Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 7, 2023

If you run a bar or restaurant, you already know how important it is to have an online presence. Here are ten reasons why your bar and restaurant needs SEO: Boost Your Online Visibility Put your business on the map with SEO! Make sure Google can find you when customers search for bar or restaurant keywords. Are You Using Video?

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MARCH 11, 2025

Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our relationship to food and dining has undergone some permanent changes I got COVID for the first time this past February. So I isolated myself at home, using Instacart for the first time to order vegetables and Gatorade. food prices have risen by 23.6 Sound familiar?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The increased challenges and stress of the holiday season often reveal pinch points in bar and restaurant operations. The holidays bring an increase in beverage inventory, particularly kegged inventory for bars and restaurants centered around draft programs. Manage and Optimize Your Increased Holiday Inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But while wings still dominate as the top football snack, new data suggests that more fans are choosing to watch the game at home rather than head to their local sports bar. The average price of wings increased 18 percent, likely due to demand and larger orders. This suggests fans are stocking home bars instead of ordering drinks out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Bar and restaurant operators often face tough dilemmas, ranging from the daily question, “Should we be mixing more drinks or turning more tables?” With today’s technology, bar and lounge operators can have the best of both worlds. My staff can monitor orders from almost any location.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Regular season game days at the bar are crowded and hectic enough, but Super Bowl weekend? According to National Retail Federation, nearly 18 million fans plan to watch the Super Bowl at their favorite bar. Here are coaching tips to get your team ready for a super weekend in your bar. That’s a whole different ballgame!

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Opening and owning a bar is one of those unique life experiences; you have no idea what it will be like until you actually go for it. In this guide, we're covering everything you need to know about owning a bar to prepare as well as you can for the big opening day. How Do I Run a Profitable Bar?

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EATER

MARCH 12, 2025

The thing that made us survive is that our local farmers were there, more than happy to just give us as much food as we could handle, says Lee, which led to an ever-changing menu. The couple agreed Gado Gados food wasnt fit for takeout, so instead, they tried something new. Theres no way around that.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. However, understanding how to calculate and improve your bar's profit margin is key to long-term success. One key area to focus on is drink sales, with cocktail sales accounting for about 23% of a bar's revenue.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 13, 2025

The chef may have developed the dish and given it that first charge of life, but that work of art on the plate was the collective effort of great purchasing, solid prep work during the day, and accomplished line cooks who are able to consistently prepare and present superb food while juggling multiple orders at once.

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EATER

MARCH 12, 2025

At Trinas Starlite Lounge, the hot dog tower comes with five hot dogs, fries, and sauce | Trinas Starlite Lounge In this economy, the pricey seafood tower has given way to way to the hot dog tower For Trinas Starlite Lounge , the longstanding bar in Somerville, Massachusetts, 2024 was financially pretty rough. And then the election happened.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2025

T’s Brunch Bar’s four locations in Metro Atlanta feature dishes with a southern twist and charm, but owner Teneshia Murray had to learn a few lessons before finding the right blend for the elevated brunch concept. “We are making sure that we keep our food, aesthetic and brand all aligned and consistent,” Murray said.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Whats the food in Sri Lanka like?

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EATER

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

. | Stephanie Wu Long seafood lunches, grasshopper cocktails, and more A version of this post originally appeared in Stephanie Wus newsletter, From the Editor, a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world. Ive just returned from three glorious, food-filled days in Mexico City. Subscribe now.

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SpotOn

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While bars sell alcoholic drinks, a high-margin menu item, crafting a profitable bar menu is paramount. Through menu engineering and reporting from your bar POS system , you can determine what's selling and what's not. Here are some tried-and-true moneymakers for your bar menu. Breakfast foods (hear us out!)

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Quarantines and stay-at-home orders meant that restaurants were unable to serve guests onsite for months. Most restaurants and food businesses have done a great job adjusting to the new COVID-19 protocols. They’ve eliminated shared condiment bottles, self-serve coffee stations, and salad bars. Update Your Crisis Plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the competitive restaurant and bar industry, customer feedback is vital for success. Restaurants and bars can use it to identify areas needing enhancement, adapt to changing trends, and refine operations. Actively seeking and acting on feedback sets restaurants and bars apart in a competitive market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The pandemic dealt a mighty blow to the bar and restaurant industry, where social distancing replaced friends and families gathering together to share stories, celebrate milestones, and create lasting memories. PYMNTS reports that about 55 percent of restaurants have adopted curbside pickup, and 50 percent provide mobile order-ahead options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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SpotOn

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Everyone deserves a drink at a bar, even if that beverage does not include alcohol. The mocktail, also known as an alcohol-free cocktail, isn’t just a luxury drink found in high-end bars. The most popular non-alcoholic drinks like the mighty club soda and lemon or even a virgin mojito, are found on every bar menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. As he is about to enter the restaurant, let’s consider the technology that he will encounter along his journey to pick up his order.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

US Foods Holding Corp. launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The Restaurant Reopening Blueprint is informed by interviews with key stakeholders such as diners, restaurant staff and US Foods consultants and chefs. Click here to view the application and instructions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

The ancestors of the first semi-automatic machines to serve food and drink are still in use today, though instead of restaurants and bars, we see them in public spaces, perhaps small shops. Order-Only Automats: Pros and Cons. These machines allow customers to order food without talking to anyone until the moment of collection.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In this guide, youll learn how to use ChowNow tools along with a handful of other effective strategies to increase order volume, boost your current customer traffic, and grow your overall sales. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to stay top-of-mind with customers and remind them its time to order again from your restaurant.

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. The “ PLNT Impact Tracker ” on PLNT Burger’s website wants you to think about what you’re eating.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Even in states that now allow indoor dining with safety measures, many customers still have concerns that keep them away, perhaps because a significant percentage of this summer’s outbreaks are linked to bars and restaurants. Optimizing Online Ordering. An optimized online ordering process also simplifies life in the kitchen.

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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. Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

Restaurant groups, such as the Arizona Restaurant Association, are also using this opportunity to launch and promote creative Take Out campaigns that benefit the broader food community. Enabled Contactless orders with no on-site transactions required. "Cox Media has been very supportive to us during this difficult time. . "Local

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While there’s no crystal clear direction for the industry in 2022, there are restaurant design trends that could help shape the food and beverage scene for the better. How quickly can third-party delivery groups get in and out of the food and beverage space? Takeout is Taking Over.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s the table-wedged-in-the-doorway approach, where one brave soul in full PPE hands off an order over a barricade of restaurant furniture. There’s also the call-us-when-you-get-here model, where the order scoots out just in time to be dropped through a rear window or popped trunk. Let us count the ways.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

While consumers might seek culinary experiences they can’t have at home, they have vastly different expectations for how they engage – whether via phone, app ordering, third-party take-out, or dining in, they want the same seamless interactions they’ve come to expect in all areas of their lives. ” It gets better.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Customers on average will order more menu items, resulting in a larger bill for the restaurant and a larger tip for the employee. Problem: Excessive mingling This is a prevalent issue in restaurants, especially ones that offer full bar service. A “totally satisfied” customer contributes 2.6

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While we’ve seen brands take a values-forward approach for several years, restaurants and bars are now following suit. Upon reopening, Los Angeles-based outdoor music venue The Ford did something similar by partnering with Todo Verde , a food vendor that serves plant-based Mexican food. Looking for other examples?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Holiday Hangovers : On the days after holidays like St.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Comfort food, outdoor dining, Riesling and streamlined menus were top trends for 2020, according to Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants ' seventh annual Culinary & Cocktail Trend Forecast for 2021. Health food, eating local and personalized experiences. Comfort Me Please: Rise in Nostalgic Comfort Food. Is Carob a Carb?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2022

With wholesale food prices soaring 13 percent in 2021 and labor costs rising as worker shortages continue, many restaurants are looking for smart ways to lower costs and avoid passing them on to their diners. A smaller menu might limit ordering options but not the ability for restaurants to wow their guests.

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