Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While businesses in the hospitality industry provide a fun and relaxed atmosphere for clientele to briefly escape their everyday routines, it’s also their responsibility to keep their patrons safe. Understand Your State’s Dram Laws. Add alcohol to the situation and your business is at an increased risk of an incident.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2020

The hospitality industry is no exception and it appears as if there are both good times and bad times ahead. In the short run, COVID-19 has taken a significant bite out of the hospitality industry, but there does appear to be some light at the end of the tunnel. Restaurants of all sizes have also been hit hard.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 6, 2020

Let’s start with an uncontroversial premise: California’s complex, ever-changing gauntlet of employment laws is difficult for any company to navigate. Yet you may still be wondering why, aside from the headache, does it matter for my restaurant? California employment law isn’t intuitive. Why Compliance Matters.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s hard to escape the continuing boom in restaurant franchises. Quick-serve brands are leading the trend, and not just for restaurants, but for franchises overall. What may be overlooked within it are risk and insurance issues. Risk and insurance should be top on the list. And there’s a lot of value to that.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Recent opinions in favor of insurance companies include a March 16, 2022 unpublished Ninth Circuit pane opinion in Steven Baker v.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2023

Restaurant insurance is complicated. Just as owners have to play many roles in management, marketing, and menus, their insurance has to protect their finances, patrons, and employees. And who has the time to read a 100-page insurance policy? These are often excluded from standard policies and be potentially costly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2024

The Freelance Isn’t Free Act (FIFA) represents a significant shift in labor law, providing new protections for freelance workers across New York state. This law requires written contracts for freelance engagements worth $800 or more or lasting longer than 120 days. Anti-retaliation protections.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 31, 2020

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Under the ruling, California restaurants may still not serve foie gras to California consumers. Litigation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2023

restaurant industry will continue to shake off the aftereffects of the pandemic in 2024, but that doesn’t mean the challenges that remain are easily dispelled. Another growing risk: nuclear verdicts over dram shop law violations, driving up the costs of liquor liability insurance. Here’s an overview.

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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. Key findings for the restaurant industry include: Restaurant Closures Data. Key findings for the restaurant industry include: Restaurant Closures Data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your restaurant is open and customers are back. Workers’ compensation data shows an uptick in the number of new employees injured on the job, especially in the hospitality and food service industries. Restaurants are struggling to find people in a tight market. New Employees Have More On-the-Job Injuries.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2024

According to Culinary Hospitality Outreach Wellness, 63 percent of hospitality workers suffer from depression, 84 percent feel stress from their jobs and 65 percent report using substances at work. May is Mental Health Month – and it’s clear that millions of restaurant workers need help. Needs regular treatment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Other than healthcare, the industry most impacted by the coronavirus pandemic is the hospitality and food services industry. For restaurants, however, the PPP caused confusion in terms of who could apply and how the loans would be handled. Are restaurants eligible for PPP loans? Businesses may borrow up to 2.5

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Did you know that payroll/labor makes up almost one-third of a restaurant's operating costs ? While most restaurateurs are experts in hospitality and customer service, payroll makes many savvy business owners scratch their heads. This restaurant payroll guide will teach you: What payroll is. How to create a payroll schedule.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For more than 100 years, Society Insurance has been providing coverage to hospitality businesses. We see firsthand what restaurants should be paying attention to as new trends and legislation arise. Though these important topics will be top-of-mind throughout 2025, the hospitality industry is so far from doom-and-gloom.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 23, 2024

As many as 90% of women and 70% of men working in restaurants reportedly experience some form of sexual harassment, according to the Harvard Business Review. Has a recent state law change made sexual harassment training mandatory, but you don’t know where to begin? What if an incident occurs outside of the restaurant/bar/brewery?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2025

A $10 million lawsuit would be the nail in the coffin for nearly every hospitality business. Society Insurance has spent 110 years helping protect businesses and has seen firsthand how nuclear verdicts have evolved in the U.S. Ideally, nuclear verdicts would be eliminated in favor of fair and just verdicts for restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Expect a collision of trends to mark the restaurant industry in 2020 as ambitious operators in today’s increasingly marijuana friendly environment test both legal limits and consumer appetites by looking to launch cannabis cafes that serve farm-to-table … everything. Good People are Still Hard to Find.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

over the past decade, keeping employees in restaurants has become increasingly difficult. However, attracting high-quality restaurant employees goes beyond just filling open positions. Some restaurant staff may prefer fewer hours to accommodate school or family, while others might be looking for full-time work with a steady income.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 3, 2022

We don't have to tell you that the restaurant industry has a turnover problem. As of 2019, hospitality had a national average turnover rate of 75% , and that's only grown since the pandemic. Restaurants are a transitional industry for many—but many of the reasons that workers quit are entirely preventable.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Building an equitable restaurant — where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination — will require undoing the way most restaurants are run. The only ethical restaurant I have ever heard of is on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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EATER

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the pandemic limited access to restaurants and the government dragged — and continues to drag — on providing financial support for small businesses, consumers were given few options outside of takeout and delivery to eat a meal that they didn’t cook themselves. Delivery apps hurt restaurants.

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7 Shifts

MAY 18, 2023

Restaurants are similar to spider webs. This is just like a restaurant, made up of its own interconnected components. Take this story from Leo Smigel, the founder of Analyzing Alpha who's been involved with several restaurant ventures: "My buddy really got himself into a pickle. You know how it is with small businesses.

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Hot Schedules

MARCH 15, 2021

Health Insurance Requirements for Small & Medium Businesses. H ealth insurance is one of the most important benefits an employer can offer, regardless of size. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation , only 30 percent of US businesses with fewer than 50 employees provide health insurance to their workers. In short, no.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen Six chefs and restaurant owners from across the country explain why restaurants feel so expensive right now, and how they’re coping with high prices and customer complaints Dining out involves calculating the intangible: What is hospitality worth to you? Lately, the calculus is becoming more complicated.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, I worked in a restaurant that promoted itself as the future of dining. Like much of the world, new and ever-changing technology is a fact of life for restaurant workers. As restaurant owners search for solutions, many are turning to automation and other technology designed to replace humans as a silver bullet.

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EATER

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2013, Saru Jayaraman founded One Fair Wage to put an end to the tipped minimum wage, which, One Fair Wage has found , perpetuates racial and gender disparities in the hospitality industry. Those disparities only worsened during the pandemic, as restaurants closed and the prospect of earning a living from tips became even more precarious.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2020

Having to spend a shift—or even worse, your after-hours—reading through an employee handbook will sap the fun out of any new restaurant job. And let’s be honest, when was the last time you read your own restaurant employee handbook? Restaurant Scheduling Software for managers that want to stay in control.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature help for small business owners and products for the 'new normal' for restaurants as they reopen. ” Traditionally, to enable delivery most sellers list their menu on food delivery platforms because the restaurant doesn’t have their own couriers. .

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 23, 2023

For many in the hospitality industry, tipping is an integral part of their restaurant's culture. It influences the livelihoods of restaurant workers around the world. Plus, organized record keeping makes compliance easier, ensuring you can quickly reference documents for law and tax purposes. Is Tip Payouts secure?

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EATER

JULY 12, 2022

He wound up getting fired from his job, another victim of the restaurant industry’s pressure and churn, and he says he sought out therapy as a result. Finding free counseling directly led to someone helping him get Medicaid, he says, and now, he sees losing his restaurant job as a blessing in disguise. “I Mental Health Resources.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features a double dose from US Foods, SpotOn Transact, DoorDash Kitchens, Virtual Restaurant Consulting, Tripleseat and Gather, wagamama, Toast, The Gluten Intolerance Group, Instawork and StaffMate Online, Procurant and Yellofin, Sift, 7shifts, ParTech, Revel Systems and Como, Kabbage, Bluecrew and Cuboh.

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EATER

JULY 7, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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EATER

MARCH 11, 2025

I was in a restaurant for my moms birthday when the World Health Organization declared the spread of coronavirus a pandemic, and, in between sewing my own cloth masks and attending cursed Zoom happy hours, my colleagues and I reported relentlessly on the crisis unfolding in the restaurant world. Some things did get better.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2024

However, data breaches can happen to restaurant chains and small eateries alike. We put together a brief guide to help you safeguard your hospitality business against cyber attacks and what to do if one happens to you. Notify your insurance agent or carrier. This year’s Data Privacy Week is Take Control of Your Data.

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7 Shifts

MAY 15, 2023

Did you know that payroll/labor makes up almost one-third of a restaurant's operating costs ? While most restaurateurs are experts in hospitality and customer service, payroll makes many savvy business owners scratch their heads. Restaurant payroll is a system for calculating and managing the salaries of employees in a restaurant.

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Hospitality Insurance Group

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Insuring The Liquor Business. Title: President and CEO, Hospitality Insurance Group. For the last three decades, Richard Welch has held a variety of roles in the insurance industry in Massachusetts and Connecticut. It then expanded its model and now sells to a variety of different kinds of insurance in other states.

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