Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2025

Diversifying Suppliers : Establishing relationships with multiple suppliers across different regions can reduce dependence on any single source, mitigating the impact of localized outbreaks. Supply Chain Strategies for Mitigation To combat the crisis, businesses and producers must adopt proactive supply chain strategies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2025

These chefs might know how to source the finest ingredients, but no one’s taught them how to negotiate the price of those ingredients or keep suppliers from quietly eating away at their profits. It’s like training a pilot to fly but not teaching them how to fuel the plane or maintain it. billion for yourself.

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Operations Beverage Point of Sale Pricing 418

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2025

Shoppers now care about the story behind their food, from sourcing to environmental impact, and value-driven branding has become essential. Shoppers now care about the story behind their food, from sourcing to environmental impact, and value-driven branding has become essential. What are some campaigns that made you proud and why?

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Social Media Innovation Sustainability Marketing 386

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2025, we’ll see increased consolidation as operators demand streamlined solutions and a single source of truth. While significant investment has poured into the sector, few technologies have proven to be sustainable businesses.

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2025 Loyalty Program 2024 Customer Service 443

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Source Wisely The first step in preventing foodborne illnesses starts long before you begin preparing food—it's all about where you get your ingredients. Sourcing from reputable suppliers ensures that the food you're serving is safe. Let’s take a closer look at those strategies.

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Food Safety Management Management Kitchen Safety 275

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 21, 2025

What are the best ways to ensure food safety when sourcing eggs? Supplier Due Diligence : Partner with reputable suppliers who prioritize traceability and maintain high food safety standards. Proper storage, labeling, dating and food safety practices in your operation. Making sure your suppliers have top-notch traceability practices in place.

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Food Safety Food Pricing Communication 398

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 17, 2025

This is where a buying group brings that advantage, helping source at the best price, quality, and then creating sourcing redundancy when mother nature gets in the way of supply with fresh agricultural products. Referral The best way to know who to work with is to ask those in your network that you trust for a referral.

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Food Supply Customer Service Back of House Small Business 221

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This initiative was a multi-year effort that demanded extensive sourcing, innovation, and close collaboration with our culinary team and suppliers. Our burger buns are now completely seed-oil free, and we’ve reformulated or sourced alternatives for items like harissa paste to ensure we uphold the highest ingredient standards.

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Social Media 2022 Sourcing Menu 251

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Partnering with the Right Distributor Distributor partnerships are invaluable in sourcing affordable, on-trend glassware solutions. Glassware helps tell the story of each cocktail or dish to engage audiences through sight, touch, and taste.

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Fine Dining Consumer Goods Presentation Seasonal Menu 405

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In those early days of European coffee houses, during the 17 th century, politics were the main source of conversation. These were often locations to where mail from across the pond would be delivered and serve as a source of information and discussion over a pint of ale. Today we are engulfed in information and misinformation.

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Front of House Back of House Sourcing Travel 345

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, expect to see more restaurants and bars adopting eco-friendly practices, such as reducing food waste, sourcing locally, and using energy-efficient equipment. Sustainability Takes Center Stage Sustainability is no longer an optional value—it’s a demand from environmentally conscious consumers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2025

For instance, when Taylor Farms inadvertently provided potentially contaminated onions to thousands of McDonald’s locations, McDonald’s and other restaurant chains made headlines, even though they weren’t the source of the breach.

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Management Management Social Media Food 419

Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2025

Chickpea flour, for example, packs 20 grams of protein per cup , making it a favorite for diners seeking plant-based protein sources. By focusing on nutrient-dense dishes, restaurants can reduce waste, optimize ingredient sourcing, and provide curated choices that align with current wellness trends.

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Dietary Restrictions Food Email Marketing Customer Experience 221

EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Food waste from all sources is responsible for eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the U.S. But restaurants have other, less visible sources of waste that also contribute to climate change. She doesn’t have time to source alternatives, she said. Induction ovens are safer to use because there is no open flame.

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Compost Food Equipment Waste 292

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

.” Eat Well Hospitality ( Asador Bastian , Andros Taverna , Mano a Mano ) – Chicago, IL: Co-Founder and Chef, Eat Well Hospitality, Doug Psaltis : “Diners are becoming increasingly more aware and educated about sourcing and where their food comes from. The focus on wellness extends to adaptogenic and vitamin-infused drinks.

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2025 Beverage Fine Dining Guest Recovery 450

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

We were a sourcing and hiring platform for restaurants. Acquisition sources have shifted dramatically–mobile-first platforms like Jobget now proactively meet jobseekers where they are at the right time with the right opportunity, replacing the passive job board model.

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Mobile Ordering Kitchen Safety Fine Dining Food Safety 408

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2025

Restaurants that successfully integrate sustainability into their convenience-driven offerings—such as using eco-friendly packaging or ethical sourcing—will resonate most with today’s diners. For restaurants, adopting sustainability is no longer an option – it’s an expectation.

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2025 Sustainability Social Media Customer Experience 322

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

It can also provide full sourcing and ingredient listings that are needed for menu creation to serve customers with special requirements. Feeding Customers What They Want Some of the more successful restaurants today are offering their customers a clear window into their sourcing strategies.

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Information Allergens Food Supply Food 552

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Fresh-baked waffles are perfect for locally sourced additions. Survey your staff for their favorite local treats like freshly grown fruit and locally sourced honey. Courtesy of Golden Waffles How can operators tap into their staff’s creativity for suggestions? Call out a local farmer’s eggs or dairy products on your menu.

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Back of House Seasonal Menu 2024 Customer Experience 221

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2023

Restaurant financial statements are an untapped source of potential growth. Image sourced from sage.com Here’s what you can do with a balance sheet. Image sourced from sage.com Here are some other useful things you can do with a P/L statement. Can you build on a single source, and if so, how can you do this?

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Cash Management Point of Sale Consumer Goods Sourcing 488

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2025

One key focus is ingredient sourcing—securing reliable suppliers who can meet growing demand while maintaining quality is essential. Optimizing for Operational Efficiency Scaling a food business requires a shift in thinking from small-batch production to streamlined efficiency. Another critical area is production processes.

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Food Back of House Consumer Goods Kitchen Safety 322

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For example, in promo abuse, technologies like Parallel Space and App Cloner enable fraudsters to sign into different accounts simultaneously and change certain features in the source code, allowing them to scale exponentially. But it doesn’t stop there.

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Delivery Food Order Online Ordering Food Supply 417

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 24, 2023

Restaurant managers must have complete visibility into their suppliers’ sourcing practices to ensure their ingredients are safe, healthy, and high-quality. Restaurant managers must ensure that their suppliers’ sources are trustworthy, and their products are high-quality. Transparency is crucial in restaurant supply chains.

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Supplies Sustainability Food Supply Food Safety 419

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

First, overwhelmed by ads and overly polished social media content, customers now see reviews as a reliable and authentic source of truth. The Rise of Google as Reputation King Two key forces have propelled Google to the throne as the king of reviews.

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2025 SEO Social Media Front of House 308

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2025

” By openly communicating these standards and staying true to them, restaurants can build trust with a generation that demands integrity in food sourcing and preparation. Groucho’s adheres to our founder Harold “Groucho” Miller's philosophy that “quality is the most important ingredient in a sandwich.”

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Social Media Loyalty Program Sustainability Food Supply 221

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2023

Tracked from numerous sources, thoughtful analysis of this data can be the key to prioritizing needs, driving growth and so on. One of the most important sources is a restaurant’s POS system, or point-of-sale system. At the heart of this science is data. First, how might owners and those in management find the data they need?

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Point of Sale Inventory POS Customer Service 491

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2024

Once sustainability rises to the top of the to-do list, the next hurdle is lack of information about the sources of the food they are buying and the practices used to produce it. Restaurant operators can think of sustainability in three phases: sourcing, operations, and disposal. Actions like waste reduction are actually cost savers.

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Sustainability Book Food Supply Waste 490

The Rail

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Apart from this, questions regarding fair labor practices, ethical sourcing, and treatment of workers in the regions that produce coffee are also areas of concern. Taste: Some consumers feel that sustainably sourced coffee has a superior taste to traditionally harvested coffee.

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Sustainability Dine-in Consumer Goods Compost 130

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 24, 2024

B Corp was one of a few certifications or collectives we investigated to find guidance and validation for the way we do business, particularly our long-standing sustainable sourcing mission. As we wrestle with margins in a post-pandemic restaurant world, our choices may only be justifiable with investment in other revenue sources.

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Certification Fast Casual Front of House Government 221

ChowNow

MARCH 7, 2025

Restaurants have access to more customer data than ever before and it comes from a wide range of sources, but many operators dont fully grasp the full extent of whats availableor how to use it effectively. Each of these sources gives you a clearer picture of your customers, their behavior, and how they interact with your restaurant.

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Loyalty Program Email Marketing Online Ordering Point of Sale 195

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2025

First, You need toensure you’re maintaining brand consistency across multiple locations, and that involves streamlining logistics, sourcing, and staff training to keep quality high across your chain. The scaling process requires a different approach. Evolving while staying authentic can be a difficult tightrope to walk!)

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Social Media Email Marketing Customer Experience Loyalty Program 251

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

Batteries need a charging source to store energy so they’re ready to automatically kick in when the power goes down. That source can be solar panels, a standby generator or even the grid. For example, solar and battery energy can become the primary power source for a business that would like to operate “off grid.”

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Equipment Sourcing Outdoor Waste 492

EATER

MARCH 28, 2025

In addition to trying to find the next buzzy menu item, the chefs must also navigate the challenges of sourcing ingredients and building recipes that can easily be scaled. There are a few ingredients [we cant] source at scale, Krivosik says, referencing the plantains in Chicagos jibaritos sandwich.

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Serving Seasonal Menu Food Supply Menu 255

The Rail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Today, we will explore the advantages of organic products and Paleo pantry essentials to show you how to source these ingredients to foster a greener dining experience. According to reports , more than 50% of diners claim to choose a restaurant that offers sustainably sourced food. Let’s explore some of them.

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Sustainability Compost Recycling Agriculture 130

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Many such trade shows also offer professional seminars to help with seminars on the process of developing a new product, costing, sourcing a co-packer and more so you can take advantage of the educational offering. This step could cost approximately $15,000.

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Retail Seminar Education Certification 251

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2023

Improving Communication with Customers With inflation increasing at record levels, it will be critical for QSR brands to easily relate the costs of materials, sourcing, and labor to customers clearly and concisely.

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Technology Consumer Goods Supplies Waste 474