7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

"Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— From there, you can make vital decisions about price, service capacity, table turnover, and your menu to boost revenue and profits. But how do restaurants increase revenue? The result?

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Restaurant-owned branded apps allow restaurants to accept orders directly, negating the need for a third-party, giving operators more control over pricing, customer data, and rewards programs. These apps help restaurants accept reservations online, organize their waitlists, and even optimize seating arrangements to maximize table turnover.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2020

As the largest rare wine retailer and wholesaler in the country, we work with fine dining restaurants all across the nation including many that are Michelin ranked, Wine Spectator Grand Award winners. So, we slashed four-to-seven percent off wholesale prices, which is a significant price cut.

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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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EATER

JUNE 4, 2024

Say bonjour, always Whether it’s at the post office, a boutique, or a fine dining restaurant, say “bonjour” to every single person you interact with. For hotspots like Septime or Frenchie , you should call or check online weeks ahead; for more casual dining, call a day or even just a few hours in advance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

Key findings illustrating the industry's economic conditions include: Growth will continue : The foodservice industry is forecast to reach $997 billion in sales in 2023, driven in part by higher menu prices. For others, outdoor dining and alcohol-to-go are becoming table stakes. million by the end of 2023.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Since 2014, online ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in and now accounts for roughly 40% of restaurant sales. Running your own online ordering system gives you complete control over pricing, promotions, and customer data, helping you maximize profits while still offering convenience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 3, 2020

While on summer vacation this year, the top dining strategy is takeout, selected by 55 percent. Dining During COVID-19. The sooner a customer dines in a restaurant after it reopens, the more likely they’ll dine out again in the next 30 days. For more, click here. Thanks so much for agreeing to the embargo.

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SpotOn

JULY 22, 2024

Full service restaurant concepts fall into two broad categories: casual dining and fine dining. Casual and fine dining restaurants offer different menus and experiences to guests and require different expertise and operational knowledge for success. Fine dining concepts don't have to be formal.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Ideal menu price. Your CoGSs is an essential number to have when determining your menu prices, inventory and impacts your net profit margin. For fine dining, around 30 percent. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Employee turnover rate. Table turnover rate. Sales per labor hour. Check Average.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Unfortunately, dining out and finding the right place to work is oftentimes a wishful roll of the dice. When a destination welcomes more people than there are restaurant seats then even the mediocre seem to thrive but check back in a year or two and you will probably find a new owner, a new concept, and a different shot at success.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A fine-dining restaurant with an emphasis on ingredients may present the menu simply, with descriptions of where the ingredients are from. Cheap digital menu marketing that captures a share of online dining demand. Fast-casual restaurants are a new trendy concept that combines fast food and casual dining. Menu design.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What More than half (55 percent) said they were fed up after five minutes of waiting for food in a drive-thru, and 54 percent were annoyed waiting more than 10 minutes for food while dining at a restaurant. 55 percent plan to add more space for pick-up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the rise of eCommerce, economic impact, dining during COVID and hot dog insights. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. Yelp's Economic Impact Report. Ecolab chairman and CEO.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

However, in big cities with high property prices, good ones can be hard to find, never mind pay. So, are waiting staff critical to the dining experience? Runners deliver the food, but diners must find their own seat, get their own water from a stand and, if they fancy more wine, go back to the counter to order it.

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Future Food

MARCH 5, 2025

Successful precinct designs are aligned to the key strategy drivers Delivering a modern dining precinct in a club environment demands a holistic strategy that goes beyond architectural or interior design plans.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There’s just not the same amount of volume in takeout as there is in in-person dining.” he warm summer months and the arrival of outside dining provided a lifeline for a dining and hospitality industry that has been hit immensely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Upscale/fine-dining restaurants.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. Or maybe it's unique to your area—like being the only fine dining spot in town. Do they prefer takeout or dine-in? Can you undercut their prices, or out-market them? Where are they going after?

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Future Food

MARCH 6, 2025

Successful precinct designs are aligned to the key strategy drivers Delivering a modern dining precinct in a club environment demands a holistic strategy that goes beyond architectural or interior design plans.

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Lavu

MARCH 13, 2025

These numbers show how profitable certain times are and highlight dining habits over different periods – like daily, weekly, or yearly. Using Metrics for Inventory and Staffing By studying sales velocity (how fast items sell) and customer flow patterns, you can fine-tune inventory and staffing to match seasonal demands.

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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. This is a special place where quality, service, and sincerity are always on the menu and price is judged in relation to value.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From the rise of AI to the increasing popularity of experiential dining, businesses are adapting creatively to meet new consumer demands. Perhaps oddly and yet understandably, premium dining spending has increased… but only through average spend. Those who already treat themselves to high end dining experiences spend more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

From the very beginning we worked to attract loyal guests seeking an authentic, family dining experience. With restaurant dining rooms closing unexpectedly and inconsistently from market to market, the industry realized the ability to communicate frequently and rapidly to their customers is critical. Shasta, California.

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ChowNow

JULY 10, 2024

Make sure you highlight the type of cuisine you’ll be offering and the style of your service (casual dining, fine dining, etc.) This is also a good place to mention any additional outdoor seating you might have. Be as detailed as possible, including specific descriptions and pricing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. At BIBO, she will focus on supplier-client relations, National Account development, and continue to develop BIBO’s Fine Wine division.

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EATER

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And while Vail Resorts poured millions into upgrading the chairs, vaunted local restaurateurs are working equally hard to make their own seats just as attractive. Evrensel sold Toptable in 2014, but the group continues to set the standard for high-end dining in Whistler. Prices are high and lines tend to get long, though.

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EATER

JULY 18, 2023

Listen to this article In 1999, the first “dining in the dark” restaurant opened in Zurich, Switzerland. The blind waitstaff helps the diners find their seats, and then serves them a series of mystery dishes, which the guests taste and guess at in total darkness. On a recent trip to Crete, he and his wife went on a dining tour.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 1, 2020

That chef owned fine dining restaurant is in jeopardy. Allowing those operators to open with a restriction of 25% or 50% capacity does not help a business that depends on filling their seats and turning tables once or twice on a weekend night. That local pizzeria that makes the best pie around is in jeopardy.

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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.” “Plant-based dining is not a fad that is going away. the number of customers who leave without being seated or greeted).

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SpotOn

DECEMBER 11, 2024

" They're somewhere between a full-service casual dining restaurant and a quick-service restaurant or fast food chain. The history of fast casual dining The fast casual concept was born in the 1990s but gained popularity in the mid-2000s with the massive success of Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Speak to what sets you apart from the pack, what food you'll serve, the service style (fast-food, fast casual, fine dining, etc.) But give an idea of some dishes or drinks with projected price points. Talk about what marketing channels you plan to use to get butts in seats. Check out these successful restaurant ideas.

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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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EATER

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

NFT restaurants are dining clubs for the metaverse. Colicchio’s pies are still in the virtual oven, but according to CHFTY’s Discord channel, a pre-sale will be offered to its “Slicelist” members on March 23 and to the public shortly thereafter with an initial supply of 2,777 NFTs priced at.07 But also sometimes IRL.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

” The survey, conducted by Untold Insights on behalf of Oracle Food and Beverage, polled 502 consumers in the United States in November 2020 about their dining and gifting plans for the holiday season. And it is relevant to mention that this is not driven by fine dining or even upscale casual. Hassle-free holiday meals.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2021

How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.

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7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

I worked in fine dining for so long, I thought my career was always going to be in fine dining, and I'm not saying that I'm completely. He drew on his experience in fine dining, an all too common one of overwork and chasing perfection, and knew that he wanted to create a healthier work environment at Pecking House.

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