Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of LTO impact, influencer impact and no-show fees. ” Influencer Content = Recipe for Success Matter Communications revealed findings from its 2024 Food & Beverage Trends survey. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

One could claim, and rightfully so, that he had the greatest influence on the profession and that the chefs’ job was elevated to new levels because of Escoffier’s efforts, approach towards cooking, vision, and skill. He would spend endless hours trying to figure out how to re-create the experience of in-house dining through home delivery.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Baking is full of mistakes, but it’s a rare baking book that tells you why, and in doing so encourages you to try, try again. Nahid Joon is alive in every page of this book. She traces Nahid Joon’s family history while also providing details of her many travels, from Nice to London to Dubai, that influenced the way she cooked.

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2024 Book Influencer Take-out 352

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And it works 59% of respondents say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions. Seasonal Menus & Event Announcements If you roll out seasonal dishes, holiday specials, or themed dining experiences, let your audience know in advance. Ask your existing customers. Examples of strong subject lines + preheaders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It’s worth pointing out that this tip is even more important for restaurants that don’t fit neatly into a "standard" category (such as modern fusion styles of cuisine that might blend two or three influences into something more original). Establish Your Atmosphere. Keep Your Sign Looking Fresh.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Manager log books Even if it’s just a shared cloud document, you need a centralized place for your managers to exchange information. Management log books also cut down on confusion. When customer complaints or employee concerns come up, each manager can get up to speed just by reading the log book.

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EATER

AUGUST 29, 2024

Amy Besa surveils the Purple Yam dining room on the Wednesday evening of its final week of service. Dining at Purple Yam marked a turning point in Punla’s interest in Filipino food. Working in fine dining at the time, “I was like, I don’t really know how to cook my own culture’s food ,” Punla says. has grown full.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

" Pandemic Pivots Become Permanent The temporary "pivots" developed during the pandemic — expanded delivery services, outdoor dining options, to-go alcohol offerings, and investments in technology — are the foundation of the industry's "new normal."

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EATER

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Illustration by Bea Hayward Once a luxury reserved for posh dinners, fish roe has become the snack du jour at restaurants across the country — and it’s blurring the lines between casual and formal dining Caviar has gone on a journey over the past few years. At Ladder 4 Wine Bar in Detroit, you can add 28 grams of Kaluga caviar to hash browns.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Shawn is the host of not one but two podcasts— Digital Hospitality and Restaurant Influencers —and he stopped by ours to talk about creating a media brand out of your restaurant. So he created a universal training manual, his book— The Surprise Restaurant Manager. It's a full-on media company. That smartphone is your media center.

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ChowNow

JULY 19, 2024

It’s a strategic tool that influences diner choices, enhances their dining experience, and ultimately drives your restaurant’s success. Casual Dining/Brunch Menus: 15-25 items can offer enough variety while keeping operations manageable. Menu design can significantly influence customer behavior.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2021

How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. ” The State of Casual Dining. diners, ages 18+, who dined out at least once per week prior to the pandemic.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Christian Puglisi talks the end of Relæ and Manfreds, the problem with restaurant awards, and the future of Copenhagen dining Two weeks ago, Copenhagen’s food scene was hit by major news: Noma’s sibling restaurant, the Michelin-starred 108, announced it would cease operations at the end of September due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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EATER

APRIL 6, 2023

But after the flurry of press releases, joyful Instagram posts, and weapons-grade whining from a few who were left off the list, a somewhat altered Vancouver dining scene has emerged from the fray with hiked prices and impossible-to-score reservations. It’s a cash-grab for sure,” said one Vancouver chef who asked to remain anonymous.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That means that Meyer will exert his influence on Panera Bread, a fast-casual restaurant with more than 2,000 locations and a ferocious fanbase for its broccoli and cheddar soup and generally “wholesome” on-the-go options. Louis-style bagels are primed for a trending arc.)

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2020

He wrote one of the first books on the art of cooking that depicted kitchen life during these times and serves as one of the early foundations of the development of French cuisine. [] BARTOLOMEO SCAPPI. Chef Lewis changed America’s view of Southern Cooking and its African American influences.

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Hotels Innovation Book 2002 388

7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. Your mission statement is the ‘why’ of your restaurant.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And most recently a locavore, mountain-to-table food movement has built on these overlapping historical influences and endemic Rocky Mountain ingredients to create bold meals fit for the breathtaking setting. Be sure to confirm that your desired restaurants and hotels will be open before booking.

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Hotels Front of House Seasonal Menu Fine Dining 246

EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For excellent food to go along with the stunning beaches, center your dining in and around Phuket Town, perhaps Thailand’s most underrated food destination, with a few excursions for standout meals elsewhere on the island. Mor Mu Dong Restaurant Mor Mu Dong consists of elevated dining platforms winding through a mangrove swamp.

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EATER

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our food connected me to my ancestors and to my family around the dining room table. The seeds of this consciousness are now being re-sown by modern-day activists, wellness influencers, and ground-breaking restaurants, like D.C.’s recounts of his time traveling with Sebi in his book, My Journey with Dr. Sebi. G” Guerrero Jr.

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Food Order Consumer Goods Seasonal Menu Back of House 363

EATER

MAY 19, 2020

Dining out right now will come with certain risks. This means that thousands of restaurants, after pivoting to takeout or closing altogether, are now legally permitted to open their dining rooms to customers. And so right now, the decision of whether or not to dine out is personal. America is in the early stages of reopening.

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Cash Management Fine Dining Fast Casual Food Safety 359

EATER

JULY 21, 2022

About 10 years ago, influenced primarily by a Nordic minimalism movement, many restaurants opted for concise menus that listed just three or four ingredients instead of a more intricate description. At the same time, people were ordering food from their houses as restaurants (even fine dining ones) pivoted to takeout.

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EATER

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Packed with restaurants, farmers markets, fishing lakes, and cozy B&Bs, it’s a place where farm-to-table dining is (and has always been) just the status quo. From Seneca to Skaneateles, Cayuga to Canandaigua, here’s all you need to know about dining through the Finger Lakes. Table offers a chef’s table and communal dining, F.L.X.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A best new restaurant announces itself as part of the national dining conversation. Together, Eater’s 12 Best New Restaurants represent the highest highs of the year in dining — loosely defined as October 2022 through September 2023 — as well as the promise of what’s to come next. It might set one trend in motion, or subvert another.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In an excerpt from “An Onion in My Pocket,” chef Deborah Madison creates a four-course vegetarian menu at a time when vegetarian fine dining was still a foreign concept to many Deborah Madison is the author of nearly a dozen books on vegetarian cooking. But that’s not what influenced my decision to go for a set menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” Hunter also has plans for a robust dining program in partnership with San Diego’s top restaurants and caterers. The findings?

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EATER

AUGUST 14, 2023

No Meat Required is out August 15, wherever books are sold. To that end, No Meat Required positions itself as a descendant of Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet , the influential 1971 book that exposed the shortcomings of the modern food system — and meat in particular — in providing healthy, sustainable food.

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EATER

MARCH 1, 2021

At almost every level, success is determined by white gatekeepers, from which companies gain access to capital, to who organizes festivals and teaches workshops , to who gets spotlighted by the food media or given book contracts or space on grocery store shelves. Nearly every culture on this planet ferments.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

” The survey, conducted by Untold Insights on behalf of Oracle Food and Beverage, polled 502 consumers in the United States in November 2020 about their dining and gifting plans for the holiday season. 22 percent of those polled are interested gifting recipe books. Hassle-free holiday meals. ” The gift of food.

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2020 Point of Sale Consumer Goods Seasonal Menu 419

EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

While many reviewers have foresworn star ratings at restaurants still reckoning with the effects of the pandemic, Michelin had no such compunctions this year, releasing the guides for the first time since 2019 on a dining world that remains undeniably changed. How does that translate into the dining landscapes of major cities in the U.S.?

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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Portuguese colonized the area for about 450 years and heavily influenced culinary traditions in the process; many dishes and desserts still have Portuguese-derived names. North Goa The Local Table Dining at the Local Table feels like visiting old friends. Wash down your meal with a refreshing glass of kokum soda.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

Etana Diaz, who began her career as a pastry chef and a line cook in fine dining, but found her true love for butchery after discovering that pastry wasn’t her passion. an offshoot of the Hot Shoppes family-dining chain that eventually was rebranded as Roy Rogers Restaurants. Tough to measure up to.

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Allergens Kitchen Safety Guest Recovery Customer Service 364

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Manager log books Even if it’s just a shared cloud document, you need a centralized place for your managers to exchange information. Management log books also cut down on confusion. When customer complaints or employee concerns come up, each manager can get up to speed just by reading the log book.

Management 195

Management Management Email Marketing Point of Sale 195

7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

These strategies can combine traditional restaurant advertising techniques like pamphlets, billboards, and radio promotions with modern ideas like running paid ads, advertising on social media, and collaborating with influencers. For instance, millennials dine out an average of 241 times yearly.

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Marketing 2024 Email Marketing Social Media 195

EATER

MARCH 24, 2025

As I was working through that piece, I realized that, in opening that door to that one experience, I had a lot of other things that were bothering me, says Selinger, who worked her way up from being a server in hometown pub in Massachusetts to the highest echelons of New York City fine dining at Jean-Georges.

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