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Digital Solutions Keep Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

Throughout her career, Ellen Linardi has been driven by the passion to build products that help small businesses hold their own against big companies.That desire fueled the Global Head of Product for Clover and her team to help restaurant owners struggling during the pandemic pivot operations and compete in the now digital-first world. In just three weeks, they created a native solution that allowed Clover restaurant merchants to enable online ordering for delivery or curbside pickup.

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7 Restaurant Management Tools for Maximum Productivity

7 Shifts

The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, new fixes to make. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. But there are a number of different tools to help you manage your restaurant—from single shifts and tasks to top-level overviews that show you the health of your business.

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Spring’s Hottest Drop Is This New Shape of Pasta

EATER

Cascatelli pasta. | Photo: The Sporkful. “Cascatelli” is the result of one pasta-obsessed podcaster with a dream Capping off a banner year for pasta — in which customers cleared the shelves of dry varieties, boxed pasta packaging materials ran out, and the mystery of a bucatini shortage gripped the nation — a new pasta shape just dropped, which apparently is a thing that can happen??

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Restaurants Aren’t “Back” Because You Can Sit Down In One Again

The Restaurant Manifesto

We know you really miss dining out, but this isn’t about you. The post Restaurants Aren’t “Back” Because You Can Sit Down In One Again 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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Successful Restaurants Leverage Their Digital Ordering Channels

Modern Restaurant Management

The last year has had a profound impact on both restaurant operations and customer preferences, resulting in permanent changes. The impact of the global pandemic has fast-tracked the restaurant industry's need for digital ordering, particularly for off-premises dining options. Research company eMarketer forecasts that by the end of 2021, there will be 44.1 million users of food delivery apps in the U.S., and up to 53.9 million by the end of 2023.

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The Extremely Internet Saga of Shrimp in Some Dude’s Cinnamon Toast Crunch

EATER

Love those crazy shrimp | Shutterstock. It’s a story of alleged food tampering that somehow connects General Mills to Topanga from “Boy Meets World” On a level, everyone knows that contamination is possible when it comes to mass-produced food. Occasionally I have found a green bean in a bag of frozen peas or a tater tot in my fries, and it’s fine. But when it comes to “seafood” and “breakfast cereal,” we’d like to think factories are kept pretty separate.

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5 Email Marketing Best Practices for Restaurants

Restaurant Den

Large chains are taking over more and more of the restaurant market each year, making it difficult for smaller businesses to connect with an audience and differentiate themselves from other options. In such a competitive space, marketers need to leverage every tool at their disposal in order to achieve sustainable success. While email is no […].

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Contactless Ordering Isn’t Going Anywhere — Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Modern Restaurant Management

The pandemic has created unprecedented demand for online ordering platforms. Customer demand for delivery is 135 times higher than before COVID-19, according to Yelp. As a result, restaurants that have historically relied on in-person dining have either scrambled to create their own food ordering apps or have leaned on third-party services to do it for them.

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10 Best Ways Restaurants Can Reduce No Shows (With Examples)

Eat Restaurant Management

The impact of no-shows on restaurants. Industry insiders in a number of countries report a worrying trend of diners making multiple restaurant bookings then choosing which one they will honor at the last moment, without even notifying the other restaurants that they won’t be dining with them. For them, it's a "no-strings attached" situation where they can book a table at multiple restaurants and just show up for one without cancelling the others.

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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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The 17 Best Cookbooks of Spring 2021 

EATER

New titles from Nigella Lawson, Julia Turshen, Rodney Scott and more will shape the way you cook this season There’s really, finally an end in sight to pandemic life as we’ve known it. It seems safe to surmise that soon, Zoom parties will be swept aside for the real thing, and the slog of putting together yet another home-cooked meal will be broken by long-awaited dinners out.

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Why a POS is Vital to Streamline Your Cloud Kitchen Operations Based in the UAE

The Restaurant Times

The food delivery segment has grown by leaps and bounds with a steep rise in the number of restaurants shifting towards this formative model. According to statistics, the food delivery sector in the UAE is expected to grow at a rate of 6% annually which is set to continue for a minimum of five years. Cloud kitchens operate entirely via the backend and accept orders from various online food aggregators and online ordering websites/ mobile app.

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Pandemic Effect on F&B Marketing Trends (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

While more Americans are getting vaccinated and states are loosening their lockdown protocols, food and beverage consumers aren't necessarily resuming their former shopping behaviors. Union works closely with F&B brands that want to capitalize on the direct-to-consumer paradigm shift. They've created this infographic to outline how COVID-19 has impacted F&B consumer marketing trends.

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One Year Later: Are We Still Turning Tables on Pay-at-the-Table?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tech has taken its seat at the table – literally. Pay-at-the-table proved its value through the pandemic and breathed new life into old technology like QR codes. However, can innovation teach these old dogs new tricks, or will a post-pandemic environment sunset this trend? The Quintessential QR Comeback. QR codes were invented in the 90s but didn’t pick up steam until 2011 – when smartphones became the ubiquitous devices they are today.

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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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Don’t Be Chicken – How to Win the Chicken Wing Shortage

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: What are some go-to solutions for the chicken wing shortage? A : It’s been a year since the pandemic started and the world witnessed a shortage in toilet paper, hand sanitizers and grocery store staples.

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Your COVID-19 Survival Strategy: Now’s the Time to Maximize Profitability

Modern Restaurant Management

Previously, we focused on how to persuade customers to trust that our restaurants are safe to visit. Now, we turn our focus to you. How do you successfully reenter the world of service, sales, and most importantly, profitability as we bounce back from COVID-19? Start with Your Menu. Assuming your operation was open at all during COVID-19, you probably removed a number of items from your menu.

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Viable Restaurant Strategies for Handling the Third-Party Paradox

Modern Restaurant Management

The cost of partnering with third-party food delivery services can be high, but the cost of not doing so could be even higher. Even before the pandemic, this insight was fast-spreading as small, mid-size, and large restaurant chains alike did their best to keep up with the trend, accessing the customers that companies such as DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats had made available.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Arby’s ‘Beefs’ Up and SONIC Swag

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Flynn Acquires Hefty Portfolio. Flynn Restaurant Group LP acquired 937 Pizza Hut® and 194 Wendy’s® locations throughout the U.S. from Kansas City-based NPC International, nearly doubling its restaurant count.

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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 Value of Convenience (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

The pandemic pivot is a main topic of conversation in this episode of The Main Course as host Barbara Castiglia of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine speaks with Carl Howard, President and CEO of Fazoli’s. When COVID hit, Howard said they paused for a few weeks focusing on liquidity drivers, then went on the offense. “We wanted to solve the problem for Americans.

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Advocating for Hospitality (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course , Michele Stumpe, Partner at Taylor English Duma LLP discusses hospitality litigation and liability amidst the pandemic. During COVID-19, Stumpe has found her focus shifted. Her clients needed her but for a new reason. “I’ve been busier than ever but billed less than ever because so many of my clients are in a devastating situation,” she said. “I was helping them to understand the latest orders and actively working on their behalf with j

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Fast Food’s Retro Glow-Up

EATER

Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Brands like Burger King and KFC are reverting to retro logos in a nostalgia ploy, making you long for a time when your life was simpler While loading Burger King’s website, I saw the change firsthand. The words “Burger King” were italicized at first, surrounded by a yellow bun and encircled in Sonic the Hedgehog blue.

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Taking the Temperature: How Climate Change Is Reshaping the Way We Eat

EATER

Yadi Liu. After a year defined by a global struggle against a civilization-altering crisis, it’s almost too much to consider that another, even more catastrophic plight is bearing down on us. But it’s impossible to overstate the magnitude of the climate crisis , which is set to radically upend the existence of every person and creature on the planet.

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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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Dying Planet or Not, Americans Won’t Stop Eating Beef 

EATER

Despite the well-documented environmental impacts of the meat industry and the explosion of the market for plant-based alternatives, American meat consumption remains high. Grim new facts about meat’s impact on livestock , workers , and the planet seem to emerge every day, and when it comes to animal agriculture’s impact on the climate, the figures are particularly dour: The international livestock industry is responsible for 14.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases , while the cattle indust

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We’re All Learning to Love Jellyfish Now, Thanks to Climate Change

EATER

It’s hard to predict climate’s effects on ocean species, but one thing’s for sure: Change is coming to what you eat. Monterey, California, may be the “ calamari capital of the world ” — its waters serve as the spawning grounds for the lucrative California market squid , an iridescent mollusk that’s often steamed, boiled, and fried as calamari — but it’s not clear if the region will hold onto that title for much longer.

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U.K. Delivery Giant Deliveroo Tacitly Admits That Its Business Model Relies on a Lack of Workers’ Rights

EATER

The food delivery company said making riders employees “could affect our ability to continue operating” [link].

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José Andrés and WCK Partner With Panera, a Fast Food Andrés Actually Eats

EATER

The chain will raise up to $100,000 from sandwich sales to help the nonprofit fight food insecurity [link].

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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.