Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Much to the delight of enthusiasts and aficionados across the nation, the rapidly-growing number of states that have legalized recreational marijuana has in turn given rise to the so-called “cannabis fine dining” industry. What exactly is cannabis fine dining, in a nutshell? Highballs with a Twist.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2023

Designed by The Johnson Studio at Cooper Carry, the facility provides real-world experience for the next generation of chefs and hospitality leaders. The client was an integral part of the design process from the very early stages until the final close out. We also prepared a formal Schematic Design presentation for approval.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2022

A key part of an effective kitchen is its design. After all, there’s no point in spending time and resources on designing the perfect menu, if your kitchen isn’t up to scratch. Do you feel your kitchen needs a design boost? The fact is, even the most successful restaurants have room for improvement.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Even if these were unintentional, this individual would still be subject to fines and a loss of trust with staff. When restaurant owners get it wrong, it could lead to fines, broken trust among employees—as with the examples above—and even jail time for more egregious violations. Quit rates have also fallen since then.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While Noma’s run as a Michelin restaurant is now at an end, there are many reasons why it doesn’t spell the end of fine dining cuisine as we know it. There’s a high cost in running fine dining restaurants, but the value rests in their place in society. How do we move forward from this?

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 26, 2021

Over the past few decades, I have been asked to design a number of kitchens for restaurants and banquet spaces – a task that I thoroughly enjoy. Chefs” want to create kitchens that work, spaces that are designed to correct the numerous problems that were previously faced in poorly designed kitchens.

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ChowNow

MARCH 21, 2025

Key customer factors that influence dining preferences, from demographics to behavior. A restaurant target market is the specific group of customers your restaurant is designed to attract. These are the people most likely to dine with you based on factors like their age, income, dining preferences, and lifestyle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Future foodspaces will need to be designed to meet the personalized needs of diverse customer bases, according to Culinary Crossroads: How Societal Shifts Are Defining Tomorrow’s Dining , the latest whitepaper from IA Interior Architects research initiative, HumanX. "The

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The research stems from in-person chef interviews and a nationwide survey of more than 400 restaurant owners and operators spanning 47 states with respondents ranging from fine dining establishments to fast-casual venues, breweries, and caterers. "This Revenue growth in 2024 was largely driven by menu price adjustments.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2022

And Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) solutions represent a vital component to generate revenue for restaurants by filling up dining tables with customers who feel safe and confident. So, how can restaurants address these air quality issues and get more customers through their doors each night? What Makes Customers Happy?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 11, 2020

Restaurant management software company Upserve and restaurant-architect William Duff speak here about evolving trends they are seeing and discussed some ways the dining experience might look and feel different as the new normal unfolds. Partnering a Fine Dining Experience with a Take-Out Option.

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Lavu

MARCH 21, 2025

Restaurants can now use customer data to enhance restaurant menu design, creating smarter menus that increase profits and improve the dining experience. Quick Benefits of Data-Driven Restaurant Menu Design Benefit How It Helps Higher Profits Focus on top-performing, high-margin items. Ready to learn how? Keep reading.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are many choices in life, one road vs. another, good vs. great, mediocre vs. acceptable, truth vs. lies we choose to move towards one or the other and live with those decisions. In business, those choices can lead to success or failure, prominence of subservience, profit or loss. Is that what you believe? Is that how you want to be perceived?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

From the consultant’s perspective, our restaurant designs have changed substantially due to these services. We now design in specific pick-up areas for these third-party delivery systems. History will show that COVID was the line of demarcation for the hospitality industry in the 21st century. This is a trend I hope will go away.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As the world is largely re-opened post-COVID, people are eagerly out and about dining in restaurants and bars to reinvigorate their social routines. According to Morning Consult , 77 percent of all polled adults are comfortable dining out at restaurants or cafes as of June 2022.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

What issues have affected the industry over the last five years in the topics of marketing, design, operations, law, finance, technology and equipment? Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

In pursuit of these objectives, restaurants must reimagine dining experiences through enhanced restaurant technology, deepen their commitment to sustainability, and fine-tune their core offerings. For example, Chick-fil-A is debuting advanced store designs to engage new audiences, introducing two new architectural concepts.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world’s creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. Eater: What actual restaurants inspired the fictional Hawthorne?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The premiumization of tea is a natural extension to what has been taking place in fine wine, specialty coffee, craft spirits and beer over the past several decades. Really, wherever food and beverage has an intentional focus on quality and customer experience, fine tea has a rightful place – just like wine and craft beverages.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Now its done up in warm tones and has a crystal glass roof and striking semi-open kitchen framed in copper.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Gen Z and millennials are likely to return to in-restaurant dining before older guests; and each group will have different concerns. Restaurants play an important role in our lives and in our communities; often where we celebrate birthdays, graduations, first dates, and major life moments. Safety and Trust.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 23, 2021

When Canlis, the recognized fine dining restaurant in Seattle, was forced to close its dining room during Covid-19 lockdowns, their employees got to work. As they put it on their website, “Fine dining is not what Seattle needs right now. ” He noted that it’s different than other disciplines.

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EATER

JANUARY 8, 2021

Three designers on the inspiration that goes into creating the bottles you reach for. As the design director of Eater, judging things on how they look is part of my job. Designer and founder of Studio MMBB. Mel Barat Bours is a visual storyteller who explores narratives through art direction, design, and illustration.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Outdoor dining is still top of mind as owners want to keep employees and customers safe and have questions about maintaining outdoor spaces in inclement weather. That's fine for sidewalks but not very conducive to outdoor dining, including keeping tables leveled. If allowable by law, run gas to the area to fuel heaters.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2023

The original design is a heavy timber replica of a six-beam Haida house—a traditional style of building by the Haida Tribe—which opened in 1939 as a Native American curio shop before serving as a restaurant space starting in 1945. I like to joke about the number of mop sinks I’ve designed over the years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"The Menu" hits the screens next month and chefs are already dishing about the black comedy focused on fine-dining. Personally, the end goal for me is to spend more time having “fine dining” experiences and visiting Michelin star restaurants. .” Here are what some shared with us.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. This has led fine-dine restaurants to change their existing food menus and offer completely plant-based food dishes. Veganism is no more a fad. It is here to sustain, grow and be accepted on a larger scale.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

It is important to always keep in mind that dining out is still a luxury, even though more and more families have built it into their lifestyle. Whether a quick service restaurant, family dining, food truck, or white tablecloth fine dining operation – there will always be some level of price sensitivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Personalized Dining is the Future. To fulfill these new dining expectations, operators should plan to provide their guests with a quintessential 360-degree experience that is personalized from start to finish. Take a NYC resident who has become a regular delivery patron of one of their favorite restaurants throughout the pandemic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Running a successful, finely-tuned takeout operation is a complex and challenging endeavor no longer relegated to businesses basing their models primarily on delivery sales. Where possible, designating a driver waiting area can further accommodate drivers, staff and other patrons. The “Ding!”

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The most challenging part of difficult times is living in the moment. Today is what gives us the most angst since we live in uncharted territory with all of the unpredictable factors that align with it. Ah, but TODAY is the tough one. How will we get through this, what else can possibly happen, will we survive to see those brighter times?”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There could be some lasting savings, such as decreased congestion in drive-thru or less interior space dedicated to dining room. Design the waiting experience, not the pick-up experience. How do we love thee, curbside pick-up? Let us count the ways. To succeed in curbside, lean into feeling, not just function.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

When designer Monica Jeffers saw the aging, dated restaurant she was going to remodel, she thought, “A T-bar grid ceiling! All too often, designers pay little if any attention to the ceiling. Jeffers understood the design value of the expansive surface overhead. ” Ironically, this thought sets her apart.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

If your customers expect you to offer a fine dining experience, they won’t be pleased to know that you’ve upturned your entire restaurant. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic persists across the globe, governments have started easing lockdown restrictions and allowing restaurants to reopen finally. Protect Your Employees.

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