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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This past year has shown us the invaluable difference that a warm and welcoming dining experience can make for customers, who are increasingly choosing establishments that go the extra mile in offering hospitality. Each year, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asks experts for their views on the state of the industry.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

Both of these issues are significantly important and even though we should all agree that health and safety is foremost – if we manage to beat the virus into submission and destroy the economy in the process then we are left with a problem that can be devastating for decades to follow. Shouldn’t we be doing the same in restaurant kitchens?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. The biggest trend by far, for now, and going into 2020 is ghost kitchens (AKA delivery only, virtual kitchens, cloud kitchens, pick-up only, etc.). Chick-fil-A.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2019

Britt Cloud, Goliath’s Consulting Chef, directs back of house operations and works with the current chef/kitchen manager to restructure inventory, food costing, menu, labor, and health policies. Front of House operations is a steady balance of guest needs, employee personalities, efficient strategies, and health and safety enforcement.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Now, as summer waned and restrictions relaxed enough to allow outdoor dining on sidewalks throughout the city, Techamuanvivit was readying the Kabuki’s driveway to accommodate dinner service and waiting for the go-ahead to launch Kin Khao’s new Dogpatch location. Where is the conscience of the country?”.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The restaurant is named Sisko’s Creole Kitchen and exists in New Orleans in the 24th century, on an Earth that has abolished prejudice, money, and hunger. In the kitchen, there is a hierarchy. In the back of the house, dishwashers, bussers, and cooks are often paid the minimum wage, while in the front of the house, in most U.S.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

On the front-of-house side, they focus on customer service, solving problems quickly to keep guests happy and returning. 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.

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 3, 2025

Whether you’re running a fast-casual concept or a fine-dining establishment, embracing the right technology can help optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and increase profitability. These platforms can also handle curbside pickup, dine-in reservations, and even contactless ordering and payment.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 30, 2022

Restaurants, as a whole, are among the most tightly regulated industries when it comes to health and safety standards. Following an order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Tuesday prohibiting restaurants from offering dine-in service, Omicron has dealt a blow to the restaurant industry in the national capital.

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EATER

JUNE 29, 2022

You don’t order a single drumstick or thigh the same way you don’t order one crawfish or a lone nacho. Fried chicken is best consumed by the bird, by the pile, by the feast. Fried chicken is for gatherings. The preparations may vary, but the rule is a constant: Where there is fried chicken, there is community. Los Angeles.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 27, 2022

With the latest wave of COVID-19 spreading rapidly, restaurant owners are considering how best to implement safety measures while controlling costs. Just a month ago, dine-in was showing signs of improvement. Not everyone agrees on the best course of action. It is also quick, immediate, and easy. Source: Hospitality Technology.

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Sling

MAY 13, 2023

Whether you’re looking to hire employees for a fine dining establishment, a food truck, or a fast food business, you’ll need any number of restaurant positions to make up the foundation of your team. A fine dining establishment may need all 24 positions on this list, while a food truck may only need three or four.

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Open for Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But it’s never a good idea to forge ahead with a restaurant kitchen or dining room design with no real floor plan. This blueprint functions as a map of the entire restaurant space, both back of house and front of house. Back of house. Front of house. Dining rooms. Outdoor dining.

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EATER

MAY 29, 2020

Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I said we need to put safety precautions in place. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. Clair Supper Club.

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Deliverect

APRIL 1, 2020

With the closure of restaurant dine-in services to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, online food ordering has become a crucial business model overnight. Other businesses, including many bars, pubs and fine-dining restaurants, may not have experience with off-premises dining yet. Best safety practices for delivery. -

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360Training

JULY 16, 2020

There’s fine dining and casual dining. But if you’re ambitious, know that 9 out of 10 restaurant managers started their career in entry-level positions. . And the same is true for 8 out of 10 restaurant owners. What Does a Food Service Manager Do? Most people think of restaurants when you say “food service.”

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360Training

JULY 9, 2020

Not the dining experience you want to give customers, right? A 2013 market study found that 70% of GF consumers are fine with trace amounts or more. According to market research conducted in 2017 , 11% of customers used a gluten-free “eating approach” in the previous year. Rule #1: Understand Gluten-Free Motives.

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Restaurant Clicks

JULY 9, 2021

With all of these options out there, though, and such high stakes, it can be hard to find the best private dining in Tampa Bay, so we thought we’d make it a whole lot easier for you by compiling this amazing list of the top places for exclusive dining reservations in the city. Best Private Dining in Tampa Bay.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Think about the flow of traffic from the kitchen to the tables. Think about the flow of traffic from the kitchen to the tables. Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Irfan Kuci is the Director of Business Development at Focus Hospitality Consulting (FHC), a growing consulting firm based in Dubai with expertise in Back of House (BOH) design, MEP design, interior design, F&B concept creation, project management, franchising as well as hotel/restaurant operational assessments.

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SpotOn

JULY 15, 2024

The host has a unique set of duties and responsibilities that ensure the restaurant's front-of-house runs smoothly. At a fine dining restaurant, the host or hostess might be more focused on making guests feel welcomed than overseeing table turnover. Managing a busy dining room is harder than it looks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2020

“Over the last century, women, despite their incredible contributions, have struggled to make it in professional kitchens — held back by inequalities unfairly put upon them,” said Rob Sundy, Head of Brand Marketing & Creative Studios at Whirlpool Corporation, the parent company of the KitchenAid brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Restaurants will focus on creating story-driven dining experiences, harnessing technology and local partnerships to deepen emotional engagement with guests, according to the "2024 State of the Industry: Future of In-Restaurant Dining" report by Incisiv in collaboration with Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” The robotic kitchen runs on batteries instead of a diesel generator. World’s First Mobile Restaurant Powered by Advanced Robotics. Ono Food Co.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I was shocked to read it, not because I think front-of-house staff should never be able to sit down, but because it just hadn’t occurred to me that it would be possible. Together, Panda Express says this will mean employees can spend less time actively cooking in a hot kitchen.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Especially since the founding of local culinary festival Canmore Uncorked in 2014, chefs have shined a spotlight on regional dining, tempting travelers to pop over from nearby Calgary or Edmonton, or cross the reopened border from the U.S. Over the course of 1,000 miles from the U.S.-Canada

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Miso Robotics launched global commercial availability of the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail (ROAR) – a zero-footprint, cost-efficient intelligent robotic kitchen assistant for the evolving commercial kitchen. This edition of MRM News Bites features a lot of technology and robotic news, virtual food halls and healthy kid menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. percentage points.”

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Only fine dining did improve in sales growth. QSR, fast casual and casual dining improved the most (improved sales growth by 1.9 The decline in sales growth for the week was driven primarily by a decline in sales growth in family dining. Sales growth in fine dining and upscale casual also eroded during the week. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

“We’ve fine-tuned our recipe for growth at Dave’s Hot Chicken and our strong performance so far in 2021 is proof,” said Swenson. “Dunkin’ continues to modernize with convenience at the forefront. Getting Hotter at Dave's.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

And whether it’s as a vehicle for Chaplin’s absurdist physical comedy, or it’s offering romantic depictions of Italian cuisine in Goodfellas and Big Night , or it’s the way the The Menu uses visceral horror and biting satire to critique the extravagance of luxury dining culture, food plays a crucial role in making the movies we love feel real.

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EATER

AUGUST 21, 2020

Peter Meehan’s transgressive vision helped redefine food media with the groundbreaking Lucky Peach , and later transformed the LA Times ’s food coverage. But that vision came with a toxic management style characterized by intimidation, a barrage of sexualized commentary, and explosive anger, according to two dozen current and former staffers.

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