Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The normalcy of customers coming in the doors for a night of dining or even a casual lunch feels like a vision of the distant past. As much as complete closures and stay-at-home orders have harmed the restaurant industry, reopening has come with fits and starts, presenting a new litany of obstacles for dining establishments to overcome.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. First and foremost, most restaurants are going to see a huge drop-off in the number of customers who dine in.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 26, 2020

What will our restaurants physically look like with social distancing, how will we be able to interact with guests at service, how will our kitchen teams function as a unit, what changes will be necessary for our menus to be effective, and what role will take out and delivery play in every restaurant concept? Everything helps.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 18, 2020

As we continue to fight this pandemic that we still know so little about, and try to gradually open up the economy with a keen eye on public safety – it will be restaurants and other hospitality businesses that suffer the longest. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. There are no shortcuts to building flavor that is universally enjoyed.

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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

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.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? Kitchen Confidential. ?? Topics: Find dining; restaurant management; finding suppliers. ?? Anyone interested in fine dining (or audacious characters for that matter) will love Kitchen Confidential. Published: 2009 ?? Goodreads: 4.09

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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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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

You can go onto your camera app and press record, and record something that's less than 60 seconds of who you are, what you do, what you're doing for COVID-19 safety, why you're reopening, why you care about the community, why it's important that somebody comes and buys gift cards, whatever you're doing. But what can you do? Why texting?

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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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7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

This is important, especially if you're training and hiring new employees. You also wouldn't have to transfer your data manually since you can easily export and integrate them seamlessly into your POS, payroll, hiring, training, and delivery systems.

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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. Door Dash Shared Kitchen. ?DoorDash?

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 16, 2024

One of a restaurant manager’s primary responsibilities is hiring, training, and scheduling staff so that the business runs smoothly. 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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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. That’s how much the closure of Kin Khao took out of the food economy.

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EATER

JUNE 12, 2020

Culinary schools rely on hands-on training. The morning of March 13 was normal until the intercom interrupted a discussion during Sarah Roundtree’s fine dining concepts lab at the Providence, Rhode Island, campus of Johnson & Wales. We believe it’s better to teach culinary arts in a kitchen in person.”.

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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. European mountaineering guides also brought dishes from their homelands, like fondue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

“We’re excited to team up with DoorDash to bring their industry-leading selection of restaurants to our cardmembers with an added perk to make dining in more rewarding.” “What these two have created with this unique approach to everyday sandwiches and salads is best in class in a growing space of fast-fine concepts.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 7, 2022

A fine dining restaurant in Gulf countries like Oman is a blend of delicacies and a bespoke experience. It is thus, the right time for Omani restaurateurs—and upcoming restaurateurs—to own this bustling dining scene. It is thus, the right time for Omani restaurateurs—and upcoming restaurateurs—to own this bustling dining scene.

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EATER

MAY 16, 2024

Some days he’s fine. When restaurants began reopening after lockdowns, child care facilities were still closed, so Benca took an underused private dining room in the restaurant and, with the addition of toys, bean bag chairs, changing tables, and babysitting staff, she transformed it into a child care option for her employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While we'd prefer a bit wider margin of safety at current levels, we'd encourage investors to take advantage of any post-transition weakness in the stock." Customizable flow controls assist with pacing tables to help the kitchen from getting backed up and keep staff’s heads above water when the restaurant is at its busiest.

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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. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Market Conditions The demand for certain types of restaurants, like quick-service or delivery-focused businesses, might be higher than fine dining establishments. For the interior, one of the simplest yet most impactful things you can do when preparing to sell a restaurant is to declutter the dining area, kitchen, and storage spaces.

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Bingage

APRIL 24, 2020

Hello readers, hope you all are all fine at home. Due to Coronavirus pandemic, people turned conscious in many ways which likely to impacts the way they eat and dining out behaviour. Due to Coronavirus pandemic, people turned conscious in many ways which likely to impacts the way they eat and dining out behaviour.

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7 Shifts

JULY 1, 2024

Otherwise, you can end up losing money by setting up a barcade at an executive village where most people prefer wining and dining over drinking booze and letting loose. Additionally, creating training programs outlining clear expectations is essential to ensuring that your employees have an opportunity for growth within your organization.

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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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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2020

The number of restaurants reopening their dining rooms has steadily increased in recent days. As of Saturday, May 9, on average almost 30% of the restaurants operated by the companies that participated in our Restaurants Recovery Sales Flash survey opened their dining rooms in some capacity. Texas allowed dining rooms to open on May 1.

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Harbor Touch

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Some of the common risks that restaurants encounter include; Food Safety Concerns. Water spills, leaking kitchen plumbing, messy floors in the dining area, and wet bathroom floors can cause accidents. If a staff member assaults, harasses, or misbehaves in the workplace, your business could be fined or closed down.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 13, 2022

Besides running a training and consulting company, Brian is also known for his groundbreaking concept called Bin 36. Brian speaks to audiences all around the world about training culture and exactly how to build a solid beverage program that can enhance your bottom line. If you're from Chicago you know about Bin 36. It's famous.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

For instance, millennials dine out an average of 241 times yearly. Aside from that, your staff is the closest link between you and your diners, so ask them what problems they face, whether in the kitchen or dealing with customers, and how they think they could be addressed. a boycott).

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Many restaurant owners had believed they would be covered in the event of something like the pandemic, and found themselves without a safety net. Overall, the pandemic highlighted the vulnerabilities, margin issues, and lack of safety net to restaurants in a way the industry is still recovering from. – Pooja S.

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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. Train your front-of-house staff to provide that same warning when asked about GF. Consider storing everything together in a GF “kit” for safety and convenience.

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Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Operating fully automated kitchens can help your restaurant grow. You may have heard of fully automated kitchens, but since they’re relatively new, you might not know exactly what they are. An automated kitchen uses robots to do the cooking for you. An automated kitchen frees up your staff because the “equipment” cooks the food.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Looking at the future, dining at restaurants may never be the same again. Dining out, which was once a luxury and convenience for the consumers, has now become a thing of worry. Will consumers prefer delivery over dine-in, or will things return to normal? Dine-in Or Takeaway: The Future of Restaurants Beyond COVID-19.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 30, 2021

For example, quick-service restaurants are designed for quick table turnover, while a fine dining restaurant layout is aimed at making customers’ stay longer. The restaurant layout must be designed in a way that it allows customers to find their way inside the restaurant and dining area easily. Comfort For Diners And Staff.

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Ken Burgin

JUNE 13, 2023

ChatGPT, can revolutionise the way you manage your kitchen, from organising your recipes, scaling dishes and optimising food costs, to suggesting ingredient substitutions, planning menus, and enhancing staff productivity. Also, check How to Use ChatGPT to Create Training Material for Restaurant & Cafe Employees.

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