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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

Modern Restaurant Management

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion in revenue from April through September of 2020—compared with $2.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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7shifts Audio Series 001: Preston Junger on opportunity for restaurants and the evolution of restaurant technology

7 Shifts

For restaurants, 2020 was a year full of challenges. In 2021, we are looking ahead with an eye towards growth, and evolution. We sat down with 7shifts' very own Preston Junger to chat about opportunities for restaurants and how restaurant technology is evolving for the inaugural episode of our interview podcast. Here are just some of the highlights from the full episode, available on Spotify , Google Podcasts , YouTube , and wherever you enjoy podcasts.

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Mutual Aid Collectives Provide an Essential Lifeline for Dallas’s Unhoused Population During the Winter Storm

EATER

As governments fail Dallas’s unhoused population, a collective of organizers across the city worked around the clock to feed the residents of Camp Rhonda, an encampment for unhoused people that’s been under threat of shutdown [link].

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Opening A Restaurant In London? Here’s What You Need To Know

The Restaurant Times

The restaurant industry is changing in London. While this spells good news for successful owners, it can give newbies such as yourself, more competition than you may be ready to face. Almost every street has bars, fast food restaurants, cafes and pubs that offer everything from Spanish, Italian and French to Indian cuisine. As such, the demand for diverse menus has increased exponentially in the city.

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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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Data and the Rising Demand for Off-Premise (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia discusses the rising demand for off-premise and more with Brian Wayne, VP of Customer Success at QSR Automations. Working with restaurants for more than two decades, the company has a good view of the industry and its challenges. The pandemic, however, disrupted it significantly. “The biggest pivot was to curbside.

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The Perks of Working for Delivery Apps Are Dwindling Amid Scams and Scheduling Penalties

EATER

Shutterstock. Instacart workers say they’ve been suspended from accounts for failed deliveries, even in cases where the customers don’t pick up their calls or aren’t home Apps like Uber, Instacart and Postmates initially drew in gig workers with the promise of easy money (pick up a shift on your lunch break!), flexible hours, and unlimited earning potential.

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What Does The Future Hold For The Restaurant Industry? Here Are The Top 6 Technology Trends To Watch

The Restaurant Times

The novel COVID-19 virus has transformed the restaurant industry like never before. Technology and automation, once considered an additional expense, has now become a necessity in the F&B industry. Technology and automation have helped restaurants transform in the way how they operate and thrive in the new connected and contactless era. Given the potential for increased revenue, restaurants today can no longer afford to miss the latest restaurant technology trends that are helping businesses

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Opening a Ghost Kitchen? Know the Laws That Will Impact Your Business

Modern Restaurant Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way restaurants do business. Many areas across the country are in the midst of a “second lockdown,” as state and local governments are again restricting businesses with indoor dining to help curb COVID-19’s spread. The second lockdown, together with the first (occurring in areas throughout the country in the second quarter of 2020), has helped accelerate a new restaurant business model—the ghost kitchen.

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The 5 Most Popular Restaurant Point of Sale Systems

MBB Hospitality

A good point of sale system is essential for your restaurant. While it may not be visible to customers the computer system provides communication and ease of use to your workers, and communication is where customer issues start to arise. This article discusses a few of the most popular restaurant point of system, or POS, available on the market today and there advantages.

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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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Venmo and CashApp Delay Distribution of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Mutual Aid in Texas

EATER

Sending limits on mobile payment platforms like Venmo and CashApp have made it difficult to distribute the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for Dallasites in need this week [link].

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5 Proven Strategies To Enhance Customer Loyalty Through Online Ordering System

The Restaurant Times

Online ordering has flourished with time and completely transformed the way restaurants deliver food. Customers are now seeking convenience and expecting timely and hygienic doorstep delivery options. Providing online food ordering is also considered a proven restaurant marketing strategy that tends to increase its revenue, sales, and profit margin.

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Delivering a Solution for Underutilized Kitchens

Modern Restaurant Management

Chicago-based Foodhaul is a digital platform that partners with chefs to create menus for delivery-only virtual restaurant brands. “We create an opportunity and a solution for third-party restaurants and hospitality partners to use their existing, underutilized kitchens and labor to generate new revenues by licensing and executing our virtual concepts,” explained founder and CEO Bill Stavrou.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-February 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features news of restaurant resiliency, dining trends in Canada, restaurant salaries across the U.S. and more. Restaurant Resiliency. Throughout one of the most challenging years for U.S. restaurants, the industry demonstrated its resiliency against a variety of headwinds throughout 2020 by rising from a -35 percent traffic decline in April to a -11 percent visit decrease in December compared to year ago, reports The NPD Group.

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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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Proper Preparation Might Lead to Increased Media Exposure

Modern Restaurant Management

Let’s face it, many people find public speaking a daunting task. If you add lights, cameras, and an action-packed newsroom, it’s easy for anyone to become overwhelmed. In today’s media landscape, many interviews are taking place on Zoom which can add more complexity to the interview process. But no matter what the medium is, more often than not, an unprepared source can unwittingly squander a media opportunity while a well-prepared source will move the interview from average to

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Restaurant Management: The Math

Modern Restaurant Management

This an excerpt from Bruce Nelson's Restaurant Management: the Myth, the Magic, the Math. Part Three – The Math. “The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.” —Euclid of Alexandria. Oh yes, the math. This is usually the part that throws most restaurateurs for a loop. A while back, I was enjoying a nice breakfast with the minister of my church one day when he looked at me somewhat slyly and said, “You know why I got into ministry?

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The Importance of Water Filtration in Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

In the restaurant business, customer satisfaction is in the details, from the dining room’s aesthetic to the chef’s signature dish. One small detail that may often be overlooked is the quality of the water used to prepare food and drinks. When water is clean, clear, and free of contaminants, customers might not even realize why their soda is fresh, their dishes are clean, and their ice is crystal clear.

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How Did Brands Score in Super Bowl Advertising? (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia talks about how restaurant-related brands are using national televison advertising to engage with customers. Listen to a replay on how food ads did during the Super Bowl with Bob Kraut and Kevin Krim of EDO, which works with advertisers, agencies, and TV networks to drive better value for media investments.

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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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Winter Weather Crisis Is Also a Food Crisis

EATER

Customers wait in line to enter an H-E-B supermarket in Round Rock, Texas, on February 16. | Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images. Widespread power outages and freezing weather leave many in the U.S. without food and water An Arctic blast swept in ice, snow, and freezing temperatures across nearly three-quarters of the lower 48 states starting on the weekend, burying much of the continental U.S. in a winter weather crisis made worse by massive power outages and other infrastructure pro

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As Ted Cruz Jets Off to Cancun, One Texas Rep Will Distribute Essential Supplies in Houston

EATER

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee will distribute groceries, bottled water, and other supplies to Houstonians in need [link].

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Why Did a Portland Grocery Store Throw Out Thousands of Pounds of Food During a Snow Storm?

EATER

A conflict broke out between Fred Meyer store employees and the people who were salvaging food, to the point where a manager called the police [link].

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‘Challenging Is Not Nearly a Strong Enough Word’

EATER

High-risk restaurant workers are struggling to navigate the pandemic For nearly a year, restaurant workers everywhere have faced unprecedented challenges as they’ve sought to weather the coronavirus pandemic. “The worst thing about it is the uncertainty,” says Michael Roper, who owns Hopleaf Bar in Chicago and is at high risk for severe COVID-19. “I have only one fully functioning lung. … I don’t want to be gasping for life and have a terrible end.

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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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European Pre-Lent Pastries Are the Perfect Cure for February

EATER

Semlor | Shutterstock. A brief guide to krapfen, paczki, and semlor Every year, as February approaches and thoughts of Christmas are long gone, European bakeries disrupt the bleakness of midwinter with windows and display cases filled with delightfully rich sweets seldom seen the rest of the year. The tradition is a hangover from the days when the Christian festival of Lent — which this year begins February 17 — meant giving up all that was good, like sugar, eggs, butter, and fat, for the 40 day

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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes, According to Eater Editors

EATER

Canna Obscura /Shutterstock. From tall and fluffy to chewy and dense, your next perfect chocolate chip cookie might be among this batch What constitutes the “perfect” chocolate chip cookie is an intensely personal calculus: a balance of your preference for chewiness versus crispiness, multiplied by your desired chocolate-to-dough ratio then divided by the ideal salty savoriness versus chocolatey sweetness (clearly, actual calculus is not our strong suit).

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Before No-Recipe Cooking, There Was Mrs. Levy

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Nick Mancall-Bitel. Look past the giblet pudding and cholera cures, and you’ll find a 19th-century cookbook that anticipates a 21st-century cooking trend The full title of Mrs. Levy’s book, as it appears on the cover, is Mrs. Esther Levy’s Jewish Cookery Book on Principles of Economy Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers With Medical Recipes and Other Valuable Information Relative to Housekeeping and Domestic Management and Being the First Jewish Cookbook Published in America as Published in Philadelp

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Three Industry Professionals on the Future of Restaurant Criticism

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D’Ara Nazaryan. On February 24, writers Tejal Rao, Devra First, and Korsha Wilson will join in conversation with Eater’s Ashok Selvam Eater Talks: The Future of Restaurant Criticism. February 24 — 1:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 a.m. PT. For decades, the restaurant critic’s job has been to recreate the tastes, smells, service, and ambiance of the dining experience for readers, putting into words the flavors of a perfectly cooked brisket or the complex aromas of a tagine.

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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.