Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2020

Jon Taffer is scared for restaurants and terrified for bars. He cautioned that when restaurants can reopen for dine-in service, they will have to face the bittersweet reality of less seating capacity and less sales–he estimates as much as 30 percent–due to social distancing practices and guest apprehension. "They

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s not necessarily a bad thing—when you have enough staff to handle the crowd and an efficient plan to get those waiting customers seated and served in a reasonable amount of time, you can call it a successful day. Managing a crowded lobby of customers waiting to be seated requires plenty of effort from your staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2021

We walked into a restaurant and there was a sign at the host stand: “Please wait to be seated.” Greet the guest, acknowledge that they may have to wait and send them to the bar. We were seated right away, but the server did not get to the table for almost 15 minutes. and there were four specials.).

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EATER

APRIL 21, 2025

I have fond memories of these restaurants of my childhood their banquet seating and faded prints of Persepolis, our familys terrain, for birthdays, reunions and drawn-out evenings of indulging in conversation, dance, and scents of charcoaled meats over fire that took my dad, uncles, and aunts back to the streets of Tehran.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2024

For this, flexible seating arrangements are the key – from cozy booths to communal tables and counter seating, offering options that cater to individual preferences ensures that solo diners feel comfortable and valued. It’s one reason we offer smaller portions at our Spuntino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas locations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2020

Guests would be seated at every other table or booth so as to maintain a safe distance. Bar seating will be removed and reconfigured to allow six feet between bar stools. Bar servers will take orders and deliver drinks and food but will not linger across from guests. Employees wearing masks and gloves.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2021

After displaying the restaurant name and logo, there’s more work to do to incorporate smaller restaurant signs around the business to promote specials, new menus, hours, etc. Window Decals and Clings : Window decals and clings are a smaller option to post around the restaurant to advertise things such as hours and specials.

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7 Shifts

JULY 1, 2024

Running a bar is a lucrative business, proven by the fact that this industry is estimated to be valued at a whopping $36 billion in 2024. While this could be a rewarding venture, opening a bar is not exactly the same as opening a food business. How profitable is a bar?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2020

Therefore, maximizing the ability to utilize outdoor space to increase seating capacity will be critical for restaurants during this period. That said, it can be expected that consumers will likely feel more comfortable if the restaurant has socially distanced outdoor seating option available.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

With outdoor dining occupying the foreground, and bars and indoor dining taking a back seat to consumer preferences, it begs the question: what happens when it gets cold? Offer special meals for dinnertime or 15-minute meal kits that require minimal assemble and make times.

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7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Stay tuned for a few special tips from Melissa Bensky, one of Toronto’s most prolific foodgrammers with her account, @tastethesix. Set a goal for your restaurant’s grand opening—whether it’s seating capacity, an order volume, or revenue for your first day back in business. 1 Set goals for the event ?? Plan your staffing ?????

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7 Shifts

JULY 22, 2022

Whether that looks like tables on the sidewalk or a rooftop bar, there’s no denying that outdoor dining brings new obstacles and challenges to the already complex life of a restaurateur or employee. It’s also important to note that using outdoor space and adding more seating to your restaurant can increase your revenue by 30%.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you prepare your team for special events or holiday rushes? Can you give an example of how you’ve managed a large event or special occasion at a restaurant? As a restaurant manager, how do you prepare your team for special events or holiday rushes? How do you handle situations where an employee is underperforming?

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

This should include all tables available for seating customers. Optimize seating arrangements: Arrange tables in a way that maximizes the use of available space without compromising customer comfort. Incentivize quick dining: Offer time-limited promotions or specials during off-peak hours that encourage customers to eat quickly.

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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. No waiters, just steaming plates and a glass door that's opened by a coin. A real old-school vending machine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2023

This is great news for restaurants, but they should also be prepared for an influx of customers coming with their most special guests, and expecting nothing but a prime customer experience that will pamper their mothers. One thing is certain: nobody likes to wait – either seated or in lines.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Some cities are making the transition easier for their restaurants by closing downtown streets on certain weekends and inviting restaurants to place tables and seating areas outside. When choosing where to put your patio or garden, it is important to make sure it is visibly pleasing from every seat, with a great atmosphere and amazing views.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The funny thing is that these small businesses – in this case – restaurants – cannot survive on that once-a-year recognition, or even the occasional special event. Don’t they understand how much more special the experience will be in this little bistro with two people in the kitchen, a bartender and two servers?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This piece in your technology stack should give your customers accurate wait times based on the tables already seated and allow them to make reservations so they can plan around current capacity limits or patronize your restaurant for special occasions. Your restaurant needs a bump bar that can handle the heat!

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

It is rich in essential vitamins and fiber and is a plant based tasty ingredient on coffee bars, ice creams, savory dishes to add creamy texture and more! Soothing music, comfortable seating, teas, infused waters, screens with calming images are just some examples of how to add a destressing break during a meeting. Mental wellness.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

” The cashless multi-vendor open-air gastronomic market has two locations in Prague, and a total of 34 independently operated restaurants, bars and retailers. At Seated, we are considering offering links to delivery apps for our restaurant partners that request it." Eat healthier.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Seated Acquires VenueBook. Seated acquired digital event booking platform VenueBook. With Seated Events, Seated at Home, and Seated, restaurants can drive demand to their three primary sources of revenue in a single, easy to use rewards platform.” and the surrounding region. . and the surrounding region. .”

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Harbor Touch

MARCH 18, 2025

If shrimp sits unused, swap it for wings or a seasonal special. Weve seen a diner lose regulars after a sold-out weekend special. A robust bar and restaurant POS system can simplify thislearn more at Harbortouchs bar and restaurant POS page. Its a system that keeps your seats full all year round.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 7, 2021

This is not some special type of email marketing. Balcony dining, outdoor patio, indoor seating, rooftop bars or lounges. Make your email invites more special, valuable, and intriguing by adding videos. Video Email Marketing: What is it and Why Should You do it? So, why should you even consider adding videos to emails?

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ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Its going to get dropped, splashed with sauce, and maybe knocked off the bar by a customers pursethats just part of the deal. Give your guests a better menu experience Digital menus are easier to update in real-time, so its simple to 86 an item (even in the middle of service) or update your specials for the weekend.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Coffee Bars. Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Are there high-top, bar-style tables, regular seating, or a mix of both? Coffee Shop Concepts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Restaurant segments represented include fine dining, casual dine, fast casual, quick service restaurants and bars. Though many restaurants have begun to reopen, restrictions limiting seating coupled with consumers’ reluctance to return to in-restaurant dining means many restaurants are months away from operating at a profit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One way to maximize pricing efficiency is to raise standard menu prices but keep specials priced low, offering something of value to the bargain hunters in the customer base. If a restaurant is underpricing the market and is busy relative to its peers, it may have room to increase pricing without damaging its customer base.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Next, the cars pulled up to a second tent, where volunteers loaded boxes of food into open trunks, back seats, and any other space they could find. The volunteers — bartenders, bar managers, chefs, liquor reps, and barbacks — are all former colleagues of Diaz and Nolasco’s, and the trust built in the bar trenches makes the operation hum.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

bars & restaurants returned to and surpassed pre-pandemic levels of employment. Two out of three gift cards were bought to commemorate a special occasion and 87 percent featured a written note. Failure to adapt will make securing a seat at the table an uphill battle for tech companies. In September this year, there were 12.37

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

“The product is superior – bar none – to any other on the market and we are so excited to bring a taste of Hawaii to Tennessee,” Rothwell said. After moving to Maquoketa in 2011, Radtke began creating special moments for Happy Joe’s guests as a server a year later. Dickey's Offer Full Bar Menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2020

The absence of the employee(s) would entail a substantial risk to the financial health or operational capabilities of the business because of their specialized skills, knowledge or responsibilities. For example, if a restaurant has just two cooks, if each needed to take leave, an exempt restaurant would not be required to provide it.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And it means we can spend time together as a family, doing something that we love and want to share with our kids, without fear that we’ll disturb an important meeting or special-occasion dinner. Volk’s restaurant started seating guests outside in May 2020. There’s often room for a stroller, a bike, a scooter, or even two.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Serai has been the trendsetter at the top of the game for a few years, now joined by Askal in Melbourne earlier this year and have just opened a rooftop bar called Inuman. This trend is not just in fine dining, but though positioning levels – bars/pubs, clubs, smart casual, fast casual, cafés, QSR and right down to impulse.

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