Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

On the surface, you may not think a roadside diner or downtown café would have much in common with a fast-casual chain, not to mention an elegant stand-alone restaurant where couples and families celebrate over a two-hour, five-course meal. It will keep all the furniture looking more uniform regarding sun impairment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Fast Casual Dining Navigating a delicate balance between convenience and culinary craft, the fast-casual dining sector shines as the industry's hybrid powerhouse, marrying quick service with gourmet cuisine. This involves cooking food in a precisely controlled water bath, ensuring uniform results every time.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They have been featured in QSR magazine's “ 40/40 List of America's Hottest Startup Fast Casuals" for 2020 and made Atlanta Business Chronicle's “Fastest Growing Companies” in 2022 list. With that team, they've built a brand of 11 locations serving fresh, fast, and healthy food to the Atlanta metro area. A small change with a big upside.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Collaborations : Collaborations, such as partnering with a well-known designer on staff uniforms or bringing in guest chefs for special events and pop-ups, will continue to capture consumer attention. Fast casual will continue to shine as it has since the pandemic generating the highest asking prices in the marketplace.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

Require proof of industry employment (like a pay stub or uniform) for participation to keep it exclusive and targeted. Plus, the casual vibe and camaraderie make it a go-to night for fun and relaxation. Add fun elements like live music, trivia, or raffles.

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Future Food

MARCH 6, 2025

Fine dining and particularly smart casual dining have shown signs of decline in ASPH. In contrast, impulse, caf, and casual dining are recovering and now reflect positive growth. What about the bulk of the market in the middle? Declining average spend, uptake and frequency reflecting about an overall 2% decrease.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2023

Now, McDonald’s and other fast food and fast casual giants are betting on the “digital kitchen” — sleek, compact stores that harness automation and digitalization to have diners ordering through mobile apps or digital kiosks — to get diners in and out in record time.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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. URBNSURF’s opening in Sydney this year merges surfing with dining at RAFI and casual options at Sandy’s, making it a hotspot for both surfers and food enthusiasts.

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SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

If you're a fast-casual place and only offer a couple of alcoholic beverages, then "alcohol" should be enough. Cleaning, packaging (to-go supplies), printing, menu, office, dining room, kitchen, office, event, rentals, uniforms, first aid, etc. That could simply be food sales , alcohol , and non-alcoholic beverages.

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Next Restaurants

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’d rather go for uniforms or a specific dress code, it doesn’t mean you can’t let your employees express themselves in small ways. Consider allowing them to incorporate certain colors or patterns, wear more “casual” clothes on certain days, or customize their own uniforms to fit their personalities.

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Ken Burgin

MARCH 1, 2020

If they’re casual or on hourly pay, they may feel they can’t afford to miss work, even if unwell – watch closely. Spotlessly clean uniforms – how are those aprons and chef jackets looking? There also need to be special precautions with staff who are coughing or appear to be sick.

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EATER

MAY 15, 2020

Hyori spends a decent chunk of the series chopping and sauteing and cooking with confidence, teasing whoever is in the kitchen alongside her, wearing her uniform of yoga pants or robes or loose-fitting dresses, with messy hair and little visible makeup, often bothering Sangsoon to bring her another ingredient. It’s charming as hell.

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EATER

MAY 4, 2023

Preportioned, crisp-edged, and fudgy-centered, brownie cookies are decadent yet casual, and somehow even more fun to eat than a classic bar. Step 3: While the eggs are whipping, muddle the banana and vanilla together into a mostly uniform puree. The tinkerer in me wondered whether I could evolve the form even further.

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Open for Business

MARCH 1, 2023

There’s no real business casual standard for restaurants. Casual restaurant interviews A more laid-back restaurant doesn’t mean laid-back interview preparation. Your approach to what to wear to an interview at a casual place can be more laid back though. For these jobs, keep it business casual. Keep it simple.

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Qu

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

How: This revamped online ordering platform is designed for multi-brand QSR and fast-casual operators, helping restaurants manage orders, increase guest engagement, and drive sales. How: This system helps restaurants create uniform kitchen setups across locations, optimizing workflows and reducing the time needed for staff training.

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EATER

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our uniform also included a toque, or a chef’s hat, and this is where the absence of Black students became impossible to compartmentalize. They didn’t email again, but my chef informed me, rather casually in late December, that they had moved forward with another candidate. My toque refused to work with my braids or afro.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Vintage or retro waitress uniforms usually consist of a collared and pocketed dress, an apron, and a sleek updo. If you work at a more casual bar or restaurant, you can go all-out with witches, ghosts, goblins, and more. Read More: 13 Spooky Halloween Ideas for Your Restaurant or Bar: Specials, Promotions, and Parties ??

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7 Shifts

JULY 20, 2024

This saves time and ensures a uniform appearance. For example, casual dining restaurants might post 3-4 times a week, while fine dining establishments might post 1-2 times a week. For example, Shake Shack uses a bright and cheerful color palette with a lot of natural light to highlight their fresh, casual vibe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

. “Customers are being forced to make decisions between groceries and restaurants, with full-service restaurant inflation about two times that of groceries in the past year and fast food and fast casual restaurants prices up three times the rate of groceries.

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The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 11, 2024

Concept Are you going for formal or casual? To establish order and uniformity, you must create a detailed restaurant manual that outlines every detail and step involved in running the business. Restaurant Design Once you establish your brand concept, it is easier to work on the design of your restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The vibrant scene here is a wonderful setting for my playful Momosan concept, which is all about enjoying ramen, yakitori, beer and sake in a fun, casual and energetic environment.” ” At Momosan Wynwood, noodles will be front and center, highlighting Chef Morimoto’s varieties of Japanese-style flavor forward ramen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Production of PPE through Aramark’s uniforms division and procurement of PPE. “sweetgreen is a true innovator in the restaurant industry, having rewritten the script for fast casual concepts with their sustainable, delicious and healthy menu and digital-first mindset. Contactless delivery and drop off for catering.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Before serving as Binswanger Glass CEO, Curran was Senior Vice President for G&K Services, a publicly traded leader in uniform rental and facility products with more than 165,000 customers and 7,800 employees. He also held roles with AlliedSignal, Inc./Honeywell Honeywell and Xerox Corp. More Meat House in Atlanta. AdTheorent, Inc.,

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Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For casual or hourly staff, we request one week’s notice, or longer if possible. If they’re going, nothing will usually stop them, so facilitate it with a simple Resignation Form that sets out expectations and covers all the bases eg return of uniform, final pay etc. Make it easy to quit properly. Be ready with a Statement of Service.

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Ken Burgin

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Offer security with flexibility – most small operators stick to casual or hourly employment, with little security. Provide quality uniforms – it’s an investment, and adds style and snap to staff pride and presentation. There are dozens of low-cost or free benefits than most operators seem to forget about.

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The Restaurant Group

MARCH 6, 2023

The following are just some concepts: Food truck Hole-in-the-wall Coffee/cafe Fast food Fast casual Family style Pop-up Bar Formal Choosing a concept must be done carefully. The ambiance includes the lighting, decor, furniture design, plates and utensils, music, menu, and uniforms of servers.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Laila: I got really comfortable in more casual clothing and I use less makeup than I used to. I think I found how to look chic while casual and comfortable, which I definitely translated from the home space. But what I’ve got on today is basically a version of my uniform which takes into account the changing weather.

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EATER

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But within the walls of McDonald’s and Western casual chains, in imported Irish pubs and shopping malls, Christmas was there — in the displays of apples adorned with festive decorations and well-wishes. The holiday spirit wasn’t quite in the air, as evidenced by the lack of the scent of pine needles and neon lights shaped like stars.

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Foodable

AUGUST 26, 2020

Based in Chicago, fast casual chain Portillo’s is best known for its Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef, burgers, salads, and chocolate cake. When you order from our app, you’re going to get a Portillo’s driver, and a Portillo’s uniform, and a Portillo’s smile.” It’s about extending your brand,” notes Isbell.

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Apicbase

APRIL 5, 2022

Like chain restaurants, franchise outlets serve roughly the same menu, share uniform branding, and have a similar look and feel (diners may not even know if they are sitting in a franchise unit or a chain restaurant). As mentioned earlier, a franchise is a restaurant group where the parent company doesn’t directly own all units.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

This can include wearing clean and wrinkle-free uniforms, tucking in shirts, and keeping shoes polished. For instance, if your restaurant has a casual theme, specify acceptable casual attire like khaki pants and polo shirts. Provide guidelines to help employees maintain a professional appearance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

In mid-to-late March , Yelp reported a swift and uniform drop in consumer activity across the nation. . “Cities such as San Francisco and Honolulu, which have had some of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders, are now seeing the highest numbers of closures relative to the number of businesses in their respective cities.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 23, 2019

As the number one delivery platform in Los Angeles, they came to the table with a strategy that we couldn’t pass up and with Tocaya being the top fresh-casual concept on the West Coast, we can’t wait to see what will result from putting our two powerhouse brands together.”

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Sante

MAY 11, 2020

Plus, many restaurant jobs have role-specific uniforms that convey an important message of professionalism to customers. Almost all of the non-slip, arch supportive shoes on the market are too casual for those environments. And the vast majority of shoes made to the above specifications are unflattering.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Miami-based fast-casual chain is the latest brand to attract growth capital from Mercato Partners’ $200 million Savory Fund, which was created to back promising emerging restaurant concepts. .” Guests will enjoy two patios – a casual downstairs patio and a more private, exclusive upstairs patio. All existing P.F.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. – Sophia Goldberg, Cofounder & CEO, Ansa Markets Matter In a world where chain stores and online retail offer uniformity, local markets stand out as vibrant hubs of diversity, reflecting the character and culture of their communities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2020

is joining forces with Techknow to offer drive-thru timers and wireless communication systems to quick serve (QSR) and fast casual restaurants. “We are pleased to be working with ParTech as they continue to expand their portfolio in support of the QSR and fast casual markets,” said Techknow’s CEO Richard Elliott.

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