Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

Lacking cash reserves and the resources to access money (traditional bank loans), most restaurants were forced to lay off their employees. Some likely expenses to be considered for initial cash reserves: 20 percent of the prior year’s monthly sales for purchases of goods. 75 percent of the prior year’s monthly payroll cost.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These challenges are impacting menu availability, raising the prices of menu items, leading to short staffs, increasing wait times for diners, and changing operating hours and offerings. As we head into the holiday season, we expect consumers to return to in-restaurant dining with enthusiasm.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2022

On Valentine’s Day, restaurants fill up quickly with reservations from couples eager to spend a romantic night together. Create a Prix Fixe Menu. A prix fixe menu features a fixed multi-course meal that is served to all customers on a specific night, often for holidays like Christmas and Valentine’s Day.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

On the flip side, poor operations can lead to inefficiencies that snowballlike staffing issues that slow down service, supply chain mishaps that throw off the menu, or rising costs that eat into profits. This means budgeting, tracking expenses like food and labor, and adjusting pricing to balance profitability with customer appeal.

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The Rail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Food prices continue rising at grocery stores and through suppliers, while staffing gaps and shifting guest preferences add extra pressure to already thin margins. Digital menu boards reduce printing costs while enabling quick price adjustments. Changes work best in phases, with staff training between each addition.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You can also minimize the heightened cash flow pressures of the peak season. There are various reasons for fluctuating payroll: Seasonality, high staff turnover, and varying hourly rates (depending on experience). Forecasting can help you set the appropriate budget, taking seasonality into account.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Coping with seasonality and fluctuations in business (37 percent) Economic instability impact on F&B businesses This could indicate that a period of inflation in the US, initiated by COVID-19, may well have impacted small businesses in this industry. titled Pricing Strategies Driving Restaurant Visits in 2024.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

The research found that businesses worldwide – particularly restaurants – intend to experiment more in 2025, especially with customer retention programs like loyalty, as they face the triple challenge of sustained high inflation, shrinking consumer wallets and the need to raise prices across the board.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the right tech tools, managers can ease their workloads, employees enjoy a much smoother scheduling process, and guests benefit in countless ways — from mobile ordering to digital menus to better ways of making and managing reservations. It's arguably the go-to platform for diners looking to make a reservation.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the right tech tools, managers can ease their workloads, employees enjoy a much smoother scheduling process, and guests benefit in countless ways — from mobile ordering to digital menus to better ways of making and managing reservations. It's arguably the go-to platform for diners looking to make a reservation.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

If so, what are students learning about cost effectiveness, efficiency, speed, and effective menu execution? When there are 100 reservations on the books – you don’t have the luxury of spending three hours to turn six-dozen potatoes. Every product that a student handles in class should carry a price tag. LACK OF REPITITION.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The conversation evolved around local news and gossip, and alcoholic beverages were reserved for bars scattered throughout the community. Menu items were simple and very much in line with homestyle cooking: roast beef, meatloaf, fried chicken, roast turkey, macaroni and cheese, pasta, and meatballs, etc. That is my secret ingredient.”

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It helps to cut the customer’s path to your contact information, offers, reservations, and more. It allows you to provide a menu link that helps customers immediately connect with your restaurant and make a faster decision. It allows customers to make direct reservations without having to go to a third party page or the website.

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The Rail

APRIL 11, 2024

By Eric Tress, Contributor If you are looking for an excellent tool to increase your restaurant’s reservations, email marketing is an effective advertising tool you should consider. Many restaurants invest in marketing when they notice low bookings or in the run-up to a low season. Here are some ways to use email marketing effectively.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As travel season approaches, we anticipate seeing more people lean into making their vacation destinations feel more like home, with an increase in activities like cooking while traveling! Diners prefer walk-ins to reservations : Diners were more spontaneous and made more plans to meet up and walk into restaurants.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

Our business model requires too much labor: At the same time as we step back it becomes vividly apparent that our method of operation and the menus that we provide require too many hands. Without cash reserves the pandemic cause thousands of restaurant casualties.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 22, 2023

Customer-facing chatbots provide instant assistance to customers and can be used to address inquiries, facilitate reservations or to place orders. Menu optimization : AI's impact on menu optimization extends beyond merely analyzing sales data and customer feedback.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2022

Diners need to understand that things will never be as they were before the pandemic In the final six weeks of our pandemic-born restaurant, customers formed a line out the door and booked out dinner reservations weeks ahead. And the price of menu items steadily trends upward as inflation worsens. As soon as we can afford it.”

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7 Shifts

JULY 25, 2024

Profitability remains a challenge for many restaurants, especially with prices for ingredients and labor going up. Novice home cooks who want to hone their skills through the step-by-step instructions included with meal kits Meal kits and subscription boxes both offer a steady income stream for restaurants, even during slow seasons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Smart brands are having to be even more creative, such as leveraging the ‘to go bag’ as a communications channel that can be used to communicate brand messages, promote new menu offerings and provide bounce back offers that favor preferred channels such as pick up. Berekk Blackwell, President of Daily Jam.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

Government data provides evidence that restaurants are raising menu prices to help offset higher labor costs. The monthly Food Away from Home Consumer Price Index rose to over 4 percent in June, after pacing mostly in the lower single-digit range since 2H09, according to Federal Reserve Economic Data.

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The shop offers detailed tasting notes for its various pour-overs, which are on offer alongside seasonal drinks like tamarind cider soda or miso pumpkin lattes. It’s worth booking reservations ahead of a visit. Cooper is committed to crafting gluten-free menus with seasonal ingredients.

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EATER

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the last straws, before the owners decided to close on Saturdays, was a guest who had no reservation, who aggressively demanded a table in the packed room, while trying to bring in a cosmopolitan from another restaurant (he had to be physically removed). Menu price: $29. This draws out moisture and seasons the fish.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 25, 2021

For the cook – a certain level of skill is required, including: the ability to determine degrees of doneness, a bit of showmanship to spin pizzas, speed and efficiency, knife skills and a palate that allows the cook to adjust seasoning when needed. This is the rock and roll experience of foodservice.

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Goliath Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2019

You stop by your local corporate chain restaurant to celebrate a job well done and can’t help but to look at their liquor list to compare prices. How can they possibly have the same brands you so carefully negotiated for a fraction of the price? These distributors ultimately control the pricing on the products.

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7 Shifts

MAY 23, 2024

Food cost percentage When deciding how much to price your menu items, TouchBistro advises keeping the food cost percentage anywhere between 20% and 40%. Solutions can include preparing for possible changes in pricing, staffing, customer trends, and new technology. Most restaurants try to keep it at around 30% to be safe.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Even cost of sales may go down as the ghost kitchen typically has a smaller, more manageable menu. Plant-based Menu Items. Jim Collins, CEO at Kitchen United.

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EATER

MAY 9, 2023

Some restaurants have dedicated spaces that are reserved as private dining rooms (or PDRs), where a group can celebrate while the restaurant continues operating. In general, the hotter the restaurant, the higher the price. “If Private dining room or event space versus buyout: What’s the difference?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

Creating and optimizing the menu based on US Foods’ exclusive food-costing tools, industry analysis and recipes designed by in-house chefs that focus on both profitability and diner trends. The two companies have joined forces to offer a version of Sally the Robot that will exclusively serve Saladworks’ rotating, seasonal menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

While TouchBistro has previously partnered with providers of loyalty solutions, this acquisition will provide the company with a proprietary solution that is much more deeply integrated into the TouchBistro platform and its ecosystem of products like Online Ordering and Reservations. ” Tyga Bites Launches. Contest Details.

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EATER

JULY 27, 2023

For now, it’s in a limited soft-open period that offers tickets (not reservations) through an email list, via the website. Anyway, one Season 7 episode is about how desperate a character is to go to Casa Bonita. Relatedly: Casa Bonita is back , sort of.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Less choice might be the obvious downside for customers but then focus can move to the quality of food being made and potentially deflect menu price increases. The operator can take advantage of the opportunity to reduce waste from too much stockholding and use less labour resources for a narrow menu. Small is beautiful.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The bistro menu is also impressive in the evening. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation. It has all the French classics, from escargot to quiche, but the menu often changes throughout the season. It has all the French classics, from escargot to quiche, but the menu often changes throughout the season.

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SpotOn

MAY 13, 2024

As the summer season approaches, bringing with it longer days and warmer weather, restaurants have a golden opportunity to welcome waves of customers looking for memorable dining experiences.  “Many of our venues are seasonal and lean towards daytime vibes—brunch, patios, pools, piers, etc.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

You can give your customers 1 point for every $10 they spend at your restaurant (the price point depends on how much you're selling your food and beverages; just make sure to set an achievable price). Some uses for a poster include promoting a new item on your menu, hosting an event, or offering a "buy one, take one" promotion.

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Restaurant Engine

MARCH 12, 2025

They can handle menu questions, help customers place an order or make a reservation, and they can even make personalized menu suggestions. This can be especially powerful when launching a new or seasonal menu, offering promotions, and even hosting events. If not, it can revolutionize your customer interaction.

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Restaurant Clicks

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Some notable menu options you can choose during the weekend include a veggie hoagie, chicken cutlet sandwich, or a captain’s basket with fried shrimp, fish sticks, and hushpuppies. Morcilla’s menu includes several options for desserts, drinks, and dinner. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation.

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