Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The fusion of technology and food service is transforming the way restaurants operate, enhancing customer experiences, and shaping the future of the industry. From the way we place orders to how they’re prepared, every facet of the food service sector is being touched by technology. billion by 2027.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 7, 2023

In the food services industry, safety is paramount to protect customers, brand reputation, and, ultimately, profits. Food that is not stored or handled properly can result in serious, even deadly, illnesses. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that on average, 1,600,000 people get sick each day due to unsafe food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This hits the food service industry especially hard, as teen workers fill 1.2 As a 35-year industry veteran who has worked every job in quick service restaurants, I understand the pain and frustration of this perennial problem. Technology is a secret weapon in your staffing arsenal. In 2021, for example , 36.6

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 23, 2024

The most efficient way to automate compliance is through an AI-driven WFM platform, which serves as the nexus for staffing, scheduling, payroll, and other key operations functions influenced by labor laws. This will give them an informed perspective on how the technology can best benefit their business.

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Lavu

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The restaurant staffing shortage is a major challenge for restaurant owners today. According to the National Restaurant Association 2023 Restaurant Industry Forecast , 9 in 10 restaurants are experiencing staffing shortages. There are several reasons contributing to the restaurant staffing shortage.

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Culinary Services Group

AUGUST 28, 2024

Healthy eating can also easily fall to the bottom of many administrators’ priority lists, especially if the community is dealing with staffing issues —a growing problem employers have faced since 2020. Unfortunately, those numbers are only increasing, with more recent statistics showing that up to 99% of communities are short-staffed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2022

Employee turnover has been higher than ever since the COVID pandemic, with hourly turnover hovering around an unbelievable 194% in the food service industry. Short-staffed, overworked employees cutting corners often leads to food safety issues. Time and money are two of the most significant factors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the hospitality staffing shortage on the rise, those in the automation industry have identified opportunities. Consequently, restaurant robotics is becoming a global norm, transforming the way restaurants operate and creating new opportunities for automation and innovation in the food service sector.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In a recent Limeade survey of people who started a new job in 2021, 52 percent of hospitality and food service workers said burnout was the top reason why they left their previous role. As many as one-third of all retail and food service workers receive less than one-week’s notice of their work schedule.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2022

The so-called Great Resignation has also taken a heavy tol l on the food service industry. Data sciences are how we predict demand for food based on the past, how we know what consumers are willing to pay, and how we build staffing models around anticipated surges. It’s machine learning, AI and predictive analytics.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2021

At the same time, restaurants are grappling with staffing issues, with recent research showing that one in three food service workers doesn’t want to stay in the industry. Profit margins will always be narrow in food service, but IoT solutions help boost competitiveness by modernizing operations.

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Total Food Service

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

How are restaurants and food service using AI to improve service, profit margins and efficiency? people told HungerRush in a survey in May that they believed major restaurant chains don’t have enough staff to take orders, prepare food, and handle deliveries. Thirty-six percent of 1,000 U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

While there is plenty of technology out there to optimize your establishment, one food service trend is becoming a mainstay: Internet of Things. With the new year just around the corner, many restaurants are deciding how they can enhance their operations going forward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2023

There’s no denying the strain that staffing shortages have on the QSR industry. While there’s hope across the industry that this trend is easing, staffing challenges will likely remain for many throughout the year. percent in late 2022. Fortunately, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions can do exactly that.

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Total Food Service

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It plays a crucial role in maintaining the economic viability of restaurants, preserving high customer service standards, and offering flexibility in staffing and hiring. The post One Fair Wage Makes Progress In Bay State Battle To Increase Minimum Wage appeared first on Total Food Service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Food service businesses, on average, lose 28-35 percent of their income annually from pre-consumer food waste. Food waste also accounts for a third of overall restaurant expenses per year, weighing an average of 50,000 pounds per location. During times of inflation, every cent matters.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 5, 2024

While commodity shortages, transportation logjams and other disruptions have eased, restaurants and other food service providers continue to apply lessons learned from recent periods of instability to make logistics and resupply processes more nimble and resilient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 17, 2023

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), and there’s never been a better time to consider employing people with disabilities in the food service industry. The turnover rate in the food service industry hovers around 75 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .”

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LTI, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

QuickSwitch design allows for the incorporation of convertible food shields that can flip from self-serve to full-serve should the need arise. In times of short staffing or higher virus risk, the flexibility to increase safety measures or serving efficiency is key. Adapting to staffing changes.

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Total Food Service

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Staffing and payroll software This tech can help you streamline payroll, taking the headache out of the process, while simultaneously optimizing your labor costs. Article contributed by TouchBistro The post 4 Essential Questions to Ask Before Buying Back of House Software appeared first on Total Food Service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2022

For fast food and quick serve restaurants, nothing is more essential than providing high-quality food services to customers quickly. Right now, the restaurant industry has experienced rapid employee turnover and staffing shortages, which is impacting how recruiters are bringing on new talent for food service roles.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This new year is a perfect time to begin shaping a long-term vision and identifying opportunities for growing your restaurant or food services business over the next ten years. The sheer market size of Gen Z and their discretionary spending dollars should make restaurants and food services businesses sit up and take notice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Better Work: Make Off-Site Kitchen Jobs the Very Best Job in Food Service.

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Eating at a Meeting

JANUARY 25, 2022

What has to be negotiated as it relates to food and beverage sourcing? What about staffing? Is food service being provided in-house or by a third party? These are "standard" clauses, if you're in the industry. But what is the standard now after/during the pandemic? Room sizes? Ordering deadlines?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2023

. – Lauren Fernandez Restaurants Learn To Do More with Less In workforce dynamics, we have seen a notable upswing in the number of workers entering and/or returning to the industry, with staffing levels inching closer to pre-pandemic levels. In 2022, the average tenure for an employee in food service was about 1.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2023

News headlines give you a pretty good idea of what’s top of mind for employees at QSRs and fast-casual locations: Staffing Shortages : We’re still 14,000 restaurant jobs short of where we were in February of 2020. As a former operator myself, I spend a good chunk of each day chatting with restaurant owner-operators.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2022

Smart Ways to Integrate the Delivery App Experience into Your Food Service Model. When a food historian someday drafts a history of how the restaurant industry survived the pandemic, food delivery apps will arise as one of the heroes of that story. If you aren’t organized, your operations can be quickly overrun.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

” In a 2022 Toxic Work Environment Report , “CareerPlug found that 52 percent of employees in the restaurant and food services industry do not feel like their manager genuinely cares about them/their performance at work.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2022

" – Alex May, Associate Director of the Travel, Hospitality, & Food Services Strategy at Movable Ink. We saw significant changes in restaurants’ hiring, automation, and staffing approaches. Staffing catapulted itself as the forefront of a restaurant’s focus to ensure efficient operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2023

Cutting Down Portion sizes Each year, about 40 million tons of food is thrown out in the US and 40 percent of that comes from restaurants, grocery stores and food service companies. Online ordering, food ordering apps, self-service kiosks and QR menus cut down the number of humans a restaurant needs by taking on multiple tasks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Workers’ compensation data shows an uptick in the number of new employees injured on the job, especially in the hospitality and food service industries. Finally, staffing is still impacted by COVID cases, which require infected employees to be off work for as long as two weeks or more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2021

236 allows food service establishments to now sell mixed drinks for off-premises consumption. In other words, it allows the sale of mixed drinks with to-go food orders. In particular, S.B. This legislation results from innovative practices restaurants and bars developed during COVID-19 shutdowns nationwide. . § O.C.G.A. §

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Meanwhile, food service workers are in high demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the food service workforce decreased by 42,000 individuals in August 2021. In parallel, procurement challenges persist as the food service industry reels from ongoing global supply chain disruptions and inventory delays.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2024

However, according to recent data , the “quit rate” in the US accommodation and food services is the highest among sectors and is outpacing the overall quit rate by more than 70 percent. Summer is prime hiring time for restaurants. What can restaurant operators do to attract and retain talent for the busy season ahead?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

So as a restaurant owner or food service manager, how can you best minimize workers comp liability to allow summer 2021 to be the successful reopening of the economy that we are all ready for?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 6, 2021

Even with the recent uptick in employment, restaurants are facing a major worker shortage, and many are struggling to keep their doors fully open with limited staffing. percent of small businesses in accommodations and food service reported that their operating capacity was affected by the availability of employees.

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Total Food Service

AUGUST 25, 2023

Facing persistent staffing, financial and supply chain challenges, school nutrition professionals around the country applied for SNF Equipment Grants in the school year 2022-2023 to receive new equipment to benefit their school meal program. The post SNF Announces 2023 Equipment Grant Recipients appeared first on Total Food Service.

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