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How to Diversify Your Brand by Adapting Plant-Based Food Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Effectively educating those (bartenders, wait staff, back of the house, etc.) unaware of the dietary, sustainability and environmental benefits of plant-based alternatives is a key component to selling this addition to customers. Don’t overlook what your chef is already capable of creating.

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How Technology Tools Help Restaurateurs Do More With Less

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Hospitality is greater than the sum of its parts.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Restaurants Going Digital Require Technology That Always Works

Modern Restaurant Management

The challenge is all this new technology needs support to keep everything working seamlessly across the front and back of the house, the internet, and for behind-the-scenes management. What’s new on the menu for today’s innovative restaurants? Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Is Your Refrigerator Running?

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Using Tech for Better Guest Engagement

Modern Restaurant Management

Balancing operational and guest needs involves adopting technology that makes back-end processes more efficient and improves the front-end customer experience. The report, which surveyed 127 restaurant executives across the U.S. The report, which surveyed 127 restaurant executives across the U.S.

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The 11 Best Restaurant Event Ideas That Actually Bring In New Customers And Keep Regulars Excited

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In-house promotions Leverage customers presence in-store by using flyers, table tents, A-frames, and mentions at the bottom of receipts. In-house promotions Leverage customers presence in-store by using flyers, table tents, A-frames, and mentions at the bottom of receipts. First, ask what type of event would best fit your venue.

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How to Write a Killer Business Plan for Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Provide a personnel plan to break down your front-of-house and kitchen staff. Opening a restaurant is a big undertaking full of risk. More than half of restaurants fail within the first year and more than 80 percent fail within five years. Your business plan will serve as a guide to the future. The Summary . What about catering? .

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Since every part of Ono’s assembly process is monitored by hundreds of sensors to ensure there is no spillage, cross-contamination, or inconsistencies; customers with dietary restrictions, allergies, or simply specific preferences no longer have to worry that their blend might include ingredients it shouldn’t. Ono Food Co.