Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2021

Valentine’s Day is coming up – one of the busiest holidays of the year for restaurants. According to SlickText’s “2021 Share the Love Survey,” 34 percent of respondents said their biggest Valentine’s Day spend will be at restaurants and 46 percent are prioritizing spending money at local businesses. Even with COVID-19 causing unexpected changes to your usual Valentine's Day plans, there are plenty of creative ways your restaurant can celebrate a day of lov

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JANUARY 26, 2021

2020 was a year that the restaurant industry won’t soon forget. From a projected record growth at the top of the year to a decline of nearly $240 billion in sales and 2.5 million out of work, it was nothing short of devastating. Through it all, we emerge from the year as an industry in evolution—and our restaurants need to evolve with it. We’re not talking about just surviving the pandemic—but thriving through 2021 and beyond, and setting new standards.

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EATER

JANUARY 28, 2021

Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images. Eat fresh what exactly?? Earlier today, the Washington Post reported that Subway’s tuna sandwiches are actually made of a delicious sounding melange called “concoctions.” According to a lawsuit filed by Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the filling is “made from anything but tuna,” and is instead “a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet hav

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Restaurant Engine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Bring a new group of patrons to your restaurants with lunch specials. More than 90% of American workers buy their lunch out at least once a week. This is a great target audience for your restaurant and a great way to build your business. In this article, we look at how daily lunch specials can drive new patrons at your restaurant. You’ll be more profitable if you can increase your lunch sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 27, 2021

COVID-19 has forced restaurants to rely on takeout and delivery sales to drive the majority of their sales. For some, off-premise already constituted a large percentage of their revenue, and they had the systems in place to pivot when dining rooms closed. Many others, however, had to build their off-premise operations from scratch to combat sudden dine-in closures.

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EATER

JANUARY 25, 2021

A Godiva store in Manhattan, New York. | Photo: NYCStock /Shutterstock. Where will you buy a last minute Mother’s Day gift now? Godiva is riding its company horse out of North America and shutting down or selling all 128 of its brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S. and Canada by the end of March, the chocolatier announced on Sunday. The company’s stores in the Middle East, Europe, and China will remain open, but that’s of little use to America’s last-minute gift-givers who previously could’ve c

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LimeTray

JANUARY 28, 2021

In the last few years, there has been a huge rise in online ordering. As social distancing becomes the norm, customers all over the world have switched to getting their food delivered straight to them instead of dining out. Today, restaurants need an effective system that lets them track orders easily while storing useful customer data too. The right kind of technology can make it much simpler to run your restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

If one thing is clear, it’s that outdoor dining is here to stay. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many restaurants have had to rethink their spaces in order to accommodate additional outdoor dining capacity. All over the country, restaurants have gotten creative to reconfigure outdoor spaces into al fresco dining areas. It makes sense that customers are wary of the indoor dining experience right now.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 29, 2021

The pandemic is turning out to be a pivotal moment in how nations, companies, and people are responding to the crisis. Like no other event in history, 2020 has turned around economies across the world — transforming how people work, communicate, eat, and shop. Today, more than ever, restaurants and the foodservice industry are truly essential. The COVID-19 showed us how quickly consumer behavior changes and how resilient is the restaurant industry.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2021

Why? | Kraft. The special sweetened powder will also turn your mac and cheese hot pink You ever bite into a creamy, comforting forkful of mac and cheese and think that what it really needs is some sugar? No! You have not! But maybe Kraft is suffering from quarantine brain because that’s exactly what it’s offering this Valentine’s Day. “Candy Kraft Mac & Cheese is made with the same cheesy Kraft Mac & Cheese Americans know and love, but includes a candy flavor packet to turn the mac &

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LimeTray

JANUARY 26, 2021

Online marketing is paramount for any business today. Before a customer even walks into your restaurant, he or she has already checked out your menu online, scrolled through multiple reviews, and glanced at ratings as well. Given the ever-increasing screen time of people all across the world, you need to engage in effective online marketing constantly if you want to keep bringing in new customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2021

In response to the unparalleled challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis, restaurants are going to great lengths to adhere to countless hygiene protocols that will provide a safer, cleaner environment for their customers and employees. Whether it’s offering dining in, takeout or delivery, businesses are committed to keeping their employees safe and helping a cautious public feel more confident about eating out again.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 28, 2021

Food presentation is the art of decorating, modifying, arranging, or processing food to enhance its aesthetic appeal. It evokes a positive impression in the customer’s mind as it showcases the standard of the restaurant. Customers can easily judge the hygiene standards , and quality, of a dish based on how the food is presented to them. Thus, along with infusing the right taste and flavors, presenting the food correctly is essential for the dine-in restaurant.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Jeni’s Ice Cream. And no one at Eater knows how to react In 2019, Eater Young Gun Christina Nguyen (’14) of Hai Hai in Minneapolis espoused on the glory of Everything But the Bagel seasoning from Trader Joe’s, a combination of sesame seeds, garlic, onion, salt, and poppy seeds that becomes a delicious impetus to floss. “I think that any opportunity to make anything into an everything bagel is always good,” she said, and listed everything she’s put it on so far — hummus, avocado, roasted vegetabl

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2021

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant owners scrambled to adjust to new laws, procedures and safeguards. For many, it meant shutting their doors temporarily or operating with reduced staff. If good help was already hard to find, then the pandemic exacerbated that challenge. Now that most restaurants have opened their doors, they’re realizing that the landscape has changed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2021

You may be tired of hearing it, but the restaurant business will never go back to the old way of doing things. Customer demand and hygiene anxiety has already made sure of that. Most agree that an integral part of moving forward is adopting new tech, and I am firmly on that bandwagon. Since the pandemic hit, most discussion has been around customer-facing tech like ghost kitchens, digital-only restaurants, and other no-touch processes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2021

The restaurant industry and others could be on the brink of recovery, according to data contained in Yelp’s Annual 2020 Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. In fact, In the third quarter of 2020, YEA observed restaurant and food businesses open at pre-pandemic levels and data indicates the number of restaurant and food business openings approached and even surpassed 2019 levels in the fourth quarter.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 26, 2021

As new challenges arise and consumers demand change, new technology solutions emerge to help restaurant owners keep up. The digital transformation will support restaurant owners in ways that may not have been previously possible. The speed with which the industry shifts is only increasing. As a restaurant owner, this means that you must learn how to evolve quickly to fit today’s standards.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2021

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia talks about hot button restaurant industry issues such curbside pickup and delivery, outdoor dining and more with Buck Sleeper, Director of Retail and Restaurants at EPAM Continuum. Sleeper believes curbside is here to stay, but increasing human interaction is still a challenge.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Consider the presentation, he says, or how the staff feels like family. Then, of course, there’s the Chiang Mai duck carnitas.

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EATER

JANUARY 26, 2021

There’s a yearning to reconnect with family recipes not written on paper. | Getty Images. With nearly 50,000 members, Facebook group Black Girls Cook & Meal Plan is preserving soul food traditions for a new generation of home cooks When I was a child, my mother taught me how to cook by demonstration. Most times she just wanted me to wash the dishes, but even with my back turned and my arms elbow deep in warm, soapy water, she explained everything she was doing to prepare my favorite feast, b

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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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JANUARY 26, 2021

Gina Weathersby. From a CBD-infused take on Sonic to a pop-up bakery offering dalgona coffee pie to drive-thru chili-topped spaghetti, here’s where to eat in the Queen City The Queen City of the West was in the midst of a dining boom before the coronavirus pandemic hit. The city’s Germanic roots were holding steady in European-inspired kitchens, and its eponymous cinnamon-spiced chili was still being ladled over spaghetti and smothered in shredded cheddar.

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EATER

JANUARY 25, 2021

After nearly two months, the regional lockdown that restricted restaurants to takeout service only has ended, with caveats [link].

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JANUARY 25, 2021

There are caveats and questions regarding the expected announcement by governor Newsom today at noon. Here’s what to know so far [link].

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Pizza Hut’s new Detroit-style pizza is available starting today. | Photo: Pizza Hut. The chain’s take will be true to the traditional Detroit style, defined by a square or rectangular deep-dish shape, pan-crisped crust, and tomato sauce dolloped on top Pizza Hut is going full Midwestern, announcing today the nationwide launch of a new Detroit-style pizza.

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