Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2021

When you’re starting a new commercial food business, you’ll need a range of equipment depending on the nature and type of your business. Choosing the right commercial kitchen equipment for your establishment is essential. In this article, we discuss the following: What Equipment Does a Commercial Kitchen Need?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 17, 2023

When restaurants, food businesses, and other organizations become ISO certified, they’re showing that they: Prioritize safety, quality, and compliance, following strict guidelines to ensure safe, high-quality foods. ISO certification is widely considered the global gold standard, so it carries a lot of clout.

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Hot Schedules

AUGUST 10, 2021

Protecting Your Customers: How to Scale Your Food Safety Culture Across Multiple Locations. While employees know they play a crucial role in food (and ultimately guest) safety, when a 45-minute wait forces everyone to rush, things learned in food safety training can quickly fall to back-of-mind to an undisciplined staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

This one effort can help your restaurant ensure you’re aligned with suppliers that prioritize safety and quality efforts. Customers want to know where their food is coming from. They want to know what safety and quality protocols your suppliers practice to ensure that food is safe from point of origin to point of consumption.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It's one of the most hands-on jobs you can have - and equips employees with an abundance of restaurant skills as a result. Food Service Skills For Your Resume. 5 Restaurant & Food Service Skills for Your Resume. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Food allergies.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

When issues arise, such as missing food delivery or a staff shortage, a manager must think quickly and find solutions. Douglas Grabe, owner-operator of Little Pub , had it right when he focused on three things for his Connecticut restaurant chain: making tasty food with great value, serving the guests, and being nice to people.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2022

The idea of creating a well-thought, engaging employee handbook isn’t why restaurateurs go into the food industry. Elements from the ServSafe Certification. Keep the vital ServSafe items top of mind such as food handling, good personal hygiene and sanitizing. Safe food preparation. Storing food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Fewer employees have carried the burden of prepping, cooking, and serving food while working to keep guests safe. Restaurants must adopt tech solutions to boost safety, quality, accuracy, transparency, consistency, and compliance – all factors that contribute to brand excellence. Boost safety and quality protocols.

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Open for Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Here, we’ll discuss 10 best practices to help you obtain everything you need to open your restaurant legally from the get-go, and then we’ll map out a case study to show you the licenses, permits, certificates, and inspections needed to open a (fictitious) new restaurant in New York City.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has become invaluable in the food industry. Validating and verifying food safety. Here, AI can help verify suppliers’ compliance with audit and certification standards. Another crucial aspect of modern restaurant supply chains is validation. Building consumer trust.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

During a pandemic, drone delivery may also enable restaurants to serve customers who feel uncomfortable picking up food from a restaurant or having a delivery drivers come to their homes. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations require that drone obtain a remote pilot certificate.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. The biggest learning from COVID is that food businesses must be prepared for any crisis – and ensure their suppliers all along the supply chain are also prepared and resilient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

The guidance focuses on food safety, cleaning and sanitizing, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing. Each section includes a list of actionable items an operation should consider as it evaluates its safety procedures. Download the full guidance, here. Employee health.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Give them charging stations and a reason to stay (delicious food, great service, and a comfortable atmosphere) while their cars are charging. You already provide delicious food, exceptional customer service, and an inviting atmosphere, right? Are you ordering proper quantities of food? Ensure safety throughout your supply chain.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2020

As restaurants begin the process of reopening, some with an extended period of nonoperation, there are safety precautions that must be considered beyond simply ordering supplies, rehiring staff and opening the doors. This helps ensure adherence to safety protocols that protect staff and patrons and limits liability for the owner as well.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 3, 2024

Recent surveys confirm the importance of cleaning and sanitizing in food industry establishments for building customer confidence and in influencing diner choice. City and state health departments monitor local restaurants to ensure they’re following food safety management program guidelines.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 12, 2022

After providing for themselves and their families, producers can reinvest profits back into their farms to purchase equipment and resources – such as fertilisers and irrigation systems – and carry out necessary repairs and maintenance. The company also helps us to maintain our Rainforest Alliance certification.”.

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The Restaurant Times

MAY 25, 2021

Ever wondered how restaurants ensure that their food is healthy enough to consume? If yes, then the answer is by passing regular restaurant health inspections conducted by municipal authorities to ensure public safety. Auditing processes ensure that safety standards are met in the procurement of ingredients and preparation of food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Rising costs are not the only financial hazard facing the food service business, as recent studies show that slip and fall cases cost the industry $2 billion a year. Conduct regular inspections of equipment to prevent moisture from pooling up and creating a hazard. The restaurant industry is fighting a tough battle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. The act replaces previous regulations on the cottage food industry. The bill would have had a dramatic impact on fast food franchises.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A well-structured management training program equips new leaders with essential skills while promoting ongoing development. Health and safety Go over food safety regulations and proper handling procedures. Equipment maintenance Do hands-on demos of basic troubleshooting and upkeep for key restaurant equipment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While everything feels overwhelming in the world, focus on these five solvable challenges: Prioritize a Food Safety Culture. With or without a pandemic, food safety culture is what you do when no one is looking. When employees feel safe, informed, and engaged, then customers will feel safe. Invest in Software Solutions.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you handle special dietary requests or food allergies? Use this interview question to explore the candidate’s familiarity with food service operations. Aside from providing the best dining experience, order-taking accuracy can help you avoid food waste and unnecessary costs. What restaurant tools have you used?

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The Food Corridor

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Findlay Kitchen is a non-profit food business incubator, located in the heart of the historic Findlay Market district. Findlay Kitchen supports food entrepreneurs looking to start, grow and scale their business, by providing affordable access to 11 licensed commercial kitchens, commercial-grade kitchen equipment, and ample storage space.

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EATER

APRIL 7, 2022

chirps a green banner on the homepage of Amy’s Kitchen, the organic packaged and prepared-foods giant. B Corp certification is awarded to businesses that use profits and growth as a means to a greater end: Positive impact for their employees, communities, and the environment,” Amy’s explains in a blog post from March 2021.

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Apicbase

AUGUST 29, 2024

For multi-site food and beverage businesses, maintaining operational excellence across all locations can be daunting. What Is Food and Beverage Management? Food and beverage management, often abbreviated as F&B management, involves overseeing the operations of establishments that serve food and drinks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 9, 2022

The restaurant industry loses an astounding $162 billion each year in food waste. All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Between a third and a half of food is wasted worldwide annually.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2020

We’ve already seen restaurants responding with curbside pickup, no-contact delivery, tamper-evident labeling and packaging, heightened food safety and sanitation policies, and more strict health and safety rules for employees. They expect safer food handling. Using food rotation labels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2022

Some co-packers charge a one-time set-up fee to create your product for the first time—establishing the procedures they’ll need to follow, figuring in any special equipment they’ll need to retrofit or custom tool, and the like. Packaging and Design.

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360Training

MAY 21, 2020

With pandemic panic, potential food contamination is at the forefront of everyone’s mind. But the restaurant industry has always known the importance of food safety – and food safety training. Choosing a food safety training provider can be tricky, especially if you’re looking for online training.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2020

Food service has changed forever and getting an integrated digital approach to managing all your guidelines and compliance issues, especially across multiple locations, is more crucial than ever. These could be simple health and safety metrics or they could incorporate your specific brand standards.

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Restaurant365

AUGUST 19, 2020

Successful restaurant owners and operators don’t just provide great food. For food service and hospitality in particular, an essential part of the guest experience is the interaction with employees. There are many potential safety issues in restaurants, from kitchen injuries to sanitation problems. ServSafe Certifications.

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EATER

MARCH 30, 2022

Outside the Big Saver Foods market in the small Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno, a cluster of sidewalk vendors wait in the parking lot for hungry customers to finish their shopping and stop by for a pupusa or an agua fresca. But others worry the proposed regulations don’t prioritize food safety enough to protect consumers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Safety ordinances can vary widely by city, county, and sate. Your safety and sanitation policies should be in alignment with the latest FDA , CDC , state, and local policies regarding COVID-19. ServeSafe and food handler certification. Knowing exactly what is expected of you as a restaurant manager can be confusing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2020

Food and Drug Administration guide for retail food stores, restaurants and food pickup and delivery service, and the National Restaurant Association’s guide to reopening. Don’t forget to secure their certificates of insurance, hold-harmless agreements and contracts. These include the U.S.

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Apicbase

JULY 17, 2024

Good relationships with suppliers help to lower food costs and maintain the quality and consistency of your food and service. The procurement cycle is a six-step process that foodservice operators use to control food costs and maintain or improve product quality. See Apicbase in Action FAQ What is a restaurant supplier?

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 29, 2022

Besides the wastage of food and messy kitchen floor, it also forces the hungry patrons to wait longer for the new dishes that need to be cooked. Besides, a clumsy kitchen layout usually leads to poor productivity, loss of revenue, food wastage, and legal consequences for not following food safety standards.

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