Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Few scenarios strike more fear into a restauranteur’s heart than the prospect of serving food to patrons that makes them sick. However, even with the greatest attention to food safety, there is no single way to eliminate all foodborne illness because its sources are numerous and diverse. Regulatory Requirements.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

What if I told you that you could solve a variety of your problems by improving your supply chain transparency? This one effort can help your restaurant ensure you’re aligned with suppliers that prioritize safety and quality efforts. Customers want to know where their food is coming from. Prioritize ESG initiatives.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2021

For businesses operating in the food industry, it’s critical that food products are created in a safe and hygienic environment. In the absence of proper hygiene and safety protocols, the entire food chain — from the farmer who grows the produce to the consumer who eats it — is compromised.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. It is the industry's primary responsibility to be sure the food they sell and serve to consumers is safe.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 7, 2023

For any specialty coffee roaster, one of the key factors to running a successful business is a continuous supply of fresh green coffee. However, with many medium or larger-sized roasters often having anywhere up to a year’s supply of green coffee, how can they manage their inventories as effectively as possible?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. Labor shortages mean food is rotting in shipping containers, warehouses, and trucks because there aren’t enough workers to get them to their final destinations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has become invaluable in the food industry. AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A good first step is to elevate your food safety culture. How Food Safety Culture Has Changed. Food safety used to mean “what you do when no one is watching.” Now, understandably, everyone is watching to ensure safety protocols are being followed. Treat Location Employees Like Assets.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you ensure that your kitchen complies with health and safety standards? How do you handle complaints about food quality from customers? Describe a situation where you had to adapt quickly to a change in the menu or a food supply issue. How do you ensure that your kitchen complies with health and safety standards?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

With 54% of diners saying they would avoid a restaurant with table wait times over 30 minutes, you must develop an efficient kitchen floor plan that helps you serve food quickly and consistently. Segment your storage areas further into cold, dry, and non-food storage sections. What should a restaurant kitchen floor plan include?

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

After all, it’s not just the quality of your food that can keep customers coming back — 73% of diners base their satisfaction on the quality of service they receive. How do you handle unexpected challenges, such as equipment failure or supply shortages? Hiring the right people can make or break your business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2023

How much information do you have about the foods your company handles in the course of business? If subjected to a food recall, would you be able to produce clear records delineating every touchpoint where the food was produced, harvested, processed or transformed, shipped, received, and used?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

With the season of food and Thanksgiving when holiday food is at the forefront, what are defined standards and procedures that restaurants should keep top-of-mind to set the expectations regarding food handling and preparation during the holiday rush? Cool foods rapidly to get out of the Temperature Danger Zone.

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Hot Schedules

AUGUST 10, 2021

Protecting Your Customers: How to Scale Your Food Safety Culture Across Multiple Locations. While employees know they play a crucial role in food (and ultimately guest) safety, when a 45-minute wait forces everyone to rush, things learned in food safety training can quickly fall to back-of-mind to an undisciplined staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As these restaurants (and others) have discovered, technology has become instrumental in improving their safety and quality programs, increasing compliance, keeping up with ever-changing regulations, improving the customer experience, and differentiating themselves from the competition. Increase quality and safety across the supply chain.

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360Training

JANUARY 8, 2020

As you can see, it’s more important than ever for anyone who works with food to practice safe food handling techniques. The best way to encourage safe food handling in your restaurant is to create a culture that prioritizes food safety. What is Food Safety Culture? Form a Food Safety Committee.

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PathSpot

MAY 7, 2024

Temperature monitoring is essential in food manufacturing, as it is crucial for preserving, storing, and processing food. Effective temperature management greatly influences food quality, safety, and operational efficiency throughout manufacturing.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, safety measures such as social distancing, lockdowns and mask-wearing have completely changed our understanding of how consumers spend on food. We saw customers stockpiling on groceries and supplies in homes instead of going out to eat, raising retail sales by 29 percent over the previous year (1).

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2024

The FDA has already issued more than 50 food recalls in 2024, causing many consumers to worry about food safety – and raising an important question for the restaurant industry: Would we know exactly what to do in a recall situation? As food recalls continue, it’s wise for restaurants to review their recall protocols.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

coli outbreak reinforces the need for restaurants – and all food businesses – to manage recalls as a supply chain, especially considering the huge scale of this event. Handle Recalls as a Supply Chain For any food brand, consumer protection is the most important part of recall management. While the E.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 23, 2024

Already one of the largest sectors of the global economy, the food and beverage industry shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, according to the Business Research Company’s 2023 Food and Beverages Global Market Report, the global industry’s market size grew over 7.3 percent from $6,729.54 billion in 2022 to $7,221.73

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PathSpot

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the world of food safety, maintaining HACCP compliance is paramount. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a systematic approach to identifying, evaluating, and controlling food safety hazards. It’s a crucial framework that ensures food products’ safety and consumers’ well-being.

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Hot Schedules

AUGUST 10, 2021

Protecting Your Customers: How to Scale Your Food Safety Culture Across Multiple Locations. While employees know they play a crucial role in food (and ultimately guest) safety, when a 45-minute wait forces everyone to rush, things learned in food safety training can quickly fall to back-of-mind to an undisciplined staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

Leveraging a physical-digital-physical framework ensures that restaurant management is maximizing their digital assets, human labor, and capital equipment investments. Many restaurant managers have already moved to digital food safety programs that give them visibility into the state of their assets across multiple locations.

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Transact

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It doesn’t matter whether you work in the front or the back of the house; food safety is everyone’s problem. Everyone, from the server to the busboy to the line cook, has to know basic food handling procedures. . Most food safety problems can be eliminated by doing the job properly. . Do the Job Right.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

Food safety discussions have taken on a new level of urgency, as restaurants face the enormity of consequences of COVID-19. It was not that long ago that US Foods conducted their highly-publicized survey which found that nearly 30 percent of delivery people sample the food items they’re entrusted with.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2020

Even minor issues can become very expensive, so restaurants of all sizes should take electrical safety very seriously. Overloading – There’s a lot of equipment and lighting which can overload the electrical systems and fixtures. Electrical Safety Checklist for Restaurants and Food Establishments.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 13, 2020

We also know that the health and safety regulations for restaurants will change significantly as we make every attempt to keep the public and our staff safe and at ease. Let me be clear that there is NO INDICATION at this time that the virus can be spread through food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Most notably, persistent hiring challenges, rising costs, and uncertain supply chains have made profitability more precarious. Restaurant managers will need to identify and implement training solutions that accelerate onboarding and equip new employees to positively impact the bottom line as quickly as possible. trillion each year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As such, restaurants are investing in training and development programs to upskill their workforce, ensuring team members are equipped to handle the latest tools and technologies. These factors contribute to a volatile supply chain, influencing everything from ingredient availability to menu pricing strategies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Shaw is a food safety specialist, podcaster, founder of Savvy Food Safety, co-founder of My Trusted Source, and an entrepreneur, author, and speaker who spent 30+ years working in the foodservice industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Food manufacturers and retailers are embracing a whole new world of opportunities for consumer engagement that are enabled by this newer technology. In foodservice establishments, the same technology opens doors to greater food safety and ingredient transparency.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

Cafés and Bistros should be able to dip into a cache of “extra” money to pay for the entrance fee and since it is thought that restaurants make significant profits from the food they sell, then those deep discounts will be easy to swallow. If you are not in the restaurant business, then maybe this sounds reasonable.

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Social Hospitality

JULY 25, 2022

With the food tech market slated to be valued at nearly $342 billion USD by 2027 , the demand for increased technology implementation in the industry will continue to rise. And this seems to be just the beginning of a new era in the way food business owners operate. The Importance of Technology in Food Businesses.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 28, 2021

72% of Americans eat food from a restaurant at least twice a week, meaning hundreds of millions of Americans frequently trust foodservice establishments to prepare their meals in a safe and sanitary environment. However, surfaces that touch food not only needs to be cleaned but sanitized. Food Storage. Develop a HACCP Plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January of 2011 and expanded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. This last initiative is perhaps the most urgent for food businesses and requires immediate attention.

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Goliath Consulting

JUNE 15, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to us all just how interconnected our food system is in the US if not, the world. The supply chain failure and the domino effect of its impact have been a wake-up call for even the veterans of the food industry. Multiple Sourcing and Backup. Menu Changes and Flexibility.

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