Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

Key projects in the next six months will address topics including post-crisis recovery and resilience, urban mobility, closing equality opportunity gaps and insights into the gig economy. 'Travel ” 'Restaurant Recovery' Docuseries. 'Travel Safe' Tools. Viewers will come away feeling optimistic.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2025

Post-Pandemic Dining: A Mixed Recovery One thing is clear: Diners haven’t returned to pre-pandemic dining levels. Limited-time offers (LTOs) and promotions that highlight quality ingredients can boost guest satisfaction and profitability without relying on deep discounts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2020

Energy impact can be minimized with the use of energy recovery devices. Properly designed energy recovery wheels or plate exchangers can recover 60-75 percent of the air being exhausted with minimal cross contamination. Technology will save the day in many cases by eliminating the number of surfaces guests have to touch.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

How will restaurants shift their labor models to follow state safety regulations, ensure social distancing, minimize contact, and support the changing tide of guest preferences? After all, people are an organization’s greatest asset – and the key to speeding recovery and emerging stronger from these uncertain times.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

If 2020 and 2021 were all about helping operators find new revenue streams to reach guests when they couldn’t come into restaurants, then 2022 was all about getting customers back in. Today, more guests expect special treatment – they want to have more of their needs anticipated before they even have to ask.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

To encourage a swift recovery, restaurant owners and operators must think creatively and conscientiously about how they alleviate these fears and ensure a safe experience. It reduces the use of unsanitary ordering kiosks, menus, and payment terminals, while at the same time elevating the guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2021

As we progress through a pandemic that’s kept many inside for months, guests are looking to venture out and experience unique dining moments. By utilizing seasonal ingredients and creating specialty menu items, our product innovation efforts have kept us relevant in a competitive industry, earning guest loyalty and driving sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 16, 2020

Delivery offers fewer chances for guest recovery than dine-in. True hospitality and creativity will set you apart from other restaurants, so figure out how to extend their guest experience beyond their four walls. Great service, delicious food, and your logo front and center will leave a lasting memory for all guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

Now more than ever, new systems are empowering owners and managers to optimize service, boost guest engagement, enhance menu performance, slash waste, and much more. As the industry gets on the road to recovery, this will be more important than ever. Maintenance is Often Overlooked.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the latest news on restaurant recovery, delivery trends, top ice cream toppings and the ideal "delivery doughnut." The key to the industry's recovery will be the strength of each daypart. " Top Recovery Trends. " Remarkable Resiliency. foodservice industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

How will restaurants shift their labor models to follow state safety regulations, ensure social distancing, minimize contact, and support the changing tide of guest preferences? After all, people are an organization’s greatest asset – and the key to speeding recovery and emerging stronger from these uncertain times.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 21, 2021

Yet, nine in ten operators predict issues with recruitment at a time which is essential for our industry's recovery. With a reduced team rushed off their feet, the time spent creating a guest experience through engagement can get lost. All will make for a personal touch that will create a memorable experience for guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

While many find hope for the industry as the country re-opens, the road to recovery is a very long and uncertain one. While the operational and financial impact of social distancing must be top of mind, nearly as important as what you do will be how you communicate these changes to your guests. Anticipation. Setting the Scene.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But the expectations of guests and owners did not change. My guess: Focusing on building supportive, collaborative environments with our peers creates healthy “in-house competition” and inspires each other to innovate and perfect the guest experience. Consumer psychology in the F&B industry, for example, has changed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2021

The new tipping regulations represent a new era for the restaurant landscape that will either significantly help or hurt the industry’s post-pandemic recovery process. For a dinner rush, why pay three dishwashers the non-tipped minimum of $7.25 minimum) to occasionally help with dishes?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. There was a subsequent recovery of +10 percent in the week to January 1 vs December 25. ” McDonald's Supersized Recovery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

OpenTable added new features and price cuts for 2020 as they recognize the road to recovery will be long and difficult. Also, the Venga relationship management solution we acquired last year provides a complete view of loyal guests and their feedback. First is an enhanced restaurant management platform.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

restaurant recovery is underway, but it will take time for it to return to pre-pandemic levels fully,” said David Portalatin, NPD food industry advisor and author of Eating Patterns in America. The restaurant industry has made progress restaffing, but job recovery for the industry is lagging the overall economy. “The U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2020

No Hot Shot (recovery) Deliveries. Another way to ensure product availability and minimize supply chain disruptions as you reopen would be to continue to focus on a modified menu –guest favorites, high-profit items, and items that take a cross utilization of products. Delivery Windows & routes are shifting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Batching for Speed and Service : Top bartenders continue to innovate around batching their cocktails, including both partial (batching only non-perishable items) and full batching, driven by the need for speed and to improve quality and consistency in cocktail preparation, which allows for more time to connect with guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Restaurants are serving guests who are more digitally enabled than ever before. This way, operators can create highly personalized, almost predictive, guest experiences. Even as customers slowly return to their favorite dining rooms, a full-blown recovery will take time. The Rise of Digital Channels. Full-Speed Ahead: 2021.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2022

The restaurant recovery is real in major markets across the U.S. Guests in the Midwest were slightly more generous this quarter, with Indiana coming in at the highest across all tipped transactions with an average tip percentage of 21.29 While all regions in the U.S. When it comes to tipping. percent, followed by West Virginia at 21.23

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 22, 2020

If we hope to keep a core team together through crisis and be able to lean on them through eventual recovery then we must view them as family and treat them in that manner. When belongingness exists then hope of recovery and future wellbeing feels certain. When we isolate from others – self-doubt begins to creep in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

Since guests cannot frequent their favorite establishments in person, they're now leaning on you to bring a "dine-in experience" to their homes. Now is the time to set expectations for how your guests will interact with your restaurant in the future. Use appropriate containers to help maintain food temperature.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2021

“A lot of restaurants are making it compulsory for the guests to be fully vaccinated, this is in tune with World Health Organization guidelines,” said Brad Cummins, founder of Insurance Geek, an insurance services platform. “As for their own businesses, 94% of respondents expressedoptimism about a recovery.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Data findings in the series have offered insight into customer expectations to support restaurant brands as they navigate through the health crisis and continue to move forward through the recovery. These closures presented the surviving brands with the opportunity to acquire new guests. South Florida Recovery on the Way.

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EATER

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Restaurants are critical to economic recovery in a community, Button says, citing the importance of supporting other local businesses, too. In early December, she and Shanti led a collaborative pinxtos dinner at the re-opened Crate, using the proceeds to assist employees impacted during the restaurants closure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

However, the post-pandemic industry will face new challenges even as recovery begins. Many restaurants took guests’ temperatures and participated in contact tracing, which is the process of contacting people who’ve had contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. For customers, it became a new experience.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 22, 2021

Now, providing we don’t ignore the still looming dangers of Covid and the challenges of convincing 40% of the population to accept the vaccine, we might stand a chance of long-term recovery. The small stuff is what adds value to the guest experience. This is what will bring guests enthusiastically back to your dining room.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Specifically, at Walt Disney World, they taught me not only the value of, but how and when to execute guest service recovery. I recognize that for a guest encounter to be exceptional, it starts with understanding and exceeding customer expectations at every touchpoint. That is the power of empowerment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Many restaurants now incorporate electronic ID checking machines or set point of sale reminders to specify the birthdate a guest must be born on or after to be served alcohol. Cocktails-to-go can open up a brand new stream of revenue for restaurants and be valuable in recovery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 25, 2021

The bottom line is that as restaurants add more takeout and delivery to their plates— and as they see a return of guests to their dining areas—they need to take food safety risks off the table.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2020

Help keep the public-facing part of the network secure by only offering the guest password to paying customers, and change the password frequently to prevent lingering access and misuse of your network. Partner with an IT expert when setting up networks, and be sure to partition the public Wi-Fi from the locked-down, in-house network.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 23, 2021

AN INEVITABLE RECOVERY. “It What an exciting time to jump on board and become partner to what may very well be one of the greatest world-wide recoveries – ever! We can easily apply Dickens profound human summary to the state of the restaurant industry today. The door is wide open for creative problem solvers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Since the start of the recovery, Starbucks’ peak foot traffic was more than 20percent below 2019 levels, showcasing the power of the PSL. The Saturday and Sunday following the PSL’s launch, foot traffic was a mere 7.7percent and 6.2percent below 2019 levels of the equivalent Saturday and Sunday in 2020.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The importance of making guests feel comfortable. Incentivize guests to choose your restaurant. Restaurant operators should also focus on remarketing to guests through email or other means, as well as offering return visit incentives to keep customers coming back. Small Business Recovery.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 2, 2020

STATE THE CHALLENGE: Re-open the restaurant making sure that it is prepared to adapt to the newly established needs of guests while addressing the critical challenges that have existed and will exist in the future (Labor, Marketing, Service, Efficiency, Guest Satisfaction, Growth, Profitability).

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