Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Well, if Father Flanagan worked in the hospitality industry today, he might be saying, “there’s no such thing as a bad server” (or bartender or busser, etc.). I agree with that statement, which raises the question: if there’s no such thing as a bad server, why is restaurant service so terrible?

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Restaurant Engine

JULY 28, 2021

You want to price your daily dinner specials just right for repeat business. One of your diners’ favorite lines to hear from their server is, “Would you like to hear about our specials?”. Yet, it can be hard to know where to go with pricing. In this article, we look at how to price daily dinner specials for the best results.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Aside from improving restaurant customer experience , market research also helps you make informed decisions about location, pricing, and marketing strategies. increase in average wholesale food prices compared to last year, you might want to update your pricing strategy. With the 4.5%

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Bussers can be informed in real-time when the table needs to be cleaned and servers can be kept up to date on all of their table’s statuses. Perhaps you could revisit your menu and retrain your servers to promote high-profit items. You can speed up tables and free up your employees’ time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 5, 2022

I am Short Servers AND I am Getting a lot of Complaints! I don’t have one client who has all the servers necessary to run their operations, which results in a lot of complaints about long waiting times once the guest is seated. For a lot of my clients, it meant that one server worked a station of four to five tables.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2021

That may mean that you need to adjust portion sizes or raise prices. You can keep your servers and provide traditional table service. However, if you previously assigned servers five-to-six table sections, I recommend assigning them smaller, three-table sections upon reopening. Make the Hard Service Choices. Worried about tips?

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InnQuest

MARCH 9, 2023

The cloud refers to a network of remote servers accessed over the internet rather than on a local server or personal computer. Additionally, many cloud providers offer flexible pricing models, so you can choose the option that best fits your budget and requirements.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Operators would see increased prices in their supply chain, resulting in rising costs to their guests as well. Restaurants are responding with creative menu innovations, offering smaller portions, bundled meal deals, and "value bites" menus to provide premium experiences at reasonable prices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 10, 2024

Among the reasons restaurants fail (poor location, inadequate marketing, lack of staff and inventory control, uninspired menu, unreasonable pricing), customer theft is rarely on the radar. ” Some restaurateurs consider this the price of doing business – even a form of marketing. Ask your server how to purchase them.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 24, 2023

Offer a Fixed-Price Catering Menu Inclusive of Desserts The catering menu needs to be very clear on what is included in each package, and we try to wrap as much into those orders as possible. What we do is just include dessert with our catering and we build it right into the price. You have to stick to your prices.

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InnQuest

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It involves tracking and controlling inventory in real-time, making informed decisions on pricing, room allocation and availability, and ensuring that the right resources are available at the right time. Effective management ensures that rooms are allocated efficiently and priced competitively.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We will also do some overbooking so that the restaurant and the servers don’t lose out on any income. Food prices skyrocketed, beer and alcohol prices went up and containing costs has been like trying to catch a tiger by the tail. Ten years ago most of my clients were making a new profit of 12 percent or better.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2024

To reduce menu confusion and minimize price sensitivity, Ori’Zaba’s Scratch Mexican Grill recently rolled-out a rengineered and easier-to-read menu. The Ori’Zaba team told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine they watched people walk in and have a physical reaction to the three pricing tiers. Double Your Meat!”

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It just goes to show how important drink pricing and cost management are to maximizing profits. Bar profit margin and pour cost Some high-performing bars can reach higher margins by optimizing their costs and pricing strategies. Keep in mind that certain drinks can be priced higher due to their popularity or unique ingredients.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

Let’s say the price of beef goes up. Reviewing your data from past menu adjustments may reveal an increase in the price of a chicken sandwich would create less of an impact on sales than bumping up the price of a hamburger. Another way to slice and dice data is to comb through food costs.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Recommended Reading: 3 Ways to Run a Sustainable Restaurant How to Increase Staff Productivity Productivity for Servers Problem: Restaurant staff taking short personal breaks It’s vital to minimize the amount of time sinks available in day-to-day tasks in your restaurant. A busy staff means productive staff, which is good for business.

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Hotelogix

JANUARY 19, 2025

Legacy vs. Cloud-Based PMS Legacy PMS Legacy PMS relies on on-premise servers and requires significant maintenance. Cloud-based PMS eliminates the need for on-premise servers and expensive IT maintenance, making it an affordable solution for hotels of all sizes.

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Service that Sells

AUGUST 8, 2022

How do you raise guest checks and increase server tips? To increase server tips, you have to increase restaurant sales. How’d you like to see that number added to your gross sales this year and every year without raising prices or doing any advertising? Are Your Servers Salespeople? Tune in to WII-FM! What will they get?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2024

Some diners are more open to robot servers at quick service restaurants (30 percent) and table service (10 percent), but are still in the minority. Prices for real estate, inventory, and labor are rising. Why do you feel respondents rejected robotic food prep and servers?

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Horizon Hospitality

JULY 17, 2024

Here, we explore the impact of these factors on food prices and offer practical strategies to help restaurants navigate this turbulent landscape. For restaurants, this means inconsistent availability of key ingredients and higher prices when they are available.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

"Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— From there, you can make vital decisions about price, service capacity, table turnover, and your menu to boost revenue and profits. Fluctuating service quality from one server to the next.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. Robot servers, QR-Code Ordering and Even More Tech!: From robot servers to QR code ordering, the sky's the limit for technology in the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2022

Most notably, consumer spending at restaurants appears to be holding-up relatively well this summer despite aggressive menu-price increases in the first-half of the year." Consumer spending at restaurants appears to be holding-up relatively well this summer despite aggressive menu-price increases in the first-half of the year.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

For example, they might talk about a disagreement between a server and a chef regarding food preparation times. For example, the manager might share how they implemented cross-training among the staff, like teaching servers to handle some basic tasks in the kitchen. Another important aspect is understanding the root of the issue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

Simultaneously, they help restaurants free themselves of point-of-sale challenges by simplifying and synthesizing payment methods and front-of-house ordering, streamlining back-of-house operations, and updating menus and pricing with ease. Four Ways Restaurants Can Streamline the Customer and Employee Experience with Tech.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Your servers' tips get increased from a higher check average. When guests order items that are priced slightly higher, check sizes go up, and tips in turn with them. Have bartenders or beverage directors go through pairings for dishes—and give servers notes on how to speak about them. Benefits of suggestive selling.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Our servers have the capacity to serve a significantly increased number of guests. This is due to the fact that guests ‘self-serve’ all of their beverages freeing the servers to focus on taking food orders and giving great customer service.” ” One way to do so: increase menu prices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Typical restaurant KPIs involve monitoring costs around food, labor and supplies, pricing adjustments, table turnover rates during peak periods, customer wait times, promotion effectiveness, brand sentiment on review sites, and training completion rates. They need alignment with practical operational realities and bandwidth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 11, 2023

Customers access a digital menu through their smartphone camera and place orders without reviewing physical menus or interacting with servers. Diners scan the QR Code on their table to access the restaurant menu and place their order as soon as they’re ready — no need to wait for a server.

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EATER

JUNE 16, 2022

They’re getting rid of the subminimum wage, the (legal) economic framework that supports tipping and cements foundational problems within hospitality like wage disparity between front and back of house and systemic bias against servers by customers. Pre-pandemic menu price: $15. Reopening menu price: off the menu.

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EATER

JULY 7, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

However, in big cities with high property prices, good ones can be hard to find, never mind pay. And what approaches are restaurant businesses using right now to serve customers without servers? The robotic servers then use radio frequency identification to wheel the meal over in a serving pod with a lid that opens automatically.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Lille Allen Six chefs and restaurant owners from across the country explain why restaurants feel so expensive right now, and how they’re coping with high prices and customer complaints Dining out involves calculating the intangible: What is hospitality worth to you? You may disagree with how we price this, but here’s why we’re doing this.”

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Revenue Hub

MAY 24, 2024

Whether it’s a Friday evening flight, a hotel during the holidays, or a taxi ride in a downpour, we have all been burned by higher-than-normal prices due to excess demand. ” Restaurants have long used dynamic pricing, for example, by offering Happy Hour specials to attract customers after work.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Servers and dishwashers are in the highest demand, and one-third of restaurants report that they are short on both positions.” When deciding where to recruit restaurant workers online, many job platforms promise to plaster your jobs across the Web for a fixed price. But where do you find the best candidates?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Pressures from minimum wages, ever-increasing price competition, traffic declines, new and evolving consumer behavior have created immense challenges for the restaurant industry, most pointedly in casual and dining quick service segments. Now think about how you deliver that experience at a good price: low-margin, high-volume strategies.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It is also called legacy or server-based Hotel PMS. From servers to the software, everything is installed at the property.    Revenue Management System: It simplifies the process of revenue management or room pricing - the most complex task. Stay tuned.    Cloud-based Hotel PMS: It is hosted on the cloud.

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