Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). Theres plenty of fear and loathing going on in the restaurant business. Every restaurant and restaurateur are struggling to figure it out how am I going to make this work? This is true for every business.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Travel around and youll be rewarded. hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Personalized Dining is the Future. As we head into the new year, we expect to see consumers traveling less, shifting their discretionary travel spending to local experiences like restaurants. These systems allow operators to create seamless, tailored dining experiences that ultimately drive both guest loyalty and revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

We’ve been crayon pros for over 30 years, ever since we started partnering with the fast-growing casual dining restaurant chains of the 90s. Read on to learn more about crayons—the unsung heroes of casual dining. Crayons have an important role to play in giving families the feel-good dining experiences they crave.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the state of flavor, COVID-19 restaurant operations, public acceptance of delivery charges, the best of the best and the most allergy-friendly restaurant chains. DoorDash Deep Dish. Breakfast burritos were the 7th most ordered item on DoorDash in 2020.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But restaurants face a fine balance in increasing costs, as customers are also impacted by the realities of inflation. Recent surveys are showing the vast majority of Americans have been cutting back on dining out. For those who still haven’t, it’s worth reconsidering now as inflation impacts customer travel and spending.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s impacted almost every part of our lives, from how we work and shop to how we travel and entertain ourselves. Once the government’s ‘ one-way road to freedom ’ was announced earlier in the year, UK travel companies cited a huge surge in enquiries from people keen to holiday on home ground this summer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2022

Different innovative payment methods are being leveraged to increase food services efficiency in fast-food joints to fine dining. Travelers would have the opportunity to order in their own languages, over their own devices, and in their own time. It will most likely take off in fast-food restaurants and drive-throughs.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There’s just not the same amount of volume in takeout as there is in in-person dining.” he warm summer months and the arrival of outside dining provided a lifeline for a dining and hospitality industry that has been hit immensely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. percent demand decline.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Part of the reason you’re traveling to France is, presumably, to tap into that gastronomic reverence. Say bonjour, always Whether it’s at the post office, a boutique, or a fine dining restaurant, say “bonjour” to every single person you interact with. Do as the French do, and you’ll have a much better experience in Paris.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

With the right technology in place, restaurants can tailor smaller menus to the on- and off-premise dining preferences of their customers while leveraging automated marketing promotions to make the most of their offerings. To mitigate these concerns, restaurants have gotten creative, looking for new cost-cutting measures.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Why not briefly fill rooms by offering an exclusive evening of private pandemic dining?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

“The prospects for fine dining and sit-down restaurants are going to remain strained for all of 2021,” said Doug Groves, founder at Program Insurance Group, in College Station, Tex. “States continue to extend the dates for the closure of indoor dining and expanding closures into outdoor dining as well.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

” The survey, conducted by Untold Insights on behalf of Oracle Food and Beverage, polled 502 consumers in the United States in November 2020 about their dining and gifting plans for the holiday season. With travel and larger gatherings constrained due to the pandemic, gift cards are a popular choice. Hassle-free holiday meals.

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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

JULY 7, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the latest delivery platform consolidation, the release of PPP loan information and ServSafe Dining Commitment. Uber To Acquire Postmates. billion in an all-stock transaction that brings together two top players in third-party delivery, Uber will acquire Postmates.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This is a topic I have presented numerous times and it seems as though whenever I travel it rises to the top of my thinking. Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. Ironically, there is always room to be great and there is plenty of room to be mediocre.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the latest facts and figures of restaurant operations, the state of business dining, and the mid-year gift card report. With most of their business reliant on dine-in visits, full service restaurants (FSR) bore the brunt of the COVID dine-in restrictions. foodservice industry.

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EATER

OCTOBER 28, 2022

short Vancouver’s old(er) guard of fine dining restaurants were left by the roadside last night at a Michelin Guide ceremony where only eight one-star awards and 23 Bib Gourmands (the guide’s ‘great food at a great price’ category) were handed out. Côte de porc at St. Lawrence/Official.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. The key to the industry's recovery will be the strength of each daypart. foodservice industry. Visits at P.M.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Where to find avocado tzatziki, fried seafood in a cone, mutton burgers, and octopus candied with tsipouro in the Greek capital Every year, tourists travel to the Greek capital to hike up the Acropolis, browse countless museums, and seek out tans at nearby beaches. Check with each restaurant for up-to-date information on dining offerings.

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EATER

OCTOBER 19, 2020

These outdoor dining rooms have remade the landscape of major metropolitan centers and small towns, allowing people to spill into the streets, visit with friends and family, and — for an hour or two — forget about the looming threat of a deadly and highly contagious virus. Indoor spaces create an ideal environment for the spread of COVID-19.

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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Oxte Immigrant chefs are shaking up Paris’s fine dining scene with Michelin-starred restaurants, venues in five-star hotels, and Lebanese, Mexican, and Korean flavors not traditionally found in haute French cuisine When Enrique Casarrubias came to Paris from Mexico in 2007, he had no intention to stay. Prepping a dish at Oxte.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2024

Led by young Korean Mexican entrepreneurs, some of whom migrated from South Korea decades ago with their parents, alongside Korean Americans with diverse culinary backgrounds, the restaurants borrow from dining concepts that have grown popular in South Korea, New York, and Los Angeles. A variety of dishes at Dooriban in the Roma neighborhood.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For the tour, we traveled to Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, visiting a wide collection of over 80 bars and restaurants, from brand new and iconic to others that have stood the test of time. And, you don’t have to run a cocktail bar or fine dining location to play with these combinations.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 3, 2022

According to Vacasa’s 2022 Spring Travel Trend’s survey, one thing is clear: everyone needs a break this spring. 37% are planning to travel during spring break, specifically, which is an increase from the 29% who were traveling for Spring Break 2021. American travelers are mostly staying planted on U.S. Fine dining – 41%.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

” With a graceful floral pattern from the Ceilume collection, Orleans, the seemingly 20th century grid is transformed into 19th century European elegance, and helps unify a rather rambling dining space. The coffered effect of the panels and beams helps increase the apparent height in a low-ceilinged room.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 25, 2021

At the other extreme – an extraordinarily prepared, multi-course meal, touched by accomplished cooks, presented on a plate of fine china, in a pristine environment, with attentive service and complemented by exceptional wines will reveal all that food might attempt to be. I find it very interesting how diverse the food experience is.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What More than half (55 percent) said they were fed up after five minutes of waiting for food in a drive-thru, and 54 percent were annoyed waiting more than 10 minutes for food while dining at a restaurant. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Food traveling via delivery and customer pickup often contend with wide windows of time, so packaging has the added job of maintaining temperature over time and through varied temperatires with both hot and cold climates. Customer expectations are level set by their most advanced in-store and digital experiences. percent this year.

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