EATER

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

. | Lille Allen/Eater With these 11 works of food-focused fiction and nonfiction you won’t mind being cooped up inside as the temperatures drop As the blistering heat of summer subsides, giving way to cooler temperatures and changing leaves, there’s no better time than the present to cozy up with a good book.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2024

Aguillard and Smith are also passionate about lifting up the next generation of chefs and have mentored successful chefs including Serigne Mbaye (Dakar) and Tom Branighan (MaMou) as they set out to open their own restaurants. To learn more about operations at Saint-Germain, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Smith.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Its not just about putting out fires when problems arise; its about building systems that prevent those fires in the first place.

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EATER

AUGUST 10, 2022

Somewhere between “Dora the Explorer” and “No Reservations,” Sarah Thomas’s book series “Kalamata’s Kitchen” introduces kids to global cultures through food In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Sarah Thomas, author of Kalamata’s Kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Following are some of the major restaurant trends to watch out for in 2022. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Restaurant staples such as plastic straws, plastic cups, lids, or take-home bags have people asking why those things are necessary. Simplified Menus. Ghost Kitchens. Delivery Options.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Send out exclusive deals like 15% off your next online order, happy hour discounts, or limited-time promotions on popular menu items. 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.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Diners want the convenience of ordering, booking, and engaging with their favorite restaurants straight from their phones. Once set up, they run seamlessly in the background, like the ideal employee who never calls out, takes a day off, or makes costly mistakes. Online ordering and delivery apps.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Say bonjour, always Whether it’s at the post office, a boutique, or a fine dining restaurant, say “bonjour” to every single person you interact with. Even a casual corner bistro can easily book up. As more restaurants have moved to online bookings, many also require a credit card deposit as a defense against no-shows.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Restaurants will focus on creating story-driven dining experiences, harnessing technology and local partnerships to deepen emotional engagement with guests, according to the "2024 State of the Industry: Future of In-Restaurant Dining" report by Incisiv in collaboration with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

This is a disease that lies dormant in many people just waiting to take over their every being if those in positions of leadership allow it to. It is apparent in the classroom, the local grocery store, your doctor’s office, the gym where you work out, car dealerships, airports, subways, hotels, and yes – restaurants.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Maru The UNESCO-listed iconic Galle Fort houses a bunch of phenomenal dining spots, but Maru tops the list. After dinner, check out the adjoining bunkers, once used during the Sri Lankan civil war and now for impressive galleries. Now managed by Teardrop Hotels, Bawas home is open for bookings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Charging guests for booking a reservation that they don’t show up for is becoming more popular. One of my fine dining clients did not do this charge this year on New Years and cut off reservations at 140. Once they hit the 140, they stopped taking reservations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

Consumers want restaurant experiences : 84 percent of consumers say going out to a restaurant with family and friends is a better use of their leisure time than cooking and cleaning up. For others, outdoor dining and alcohol-to-go are becoming table stakes. 69 percent of adults say they like the option to dine outside.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ready to make up for lost time during lockdown, bookings jumped by a staggering 300 per cent. According to research, it is estimated that we spent over £23 billion over the summer months, and the majority of this will go on either staycationing or eating and drinking out. We’re Eating Out More.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Why not briefly fill rooms by offering an exclusive evening of private pandemic dining?

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We wanted to take a look back and highlight some of our favorite moments during our first season. 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. That smartphone is your media center.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Between now and December, cookbook publishers will churn out some 100 new titles in service of promoting better living through eating. Haul out those baking pans! Even if you’re an experienced home baker, seeing this laid out in one place is illuminating. Nahid Joon is alive in every page of this book. they seem to shout.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. 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. The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

So, when you view a drawing, painting, or sculpture; listen to a piece of music; watch a movie or view a play; or read a book – you are encouraged to feel what the artist feels. Chefs and cooks may avoid walking through those swinging doors into the dining room because they fear that vulnerability. This is emotionally draining.

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EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater A former fine dining server dishes on how the flambé, a dying convention of French haute cuisine, became the ultimate tableside flex I can feel sweat soaking through the armpits of my $5,000 Tom Ford suit and a nagging itch along the starched collar of my custom-fitted tuxedo shirt. What’s that thing with the fire?”

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SpotOn

JULY 22, 2024

Full service restaurant concepts fall into two broad categories: casual dining and fine dining. Casual and fine dining restaurants offer different menus and experiences to guests and require different expertise and operational knowledge for success. Fine dining concepts don't have to be formal.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 27, 2022

Like a fine wine we are a blend of different flavors that through experience reflect a perfect mix – each flavor has a role to play and is introduced in the right proportion to create that signature. Although we rarely map this out, we should open ourselves up to experiences and potential influences.

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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. Check values up. Older people coming back to the market. It’s not just young people driving sales in US. They have gained 1.3

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

“During the period I was laid off due to COVID-19, there were several problems out of my control with my unemployment status leaving me in a difficult financial situation,” said Jessica Schiefele, long time Ruby Slipper bartender. She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency.

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EATER

JULY 11, 2022

Between the return of long lines for pastries and increasingly impossible-to-snap-up bookings, the tables are hot, once again. According to data from Yelp , searches for reservations in the first quarter of 2022 were up 107 percent compared to the same period in 2021, and interest in indoor seating is significantly outpacing outdoor dining.

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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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. "As more people and more restaurants have come to use our services, Q2 bookings on Uber Eats are up more than 100 percent year on year. . ” ServSafe Dining Commitment.

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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. Lasita was born out of Lasa, a pop-up-turned-restaurant that, in the mid 2010s, exemplified modern Filipino cuisine in LA. In 2009, the name Purple Yam won out because Besa thought people would butcher the pronunciation of ube.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 20, 2024

His book: Le Guide Culinaire boasted 5,000 recipes, some of which were not his, but were protected historically for their excellence. 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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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2023

I kind of did it out of a self-serving type of thing where I was like, I never see him. At that time he was owning Poppy + Rose along with his other business partners until I came along and bought them out. We bought those people out, and then we ran straight into the pandemic. I seen the books. What are we going to do?

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Before you get any ideas of a cheesy radio spot, take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Switching from a fast-casual concept to fine dining can allow for a nice change of pace. With more locations come more points of analysis, which in turn helps you determine what your under-performing locations can take away from your top-performing ones. Manager Log Book. Developing a New Concept. POS System.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. Is your ventilation system designed to push positive kitchen odors to the dining room or outside the entrance?

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Lille Allen/Eater In ‘Love Me, Feed Me,’ the legendary cookbook editor made a compelling case that dogs deserved to be cooked for, too Once upon a time, sometime in the late 1940s, a young American named Judith Bailey decided to take a road trip from Paris to Provence with a group of friends and a poodle named Nikki. Her publisher, Alfred A.

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EATER

JUNE 22, 2023

Now it’s back for Season 2, which finds Carmine “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and the gang preparing to take on the only thing more challenging than turning around your family’s failing restaurant: transforming that failing restaurant into a bona fide fine dining destination. Meanwhile, Sydney is struggling.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen Six chefs and restaurant owners from across the country explain why restaurants feel so expensive right now, and how they’re coping with high prices and customer complaints Dining out involves calculating the intangible: What is hospitality worth to you? Or maybe the answer just keeps shaking out in one direction.

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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. When it came to ordering take-out, Gen Z led with 28 percent. Hassle-free holiday meals. ” The gift of food.

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