packed with a series of food events has made it impossible to relax. Well, here we go. I haven’t slept much at all over the past few days and certainly won’t until the weekend is over. The preparation has been mind boggling, now we just have to execute. Things looked good.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

At my house, it was the Entenmann’s mini chocolate chip cookies , marshmallow-iced devil’s food cake , and the mini chocolate-iced doughnuts. My friend Kate with her Entenmann’s food truck in 1985; photo used here with her parents’ enthusiastic blessing. Her own son now gets Entenmann’s Little Bites for his own snacktime.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I just thought, The power is out, everybody is home and these houses are like matchboxes, just going up in flames.” The Noguchis built Chef Hui in 2018 to strengthen relationships between Hawaiʻi’s chefs, farmers, and food producers and the community at large, and during the pandemic, it organized efforts to feed vulnerable communities.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity. It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Not necessary!

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

You have a major food distributor in your market that you are probably buying from. You have a major food distributor in your market that you are probably buying from. It could be Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, Ben E. Keith, Shamrock Foods, Gordon FoodService or another regional brand.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 23, 2021

At the same time, many of those restaurant employees – front and back of the house, were taking their time trying to decide if it made sense to return to an industry that was unpredictable, low paying, void of reasonable benefit plans, and now a target for customer anger and angst as servers suddenly became covid policemen.

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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

JUNE 26, 2020

The restaurant’s general manager, who asked that both her name and that of the restaurant remain anonymous because of the sensitivity surrounding hiring practices, says she’s able to offer these still-unemployed workers little more than daily check-ins and free food. Hopefully, we get them back.”.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

Covid pulled the drapes back to reveal OZ as just an average guy trying to hide his inadequacies with smoke and mirrors. Here are some thoughts. [] IT’S STILL ABOUT THE FOOD: People go out to eat for a variety of reasons – convenience, social interaction, a change of pace, business travel, vacations, celebration, or habit.

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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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

” Traditionally, to enable delivery most sellers list their menu on food delivery platforms because the restaurant doesn’t have their own couriers. .” ” Traditionally, to enable delivery most sellers list their menu on food delivery platforms because the restaurant doesn’t have their own couriers.

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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. The year had started off strong.

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EATER

JANUARY 14, 2021

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams distributing food | Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. On the Eater’s Digest podcast, Eric Adams talks healthy eating, urban farming, and food deserts Later this year, the voters of America’s largest city will elect a new mayor. I view everything through that prism.

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EATER

JULY 22, 2021

Twenty years ago Ronald Zorrilla was making a similar trip to the beach, but over dirt roads in the Dominican Republic while seated in the bed of his uncle’s pickup truck. Once, my cousin was goofing off and flew out the back when my uncle hit the gas.”. Once, my cousin was goofing off and flew out the back when my uncle hit the gas.”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. The Foundation will administer the grants, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2021

No matter the type of restaurant you own, the type of food you serve, or the usual customers who walk through your door, you need to focus on making your off-premise sales a keystone aspect of your restaurant business. Restaurants are unique, and as such, need a unique approach to off-premise sales. Benefits of Off-Premise Sales.

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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. The dining domes at Detroit’s East Eats | Courtesy of East Eats.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The economic model makes more sense than traditional brick and mortar so many food businesses are moving in this direction. FAT Brands Chairman and CEO Andy Wiederhorn.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will manifest itself in several ways, such as informing robotics in the kitchen for food preparation, in addition to kitchen display systems (KDS) as restaurants kitchens seek to improve efficiency and better optimize for enhance prep station capacity management. The “restaurant anywhere” experience will expand.

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EATER

JUNE 20, 2023

I was 12, my brother 8; we’d climbed into the bed of my father’s pickup truck — along with a dozen empty plastic containers. We did it twice a week, bouncing in the back on our way to the pond at the edge of our property for water. Charis understands this well; as a soccer player in college, they had debilitating back pain.

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In 2025, a 350-acre Walmart campus is projected to open as its own self-contained community, complete with a food hall, hotel and rooftop bar, on-site childcare, parking garages, an amphitheater, bike paths, and a couple of lakes. All the while, the food scene has grown alongside the town. Plating dishes at Conifer.

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EATER

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Jimmy Calero, the school’s vending machine stocker who grew up in the city of Cali, chimed in to back her up. Armed guerillas, who controlled a vast territory during Colombia’s roughly 60 years of civil war that began in 1964, had halted Coke delivery trucks into the relatively peaceful town over several months. Sophia Pappas.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Come on – is this the way to address your food cost woes? What if they invest in either an in-house artisan baker or buy from a seriously talented Boulanger? What if it didn’t come from that bakeshop in the corner of your kitchen, but rather from the back of a full-service vendor’s delivery truck?

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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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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Suddenly we find that 2024 is almost behind us now but Future Food would like to share with you the trends and insight that we see across the food and hospitality sector. Discretionary spending has flatlined and shifted for food and hospitality but spending on essential items is slightly up. Source mccrindle.com.au

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Just because food is grown locally doesn’t mean it’s climate-friendly. are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. In doing so, they’re also recognizing that chefs can play a larger role in building food systems able to survive long into the future.

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