Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2025

A $10 million lawsuit would be the nail in the coffin for nearly every hospitality business. ” Nuclear verdicts can occur from a dispute in a restaurant parking lot to a food safety issue as well as exist outside the restaurant industry. Recent data shows that U.S. juries awarded more than $14.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While safety and quality have always been paramount, the ongoing COVID pandemic has amplified these issues. With the tricky combination of reduced staff, new regulations, ever-changing COVID protocols, and the need for transparent safety practices, restaurants need tech tools to get everyone aligned around quality assurance and standards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Fewer employees have carried the burden of prepping, cooking, and serving food while working to keep guests safe. will create more job seekers in the restaurant/hospitality industry. To accomplish this: Improve training efforts. Boost safety and quality protocols. Ensure safety all along the supply chain.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

No matter how much technology evolves, or trends shift, people will always come back for quality food, great value, and friendly service. FDA’s new Food Traceability Rule (FSMA Rule 204) underscores the importance of product traceability, requiring more detailed record-keeping for certain high-risk foods.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 2, 2022

Food and labor costs are elevated and expected to remain high in 2022 , negatively impacting restaurants’ profit margins. To maximize your existing resources: Reduce food waste. With prices skyrocketing, restaurants should focus on eliminating food waste. Train continuously. in one tech stack. Maximize compliance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For more than 100 years, Society Insurance has been providing coverage to hospitality businesses. To commemorate the start of 2025, we compiled four trends that could dominate conversations surrounding hospitality businesses longevity this year. This is only a general description of coverages and is not a statement of contract.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2023

Of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. To do so, they will need to create a complete food safety program to protect the restaurant itself from reputational harm and financial crisis. Train your staff. Be sure all your employees, from wait staff to managers to chefs, have been certified in food safety.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

It is also a nonprofit that has spent 30 years training at-risk youth exiting the juvenile detention system to work in hospitality. So the staff and the 15 young people working that night spent most of the evening doing extra training and cleaning to keep busy. Café Momentum is more than just a restaurant, though. Several U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

The past five years have reinforced the critical intersection of digital and hospitality in the restaurant industry. Digital not only powers seamless experiences but also unlocks guest data that can elevate hospitality across all touchpoints, both digital and in-person. It wasn’t just about survival; it was about reinvention.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Customer Service and Experience Great food and drink is only truly enjoyed when its coupled with a great service experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Especially in a time where the industry is in flux because of the pandemic, juggling things like food costs, keeping shifts full and food safety can feel more difficult than ever. Modern restaurant technology can provide peace of mind to operators worried about food safety violations, labor law mistakes, falsified data and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2024

And in talking about bringing stability into our food businesses, culture can be that secret ingredient that makes all the difference in attracting the right people, retaining good people, and creating a powerhouse team. However, for those of us in the produce and food industries, what are critical parts that make up a food culture?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Workers’ compensation data shows an uptick in the number of new employees injured on the job, especially in the hospitality and food service industries. Inadequate training. Businesses may skimp on the length and depth of training programs in the rush to hire. New Employees Have More On-the-Job Injuries.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2022

Provide Customer Service Training. There is a direct correlation between customer service level and staff training. The better trained your staff is, the more likely they will be highly motivated and efficient at their jobs. That boils down to employing well-trained and motivated staff who know what, what and how to do it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to the National Floor Safety Institute (NFSI), more than three million food service employees and one million guests are injured as a result of slip-and-fall accidents annually. Inadequate hazard identification, inappropriate footwear, and insufficient training can also lead to these types of injuries.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 15, 2024

Smart fryers and ovens can automate food preparation and cooking, eliminating the need for numerous workers in the kitchen while still ensuring consistent quality and faster service. These expenses include money spent on recruiting, hiring, and training new staff, and lost productivity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2021

Safety and Normalcy. Successful restaurants will create a customer experience that features abundance and the elevated hospitality that will make the experience memorable. Management should ensure their processes are the most hospitable they can be by regularly completing their facility’s own online ordering and delivery process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If you've worked in the hospitality industry, you've already had to deal with an aggressive customer or two. Setting up and maintaining a good customer relationship is critical to your hospitality and restaurant industry. Having trained staff to handle customer complaints is essential. Prepare for Aggressive Customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Yet, restaurants need to balance this tech-centric approach with the irreplaceable human touch that defines hospitality. The art of hospitality, which thrives on personal interaction and the nuanced understanding of guest needs, is being augmented by technology's precision and consistency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

In response to Coronavirus concerns: Danny Meyer tweeted that The Modern would be closed for a day and every inch sanitized after a guest tested positive for COVID-19, despite being told by the NYS Health Commissioner says no risk of transmission; “Team & guests come first,” the hospitality leader concluded. Eat healthier.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The third is changes to physical space, in which restaurant operators will need to quickly adapt to new health and safety needs. For leaders in the restaurant and hospitality industry, now is the time to adapt. From a safety and food hygiene perspective, the restaurant industry will be held to a much higher standard moving forward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2021

Prior to COVID-19, I would have told my clients that the most important key to success in the restaurant/bar/hospitality business is customer service. In the old days, great customer service, excellent food and positive social media reviews were the key to making that happen. Building Trust through Training and Transparency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2024

In addition to more wide-ranging compliance requirements like general health & safety guidelines and local labor laws, there are food and beverage-specific safety regulations , requirements for specialty licenses (such as those to serve alcohol), and unique stipulations on labor compliance, many related to the employment of minors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

All this while still maintaining the warm, friendly atmosphere that operators in the hospitality industry are known for. By prioritizing employee safety during a time of crisis, leaders set a strong example for their management teams and clearly demonstrate how the organization values its people. Transparency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

Looking ahead, we predict a day when cultivated meat will find its place as a default choice -on menus, because it delivers on taste, nutrition, and food safety, in addition to environmental sustainability and animal welfare. Beyond the realm of food, a similar shift has occurred with electric cars.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2022

Learn why it is important to implement restaurant safety tips to help reduce the risk of injury for these seasonal workers and throughout the entire year. In fact, many young workers’ first job experience is in some type of food establishment. Inconsistent Training. Seasonal Jobs and Restaurant Injuries in the Summer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

They include PepsiCo, Uber Eats, Constellation Brands, Moët Hennessy USA, Robin Hood Foundation, Ecolab, Cargill, Boston Beer Company, Shift4 Payments, P&G Professional, Ventura Foods, United HealthCare, The Elliot Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and the Light Foundation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

I’ve thought a lot about the lessons he taught me during the challenges of the past year, as well as countless other times when world events have shaken the hospitality industry to its core. In the good times, this looks like rigorous training, a dedication to time-honored processes, and a focus on building your culture.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

'Safety' is what I believe to be most important now to help assure patrons to revisit their favorite restaurants. The marketing message has not changed drastically from food-based to safety procedures. But now there is an added message about the safety precautions that are in place for a restaurant.

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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. Make sure that you seek out opportunities that involve food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

McKinsey research analysts claim that the retail and hospitality employment sector – a segment that includes restaurant employees – is up against “a more serious retention challenge” than any other employment sector, with employee exit rates outpacing all other sectors by more than 70 percent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The younger generations don’t just want great food, they expect memorable experiences. A lot of retailers rushed to market in response to COVID-19 to provide mobile experiences that prioritized safety and contactless interactions. Safety is paramount: Gone are the days of buffet style displays and bulk serving.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2021

Not just quite but we can already see some effects of COVID-19 in the hospitality industry, especially restaurants. While daily specials delivered in family boxes might be quite affordable and frugal, food delivery itself often costs more than the meal for one which can hit monthly discretionary spending quite hard. Is it over yet?

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EATER

JULY 2, 2021

As food industry professionals collectively push for structural overhaul in the service industry at large — raising the minimum wage , for example, or experimenting with new ownership models like co-ops — we can also use this recovery period to renegotiate and reimagine the relationships between restaurant workers, owners, and consumers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2021

Almost every industry was affected in some way by the pandemic, but possibly none more than the hospitality industry, specifically restaurants. Bobby Stuckey, the co-founder of Frasca Food and Wine and Pizzeria Locale helped start the #saverestaurants campaign. That’s exactly where the non-profit Dining Safety Alliance comes in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Without these pricey anchors dragging down your profitability, you just might be able to focus on making food, and not making rent. Better Work: Make Off-Site Kitchen Jobs the Very Best Job in Food Service. Managing high turnover , training new hires, and maintaining morale are known issues in food service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

” Traditionally, to enable delivery most sellers list their menu on food delivery platforms because the restaurant doesn’t have their own couriers. Visa is expanding its partnership with IFundWomen providing grants and digital training to U.S.-based In the U.S., based Black women-owned small businesses.

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