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Adapting Post-COVID: What’s Changing For Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

We will also see a rise in use of virtual waitlist and reservation platforms across restaurants. With 71 percent of operators saying they had profit margins under 10 percent in 2019 alone, a focus on dollars and cents will be more crucial than ever post-pandemic. Revisiting Tech Stacks to Connect Data.

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The Return of the Hot Table

EATER

at Shukette, the group’s latest addition, are full up for the next three weeks on Resy, the reservation-making platform. That happens minutes after reservations open at 9 a.m. From what she’s seeing, the reservations in the city are more in demand now than they were even in 2019. Lucia Pham /Eater.

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Restaurant Math Isn’t Working

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Margins are tighter than ever as restaurants try to balance higher costs of rent and ingredients, reservation site fees and insurance premiums , and paying fair wages, all while trying to keep prices at a level customers will actually pay. We probably have fewer people working at the restaurant than we did in 2019.

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NLRB Joint Employer Final Rule and America’s Classics

Modern Restaurant Management

” Evidence of indirect and/or contractually reserved control over essential employment terms may be a consideration for finding joint-employer status under the final rule, but it cannot give rise to such status without substantial direct and immediate control. owner of the Chili's® Grill & Bar brand. "Yelp

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. See clean in action through front-of-house products, procedures and signage. The average salary for a chef or head cook was $56,310 in 2019. In 2019, 15.7 Dining During COVID.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. In the front of house, we are seeing more kiosk adoption. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

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3 Issues Restaurant Owners Will Face This Holiday Season

NCC USA

With this holiday season expected to look a little more like the all-out celebrations of 2019, pull up your POS data from three years ago to get a read on what this coming peak might bring. And if your POS isn’t holding onto that data anymore, calculate your year-on-year growth since 2019 to estimate the numbers for Holiday 2022.