Sat.Nov 28, 2020 - Fri.Dec 04, 2020

article thumbnail

Six Ways Restaurants Can Drive Business Over the Holidays

Modern Restaurant Management

The holidays are known to be one of the busiest times of the year for restaurants. Between mid-shopping meals, family dinners, and work parties, restaurants prepare for their schedule to book up quickly. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, this year has thrown a curveball for everyone. Many restaurants have had to alter how they serve customers, and some have had to close their indoor dining and become creative with extending patio season.

Marketing 215
article thumbnail

Ultimate Restaurant Payroll Guide 2021

7 Shifts

Did you know that payroll/labor makes up almost one-third of a restaurant's operating costs ? While most restaurateurs are experts in hospitality and customer service, payroll makes many savvy business owners scratch their heads. Understanding the ins and outs of paying employees, observing labor laws, and complying with the tax code is critical to running a business.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Bay Area Will Fully Lock Down on December 6

EATER

Outdoor dining must cease, gatherings are forbidden, and nonessential trips are not allowed until at least January 4 [link].

145
145
article thumbnail

Is The Second Wave Of Covid-19 Around? Find Out How Restaurants Can Prepare For The Future

The Restaurant Times

Shakir Haq, CEO of Empire Group of Restaurants, holds a demonstrated history of working in the hospitality industry. The Empire Restaurant was started back in 1966 by Mr. Abdul Rahim Haji, and now it is carried on by their third generation. It is a unique place, where every creation and every element has its own meaning because they contribute to creating a journey to re-discover the gastronomic culture.

article thumbnail

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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.

article thumbnail

Three Steps to Improving Customer Loyalty During the Pandemic 

Modern Restaurant Management

With new health and safety guidelines and constantly-evolving regulations, restaurant owners are faced with unique challenges to continue delivering a positive dining experience to customers. And while the pressures of the pandemic continue, customer loyalty can play a role in whether or not restaurants will sink or swim. It's reported that with as little as a five percent increase in customer retention, a business can improve its overall profits by up to 25 percent.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Video of Dallas Restaurant Owner’s Anti-Twerking Rant Goes Viral

EATER

[link].

144
144
article thumbnail

5 Proven Ways to use Google Trends to Grow your Restaurant Brand

The Restaurant Times

The restaurant business relies heavily on customer data. That is why conducting market research, and customer analysis is considered a significant aspect of the industry. Fortunately, Google has made it easier for restaurant operators to access real-time customer data with Google Trends. The platform is not only simple to work with, but it is also robust and intuitive to boost your restaurant’s market strategy. .

article thumbnail

2021: A Year of Strategic Questions for Restaurants 

Modern Restaurant Management

Perhaps the biggest question on restaurateurs’ minds right now is: “Do I plan for the 2021 I was expecting, or can I just go back to 2019?” After all, the news is swarming with stories about vaccines that seem to be working. We’re also seeing a troubling shift towards apathy and exhaustion that has us wondering if rules will be followed anyway—just as the third surge of COVID arrives.

article thumbnail

How to Bring Your Restaurant’s Employee Scheduling to the Next Level

Restaurant Den

Thriving restaurants are the product of dozens, if not hundreds, of small things going right. It’s all about consistency. Every diner should get an equally great experience with every visit. If they have a sensational meal, then you better believe they’ll bring their friends and family along next time. And guess what? They’ll expect the […]. The post How to Bring Your Restaurant’s Employee Scheduling to the Next Level appeared first on Restaurant Den.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Danny Meyer’s Pioneering NYC Barbecue Restaurant Blue Smoke Closes

EATER

The months-long loss of revenue and the inability to reach a favorable rent agreement were cited as reasons for the closure of the 18-year-old establishment [link].

135
135
article thumbnail

Learning from the Experts: How a Restaurant Consultant can Help You Build a Successful Business

The Restaurant Times

While opening a new restaurant business, multiple factors are considered, ranging from deciding the restaurant concept, design, menu engineering, to hiring and staffing. To make sure that your restaurant business runs into as few problems as possible, you may require the services of a restaurant consultant. Even if you are not new to the restaurant business, a restaurant consultant can provide a better perspective regarding the industry and format and help you set up the restaurant business smo

article thumbnail

QR Codes: The Missing Piece for Restaurant Recovery (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant technology company OneDine created an infographi c focused on the use of QR codes in U.S. restaurants since COVID-19. Among the highlights: Pre-COVID-19 QR codes were not heavily adopted in the restaurant industry, now, many restaurants have removed physical menus and have guests scan codes for menus. The number of mentions about QR codes has increased nine times during the six months COVID began and 57 percent of Americans said they will continue using contactless payment after COVID

169
169
article thumbnail

Positioning Your Restaurant for Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

Selling a restaurant can be a challenging and time-consuming process. Often the most difficult part of the sale comes with managing your emotions as the owner and approaching the sale objectively. As a business broker, I have facilitated dozens of restaurant sales and have provided a few ideas that will hopefully help you position your business in the best light for sale and also make the process easier.

Pricing 165
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

DoorDash’s 2020 State of Flavor Report: The Year of Comfort Food

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not much of a surprise that classic comfort food topped DoorDash’s 2020 State of Flavor Report , which details top national and regional food trends of the year and what to expect in 2021. Chicken fingers and fries, fried chicken sandwiches and breakfast favorites were among the top foods, but look for healthier fare to be on more plates next year as 72 percent of Americans planning to eat healthier in 2021 with nearly half (47 percent) sharing that they’ll incorporate mor

Marketing 161
article thumbnail

Six Tips To Mastering Mouth-Watering Imagery

Modern Restaurant Management

Food photography has become a worldwide phenomenon. But through the unimaginable twists and turns of 2020, proper imagery has become a restaurateur’s saving grace. In the face of COVID-19’s many restrictions—supply chain disruptions, economic uncertainty, and lack of in-person activity—the dining industry has lost its best marketing pathways.

Budgeting 147
article thumbnail

MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features the Restaurant Resilience Index, the impact of reviews, shifitng consumer preferences and the importance of rewards. Pandemic and Restaurant Demand. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted a number of businesses, but few harder than the restaurant industry. “They’ve had to basically adapt and change their entire business model,” says Yang Yang, an associate professor in the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) at Te

article thumbnail

What’s the Next Great Franchise? (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this week's episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia talk franchising with Dan Rowe, Founder & CEO of Fransmart. Rowe specializes in finding the next big thing in the franchise world. For more than 20 years, he has identified and grown brands like Five Guys Burgers & Fries, QDOBA Mexican Grill and The Halal Guys from small unit businesses to the powerhouse chains they are today.

Marketing 145
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

A Lady Gaga ‘Chromatica’ Oreo Is Hitting Grocery Shelves in January

EATER

Oreo. Plus, the Court of Master Sommeliers elects a new board after its sexual harassment scandal, and more news to start your day The star is also encouraging fans to record musical “Oreograms” for loved ones. Oreo has been on a streak of releasing more flavors and colors than anyone could dream of, releasing everything from birthday cake to chocolate peanut butter pie to carrot cake — and let us never forget the horrors of the fruit punch Oreo.

134
134
article thumbnail

Where Is the Data to Support Closing Outdoor Dining in LA? It’s Complicated

EATER

Restaurant owners say public health officials can’t definitively link on-site dining with a rise in cases, and they’re (mostly) right — but that’s not why officials shut them down [link].

article thumbnail

Hell’s Kitchen’s 24-Hour Beacon of Comfort

EATER

[link].

128
128
article thumbnail

NBA Star James Harden Is Opening a Swanky New Restaurant in Houston

EATER

Called Thirteen, the new eatery will open in Midtown early next year [link].

128
128
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

Travis Scott Made How Much From His McDonald’s Deal?!

EATER

Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for McDonald’s. Plus, the biggest TikTok food trend of the year, and more news to start your day Scott reportedly made $20 million from the deal, which also boosted sales for McDonald’s. The Travis Scott meal at McDonald’s — a medium Sprite, a quarter pounder with bacon, and fries with barbecue sauce — was a bona fide phenomenon when it was introduced in September.

Training 126
article thumbnail

This Is the Winter From Hell for Restaurants and Workers

EATER

AFP via Getty Images. [link].

124
124
article thumbnail

The Best Ways to Send Holiday Cookies in the Mail

EATER

Turns out mailing cookies to your coworkers (and friends!) is easier than you think Almost all of our holiday traditions are imperiled by COVID-19. Boisterous family meals, glittery cocktail parties, and gatherings to exchange presents could all become super-spreader events. But there is one holiday tradition the pandemic can’t mess with: mailing cookies.

article thumbnail

Using Pop-Up Events to Grow This Holiday Season

Modern Restaurant Management

The holiday season is upon us, but while retail brands are hopeful for an uptick in sales, restaurants typically face a decline in diners and that was pre-pandemic. Food industry entrepreneurs have a long history of rising to meet new challenges, even if a pandemic has never been one of them. And I haven't lost hope, for with crisis comes new ideas and innovation.

Events 112
article thumbnail

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.