Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In 2022, the restaurant business finds itself at something of a crossroads—or, to put it in a more 21st-century way, the industry has reached a pivot point. That doesn’t mean, however, that the restaurant industry’s pace of tech adoption is likely to slow down.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2022

However, customers still sit physically in restaurants, blurring the lines between the online and offline. However, restaurant owners are looking for more: They want to streamline the checkout process further and for customers to complete the whole process – from ordering to payment – on their mobile devices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 29, 2021

In about one week the restaurant industry went from paying overtime to employees because of a shortage of employees to skyrocketing unemployment rates. And they are also incredibly important as restaurant owners manage uncertain sales volumes. They’re not working, and they are milking the time clock. I like half-hour.

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Service that Sells

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Restaurants have to make the most out of every guest they have. The challenge is that most servers are afraid to “sell” to guests, and some will avoid it at all costs. Teaching servers to sell doesn’t have to be an uphill battle, especially when you focus on the art of the soft sell.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 29, 2020

One evening, we went to an oceanfront restaurant for dinner. Next door, however, a similar restaurant with the same view had no line at all. No matter how hard COVID-19 is hitting the restaurant industry, some establishments will emerge winners – and this will not happen by accident. The wait was 45 minutes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Going digital – increasingly a top choice among restaurant management. Today’s restaurants are expected to deliver an Amazon-like experience: know customers’ preferences and dining habits and deliver food, whether tableside or to their front doors, without delay.

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Horizon Hospitality

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s competitive restaurant landscape, providing memorable customer experience is essential. By creating dining experiences that feel unique to each guest, restaurants can foster stronger connections with their patrons and encourage repeat business. Creating personal experiences for customers requires the right leadership.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

You walk into your favorite restaurant, but there’s no human host to greet you at the door. Throughout the meal, robot servers deliver your food and clear the table when you're done. Pudu Robotics and Bear Robotics are deploying food-running robots in restaurants across the globe. Sounds far-fetched, right?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With the new year just around the corner, many restaurants are deciding how they can enhance their operations going forward. For years, we've seen restaurants add small table kiosks or tablets that allow customers to pay for food. These are a just a few ways you can incorporate IoT into a restaurant or commercial kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Contactless payment solutions drive operators’ revenue and elevate customer experiences, but how can the technology set restaurants up for long-term success? The restaurant industry has perhaps seen higher adoption rates of this technology than any other industry. Thinking Long Term When Evaluating Restaurant Technologies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2020

With every online order, millions of customers are entrusting restaurant owner/operators with their most essential information. While beneficial in many ways, housing mass amounts of data leaves restaurants wide open to potential breaches — and hackers aren’t always the culprit.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Your Restaurant’s Digital Transformation. COVID-19 caused a fundamental shift in the way restaurants operate. The POS was hosted on a physical server. Restaurant websites showed PDF versions of their menu. Restaurants began shifting away from call-in orders and enabled online ordering directly from their site.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The nature of restaurant management is a pendulum; each year operators swing back and forth to prepare for challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. Omicron spikes have threatened to bring about new restrictions and closures for the restaurant industry, raising new questions about how each new strain will force operators to bend.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

If 2020 and 2021 were all about helping operators find new revenue streams to reach guests when they couldn’t come into restaurants, then 2022 was all about getting customers back in. Beyond putting guest data insights at servers’ fingertips, data science tools will deepen the personalization possibilities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2022

The ancestors of the first semi-automatic machines to serve food and drink are still in use today, though instead of restaurants and bars, we see them in public spaces, perhaps small shops. Even international sushi restaurants adapted this model, like YoSushi. Present Staffing Issues at Restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

Modern Restaurant Management ((MRM) asked Lindsey Yeakle, Gluten-Free Food Service (GFFS) Program Manager, Food Safety at Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), what restaurants need to know about gluten-free options. Yeakle has a culinary history working at four-star and four-diamond rated restaurants. Lindsey Yeakle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. Set Mutually Beneficial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) KPIs are the quantifiable metrics that provide restaurant leaders with the most actionable insights on progress towards expansion goals, guiding crucial decisions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. To capture their attention and loyalty, businesses, including restaurants, must prioritise easy access and convenience. Read the first part, here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

The restaurant industry has very low retention rates , estimated at only 55 percent. With the impact a dissatisfied consumer can have on your bottom line, it is important to create a customer service strategy that sets your restaurant apart from the competition. Why prioritize the customer experience?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 13, 2020

The business of running a restaurant is no longer limited to exceptional recipes, gorgeous plating, and advertisements. In an age of online ordering, customers demanding Wi-Fi, and the need for websites to dazzle just as much as the food, countering cybercrime has to be a factor in the day-to-day work of restaurant management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2022

Customer engagement is guaranteed to increase as customers interact with your restaurant through a dedicated mobile app or QR code system. Mobile apps and QR codes provide targeted messages and unique promotions to customers, which helps create brand awareness and makes your restaurant a household name in the community.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

While staffing has always topped the list of restaurant owner/manager pain points, it now seems to be at crisis proportions. Instead of belaboring the issue, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine went to the experts for some solutions. March restaurant sale surged 36 percent year-over-year and nearly reached 2019 levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Bar and restaurant operators often face tough dilemmas, ranging from the daily question, “Should we be mixing more drinks or turning more tables?” “Staying out of the weeds" in the restaurant industry means avoiding overwhelming tasks and staying ahead of demands.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2023

What the research uncovered is what those who do not drink alcohol want from culture, bars/restaurants, friends and family and what they actually experience, are at odds – especially for those temporarily abstaining from alcohol for Dry January. The most uncomfortable for non-drinkers are bars and house parties.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When a diner with a food allergy chooses your restaurant, you’ll want to ensure that they won’t have to think twice about their safety. Creating a safe, allergen-friendly environment within your restaurant will mean a satisfactory experience from customers and success for you. Do Your Research. Communicate Clearly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But, a restaurant’s brand identity – and visual brand design – is equally important and not to be forgotten. A restaurant’s brand identity is the cumulative effect of what your guests see, taste, smell, feel and hear at your restaurant, online, and in the world at large. Your Website. Your Signage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In this Q&A, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine gets advice on from Guy Bloch, CEO at Bringg on how restaurants can prepare for the colder months ahead. As we approach winter and dropping temperatures, what are some of the biggest challenges the restaurant industry will face in the coming months?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2024

Operators must weigh guest acceptance while making strategic decisions about integrating automation at many restaurant touch points, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Automated Customer Experience Survey. What can restaurant operators learn from these results? What should restaurant operators take away from these results?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 26, 2021

Plumbing issues can cause headaches and major hits to the wallet for restaurant owners. The key plumbing problems in restaurants are caused by the clogging of pipes, which makes the plumbing back up, overflow and not drain properly. The dishwashing station is where most restaurant plumbing issues occur. Keep Bar Drains Clean.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2021

The restaurant industry has seen some major shifts lately. Just a few short years ago, customers paid for their meals in cash or credit cards, orders were totaled on analog cash registers, and customers called restaurants to place orders over the landline phone. The digital transformation is leaving no industry untouched.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There's no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to distributing tips among restaurant staff, but there are a few different methods that are commonly used. This guide will cover some of the most popular methods for restaurant tip payouts, and offer some pros and cons for each so that you can decide what will work best for your establishment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2021

What are ways that restaurants can build business safely and reopen their doors as the future emerges — even while COVID cases continue and vaccine distribution is happening? Customers and restaurants are opting for contactless payment – tap cards, phone payments, and QR code-driven billing. Florida is the first U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 29, 2020

As more restaurants in the United States receive the go-ahead to open their doors for indoor dining, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to industry experts on ways to calm employee anxiety. Rick Camac, Dean of Restaurant & Hospitality Management at the Institute of Culinary Education.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2021

They received 11 applicants, all of which had no experience in restaurants/hospitality ­­­– gas station attendant, quick mart experience, plumber’s assistant and so on. Our openings were for dishwashers, servers and busser/runners. I offered jobs to all 5 and, of course, only 3 showed up.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The restaurant industry, along with the rest of Travel and Hospitality have been among the industries most negatively impacted by COVID-19. Restaurant foot traffic is down, and restaurant brands of all sizes have been forced to pivot and leverage digital tools, third-party delivery, and storefront partners to capture demand any way they can.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2021

The good news for restaurants is now that many state restrictions are lifted and dining hours are expanding, newly vaccinated patrons are venturing out, and the restaurants who survived are getting slammed with customers. At Landed, we are dedicated to helping the restaurant industry find and hire better quality candidates faster.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. The pandemic has permanently altered the consumer-restaurant relationship with operators investing in technology and real estate to align with changing consumer preferences, according to the 2021 Restaurant Franchise Pulse survey, conducted by TD Bank.

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