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FSMA Rule 204 Food Safety Countdown: What Restaurant Managers Need to Know Now

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Better food safety has never been more in reach, thanks to advancements in traceability standards and technology. FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Rule 204 approaching, restaurant operators stand to gain improved confidence in the safety and quality of the food they serve.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Special events have become a big reason for going out, making unique dining experiences more important than ever. Special events have become a big reason for going out, making unique dining experiences more important than ever. Tables and chairs take a backseat to efficient space. These core elements never go out of style.

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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2025

At this time of year, restaurant operators often search for ways to be more efficient, reduce costs and be more profitable. To learn more about how cooking oil management can help with this goal, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to John Michals, COO of Filta Environmental Kitchen Services.

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Restaurant Safety: How Restaurateurs Can Improve their Risk Profiles

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Many insurers have pulled out of the restaurant industry entirely, and some remaining insurers have greatly pulled back on the lines of business they write. Understanding Restaurant Safety Restaurants are fast-paced operations and any safety vulnerability can quickly derail business. And the list goes on.

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Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2025

What starts as a passion for quality, craftsmanship, and unique flavors often turns into a logistical challenge when demand grows beyond the capacity of a single storefront or kitchen. My business plan laid out my steppingstones: open three artisanal ice cream shops, create synergy, and ride out the cash flow.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

In this guide, youre going to learn: The key components of effective restaurant operations management Common challenges restaurant owners face (and how to solve them) Best practices to run a more efficient and profitable restaurant Lets explore what it takes to manage restaurant operations like a pro.

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This is Slowing Down Your Restaurant Growth — And How to Fix It

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

Inefficient Operations and Workflow One major hurdle that can slow down the growth of your catering business is inefficient operations and workflow. You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should.

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18 Restaurant Manager Interview Questions to Assess Leadership and Operational Skills

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Looking for someone to oversee day-to-day operations is a critical business decision that needs careful consideration. How do you ensure compliance with food safety and hygiene regulations? For example, they may hold regular team meetings to go over new policies or operational updates.

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Stay Ahead of the Danger: Proactive Food Safety Strategies for Restaurant Managers

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As a restaurant manager, maintaining food safety is your number one responsibility. Let’s take a closer look at those strategies. Trusted suppliers adhere to stringent safety standards, reducing the risk of contamination at the source. These credentials indicate adherence to high safety standards.

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Frying High: Elevating Cooking Oil Maintenance with Automation

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The new system has simplified oil changeouts at the restaurants, while also saving the franchisee money and taking a literal load off employees’ hands. 1788 Chicken owns and operates 60 Zaxby’s locations across eight states. Cody Neal, vice president of operations for 1788 Chicken.

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Reducing Fire Risk in Your Commercial Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2025

As a restaurant manager, you want to do everything in your power to keep your commercial kitchen as well as your entire facility safe and welcoming to staff and patrons alike. However, fire hazards such as neglected kitchen equipment and grease buildup can lead to serious kitchen fires, threatening lives and livelihoods.

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Planning Year-Round Training to Improve Restaurant Operations

The Rail

JANUARY 3, 2025

By incorporating this training into your calendar, you align your business with modern consumer values and cut down on operational waste. Aside from keeping up with industry trends like this, year-round training is especially critical for maintaining consistency in operations, meeting compliance standards, and exceeding customer expectations.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. After a challenging 2024, it’s promising to see restaurant operators looking ahead to 2025 with optimism.

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Seven Ways HR Leadership Can Reduce Risk for Restaurants During Turbulent Times

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2020

The following seven tips can help restaurant managers and HR professionals navigate risk in this rapidly evolving pandemic, especially as restaurants in many jurisdictions are required to operate solely with take-out or delivery service options. Others may have decided to shutter operations altogether. Share Guidance.

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AI For Restaurants: Practical Uses And Real-World Benefits

ChowNow

MARCH 28, 2025

These are tools that can help you streamline operations, easily schedule staff, and make sure you never run out of ingredients for your best-selling menu items. AI is no longer just a buzzword, its a reality that is reshaping how restaurants operate, interact with customers, and make decisions.

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Keeping Your Restaurant Safe from Fire Emergencies

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2021

Restaurant kitchens have many places where fires can occur. Business owners need to be aware of potential fire hazards and take preventative steps when it comes to fire safety. Following a few simple safety tips can prevent fires and keep employees and patrons safe in your establishment. Conducting Regular Inspections.

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Evolving Technology for Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

.” Fafa’s desire to expand their business, while ensuring the safety of employees and customers is as strong as ever. Orders from online channels and delivery partners had to be manually entered into its previous Point-of-Sale (POS) system, and manually delivered to the kitchen.

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Four Ways Restaurant Owners Can Regain Guest’s Trust

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Restaurant owners are looking for creative ways to revamp the indoor dining experience with improved health and safety standards. Restaurant owners can use these helpful tips to promote key health and safety standards in order to regain trust and improve the overall customer experience: Improve Air, Hand and Surface Hygiene.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Delivery and take-out will continue to be the most popular way consumers will get their restaurant meals in a COVID and post-COVID world. Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. Here are their responses.

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Restaurant Staff Training 101

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Back-of-house (BOH) staff, including chefs and kitchen assistants, will focus more on food safety, food handling, and kitchen equipment use. A well-informed team improves service, enhances the dining experience, and reduces errors in the kitchen. When creating a training plan, you must distinguish between these two areas.

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Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 29, 2020

As more restaurants in the United States receive the go-ahead to open their doors for indoor dining, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to industry experts on ways to calm employee anxiety. You will take guest temperatures, if, and when, allowed. Kitchens must be sanitized, per recommended guidelines.

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Three Ways to Leverage Technology for Restaurant Reopenings

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

” The COVID-19 pandemic—more than any contentious customer or kitchen catastrophe—is putting that skill to test. Data shows that guests want to dine out but safety concerns are the biggest factor holding them back. Leveraging a labor scheduling tool with contact tracing takes the guesswork out of the equation.

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Technology that Enables Automation Can Ensure Safety and Success

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2021

Technology will be vital in the months – and years – ahead as the pandemic continues to change the conversation about food safety. Restaurants now must prioritize the overall safety of the restaurant environment, in addition to addressing food safety itself. Take for example, the urgency of a food recall.

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‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Shaw's “ Who Watches the Kitchen ?” ” takes readers on a rollicking, astonishing journey through the hidden truths of the foodservice industry. Alongside wild stories detailing how foodborne illnesses can happen, Shaw offers practical solutions to avoid food safety breaches. " Why write this book now?

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Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

For example, kitchen managers rely on software to let them know how much expected inventory they have in stock. That's why restaurateurs rely on restaurant operations. With clearly defined and enforced restaurant operations, restaurants achieve maximum efficiency and profitability. Areas of Operation. Table of Contents.

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Five Reasons Restaurants Are Upgrading Tech in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The trends the industry had in 2019 toward improved tech stacks, better reporting, and streamlined operations can’t wait any longer, and restaurants are finding the budget to put toward technology again. Building a brand takes more coordination, more visibility, and more sophistication than manual processes can provide.

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Four Key Predictions for Restaurant Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The nature of restaurant management is a pendulum; each year operators swing back and forth to prepare for challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. Read on for our key predictions to help operators get a leg up. Technology also allows for seamless delivery operations during colder months. Key 2022 Trends.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Ghost kitchens, you’ve got spirit, but not much soul. 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. Not up for opening your own off-site kitchen?

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How AI Can Work for You

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Modern AI exists without the limitations that you see in movies, operating on everything from the smartphones in your pocket to the website that uses machine learning to track COVID-19. Let’s take a look at a few that can directly benefit you today. An IVR is a digital operator that fields your calls. Capacity Management.

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Is More Delivery/Takeout on Your Menu? Remove Food Safety Risks—Digitally

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 25, 2021

a multi-site restaurant operator with more than 200 locations that was shifting to takeout only decided to evaluate its already robust food safety system. But the incidents never compromised customers’ safety because the restaurants were able to discover and remediate them in real time. Enabling the Agile Kitchen and More.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: POST COVID KITCHENS – GET READY

Culinary Cues

APRIL 13, 2020

Guests will not likely flock back to our operations, there will still be a considerable amount of trepidation, especially since pre-vaccine life will still include the threat of virus transmission. Is this a stretch? I don’t think so. [] VERY STRICT HACCP ENFORCEMENT.

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Tech Holds the Answers to Reopening Guidelines

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 21, 2020

However, it’s equally important to also take a long-term strategic approach to the Coronavirus. Both now and for the future, technology can answer many of the question’s managers have surrounding maintaining the health of employees, ensuring the safety of their guests and protecting their bottom line. Plan Wisely.

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Four Ways QSRs MUST Innovate to Outlast the Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Let’s take a look at four ways your QSR should innovate, that have already shown success elsewhere. Open Up More 'Ghost Kitchens' Restaurant locations are having a hard time keeping up with all the mandated restrictions to dining in.

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Outdated Health and Safety Checks Are Holding QSRs Back

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2023

As customers continue to feel more comfortable dining out, restaurants should have health and safety measures down pat. Exceeding health and safety standards not only ensures the well-being of customers, but it also cultivates a positive experience that fosters loyalty.

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COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

Restaurant’s safety protocols were done “behind the scenes,” and guests most likely didn’t care about the sanitation of high-touch surfaces or whether they were sitting within six feet of other tables. Many operators relied on gut instinct, without a comprehensive view of their data to inform their decisions.

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Coronavirus: Restaurants Respond

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

The National Restaurant Association remains on top of the issue providing updates and resources including a fact sheet and a webpage with an FAQ, industry guidance, and food safety guidelines provided by ServeSafe to address increasing questions about COVID-19. We ensure food safety. Eat healthier.”

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Picking Up Curbside: How to Improve Your Restaurant’s Curbside Service and Why It’s Here to Stay

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s also the call-us-when-you-get-here model, where the order scoots out just in time to be dropped through a rear window or popped trunk. It was a convenience added to the playbook to assist customers with difficulty getting out of their car or to keep larger orders from blocking up a drive thru.

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Using Safety Incentive Programs to Improve Workplace Training

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

In multiple industries, employee safety can be a chief concern that requires careful consideration by employers. This can especially be the case in food service industries where employees are often in loud, busy environments while moving in and out of kitchen areas with any number of hazards.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We appreciate how our team shows up every day with positive attitudes, ready for new challenges and open to all of the operational changes thrown their way. That’s why we decided to donate 10 percent of sales of our off-premise take-out and delivery platform to No Kid Hungry. million meals in just six weeks.

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Managing Risk: Prevent Foodborne Illness, Protect Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2023

The worst part is, this type of illness is largely preventable Restaurant owners and operators need to take active steps to prevent foodborne illness from coming out of their kitchens. Your workers will take short cuts. Of those, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die. coli and salmonella. Train your staff.

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Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

If running a restaurant wasn’t already expensive, running one under new distancing regulations means less capacity and investment in safety infrastructure that will take a toll on costs. Third, menus should take into account changing customer bases. You purchased $1,000 in ground beef patties at the beginning of the week.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

As the food and beverage industry continues its digital transformation, restaurateurs need to prepare to take advantage of a tidal wave of data these interactions create. As the food and beverage industry continues its digital transformation, restaurateurs need to prepare to take advantage of a tidal wave of data these interactions create.

2021

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Most of the restaurant technology tools operators use every day were first introduced years ago, but it wasnt until the 2020 Tech Boom, brought on by COVID-19, that widespread adoption became essential. For example: If you want to improve efficiency look for software that integrates with your POS and kitchen systems.

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FSMA Rule 204 Food Safety Countdown: What Restaurant Managers Need to Know Now

Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

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How Better Cooking Oil Management Enhances Efficiency and Reduces Costs

Restaurant Safety: How Restaurateurs Can Improve their Risk Profiles

Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

This is Slowing Down Your Restaurant Growth — And How to Fix It

18 Restaurant Manager Interview Questions to Assess Leadership and Operational Skills

Stay Ahead of the Danger: Proactive Food Safety Strategies for Restaurant Managers

Frying High: Elevating Cooking Oil Maintenance with Automation

Reducing Fire Risk in Your Commercial Kitchen

Planning Year-Round Training to Improve Restaurant Operations

2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Seven Ways HR Leadership Can Reduce Risk for Restaurants During Turbulent Times

AI For Restaurants: Practical Uses And Real-World Benefits

Keeping Your Restaurant Safe from Fire Emergencies

Evolving Technology for Restaurant Operations

Four Ways Restaurant Owners Can Regain Guest’s Trust

Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

Restaurant Staff Training 101

Lessening Employee Anxiety as Restaurant Doors Open

Three Ways to Leverage Technology for Restaurant Reopenings

Technology that Enables Automation Can Ensure Safety and Success

‘Who Watches the Kitchen?’

Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

Five Reasons Restaurants Are Upgrading Tech in 2021

Four Key Predictions for Restaurant Tech

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

How AI Can Work for You

Is More Delivery/Takeout on Your Menu? Remove Food Safety Risks—Digitally

OUR DAILY BREATH: POST COVID KITCHENS – GET READY

Tech Holds the Answers to Reopening Guidelines

Four Ways QSRs MUST Innovate to Outlast the Pandemic

Outdated Health and Safety Checks Are Holding QSRs Back

COVID Caused Five Permanent Changes in the Restaurant Industry

Coronavirus: Restaurants Respond

Picking Up Curbside: How to Improve Your Restaurant’s Curbside Service and Why It’s Here to Stay

Using Safety Incentive Programs to Improve Workplace Training

Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

Managing Risk: Prevent Foodborne Illness, Protect Your Restaurant

Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part One

The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

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