Remove Food Order Remove Merchandise Remove Online Ordering
article thumbnail

From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

Modern Restaurant Management

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online.

article thumbnail

How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

7 Shifts

A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. Start by tracking all the income your bar generates, including sales from drinks, food, and any additional services. Analyze your product mix Review the drinks and food items you sell the most and least.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

The return of high-value customers with large business orders is a big opportunity for restaurants. Many offices are requiring individual packaging for catered food and even office snacks. The majority of ezCater orders now contain individually packaged items. Use checklists to eliminate order mistakes.

article thumbnail

Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

In mid-December, a story went viral on Twitter across the pond about a customer being refunded by a food delivery service after complaining that the “four milkshakes, a cheesecake and an ice cream” they had ordered from a Manchester restaurant were “too cold”, as reported by Manchester Evening News.

article thumbnail

How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurateurs put great passion into their food, their concept, and their decor. A restaurant’s brand identity is the cumulative effect of what your guests see, taste, smell, feel and hear at your restaurant, online, and in the world at large. Your online presence is almost as important as your restaurant itself.

2020 555
article thumbnail

MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Easy online ordering – Easy online ordering was nearly tied for second. on-premise space.

2020 491
article thumbnail

Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Restaurants were harder hit than most because many food related businesses weren’t ready to transition to digital services.

Marketing 568