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Boosting Your Restaurant Business During the Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

Delivery and DIY. Given that many are not yet comfortable dining out, restaurant businesses are struggling to make ends meet. But, some owners have used this adversity as an opportunity to innovate and find alternative ways to keep their businesses running. COVID-19, in that regard, has definitely changed the future of restaurants. If you have not put in a takeout or delivery program, it's not too late.

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How NYC Restaurants Can Thrive Through the Winter

7 Shifts

"Winter is coming".said every restaurateur in existence. 2020 was a tough year, and you made a ton of sacrifices and difficult decisions already. But 2021 is the year to evolve your restaurant for whatever comes next. Even with positive movements towards a Coronavirus vaccine, the pandemic is still very much a part of our lives. As is the cold weather, giving way to new restrictions and challenges that make it harder for restaurants to do business.

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How I Found Empowerment in the History of Black Veganism

EATER

The imagery of veganism propagated by the wellness industry erases the long — and often radical — history of plant-based diets in the Black diaspora I used to think of pork as a life-giving food. One of my happiest childhood memories is shaking a fat pork chop in a Ziploc bag full of Shake ’n Bake seasoning before my grandmother slapped a few on a tray and put them in the oven.

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Pete Wells Should Step Down As NYT Restaurant Critic

The Restaurant Manifesto

The newspaper's unyielding commitment to white food critics needs to end. The post Pete Wells Should Step Down As NYT Restaurant Critic appeared first on THE RESTAURANT MANIFESTO.

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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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Building a Strategy of Trust and Safety in the Restaurant Industry Amid Covid-19

Modern Restaurant Management

With health and safety on the forefront of everyone’s minds, restaurants need to build their strategies upon a foundation of trust and safety. To learn how you can adapt your strategy to account for difficulties and uncertainties in the current environment, read the tips below: Maximizing Safety with Covid-19 Testing. From beginning to end, the dining experience is filled with close in-person interactions.

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The Internet’s Most Incredible Collection of Food History Has Been Saved

EATER

Illustration by D’Ara Nazaryan. The Food Timeline — librarian Lynne Olver’s years-long endeavor to catalog the entire history of food — was in danger of disappearing forever, but it’s found a new home at Virginia Tech’s special collections archive A few years ago, I was working on a story about bread soup when I stumbled upon a gold mine of culinary research called the Food Timeline.

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Social Media Marketing: 10 Ideas for Promoting Your Best Dishes

Restaurant Engine

With the right smartphone or camera, you can take great looking food photos. Is social media marketing on the menu for your restaurant’s marketing plan? If not, it’s time now to harness its power for your restaurant. You know that owning a restaurant takes a lot of time and a lot of work. Not only are you responsible for staff, your menu, your customers, and keeping everything moving, you are responsible for marketing your restaurant in the best way possible.

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Be Nimble, Be Quick: What Consumers Want in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

The old nursery rhyme, “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick” could sum up the actions of successful restaurant operators in 2020. And, based on our recent survey of 830 US consumers, it’s likely a good mantra for 2021. Our team at Revenue Management Solutions has been carefully tracking consumer attitudes and behavior shifts since the start of the pandemic (April 2020) with qualitative and quantitative surveys across the US and from our international offices.

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How Restaurants are Evolving Labor with Third-Party Delivery in 2021

7 Shifts

The restaurant industry will look back on 2020 as the spark that changed how it does business. The COVID-19 pandemic left dining rooms empty and accelerated the industry’s shift to third-party delivery services as a major revenue driver. With this shift comes a challenge to labor conventions: how does one properly staff and budget for labor in this new era for dining?

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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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Prince Street Pizza Owners Step Down After a Series of Racist Comments Resurface Online

EATER

[A slice of Prince Street Pizza] | Nick Solares /Eater. Comments by Frank and Dominic Morano, the father-and-son owners of the NYC-based bi-coastal operation, were resurfaced by food blogger Joe Rosenthal in December [link].

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How NYC.PIE is Creating A Niche In The Pizzeria Market

The Restaurant Times

NYC.PIE was founded by Mr. Raj Rao, an F&B veteran in August of 2014. Raj worked in the US for 30 odd years and on returning to India, he could not find a stand-alone Pizza place apart from the 5-star hotel brands and felt that he needs to do something about it. NYC.PIE has already gained popularity in Gurugram & New Delhi and is in talks with franchise partners for strategic expansion besides opening some more company-owned outlets. .

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Lifting Up to a New Level

Modern Restaurant Management

When Matt Swank purchased Lena’s Pizza in Fredonia, New York, his first challenge was dealing with the brand’s legacy, while wanting to put his own mark on the business. “We faced the challenge of making sure our existing customers knew we were keeping the product the same historical product for which we had become known,” he told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. “However, we also wanted to add our own touch to some new menu items.” To help direct

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How to Improve Efficiency at Your Restaurant

Eat Restaurant Management

Efficiency is a critical component of restaurant success.

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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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Whole Foods Cuts Paid Breaks From 15 to 10 Minutes for Thousands of Workers

EATER

The change, according to the company, is being made to regulate policies across stores and states When the pandemic began last March, grocery stores across the country were pressured into giving their workers, who were classified as essential, some better protections. There was extra “hazard pay,” as well as paid sick leave and other benefits extended to part-time workers.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features restaurant industry year-end totals, how restaurant labor is evolving, fast-food brand intimacy and top cities for locavores. An Unpopular Year. The U.S. restaurant industry closed one of the most unpopular years in history moving its way out of the steepest declines the industry has experienced since the Great Recession, reports The NPD Group.

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How Can Restaurants Manage the Disposables Dilemma?

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q: How can restaurateurs get their hands on the right disposable products and packaging to support off-premise dining and ensure operational costs don’t increase with the high demand?

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Five CX Strategies Restaurants Can Use to Gain a Competitive Edge During Challenging Times

Modern Restaurant Management

There’s no disputing that the past year has been extremely hard on the restaurant industry overall. According to Upserve’s 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry Report, the industry will collectively lose $240 billion, with casual dining sales volume down by 60 percent and fast casual down 50 percent. Even before a pandemic spread across the globe in early 2020, customer experience (CX) was always key to the success of restaurant brands.

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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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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

Flemming Madsen has journeyed from Demark to Florida and from investment banking to culinary entrepreneur. The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. Delicious Raw has locations in Naples, Davie and South Beach, with plans to open another one in Wynwood this year.

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Creating a Powerful Digital Presence (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this week's episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia speaks with BentoBox Co-Founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni about the necessity for restaurants to have a mobile-first approach to website design and how the pandemic has made the need for technology even more critical. “As technology has become more important in the dining out experience—definitely over the past decade, very much so over the past year—restauran

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The Rise of Virtual Brands (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia speaks with Aaron Noveshen, an F&B industry veteran who is a visionary in virtual concepts. His lifelong passion for food lead to his founding Starbird Chicken, a digital-first chicken concept based in Northern California. “From the start, we had an app and a frictionless, contactless digital experience, so we were well-positioned when the pandemic hit,” he recalled.

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Inside the Bubbling Business of Relaxation Drinks

EATER

To relax at the end of the day, maybe we take slow breaths or turn our fingers to prunes in the bath. But if some entrepreneurs have their way, it’ll mean cracking open a can. [link].

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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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A Scripted Julia Child Series Is Coming to HBO Max

EATER

Getty. Finally, just “Julia” Belatedly responding to everyone who wished Julie and Julia cut out the whole blogger plot, HBO Max has ordered a drama series based on the life of acclaimed chef, cookbook author and TV host Julia Child. “Julia” will star Happy Valley ’s Sarah Lancashire as Child. The cast also includes David Hyde Pierce as Child’s husband, Paul, Isabella Rossellini, and Bebe Neuwirth.

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How Rural Restaurants Can Help the UK’s Food Security Problem

Modern Restaurant Management

Food security, put simply, is the state of having reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food. While the UK benefits from a successful agricultural industry, many domestic and international factors affect food production and prices for consumers. This became evident during the world food price spike of 2008. A successful agricultural industry gives the perception that food security isn’t at risk in the UK.

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Quality Control

EATER

Why Big Olive Oil erupted over a boutique distributor’s claims to a fresher, healthier oil I needed a nice bottle of olive oil. We had moved across the country in January and were now in month three of the COVID-19 pandemic — my expectations were lowered enough that homemade pesto sounded like an extravagance. Helplessly bound to my own demographic profile (“buy local!

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America’s Independent Bowling Alleys Might Not Make It Through the Pandemic

EATER

Shutterstock. Alongside restaurants and bars, recreational spaces like bowling alleys are also feeling the pressures of indefinite COVID-19 closures Up until August of last year, Eric Wells worked as a bartender at Bay View Bowl in Milwaukee. “I’ve worked at so many bars around the country and it was the greatest job I’ve ever had. I love that place so much,” he says, adding that he made more there than any other prior service industry postings.

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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.