Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The holiday was later cemented by President Coolidge, marking the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. The Best Offense is a Defensive Kitchen Cooking equipment is probably the most important thing inside a restaurant and/or bar – and it’s also a leading cause of fires.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Recent outbreaks have highlighted vulnerabilities in food safety systems. How do factors like suppliers, but also kitchen layout, equipment design, and workflow patterns impact contamination risk? A brand’s reputation can be irreversibly damaged when the safety of their food is called into question.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2021

When you’re starting a new commercial food business, you’ll need a range of equipment depending on the nature and type of your business. Choosing the right commercial kitchen equipment for your establishment is essential. In this article, we discuss the following: What Equipment Does a Commercial Kitchen Need?

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

How do you handle unexpected challenges, such as equipment failure or supply shortages? How do you ensure compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations? For example, the manager might share how they implemented cross-training among the staff, like teaching servers to handle some basic tasks in the kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 7, 2024

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization designated “Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected” as the theme for World Food Safety Day (June 7) 2024. For additional World Food Safety Day resources, visit WHO , UN or the FDA. What are some hidden food safety dangers?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2024

Keeping Your Restaurant Safe From training your staff, to maintaining the establishment, many safety measures exist to prevent a fire from happening at your restaurant. Install automatic fire-suppression systems in the kitchen and have it inspected bi-annually. Clean all surfaces of the kitchen to remove grease.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The holiday was later cemented by President Coolidge, marking the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. The theme of this year’s Fire Prevention Week, October 8-14, is “Cooking safety starts with YOU.” When it comes to your expensive equipment, don’t take shortcuts.

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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. It is very likely that the Public Health Service will contemplate development and implementation of product and people sanitizing before entering production kitchens.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Maintaining and having electrical inspections done on your establishment’s electrical system is important in keeping the flow of your restaurant running and for your staff’s safety. This makes it important for restaurant owners, and managers to take steps in ensuring the maintenance of electrical equipment. Extension Cords.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It shows you how the kitchen works and helps to qualify who the players are and what their roles might be. It is one of the most essential positions in the kitchen, operated by a person who is responsible for the single most expensive piece of equipment and one of the costliest inventories (China, flatware, glassware).

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As a result of the Great Chicago Fire that killed 250 people in 1871, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an annual week in October as Fire Prevention Week, now the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. The Best Offense Is a Defensive Kitchen. Get your equipment serviced regularly by an experienced technician.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Understanding Restaurant Safety Restaurants are fast-paced operations and any safety vulnerability can quickly derail business. Open flames in the kitchen can lead to fires or burns. Second, in the kitchen, training is a critical component of a safe workplace. And the list goes on.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Shaw's “ Who Watches the Kitchen ?” Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. Read on for an excerpt from "Who Watches the Kitchen?" " Why write this book now? They are a valuable resource. Francine L.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In multiple industries, employee safety can be a chief concern that requires careful consideration by employers. This can especially be the case in food service industries where employees are often in loud, busy environments while moving in and out of kitchen areas with any number of hazards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots.

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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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Touch Bistro

JULY 20, 2021

Whether you’re new to the restaurant scene or a seasoned veteran in the industry, having the right restaurant equipment list is crucial to your business’s success. That’s why we’ve created this comprehensive commercial restaurant equipment list. 24 Essential Pieces of Restaurant Equipment. Let’s get started. Food Processors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2022

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, a new trend in the food service industry has risen in popularity—ghost kitchens. In addition to restaurant operators opening or transitioning to the ghost kitchen strategy, grocers are also exploring this new concept. Euromonitor estimates that ghost kitchens could top $1 trillion in revenue by 2030.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 1, 2024

I pass housekeeping where the heat from commercial laundry equipment and manglers pressing sheets and towels is palpable. Pushing through the swinging kitchen doors I am engulfed by the smells, sounds, and oh such intense heat from a busy operation. The kitchen is pushed to its limit today and there is so much I need to do.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In a landscape where precision equates to performance, prepping your commercial kitchen for the sweltering conditions and guest upsurge of the warmer months is an exercise in foresight and expertise. The harmony between these two will dictate your kitchen's efficiency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 25, 2021

a multi-site restaurant operator with more than 200 locations that was shifting to takeout only decided to evaluate its already robust food safety system. But the incidents never compromised customers’ safety because the restaurants were able to discover and remediate them in real time. Extending Staff Capabilities.

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ChowNow

JULY 17, 2024

Objectives Organizational structure Standard operating procedures (SOPs) Inventory management Staffing and Training Technology and Equipment Quality Control and Continuous Improvement Define Your Objectives Start by clearly defining the objectives of your restaurant operations plan. What do you aim to achieve?

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Asset-Based Valuation In some cases, the value of your restaurant’s assets, like equipment, furniture, and leasehold improvements, might be the best way to determine its value. For example, if your restaurant's equipment and fixtures are worth $50,000, that would become the base value for the sale.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Maintenance needs vary based on restaurant size, food variety, and cooking style, but all restaurant maintenance can be divided into two overarching categories: restaurant equipment maintenance and restaurant facilities maintenance. All this considered, restaurants simply cannot afford to not have proper maintenance practices in place.

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Social Hospitality

JULY 25, 2022

Technologies such as food delivery, ghost kitchen setups, and automated communications helped scores of restaurants remain business-worthy through the toughest times in recent history. Automated Kitchens & Combating Staff Shortage. This is done by automating preparation bays in the kitchen. Ghost kitchens grew from such.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2024

In addition to more wide-ranging compliance requirements like general health & safety guidelines and local labor laws, there are food and beverage-specific safety regulations , requirements for specialty licenses (such as those to serve alcohol), and unique stipulations on labor compliance, many related to the employment of minors.

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The Restaurant Times

MAY 20, 2020

Having the right restaurant equipment is essential for the long term success of your cloud kitchen business. Research by the National Restaurant Association states that efficient equipment is the key to significant savings. Choosing The Right Equipment For Cloud Kitchens. Exhaust Hood. Cooking Range.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Keeping equipment functioning as intended also reduces the risk of damage that results in expensive repairs. Change tank water – As equipment completes cycle after cycle, the tank water becomes dirtier and less effective as a cleaning agent. This translates to cost savings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As a result of the Great Chicago Fire that killed 250 people in 1871, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an annual week in October as Fire Prevention Week, now the longest-running public health and safety observance on record. The Best Offense Is a Defensive Kitchen. Get your equipment serviced regularly by an experienced technician.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It's one of the most hands-on jobs you can have - and equips employees with an abundance of restaurant skills as a result. Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Commercial kitchen equipment safety. Food Service, Kitchen, & Hospitality Tech. Cross-contamination. Undercooking.

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Social Hospitality

JULY 15, 2022

Technologies such as food delivery, ghost kitchen setups, and automated communications helped scores of restaurants remain business-worthy through the toughest times in recent history. This is done by automating preparation bays in the kitchen. Ghost kitchens grew from such. That’s not all.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 28, 2021

And regardless of whether these guests are dining in, taking out, or getting delivery, food safety needs to be at the top of mind for your restaurant and your staff. Inspection: The inspector will begin to survey your restaurant and kitchen. Health inspections are routine at restaurants – and for good reason. Develop a HACCP Plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2022

However, spending the time to create a handbook will help create the desired culture, as well as save time and money (helping to avoid employee turnover as 36 percent of employees say they quit because they wish they had better training, legal action, safety concerns). Procedures for Operating Restaurant Equipment (if applicable).

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Ofer Zinger, co-founder of Kitchen Robotics, thinks so. It also self-cleans, helping ensure food safety. That’s where companies like Kitchen Robotics come in – the company stands out as one of the few companies to have successfully commercialized a product. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) learned more from Zinger.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

Managers also handle budgeting, track income and expenses to maintain profitability, and work closely with the kitchen staff to ensure menu items are prepared according to the restaurant's standards. These courses give you a strong foundation in critical areas such as customer service, business operations, and food safety.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 31, 2023

A few years back, I posted an article about the UNWRITTEN RULES of the kitchen. It was an attempt to outline those universal guidelines for success in a kitchen, those attributes, and expectations of anyone who ties on an apron. My hope is that these are worthy enough of a space on your kitchen bulletin board or the chef’s office door.

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