Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It also means fewer chef-driven creative specials and more management-driven menu items. per month that provides more reward points, unlimited free delivery, priority reservations and the services of a VIP concierge. AI and Memberships Nearly half of restaurants need additional employees, and this is where AI comes into play.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Keeping staff has long been an issue for the food and beverage industry, but many restaurants now feel it is their primary obstacle to running a successful business. Locally-owned establishments, bars, coffee shops, franchises and all other food and beverage businesses must adhere to strict regulations in addition to their own standards.

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The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Power of Visual Storytelling The food and beverage industry is inherently visual. Showcasing New Menu Items and Specials While many aspects of a restaurant shape the experience guests have, the most important is the menu. Special events make for good video content as well.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. BIBO Beverage Debuts. Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As a result, there has been a sizable uptick in customers shifting from coffee to green tea and turmeric drinks, and restaurants are increasing the number of beverage offerings containing superfoods. They may focus on take out, delivery, family meals, or a more niche specialized menu that differentiates their offerings from competitors.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It's a tactic that can also take multiple forms, such as suggesting a limited special burger to someone who orders the usual signature every time. Compared to going through the specials to every guest or blasting all online orders with an offer, these personalized approaches are favorable. Have a new special with an awesome pairing?

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The conversation evolved around local news and gossip, and alcoholic beverages were reserved for bars scattered throughout the community. A Blue-Plate Special was a hearty meal that always included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, bread and butter, and ample amounts of coffee.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You can use an AI to offer special deals via loyalty programs to encourage loyal customers to visit more often. Control Costs : With automated table reservations to take orders on mobile devices, AI in restaurants can help the owners save money on hiring more staff. Restaurants can operate with less staff and less overhead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

“In 2025, restaurants are walking the fine line between automation and hospitality,” said Ming-Tai Huh, Head of Food & Beverage at Square. More than a third (36 percent) are specifically seeking "special occasion" venues, signaling a desire to make this year's celebration more memorable than ever.1

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There has always been a commonsense way to build a menu knowing that in the end it is the beverage, and the bookends (appetizers and desserts) that hold the greatest opportunity for profit. If it becomes more and more difficult for guests to find VALUE, then eventually they will seek better ways to spend their hard-earned cash.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Design Team-Inspired Menus Add some fun to your menu by creating special dishes or drinks that represent each of the competing teams. Halftime Happy Hour As the game continues, traffic often slows down, but you can keep momentum going with a special happy hour during halftime.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Starbucks Reserve Roastery Chicago, top photo, opened its doors to the public on Friday, November 15. Located on North Michigan Avenue and Erie Street on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the opening of Chicago Reserve Roastery marks Starbucks sixth global Roastery and third location in the U.S. Unique Food and Beverage Experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Celebration emails allow you to send your customers discounts or promotions on special days such as their birthdays or specific holidays. Alternatively, create a dish or beverage to celebrate Christmas or Valentine’s Day and invite your customers to come and taste. Consumers are attracted to businesses that offer incentives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

SevenRooms released its “Checking In For F&B” report, which uncovered the most important things to today’s traveler when it comes to food and beverage at hotels. Delaware North has provided food and beverage services at the New Orleans airport since 1983. What’s Important to Travelers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The survey was conducted in January 2024 among 522 US-based Food and Beverage professionals, including owners and managers from single-site establishments and small multi-site chains with fewer than 20 restaurants. Texas Roadhouse is driving YoY visit growth in the face of price hikes with early dining specials. early bird timeslot.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Share high-quality images and engaging captions of your food and beverages, outdoor dining if you have it, and anything else that differentiates your business. Send out weekly email newsletters (no more, no less) telling customers about new menu options and special offers. Lindsey Maxwell, Co-Founder of Where You Make It.

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7 Shifts

JULY 25, 2024

One of the best things to do is to find additional revenue streams to supplement your core food and beverage sales. Offering additional services, like delivery and takeout, meal kits and subscription boxes, and even catering and hosting special events can unlock new growth opportunities.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Engage your Customers with Loyalty Programs Restaurant loyalty programs have come a long way from the days of the “10 stamps on a business card = 1 free beverage” system. GMB also provides a number of functional benefits, like enabling table reservations right from the listing. The graph trend speaks for itself. Which brings us to….

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The Rail

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Offering a special or a drink on the menu that benefits a particular charity is another excellent way to share the love. Try swapping coupons or providing special deals together for customers. Offer special events at your restaurant, like cooking classes, and share some of the secrets of your trade with the community.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features OpenTable, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation, PAR Technology, Tropical Smoothie Café, Bindi, The Shape of Pasta, Crook & Marker, Performance Food Group and Aptar Food + Beverage. Social Distance Shopping.

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ChowNow

JULY 30, 2024

Revenue Metrics Sales Revenue Sales Revenue measures the total income generated from food and beverage sales. Upsell high-margin items, introduce specials, and create combo deals to increase the average check size. Beverage Cost Percentage Beverage cost percentage measures the percentage of sales revenue spent on beverages.

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EATER

MAY 9, 2023

It’s not a straightforward rule, but they tend to be a little bit more cost-effective because food and beverage is already in-house, their flatware is typically all in-house, you don’t have to go outside and do too many rentals,” says Amy Shack Egan, founder of the nationally operating, “unconventional” wedding planning company Modern Rebel.

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The Rail

AUGUST 28, 2024

Key Aspects for Maintaining and Enhancing Customer Loyalty Relocating a food and beverage establishment, whether it's a restaurant or a pub, isn't just a change of address but also a key moment that may greatly impact your customers. Retaining and attracting business is a particularly pressing task.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Once you have access to a guest’s contact info, it creates the opportunity to reach them via email or text and let them know about special offers, new menu items, changing hours, and more. For full-service restaurants, many POS or reservation systems can also help collect data for you. You have to earn it!

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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A hard-to-get reservation is simply a record for access to a table, and getting tables at in-demand restaurants has become a valuable commodity, so much so that finance bros recently tried to create a secondary market for them. Special tokens that grant holders access to the Flyfish Club Omakase Room are selling for over twice that amount.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2024

With the right strategies, you can easily attract diners searching for restaurants like yours in your local area and get more reservations and takeout orders. To get an idea of how much you should set your budget, the average cost-per-click (CPC) for search ads in the food and beverage industry is around $1.95.

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EATER

MAY 26, 2021

Swan’s Service Station and Canary Tea Room in Pembroke, New Hampshire, served waffles and Sunday specials of lobster and steak. Then came Prohibition, which took a toll on masculine eating domains that made most of their money off booze, even as it buoyed purveyors of nonalcoholic beverages, like soda fountains and cafeterias.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

While TouchBistro has previously partnered with providers of loyalty solutions, this acquisition will provide the company with a proprietary solution that is much more deeply integrated into the TouchBistro platform and its ecosystem of products like Online Ordering and Reservations. ” Tyga Bites Launches. Credit: Tyga Bites.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By understanding when your customers come and go, what they do and don’t order, and what specials worked and which ones didn’t, you can better tailor your offerings and calibrate your staffing. Live menu updating software Beverage offerings tend to change over time, and depending on what you sell, they could do so frequently.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By understanding when your customers come and go, what they do and don’t order, and what specials worked and which ones didn’t, you can better tailor your offerings and calibrate your staffing. Live menu updating software Beverage offerings tend to change over time, and depending on what you sell, they could do so frequently.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Guests who consistently receive high-quality, well-prepared beverages and food items are more likely to view their entire F&B experience positively. A server at the pool can check dinner reservation availability and make suggestions right there, seamlessly integrating multiple F&B revenue streams.

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Foodable

JUNE 29, 2020

Listen to "Specialty Beverage Boost | Restaurant H.E.L.P. Foster and Daca discuss how the speciality beverage market could help your business as restaurants begin to recover from the coronavirus crisis. Consumers are really looking for functional foods, especially in beverages. All Rights Reserved.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It's a tactic that can also take multiple forms, such as suggesting a limited special burger to someone who orders the usual signature every time. Compared to going through the specials to every guest or blasting all online orders with an offer, these personalized approaches are favorable. Have a new special with an awesome pairing?

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even as some food and beverage businesses face financial hurdles, the resilience and ingenuity of the industry continues to shine, promising an exciting future for consumers, F&B operators, clubs, shopping centres, mixed-use precincts and landlords.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

In 2020, the number of establishments in the food and beverage industry was estimated to be 23.1 Giving them incentives for being loyal patrons of your establishment makes customers feel appreciated and, in a sense, special, as there are perks and discounts that only they can get access to.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

“The new Tuen Mun Town Plaza location is the ideal place to bring CPK’s food and beverage innovations and globally inspired ingredients to the thousands of hungry guests that visit the mall every day.” ” CPK’s global presence includes more than 200 locations in 8 countries and U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On special appeal, the Board vacated the judge’s order, and remanded the case to the judge with instructions to approve the settlement agreements. Freshly-squeezed orange juice, Signature Coffee Brews, including Nitro and specialty espresso beverages. Grab-and-go salads and wraps, freshly-baked goods and more. Charlie Jeffers.

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