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Simple Ways to Upcycle Your Outdoor Space

Modern Restaurant Management

If you’re a hospitality or restaurant business who utilise an outside space, then you’ll know that outdoors furniture and fittings can take a bashing with the weather. Has your outdoor furniture lost its colour? You will be surprised by how much of a difference a fresh lick of paint will make to outdoor items.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

We’re continually learning about new and innovative ways to help our clients be more sustainable—whether that be choosing eco-friendly materials and fixtures or finding new products that use recycled or compostable packaging. Many restaurants have also pivoted to outdoor dining amid the pandemic.

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How to Grow Your Catering Business

Goliath Consulting

You may be used to catering for corporate meetings, office parties, weddings or cocktail parties, but what about outdoor festivals, picnics and movie sets? They also offer all serving utensils with compostable options. Exploring new catering verticals is key to expanding your catering business. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TRENDS.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

" 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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The True Cost of Keeping a Restaurant Open During a Pandemic

EATER

Now, as summer waned and restrictions relaxed enough to allow outdoor dining on sidewalks throughout the city, Techamuanvivit was readying the Kabuki’s driveway to accommodate dinner service and waiting for the go-ahead to launch Kin Khao’s new Dogpatch location. So we’re going to open outdoors. It feels good,” she said.

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Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative

EATER

To translate this aesthetic to go, takeout food is creatively wrapped in compostable packaging and adorned with colorful custom labels. When outdoor dining was allowed in San Francisco, Brackett says the restaurant was able to break even, or even turn a small profit, with its 26 outdoor seats.

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Summer 2021 Food & Beverage Trends

Goliath Consulting

Especially compostable menus.) We’ll be seeing more of these drinks as the weather gets even warmer and people spend more time outdoors. As a result, there will be a significant push for plant-based dishes and those featuring natural and functional ingredients from elderberries to turmeric. Plant-forward.

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