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Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

Third, menus should take into account changing customer bases. CoGS for the period is $2000. This may entail separate packaging that maintains the freshness of the ingredients, or coming up with pre-cooked meal kits for the customer to re-heat up and assemble at home. At the end of the week, you had inventory worth $4,000.

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JLL survey: U.S. hotel investment poised for growth in 2025

Hotel Business

The survey found a record 80% of investors intend to maintain or increase their capital investment in the hotel sector over the coming year—the highest total ever recorded in the survey since it began in 2000. In recent months, global hotel investment volume has strengthened, with year-to-date Q3 liquidity reaching $40.9 billion, up 10.2%

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In This Time of Social Change, Can a Brand Also Be an Ally?

EATER

Coconut water is expected to clap back at people who pronounce a distaste for it on Twitter, it’s not surprising when Steak-Umm’s social media accounts rant about cognitive dissonance, or for Popeyes and Chick-fil-A to fight publicly and pettily about who has the better fried chicken sandwich.

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Cooper Hotels CFO David Krueger retires

Hotel Business

Replacing him in the position is Allen Ruffin, who has been the company’s controller since 2000. Ruffin has been responsible for overseeing all hotel accounting functions including direction of all controllers in the field. He has more than 39 years of experience in finance and accounting.

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The Evolution of Restaurant Technology: What’s Next?

Modern Restaurant Management

We would take all our invoices, mail them to the accountants and they would process all the invoices for us in financial reports. If you look back to the late 90s the internet really changed software, and then in the late 2000's the mobile device changed all software.

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Five Signs You Need to Switch from Excel to Scheduling Software

7 Shifts

I had one email [account] just for time off,” says Kim Jackson, District Manager and Franchise Trainer for The Human Bean. “We Recommended Reading: How Shift Scheduling Software Helps Restaurants Save $2000 Per Month. We used to just not do shift changes,” Jackson added. Even the managers who are most on the ball can overlook things.

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Food Hall Brand Finding Community in Emerging Markets

Modern Restaurant Management

In Orlando, our most recent project, we added a 5000 sq ft space for seated or standing events and a 2000 sq ft kitchen for food prep. Vendors can focus on their craft (food, beverage, and customer service) while my team and I manage the back-end work like accounting, operations, and marketing.

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