Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. To do this, restaurants will either need to use lower cost food items or raise menu prices. Another way to introduce price increases is to introduce new elements to the menu.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

Pick your event idea by looking at your: Venue size and layout Customer demographic Available resources Time of year (season) Community Write out each of these factors, and a picture will emerge of which restaurant event idea will best fit your location. Get the word out to regulars and people curious about your restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While your restaurant may feature a diverse menu, delicious food, a great ambiance, and excellent customer service, you will still struggle to build a customer base without promoting it. Others tend to emphasize their cheaper menu options. A quick look at your POS data will identify the top three selling items on your menu.

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Marketing SEO Front of House Website Management 567

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From creating a welcoming ambiance to offering unique menu items, let’s explore the ways you can refine your restaurant's customer experience in 2024. Menu and food choices Your restaurant’s menu and food choices can entice or put off customers. Moreover, the menu sets expectations for the dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates. Define the one or two KPIs most critical for your top growth goals.

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Leadership Small Business Hospitality Customer Experience 508

7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Can you provide an example of how you’ve improved employee performance through training? Can you provide an example of how you’ve improved employee performance through training? A restaurant manager should not only be able to manage day-to-day tasks but also invest in the growth of their team through effective training.

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7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Set a goal for your restaurant’s grand opening—whether it’s seating capacity, an order volume, or revenue for your first day back in business. When it comes to preparing your staff for your reopening, ensure you’ve updated their training for the latest health and safety procedures and precautions your restaurant will be observing.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Here are some thoughts: PRODUCT: Take a hard look at your menu. Ah…now this is where a well-seasoned, talented chef can help to save the day. Assign the task to your chef to create a menu that is exciting, innovative, delicious, accessible, and financially tolerable. Reverse engineer your menu from this perspective.

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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. They both went through a management training program. Peter’s two sons, Pete, Jr. joined the company in 1993 and Jim joined in 1995.They

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2023

Art featured throughout the facility pays homage to the University and the fresh ingredients used daily in the 1856 kitchen – four kaleidoscope art pieces for each season of the year. This also provides a seasonal menu for the restaurant guests.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Theres little room for branding, and menu presentation, pricing, and promotions are often influenced by the platforms rules rather than the restaurants preferences. Stronger brand connection : Your logo, colors, and menu are front and center. Lower menu prices : No need to inflate prices to cover third-party fees.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 19, 2022

“Two minutes to plate”, called out Duke as Sabrina immediately switched gears, pulled down his plates, garnished them with the nightly vegetables that were carved, blanched, and then quickly immersed in a buttered and seasoned water to bring them up to temp. Fortunately, the chef had placed prime rib on the menu with Yorkshire popovers.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 2, 2024

By tracking metrics like customer retention and employee turnover rate, contribution margin, and menu item profitability, restaurant managers can identify each area’s strengths and what areas need improvement. Use this data to establish clear and specific goals and adjust your strategies as needed.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In preparation for the holiday gift giving season it was somehow decided that it was appropriate to recognize those private businesses within your community by stopping in to say hello, thank them for all that they do, and spend a little money. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Small business is the backbone of our country. Don’t forget it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 25, 2024

Sidewalk cafes, rooftop terraces, and courtyards are all excellent options for expanding seating. Surrounded by flourishing herbs, edible flowers, and citrus trees, guests can savor the farm-to-table tasting menu while immersed in nature. The use of outdoor space often means more seating opportunities for businesses.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

When the economy was weak then restaurants were in the driver’s seat – more applicants than jobs available led to a competent workforce that was underpaid and overworked. It also means that more significant time must be spent training service staff how to upsell and create enhanced customer value. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, there will be fewer human interactions when ordering takeaways during busy lunch hours, quick customer seating, or bill payments. To tackle this pressing issue effectively, businesses must invest in staff training and development, vital for retaining and upskilling their existing workforce. The first gusto!

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2024 Loyalty Program Cash Management Customer Experience 539

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to scheduling, 7shifts handles staff payroll, tip management, hiring and application management, employee training, and much more. OpenTable seats around 1.6 RUN also acts as an HR software, connecting payroll to core employee functions like training, record keeping, and onboarding. Menu items might not be available.

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Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 367

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition to scheduling, 7shifts handles staff payroll, tip management, hiring and application management, employee training, and much more. OpenTable seats around 1.6 RUN also acts as an HR software, connecting payroll to core employee functions like training, record keeping, and onboarding. Menu items might not be available.

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Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 352

EATER

MAY 8, 2023

You’d miss out on some truly compelling food experiences only a short drive or train ride away. Lunch and dinner typically begin with an amuse-bouche of seasonal barbajuans, fritters common to the Riviera that are typically filled with ricotta and leafy vegetables like Swiss chard.

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Food Seasonal Menu Back of House Training 301

7 Shifts

APRIL 23, 2021

Do you need a host to seat guests or someone to hello pack up delivery orders? Do you need a prep cook or a chef to help develop a new patio menu ? Seasonal employees that are eager to return. Hiring 51 percenters today will save training time and dollars tomorrow,” writes Meyer. Ace Onboarding and Training.

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Goliath Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In the long run, restaurants will have to be adaptable, with seating plans that expand and contract easily and quickly” (5). This flexibility will key as the cold season approaches (6). A big part of the trend of automation for customers will revolve around new payment and menu alternatives.

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7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2021

By relying on historical sales data, you can get a better grasp on how many of which menu items might be sold in a given day, month, holiday, or season. For example, at a casual family restaurant, the service model might look like this: The host greets the party and seats them. Operations Management. Scheduling.

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EATER

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Lots of the houses had little trains you could take [through the cellars] that were reminiscent of something you would have seen at Disney World,” remembers Christian Holthausen, a French-American strategic consultant in the wine & spirits industry, of his early career in Champagne in the 1990s.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The operating model and menu are adaptable to any environment with different options including kiosks and free-standing locations with a drive-thru, ranging from a few hundred square feet up to 2200 square feet. The recently updated menu also includes housemade chips and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

It's up to the restaurant manager to maintain a warm, welcoming atmosphere and train staff to do the same. One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

Saudi Arabia had a successful pop-up store at the 2019 Riyadh Season and is opening its first permanent store in Jeddah this summer. To showcase bold new flavors, On The Border has elevated its menu, and the innovative new dishes will be available for guests visiting North Point.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

7 Core Restaurant Management Responsibilities Staffing : Hire, fire, train, and manage employees. A high turnover means you now have to recruit, select, and train new candidates, which takes time and costs money. Engineer Your Menu for Profits Menu engineering refers to the actions you take to create a more profitable menu.

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Management Management 2019 Employee Relations 284

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

The brand’s commitment to each guest service experience is the focal point of upcoming menu innovation, value-based choices, and a portfolio of new organic food and beverage educational content. The new restaurant will offer third-party delivery, takeout and limited dine-in seating for on-the-go guests seeking a quick, savory meal.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Guests may enjoy a variety of seating arrangements, two bars, as well as private cabanas and daybeds offering bottle service and other five-star experiences. Additionally, design elements such as new signage, menu boards, furniture, fixtures and finishes, will be installed to reflect the school’s distinctive spirit and identity.

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EATER

MARCH 2, 2022

With only 22 seats and a strong reputation (built over a series of pop-ups and collaborations, with profits funneled to charities), Dame is popular enough to be booked solid every night. Monday diners at Dame tend to be more industry veterans who order the whole menu and full bottles of wine. Menu price: $29. Profit: $5.07.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Chefs on board the trains — and at the grand hotels, like the Fairmont Chateau at Lake Louise and Fairmont Banff Springs, that the trains precipitated — introduced lavish Victorian fine dining. He’s survived being hit by a train, fathered numerous offspring, and has been known to eat the occasional black bear. Paul Zizka.

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The Restaurant Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding your audience helps in crafting a menu and ambiance that resonates with them. Happy hours, lunch specials, or early bird discounts can fill seats that might otherwise remain empty. Bundle Meals or Create Special Menus Offer value deals to attract groups or families.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The concept is centered around a 900-degree coal fired oven, and its streamlined menu offers “well-done” pizza, coal fired chicken wings, homemade meatballs, and a variety of handcrafted sandwiches and salads. “Anthony’s represents a fantastic addition to the BurgerFi family. .” across Asia.

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Franchising Franchise Leadership Beverage 450

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

With multiple restaurants in a shared space, DoorDash will empower these merchants to offer their customers new menu offerings and pairings unique to the DoorDash Kitchens’ restaurants. “Restaurants are catching on and realizing that it isn’t as simple as adding a vegan burger onto the menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2023

A Return to Normal The National Restaurant Association released its 2023 State of the Restaurant Industry report, which examines key factors impacting the industry including the current state of the economy, operations, workforce, and food and menu trends to forecast sales and market trends for the year ahead. million by the end of 2023.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Enhanced training, signage, and behavioral “nudges” Implementing health checks and temperature monitoring. Altering seating arrangements to improve spacing between guests. ” Menu Anywhere. Zuppler launched Menu Anywhere On-Premise Contactless Ordering on the Zuppler “Menu Anywhere” Platform.

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