Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. “Business owners have proven their resilience throughout the course of this pandemic.

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JULY 12, 2024

Variable costs Variable costs depend on your restaurant’s level of activity, including food and beverage costs, labor costs, and supplies. COGS is a restaurant metric that includes everything you spend on food and drinks to make the dishes you serve. Reduce your bills by opting for energy-efficient appliances and lighting.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

In-house promotions Leverage customers presence in-store by using flyers, table tents, A-frames, and mentions at the bottom of receipts. In-house promotions Leverage customers presence in-store by using flyers, table tents, A-frames, and mentions at the bottom of receipts. First, ask what type of event would best fit your venue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Everything from food to labor is getting more expensive, which means restaurant margins are tighter than ever. Everything from food to labor is getting more expensive, which means restaurant margins are tighter than ever. The industry is evolving fast, and simply relying on word-of-mouth or foot traffic isnt going to cut it.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 4, 2021

Forget the beautiful menus printed by a local craftsperson or laminated to build in easy re-use; if you are not already printing menus in-house then it is time to invest in some software and a quality printer for your office. Prices of raw materials and labor, of course, have gone through the roof and there is no end in sight.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 23, 2021

At the same time, many of those restaurant employees – front and back of the house, were taking their time trying to decide if it made sense to return to an industry that was unpredictable, low paying, void of reasonable benefit plans, and now a target for customer anger and angst as servers suddenly became covid policemen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2020

Over the last decade, demand for gluten-free foods has grown by an eye-popping 200 percent with two out of 10 Americans seeking gluten-free options when dining out. In most cases, these fears are based on misconceptions about gluten-free ingredients and food preparation. Myth #1: Serving a Gluten-Free Menu Is Too Expensive.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Brendan Smith/Chef Hui Weeks after the Maui fires, Hawaiʻi chefs continue to cook for displaced people while trying to keep their own restaurants afloat On the morning of August 8, chef Isaac Bancaco rode his bike to Pacific’o on the Beach, the upscale Pacific Rim restaurant he helmed on Front Street, on Lahaina’s historic waterfront.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2020

1,300 families, 120,000 pounds of food: How No Us Without You feeds LA’s undocumented restaurant workers At 11 a.m. Next, the cars pulled up to a second tent, where volunteers loaded boxes of food into open trunks, back seats, and any other space they could find. Nolasco says the project was born out of a moment of anger.

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Embrace the Suck

DECEMBER 25, 2019

You have a major food distributor in your market that you are probably buying from. You have a major food distributor in your market that you are probably buying from. It could be Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group, Ben E. Keith, Shamrock Foods, Gordon FoodService or another regional brand.

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EATER

JUNE 26, 2020

The restaurant’s general manager, who asked that both her name and that of the restaurant remain anonymous because of the sensitivity surrounding hiring practices, says she’s able to offer these still-unemployed workers little more than daily check-ins and free food. I found a lot of loyalty in the team we were able to build here,” she says.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2021

Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants. Table of Contents. Scheduling 300-plus employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2021

No matter the type of restaurant you own, the type of food you serve, or the usual customers who walk through your door, you need to focus on making your off-premise sales a keystone aspect of your restaurant business. Restaurants are unique, and as such, need a unique approach to off-premise sales. Benefits of Off-Premise Sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. Ono Food Co. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Can an app promising discount, end-of-day goods make a dent in America’s food waste problem? Now, in a bid to reduce food waste, an app is using the appeal of cheap, unexpected food to motivate consumers to buy items restaurants would otherwise throw away. Lille Allen/Eater. Too Good To Go, which launched in 2015 in the U.K.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2024

The United States Environmental Protection Agency found that water used in hospitality and food service establishments accounts for an estimated 15 percent of the total water use in commercial and institutional establishments, amounting to an average of 25,000 gallons per day. The restaurant industry in the U.S.

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Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

Whether you’re running a food truck or a full-service restaurant, mobile inventory tools are game changers. In 2025, staying competitive in the restaurant industry means leveraging technology to streamline operations. One of the most effective tools for achieving this is mobile inventory management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. The Foundation will administer the grants, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

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EATER

APRIL 8, 2021

Others were tasked with figuring out how the interns could take the skills they had learned in the restaurant and use them to make meals for food-insecure students, since schools had shut down. nonprofits have spent decades training marginalized populations to work in the food and hospitality industry. The year had started off strong.

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EATER

JULY 22, 2021

Twenty years ago Ronald Zorrilla was making a similar trip to the beach, but over dirt roads in the Dominican Republic while seated in the bed of his uncle’s pickup truck. A 2017 article in Remezcla reports that the Dominican tradition of empaguetadas now mostly survives at house parties and other indoor gatherings.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature real-time data on consumer behavior and the move to #cutoutcutlery. SpotOn Secures $60M Funding. SpotOn Transact, Inc. secured $60 million in Series C funding. SpotOn Executive Team. ” Tastewise Data. .”

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Eight months after the acquisition by Capriotti’s, Wing Zone is rolling out a brand refresh which features technology upgrades, a revamped menu, an energized restaurant design and experience, a new logo and other assets designed to further position the brand as one of the undisputed leaders in the chicken wing category.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2020

The park is within 20 miles of the state capital of Columbia, a small city with quality food and drink to be had. Novelty breakfast is the bread and butter of the Black-owned 27 Pancakes food truck, which is operating on weekends only for the summer due to the pandemic. Getty Images/iStockphoto.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Pablo Espinosa Gutiérrez Before there was Flamin’ Hot everything, there was the chuchería, or candy stand, the champion of every Mexican mall I was at a market in the Mexican city of Toluca when I saw it — a gleaming pyramid of dark green, meaty calabaza en tacha (candied pumpkin) dripping with syrup. Here in the U.S.,

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EATER

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The capital, Boise, has led the boom (with a surge in housing prices to match), as remote workers migrated east from the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest in search of more space, cheaper rent, and a quieter lifestyle. Plus there’s a thriving food scene powered by a strong Basque community and chefs quickly gaining national recognition.

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Deliverect

MARCH 24, 2021

They allow businesses to avoid front-of-house overheads, reducing costs while increasing revenue by reaching new off-premise customers. But every food business is different. With more people than ever ordering food to go, many restaurants have found off-premise orders outstripping dine-in customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

Dunkin' Hirin' As more of America opens up, Dunkin’ franchisees are seeking to hire up to 25,000 new restaurant employees at Dunkin’ locations, from front-counter to restaurant management, creating immediate jobs that offer long-term education benefits and key career skills for people all across the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

PJ's Hopes to Open 187 Locations Throughout Florida in Next 10 Years. PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans plans for rapid expansion throughout Florida with hopes to bring 187 new locations within the next 10 years. “For many Floridians, their weekend getaways to New Orleans are the only time they get to enjoy PJ’s Coffee. .

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EATER

MAY 3, 2022

Walk down Broadway in downtown Nashville today and within two blocks you’ll pass Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa (a “Tex-Mex cantina”), FGL House (FGL being the acronym for country group Florida Georgia Line), Luke’s 32 Bridge (the titular Luke being American Idol judge Luke Bryan), and Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Rooftop Bar.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

Curry Up Now began as a food truck in 2009 and was founded by husband and wife duo, Akash and Rana Kapoor, and supported by co-founder and Senior VP of Operations, Amir Hosseini. In 2020 alone, Curry Up Now anticipates opening 12 locations across the country. " Benihana Plans Franchise Expansion. Benihana National Corp. Select U.S.

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EATER

JUNE 29, 2022

But among America’s most coveted foods, fried chicken is different. It’s the stuff of church picnics and family reunions and backyard cookouts and tailgates and after-school boba runs and Super Bowl parties and dive bars and all the other places we choose to come together with food and friends and family. Los Angeles.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 19, 2021

Food truck business in the UAE has been around for almost ten years. Starting a food truck provides multiple advantages at once, especially pertaining to cost and mobility. Interestingly, the food truck concept has kept evolving throughout the years in the UAE and is easily the future of its food industry.

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Cheetah

JUNE 1, 2021

For food trucks, check out options for providing food at the events. . It’s no wonder then that for years food and beverage brands have been ‘cause marketing’ under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. First and foremost, as successful restaurateurs but also as an integral part of the front- and back-of-house staff.

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