Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2025

Every kitchen operates under pressure, but small inefficiencies—lost tickets, misheard orders, inconsistent timing—can mean the difference between a smooth service and total chaos. The Chaos of the Line In a kitchen like The Bear's, the brigade system is the backbone of operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Advanced networking solutions have emerged as a critical player in this revolution, offering the potential to enhance restaurant operations dramatically. At the core, these solutions include high-speed internet, ensuring all digital operations run smoothly and without interruption.

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Goliath Consulting

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Building an integrated tech stack is essential for independent restaurants that want to streamline operations and improve customer service. When integrated with other systems, it allows for easy syncing with online orders and real-time inventory management, making operations smoother and more organized.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, in the process of resuming and continuing restaurant operations, operators need to take steps to lower the risk of infection among employees and customers and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Kitchen operations. Employees can better understand their tasks and responsibilities with structured restaurant operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

– Noah Glass, Founder & CEO of Olo The pandemic was a transformative period for the restaurant industry, leading to significant changes in how both restaurants and consumers operate. Technology continues to transform restaurant operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Bar and restaurant operators often face tough dilemmas, ranging from the daily question, “Should we be mixing more drinks or turning more tables?” With today’s technology, bar and lounge operators can have the best of both worlds. This requires effective preparation and clear communication across the house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2020

For large-scale restaurant operations, now is the time to double down on stringent standards, good customer communication, and consistent application of your standards. For franchises, that means making sure your evaluations and data collection house in order. Communicate Standards and Keep Everyone in the Loop.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

The landscape of the restaurant industry has changed forever due to Covid and the operational complexities that the pandemic introduced. Even with this good news for restaurant operators, many challenges still remain – particularly around staffing in both the front and back of the house.

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The Rail

JANUARY 3, 2025

By incorporating this training into your calendar, you align your business with modern consumer values and cut down on operational waste. Aside from keeping up with industry trends like this, year-round training is especially critical for maintaining consistency in operations, meeting compliance standards, and exceeding customer expectations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2021

Restaurant technology adoption has accelerated throughout the pandemic, shifting digital tools from futuristic nice-to-haves into critical components of day-to-day operations. Technology adoption across the industry has continued to surge; restaurants are juggling upwards of 10 pieces of tech to maintain regular operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. Gives front-of-house teams the resources to provide better customer service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hospitality operators are rapidly turning to contactless ordering and payment solutions to help navigate the long road back to normal from COVID-19’s impacts. While it’s a smart innovation that some say is long overdue, the reality is operators are responding to customer demand. Yes, ordering and payment is important.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

Common sanitation precautions being taken include lowered occupancy limits, mask requirements, and in-house social distancing. ” Restaurant managers who develop clearly-documented policies, operational checklists, and clear communication systems can simplify the process for everyone. Though a handful of U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 7, 2025

Standardized Tip-Sharing: A Team Win Tip pooling helps level the playing field, ensuring that both front- and back-of-house staff benefit. It’s important to note that clear communication is essential. According to a recent Bankrate survey , nearly one in three Americans think tipping has gone too far. Timing is key.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. The blueprint provides operators with a how-to for putting key COVID-19 guidelines into practice as they plan reopening efforts. restaurant operations. Click here to view the application and instructions. US Foods Holding Corp.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff. When using the right technology, however, operators can begin to address common concerns like understaffing, employee burnout and common wage concerns.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing. When the pandemic hit, many restaurants focused on expenses. Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2022

Encourage Staff Members to Communicate Effectively. Staff training, therefore, needs to include teaching individuals to communicate swiftly, clearly, and confidently with other team members when orders go wrong, or other problems occur. Untrained and unmotivated staff. Inefficient management of staff. No realistic table management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

What are some ways restaurant owners and operators can be safe and welcome guests while maintaining social distance? And communications is front and center, particularly for restaurants that might not be as well known for out of restaurant food. 34 percent of respondents saying they plan to prepare more meals at home. "It's

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7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

That's why restaurateurs rely on restaurant operations. With clearly defined and enforced restaurant operations, restaurants achieve maximum efficiency and profitability. But the term itself is broad enough to impose a simple yet essential question: what exactly is the concept of restaurant operations? Areas of Operation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

From digital menus to contactless payment options, restaurants today are flocking to front-of-house touchless technologies to keep customers safe and coming back. And while BYOD (bring your own device) isn’t a new term, leveraging each employee’s mobile device is the fastest growing solution to touchless tech operations.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I came across an old quote from Phylicia Rashad (for those my age – the lead actress in the series “Fame” from many years back) that gave me another opportunity to think about the cooks that I know and have known over the past five (nearly six) decades and why I chose to stand in front of a range. Art is the basis of human expression.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Offering increased visibility for brands and expanding the pool of customers restaurants are able to reach, the dynamic services these apps provide are essential for owners and operators competing for relevance and market share in a rapidly shifting landscape of business models utilizing SaaS technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2021

A restaurant platform is a Swiss Army knife for your operation, a multi-tool that offers solutions for all of your tech needs. That lesson applies to a restaurant platform irrespective of the size of your operation. The following are features and solutions you should seek in an operational platform. Why would I need a platform?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Modern AI exists without the limitations that you see in movies, operating on everything from the smartphones in your pocket to the website that uses machine learning to track COVID-19. Communications. As the coronavirus has taught us, a robust communications network is critical to ensuring that everyone is kept aware of changes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

” Maybe you’re a smaller operation with less than five units in one state or a mom-and-pop operation with one location that’s been in the family for years. Let’s review how restaurant technology can assist you with your daily operations. Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you're struggling to staff your restaurants, know that your operation isn't alone. It's time for restaurant operators to look hard at why their servers aren't showing up and solve that issue for the short and long term. is facing a critical labor shortage, particularly hourly restaurant and hospitality workers. "The

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2020

But the question remains— with a staff that changes size and personnel by the shift, what is the best way to set, communicate, and enforce restaurant task management to your staff? Restaurant task management is the organization, delegation, and communication of necessary tasks in your restaurant.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Each system has its own tablet, order flow, and set of requirements, making it difficult to keep up with operations smoothly. For restaurant operators, juggling Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub separately can lead to inefficiencies, mistakes, and frustrated staff. Tablet overload disrupts operations. Order management issues.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For now, restaurants are using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) to streamline operations and improve customer service in a much less tech-savvy environment. Recent technology advancements, mobile devices, and the pandemic all shifted the way restaurants need to operate. What are AI and ML?

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

7shifts provides a cloud-based team management and scheduling solution, allowing owners and managers to schedule restaurant employees , approve shift trades, and communicate with staff from one easy-to-use mobile app. With Team Communication, you can message individual staff members or the whole team about announcements or shift changes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Every restaurant owner, operator, and manager are currently asking themselves: how do I hire restaurant employees in today’s labor market? However, as all restaurant operators know, this uptick in business has come with staffing challenges. Drawing from industry insights and restaurant operators, here are four practical tips.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Regardless of how long employees intend to stay in a role — whether a seasonal job or a more permanent passion—restaurant operators have a common goal to keep staff happy, productive, and loyal. Higher Pay Helps but Empathy can Pay Dividends So, what can restaurant operators do to minimize employee churn? The good news?

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Front-of-house (FOH) staff, like servers and hosts, will need customer service training, upselling techniques, and communication skills. Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Most of the restaurant technology tools operators use every day were first introduced years ago, but it wasnt until the 2020 Tech Boom, brought on by COVID-19, that widespread adoption became essential. The bottom line is you want to focus on tech that actually moves the needle and makes a difference in operations and profitability.

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