Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

“There’s a definite connection between superfoods and our immune system,” said Tara Gidus Collingwood, founder of Diet Diva, a nutrition consulting company that advises restaurants, senior executives and professional athletes across the U.S. It has resulted in a huge shift in dining consciousness.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Make reservations. For restaurants that accept reservations, reserve. It can be hard for diners to tell if a place requires reservations or not, so unless a restaurant specifically states on its website that it doesn’t accept them, assume you’ll need to book. If you make a reservation, honor it. and keep them.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Strong enough to take the risk and I commend you!, Allow Customers to Make Reservations Online. Adding a simple widget like Open Table’s Make a Reservation for customers brings several advantages. More content at a person’s fingertips can definitely drive sales and drive interest. Promotional Video.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

To delve more into the results, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Matt Zibell, VP Technology at TouchBistro. So, to me, finding out that over a quarter of restaurants don’t have a website was a bit surprising. What can restaurateurs take away from the responses of their fellow operators?

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7 Shifts

JULY 30, 2021

With plenty of restaurants to choose from, you want to make sure yours stands out from the rest. From stand-out social media accounts, to good old-fashioned mail marketing, we'll walk you through 12 unique customer-driving ideas! Your marketing plan is your restaurant's holy grail, so make sure you take the time to prioritize it.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it’s just the beginning. There’s a wide range of options available that take the entire process online. If your lowboy refrigerator goes out while you’re out, you can know about it.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 11, 2020

Read on to discover common restaurant opening expenses you will definitely encounter, and unexpected restaurant opening costs that you may encounter on your journey to restaurateurship. month ) and a reservation management tool ($200+/month). Check out these U.S. Don’t skimp out on professional services.

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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

JULY 24, 2020

If they are paying their workforce, they most definitely are doing so with a reduced headcount. Companies depend on the strength of their balance sheet and reserves and in a situation as severe as the pandemic, it may have made more business sense for them to hold on to the PPP funds received.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. And take time clocking data from your POS and send it right to your payroll provider for easier processing. All of this (and more!) is possible with a great POS.

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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. It's, it's definitely more true now than it ever has been.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

I would take it over several highly ranked Michelin-starred restaurants that I’ve been to any day,” Tamez says. By the summer, Tamez was dining out again, alfresco, limiting his visits to just a handful of restaurants, including Uni. Then, of course, there’s the Chiang Mai duck carnitas. “I

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Culinary Cues

MAY 17, 2023

We have become somewhat immune to what greatness is and what it takes to reach it. How do you jump out of bed in the morning and push yourself to be extraordinary, when extraordinary is pretty ordinary? Expectations and definitions are important – so are rewards given and accolades pronounced publicly. We need to up the ante.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 18, 2021

Working on the right things, in the right order, what to focus on now, and what to hold off until later, can mean the difference between success and burn out. 60% of restaurants don’t make it past their first year and 80% go out of business within five years. They are definitely thriving as opposed to just surviving.

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EATER

APRIL 13, 2022

Helen Cho didn’t originally set out to work in food television, but not long after she left film school, she found herself working on some of the industry’s most important docu-travel shows. She became showrunner and executive producer on the new HBO Max series, Take Out with Lisa Ling , which premiered in January 2022.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Explain why your restaurant uses employee evaluation forms Don’t forget to tell staff why you use employee evaluation forms: to track their performance, point out areas for improvement, and make decisions about promotions and pay raises. Ask them to fill out these sections, and then give you, their manager, the form.

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EATER

OCTOBER 27, 2021

To remember somebody well isn’t necessarily to know them, as Laurie Woolever’s “Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography” reveals — one conversation at a time Anthony Bourdain’s success, when it arrived, didn’t come gradually; it came in a blinding flash, with the publication of his memoir, Kitchen Confidential , when he was 43 years old.

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EATER

JANUARY 21, 2021

With the subscription plan, managed in-house, Gado Gado’s most devoted customers could get that experience on a weekly basis and reserve the number and serving size of meals that suited their households. Likewise, Greenhill points out that “packaging 100 meal kits takes up pretty much the whole dining room.”

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Google My Business is a free tool you can use to manage your Google Search and Google Maps presence without taking potential customers to a website or a listing account. It helps to cut the customer’s path to your contact information, offers, reservations, and more. Halal food. Vegan and vegetarian options. Gluten-free options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

" Take a listen here to learn about Scott Patterson's entrepreneurial venture into the world of coffee and reach out to Castiglia with any topic or guest suggestions at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. The user has full control over their account and can opt out of the secure service at any time. 20 at 4 p.m.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Stepping out of operations, he became a Point of Sale (POS) Technician in 1984, and three years later was promoted to POS Manager, where he managed the IT team for Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Northern Indiana. “We know that seismic changes continue to take place within the food and media industries.

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EATER

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Brenna Houck, based in Detroit : “A lot of places [in Michigan] have also installed takeout windows, which is kind of an easy way to do grab-and-go stuff if you're on foot and take it to a park bench and eat if you're outside. Then you’ve still invested these thousands of dollars in this equipment that you no longer can use.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The tablescape, a concept once reserved for prop stylists and wedding planners, has lost its fuss. Her customers are beginning to view dressing their homes in a way they once reserved for their wardrobes. I mean, just saying it out loud, it sounds so antiquated.” The way we approach both is changing.

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EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Because when dining out is also your night out, the food is just the start. Nashville’s Broadway is the definition of over-the-top. Jackie Gutierrez-Jones Wonho Frank Lee Looking at the window from inside-out at Poltergeist at Button Mash. Ropey strands of hollowed-out pasta come slathered in yellow curry.

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EATER

MAY 9, 2022

Why go out if you aren’t going to dress up? After two years of inside time, how do we dress to go out these days? The contrast makes for an environment where diners feel right at home, if home takes months of scouring reservation apps to get into and is also where they throw damn good parties. Rita: I would say so.

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EATER

MAY 20, 2022

Businesses are more reliant on Instagram than ever — which means more pain when they get locked out One day in March, the pastry chef Bronwen Wyatt was posting a picture of one of her signature squiggle-decorated cakes on Instagram when she was suddenly logged out of her account. Immediately, she turned two-factor authentication on. “It

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

and BurgerFi International entered into a definitive agreement at a $100 million purchase price to combine and form BurgerFi International, Inc. Deciding to close your doors: Whatever you decide, make sure all employees understand the steps you are taking to ensure top safety and health standards. Click here for loan-level data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Knowing that food and beverage can be an incredible asset for hotel brands, setting them apart in a sea of options available to today’s savvy traveler, SevenRooms set out to uncover which elements would encourage travelers to stay at a certain hotel. The acquisition is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2019.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2021

What you won’t see, however, are selfies with princesses, masked-up hugs with Pixar characters, or sparklers coming out of Mickey Mouse’s mitts. Due to COVID-era capacity restraints, you’ll need both admission and a theme park reservation to enter Walt Disney World theme parks. FYI: The reservations are free.).

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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A hard-to-get reservation is simply a record for access to a table, and getting tables at in-demand restaurants has become a valuable commodity, so much so that finance bros recently tried to create a secondary market for them. Plans include a cocktail lounge, fine dining restaurant, intimate omakase room, and outdoor space.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Portlanders keep things casual at Phuket Cafe, Akkapong Earl Ninsom’s newest Portland, Oregon hit Welcome to Best Dressed , an Eater series where restaurant diners show and tell what they’re wearing out to dinner, from the small details to the splashy pieces — and how they approached getting dressed for each spot’s specific scene.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

The product will be rolled out in phases, with an introductory product available in the North American market in the coming weeks. “The bites are baked just right; choose a dip then take a sip! Eating out has changed and consumers are looking for a safer, contactless dining experience. ” Tyga Bites Launches.

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EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But there’s definitely a growing interest in doing Korean barbecue differently with a focus on the quality of ingredients. In Korea, it was once reserved for royalty, beginning in the Goguryeo era (37 BCE to 668 CE). We’re not reinventing the wheel here,” Cho says. As ubiquitous as Korean barbecue is in the U.S.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I went out and scoured the city high and low to find out who has the greatest steak, and I did not come back empty-handed. No other places in the city compare to the ones listed below, so go ahead and check them out to find your new favorite steak spot. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation. Cowford Chophouse.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Traditional restaurants are already seeing profit losses between eight and 25 percent when using food delivery services such as Uber Eats, we expect more restaurants to prioritize finding solutions that allow them to incorporate delivery methods and meet demand, without losing out on revenue. Dark kitchens gain more real estate.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This spring, as Tarun Bhalla was testing out eight-ounce curry packets for a new line of meal kits, he found that they had a tendency to burst open in a shipping test. We have to see this year out. They’re immigrants, they’re working parents, and they’re lifting themselves out of poorly paid wage work. Take Oyna Natural Foods.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Make a Reservation. Reservations are best, with each day going live at ten PM fourteen days ahead of time. Walk-ins can be seated but usually take longer. Sadly, this place is only available for dinner, and you may have to make reservations long ahead of time. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation.

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