Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

Let’s begin with some facts about the business of serving food: There are more than 1 million restaurant locations in the United States. fell in the category of “fine dining”. Restaurants need to re-establish the essential reasons for dining out that will carry the industry forward after the pent-up demand is met.

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Fine Dining Food Supply Customer Service Presentation 471

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Chef Marc Meneau was such a chef – a powerful personality who elevated the dining experience – a chef who lived excellence every day in his restaurant L’Esperance in Vezelay, France. The dining room was perfectly appointed with fresh flowers, the finest tabletop details, and magnificent views of the L’Esperance gardens.

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Fine Dining Back of House Dine-in Presentation 363

7 Shifts

JUNE 29, 2022

They employ thousands of people and have served billions, and with so many people affected, it's understandable why there are franchise-specific laws and regulations in place. A consistent menu ensures standard serving across locations. Food & Staff Safety Measures. Tools For Supporting Franchise Compliance.

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Franchise Franchising Restaurant Law Document 370

7 Shifts

AUGUST 7, 2024

Of all the costs your restaurants generate, your food is one of the largest. The cost of the food you serve can be affected by so many different outside influences, some of them more obvious, like the rise and fall of fuel costs or the effects of good or bad weather. The cost of food and beverages is a bit of a moving target.

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Food Seasonal Menu Inventory Pricing 363

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Every restaurant has been forced to adapt their operations in order to survive and ultimately grow for the future. The Indoor Dining Blueprint Governor Cuomo recently announced their new blueprint for indoor dining , which somewhat opens up indoor-only restaurants to the public.

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2020 Restaurant Law Fine Dining Outdoor 285

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.

Kitchen Safety 370

Kitchen Safety Food Safety Food Supply Equipment 370

7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2024

However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

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Online Ordering Fast Casual Fine Dining Seating 221

7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2021

This method is used by several large food chains, like Starbucks, Panera Bread, and TGI Fridays, which have attracted millions of customers due to their loyalty programs. Email marketing allows restaurants to notify their consumers about current promotions and serves as a branding strategy. Special Offers and Promotions.

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Marketing Email Marketing Loyalty Program Social Media 397

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Snug is a bar-forward restaurant in San Francisco serving modern California comfort food, cocktails & craft beer offered in chic, comfortable quarters. According to an upcoming 7shifts study on the state of labor in 2020, outdoor dining was the largest revenue-driver during COVID, as reported by 37% of restaurants.

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Back of House FOH Front of House Point of Sale 284

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There are masters to serve, people who depend on the work of the culinary professional, who trust that their food will be prepared properly, that it will be managed and handled well, and the plate viewed as an important canvas on which the technician and artist paints. This is emotionally draining. You hit it out of the park tonight.”

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Employee Relations Training Fine Dining Take-out 396

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? Orders come from a multitude of places. Food availability is often in flux. Food availability is often in flux. Wait or dwell experiences can be dampened if take-out or remote orders get preference.

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2024 Mobile Ordering Front of House Fast Casual 203

7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process. You have countless things to do and countless people to please, and while orders might be low now, it won’t be long before it feels like you’re just surviving through shifts.

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Book Management Management Restaurant Law 370

7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

It has left far too many of its workers to rely on food stamps —an irony that shouldn't go unnoticed. But in order to break free from tipping, it's going to take a bevy of restaurant operators willing to stick their neck out and make a change. Huang intentionally designed the service model to be simple.

Front of House 370

Front of House Tip Distribution Back of House Restaurant Law 370

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Managing your restaurants capacity is crucial as it impacts your profits, sales, customer service, and the dining experience. Average order value varies among customers, but you can generally expect to make more revenue if you turn over more tables. Maintaining quality service is especially important in fine dining establishments.

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Management Management Airlines Customer Service 408

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

I have been impressed and disappointed in many from those exclusive fine dining establishments with food that should be admired for its beauty to greasy spoons with the best burgers you will ever find. They are all part of my passion for the preparation and service of food. This is a place with higher purpose.

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Food Truck Customer Service Customer Experience Food Supply 406

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Even in this challenging time for the industry, restaurants are finding innovative ways to better serve the needs of their customers. They adjusted to contactless delivery and other processes to assure guests that their takeout food and pizza was as risk-free as possible. They are thriving. That was terrific.

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Customer Experience Mobile Ordering Fine Dining Innovation 215

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

Restaurants continue to face labor and supply chain issues, plus rising food costs. This can be done by calculating your restaurant’s food cost percentage and cost of each dish using reports and data that an integrated point-of-sale can provide. Offer Easy Online Ordering. Be In Charge of Your Own Marketing.

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Loyalty Program Online Ordering Point of Sale Customer Experience 223

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It was a good night with two full turns of the dining room. Pans of bacon are retrieved from the oven while home fries are caramelizing on a griddle, fresh eggs are cracked and blended for scrambled and omelet orders, and those first pots of coffee are brewed. Their role is to be here and serve.

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Fine Dining Uniforms Dine-in Food Order 395

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It means guests love the food you serve so much that one location simply won’t cut it — and you get to serve more customers, generate more revenue , and expand your business. Expanding your place in the food service industry happens in one of two ways — developing a new restaurant concept or replicating an existing one.

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Management Management Document Hiring 370

Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

White tablecloth restaurants and food trucks will benefit from the exact same end result – you need to make people stand up and pay attention – you want them to stand on a soap box and shout for everyone else to hear: “THIS IS INCREDIBLE”! Everything helps. People have become accustomed to cooking at home again.

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Guest Recovery Kitchen Safety Customer Service Food Safety 319

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. Finding the balance between innovation and tradition is the secret recipe for enduring success in the evolving dining industry.

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2024 Customer Experience Compost Loyalty Program 189

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. Restaurants with large or intricate menus will need to allocate more time to staff training on the ingredients, preparation methods, and food handling procedures.

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Training Kitchen Safety Food Safety Customer Service 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2024

Rethinking Beverages The typical drink upsell—soft drinks and coffee or tea—has decreased over the past few years as customers increasingly eat restaurant food at home. In its place, we’ve seen an explosion of specialty beverages that serve as enticing add–ons or stand-alone orders.

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Beverage Fast Casual Seasonal Menu Fine Dining 197

Focus POS

JUNE 2, 2020

It could be argued that the restaurant industry has been hit the hardest when it comes to stay-at-home orders and social distancing mandates; however, the resilience of the restaurant industry cannot be denied, and as restaurateurs shift their thinking from, “How am I going to survive?” we see the emergence of a few key themes. .

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Technology Fine Dining Mobile Ordering Online Ordering 187

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Currently, 50 percent of restaurants, including sit-down and fast-food establishments, offer plant-based options, and this is only expected to grow. Controlling food waste is a hot topic in the industry as well. Contactless Ordering, Inside and Out Door Dash, Uber Eats and other third-party delivery services will continue to expand.

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2025 Loyalty Program Waste Compost 189

7 Shifts

MARCH 3, 2021

The stories of adaptation and pivot in the restaurant industry are nothing short of remarkable, as owners and operators have shifted business models on their head in order to stay afloat—and thrive. All five locations—with one in Los Angeles—were retrofitted and rebranded, serving fried chicken and waffles and biscuit sandwiches.

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2021 Fast Casual Back of House Casual 195

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Here are some examples of how connectivity technologies are helping QSR brands, like Dunkin’, connect with customers and redefine the dining experience. Enabling Flexible Ordering. Flexible ordering has become an expectation for restaurant customers – from fine dining to quick service.

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Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Front of House Customer Experience 197

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s the table-wedged-in-the-doorway approach, where one brave soul in full PPE hands off an order over a barricade of restaurant furniture. There’s also the call-us-when-you-get-here model, where the order scoots out just in time to be dropped through a rear window or popped trunk. Let us count the ways.

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Customer Experience Food Order 236

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. These restaurant food trends can directly impact a restaurant’s profitability. Health-Conscious Food Will Dominate Menus. Serving smaller portion sizes.

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2022 Customer Service Online Ordering Website Management 218

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

The 1950s saw the birth of the first idealized vending machine , an enormous construction made of metal and glass that served thousands of city-dwellers each day and night. The machine served sandwiches, wine, and coffee, and was considered a great success. Order-Only Automats: Pros and Cons. A real old-school vending machine.

Mobile Ordering 215

Mobile Ordering Food Order Employee Relations Customer Service 215

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2020

Sixty-two percent of respondents said both masks and gloves are important restaurant health measures for them to consider returning to indoor dining. Touchless Orders and Payments Cut Down Contact. With human staff taking over for ordering, the bots also pitch in with serving and clearing.

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Technology Kitchen Safety Food Safety Online Ordering 206

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Quick-service restaurants are also feeling the pressure – large chains like Chick-fil-A and McDonald’s have had to close dining rooms due to insufficient staffing. Chick-fil-A even reported disabling curbside ordering in some locations to reduce strain on their workers. Rely on Technology to Increase Operational Efficiency.

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2022 Hospitality Loyalty Program Point of Sale 189

Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3. The ideal turnover rate changes based on type of restaurant. How to Calculate Table Turnover Rate?

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Seating Mobile Ordering Customer Service Online Ordering 174

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. Text to order is already popular as a replacement for downloading apps, especially as customers can save their repeat purchases. Voice Ordering to Ease Restaurant Interactions.

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Technology Mobile Ordering Customer Service Food Order 197

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. Yank Sing view ordering counter Image by William Duff Architects.

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Fine Dining Online Ordering Dine-in Take-out 188

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Cummings is a lifer in the industry—a chef-restaurateur turned podcast host for Best Served Creative , where he interviews industry leaders and helps advocate for a better restaurant work environment. It's not enough to just add digital ordering—you have to build your business around it. And we appreciate that.'

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Social Media Hiring Website Management Hospitality 448

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

Mechanical systems should be designed to enhance the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of the spaces they serve. Airflow within restaurants should flow from cleaner sources to dirtier sources – from dining areas to kitchens, restrooms to pick up / delivery spaces and more. Embracing Different Dining Experiences.

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Design Guest Recovery Consumer Goods Fine Dining 212