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Best Practices for Dealing with Fluctuating Food Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

By combining proactive planning, strategic menu adjustments, operational efficiency, and strong vendor relationships, businesses can effectively manage these challenges while prioritizing customer satisfaction and food safety. This presents an opportunity to verify recipe accuracy and identify potential cost-saving adjustments.

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Is More Delivery/Takeout on Your Menu? Remove Food Safety Risks—Digitally

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a multi-site restaurant operator with more than 200 locations that was shifting to takeout only decided to evaluate its already robust food safety system. The company had installed sensors to monitor its 700+ refrigeration units and flag food temperature “incidents” in real time.

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Cultivating a Robust Food Safety Culture in Restaurants: A Recipe for Success

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Promoting a food safety culture in the restaurant industry requires a fundamental shift in mindset and practices. A recent survey revealed that only 49 percent of companies have a formal food safety culture plan, highlighting a critical gap that the foodservice industry must address.

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Can AI Address Labor and Food Safety Challenges?

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The company's Beastro was designed to use AI to create personalized dishes, thereby cutting labor costs and cutting food waste. It also self-cleans, helping ensure food safety. What are the advantages of a more robotic kitchen implementation for issues such as food safety and waste?

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Safety Training and a Strong Safety Culture: The Recipe for Mitigating Restaurant Risk

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As the focus for restaurants continues to center on growing and staffing up, safety training can sometimes get lost in the mix or ratcheted down to cover only topics related to compliance with regulations. That won’t cut it in an industry that faces major risks associated with employee injuries and food safety.

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Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

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In-house expansion gives full control over quality and processes but requires significant investment in equipment, facilities, and compliance with food safety regulations. Standardizing recipes and batch sizes helps ensure consistency across larger volumes, which is crucial when scaling.

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

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Food safety and restaurant cleanliness. Similarly, restaurant visitors expect their food to be of a consistent quality every time they visit. To cater to these situations, restaurants should have a digitized checklist or a recipe management software tool. Food Safety and Restaurant Cleanliness.