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Planning the Great Restaurant Comeback

Modern Restaurant Management

As states begin lifting stay-at-home orders, some regions have resumed in-person restaurant dining operations. The National Restaurant Association recently issued guidance on food safety and social distancing precautions as restaurants begin their reopening planning efforts – preparing for significant shifts in the traditional dining experience.

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How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Let’s face it—chefs are clean freaks. Who can blame them? There’s nothing better than a tidy workstation and clean range hood before service hour; and the post-shift scrub down of the kitchen can be a form of meditation for stressed out chefs. Chefs pride themselves on their sparkling kitchens, and during COVID-19, customers need more than ever to be reassured of the cleanliness and safety of ordering from your restaurant.

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Undocumented Workers Hold the Restaurant Industry Together. Now, They Stand to Lose the Most.

EATER

WStudio /Shutterstock. The pandemic has left the country’s most vulnerable with nowhere to turn This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Prior to the pandemic, Reyes delivered food and washed dishes for a restaurant in New York City. Now, with the restaurant reduced to serving take-out, he’s mainly just doing deliveries and, as a result, making less than half the income he used to.

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Use The Right Food Delivery Packaging To Convey Quality And Create Brand Recall

The Restaurant Times

In a delivery-only restaurant business, the food you serve remains one of the main parameters to differentiate your brand from the rest. However, the packaging of food is important as it captures the attention of customers and creates a desirable brand perception. However, the primary purpose of packaging is to protect the food from contamination, maintain the right food temperatures, and prevent it from spilling.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Healthy Hand Washing Experience: Five Restroom Upgrades Restaurants Need Now

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant environments are known for their adherence to cleanliness, the pandemic has elevated the awareness of hand-to-surface contact and placed an emphasis on proper hand washing. “As businesses and public establishments reopen and Americans return to using facilities, all eyes are on public restrooms,” says Jon Dommisse, director of strategy and corporate development, Bradley Corp., a global manufacturer of restroom equipment. “Today’s commercial washroom will

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I’m Baking the Hell Out of This Quarantine Thanks to ‘BraveTart’

EATER

A Boston cream pie baked by the author | Adam Moussa. If you want to emerge from lockdown a better baker, start with Stella Parks’s excellent book Every time I cook from Stella Parks’s 2017 book BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts , I find one predictable pattern emerges. I reach the downtime of a given recipe — whether it’s a devil’s food chocolate cake baking away in the oven or a chocolate pudding setting in the fridge — and I lean against my kitchen counter, flipping through the 397 pages th

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Restaurant Owners Gain Bargaining Power to Limit Losses

Restaurant Engine

There is a silver lining to the current crisis for restaurant owners. After an uninterrupted decade of rising costs and competition, COVID-19 has granted restaurant owners renewed power at the negotiation table. Owners are seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lower nearly every expense, often well below pre-coronavirus rates. The first item that most restaurant owners are renegotiating is rent.

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Open With Care

Modern Restaurant Management

ViewHouse, an eatery, bar and rooftop in Colorado opened for in-store dining at all four of their locations on May 27 with a new ‘Open with Care’ campaign: a new care plan to make it safer for guests and employees in response to COVID-19. The campaign, detailed in the video above, includes conducting staff symptom screenings prior to their shift, requiring that staff wear face masks & gloves, implementing six-foot spacing measures for social distancing, offering hand sanitizing s

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Proven Tips to Deliver Orders on Time Despite Shortage of Delivery Staff or Spike in Volumes

The Restaurant Times

With communities working to limit the spread of COVID-19 and adapting to changing lifestyles, restaurants are also evolving their business models and following new guidelines in a quest to retain their relationships with consumers. Restaurant food delivery or online food ordering, which was earlier thought of as a convenience, has now become an absolute necessity.

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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Minneapolis Restaurant Owner Says ?Let My Building Burn, Justice Needs to Be Served?

EATER

Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images. In response to the fire damage caused to their restaurant during the ongoing George Floyd protests, the owners of the beloved Bangladeshi restaurant Gandhi Mahal are still siding with the protesters Protests have broken out in Minneapolis and across the country in response to the death of George Floyd , who was suffocated by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as he pushed his knee into the unarmed and begging man’s neck during an arrest.

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How to Calculate Food Cost in 2020 (The Ultimate Guide)

Eat Restaurant Management

Whether you're putting together a menu for your newly opened restaurant, trying to budget for weekly expenditures, or thinking about implementing menu engineering practices, calculating food cost is one of the most essential pieces of information you can possess as a restaurant owner/operator. It forms the basis of proper restaurant accounting.

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How QSRs Can Leverage Mobile to Win Back Customers

Modern Restaurant Management

The coronavirus pandemic has greatly disrupted businesses across every sector, but the economic situation has proven to be especially difficult for the restaurant industry. Recent surveys show that Americans are less likely now to visit restaurant locations, order takeout or get food delivered to them. And yet, despite this environment, some quick serve restaurant (QSR) brands are still seeing success.

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Poised For Growth: How Singapore Food Delivery Market Is Attracting Interest from F&B businesses

The Restaurant Times

Singapore’s F&B industry has evolved significantly in the last two decades. Today, customers can easily order food online and have it delivered to their homes within the shortest time possible. The growth rate for online food ordering and home delivery has been over 20% over the last five years alone. Online food delivery rates are expected to grow to more than $220 billion by 2025, contributing about 40% of the total restaurant sales.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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Without the Tourists, the Fate of Portuguese Food Is Unclear

EATER

Portugal reopened restaurants on May 18, but dining rooms remain far from packed | NurPhoto via Getty Images. Portugal is reopening, but its food scene is more reliant than most on tourists. So what happens now? Nowhere in Europe has tourism played as big a role in shaping the overall food scene as Portugal. Over the last several years there’s been a drastic spike in the number of travelers flocking to the Iberian country — tourism pumped 18 million euros into the local economy in 2019 alone (co

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Lindsey Autry: this isn’t a business you can do alone

OpenTable

The coronavirus pandemic has shown that for restaurants, community comes first – including staff, guests, and professional peers. Operators are quick to stand in solidarity and share struggles and successes. As part of OpenTable’s partnership with Top Chef’s Restaurant Wars , we tapped into that spirit of generosity, asking chefs to tell us about the ups and downs of their careers: lessons learned, mistakes made, and their personal evolution along the way.

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Return to Revenue: Manifesto Market Realizes Record Income After Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

Manifesto Market A/B tested two responses to the coronavirus crisis and generates record income after the reopening. We are two weeks into the first phase of post-covid reopening in Prague, which began with outdoor restaurants on May 11, followed by indoor spaces this week. From the moment Manifesto was able to offer on-premise experiences again, the sales beat same day YOY sales figures seen in 2019.

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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Restaurant Food Costs?

MBB Hospitality

You may be curious about what the pandemic means for restaurant food costs. You may also have noticed that your restaurant or grocery bill is a little higher than usual. With the coronavirus pandemic spreading, it seems like the price of everything steadily rising. Keeping calm in tough times is an important part of running a business. If meat prices are taking a toll on your wallet, there are steps you can take to reduce the impact of expensive food.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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The Rib Rub Famed Charleston Pitmaster Rodney Scott Swears By

EATER

Chances are you already have all the spices you need for this recipe Ask any Charleston local about Rodney Scott , and they’ll tell you that he smokes some of the best whole hogs in the state — and that they’re probably all too familiar with the multi-hour drive for a taste of Scott’s smokey barbecue. A barbecue legend and James Beard Award-winning pitmaster, Scott has overseen Rodney Scott’s BBQ since opening in 2017; before that, he worked the pits at his family’s restaurant in Hemingway, abou

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Use The Right Food Delivery Packaging To Convey Quality And Create Brand Recall

The Restaurant Times

In a delivery-only restaurant business, the food you serve remains one of the main parameters to differentiate your brand. However, the packaging of food is important as it captures the attention of customers and creates a desirable brand perception. However, the primary purpose of packaging is to protect the food from contamination, maintain the right food temperatures, and prevent it from spilling.

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Takeout For Good and Menus Go Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Takeout For Good. GroupRaise is inviting restaurants across the country to join their Takeout For Good initiative happening on June 2. Participating restaurants will donate 15-25 percent of sales to their local food bank and over 1500 restaurants nationwide have already joined the initiative.

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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Restaurant Food Costs?

MBB Hospitality

You may be curious about what the pandemic means for restaurant food costs. You may also have noticed that your restaurant or grocery bill is a little higher than usual. With the coronavirus pandemic spreading, it seems like the price of everything steadily rising. Keeping calm in tough times is an important part of running a business. If meat prices are taking a toll on your wallet, there are steps you can take to reduce the impact of expensive food.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a

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How to Organize Your Fridge

EATER

Shutterstock. It doesn’t need to look perfect to make a big difference in how you cook A cocktail of dread and guilt sometimes keeps me from going deep into my fridge. I have to move bunches of carrots and kale back to their designated shelves, and the takeout containers need to be stacked and labeled. And there, once hidden in the very back corner is a mushy, forgotten, aggressively decomposing head of lettuce.

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Why Investing in Cloud Kitchen Operations can Unlock New Revenue Streams for Businesses in Singapore

The Restaurant Times

Across the world, the trend of online food delivery is picking up like never before. With a shift towards the online delivery model, the market share of cloud kitchens, also known as dark kitchens, ghost kitchens, virtual restaurant, and delivery-only restaurant, has been steadily growing. Singapore is no exception. The restaurant industry in the island country has observed a substantial rise in the total number of cloud kitchens that have come into operation recently.

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Lessons Learned: Strategies from Foodservice Standouts

Modern Restaurant Management

The world as we know it certainly made a sudden change as we shut down to self-quarantine in April. With foodservice being an industry that took one of the biggest economic hits, we certainly saw the companies that truly stood out to help their teams and communities all the while working to stay in business. Here are a few of the lessons from these standout foodservice brands that we can take note of their strategy, marketing, and pivots during a global crisis.

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11 Event Decor Ideas and Products Designed to Keep Guests Safe

BizBash

From branded PPE to bumper tables, here are some creative decor products and ideas for future in-person events.

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Business Automation in Hospitality: A New World

Dive into the transformative potential of business automation within the hospitality sector. This comprehensive overview showcases how innovative technologies can streamline operations, reduce costs, and elevate guest satisfaction. Discover the advantages of integrating systems like automated check-ins, CRM, and energy management to not only save on expenses but also to provide a seamless and personalized guest experience.