Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 14, 2025

Review inventory management strategies Inventory isn't just a stockpile of ingredients. With restaurant management software, operators can take advantage of: Inventory Contro l: Monitor ingredient levels, track usage patterns, and identify potential waste areas. One way to stay agile?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 30, 2024

For example, AI can help QSRs make smarter inventory decisions by analyzing purchasing trends and aligning ingredient orders with demand. Start with areas where AI can make a measurable impact, such as inventory management or targeted promotions. This reduces waste and ensures menu availability, even during busy periods.

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Foodservice Equipment Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Proper inventory management is more than just keeping track of parts. Here’s why it matters: Service technicians often face specific inventory challenges, but that doesn’t mean you need to be stuck with them. It’s a critical aspect of your business that can significantly impact your bottom line and overall efficiency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Managing Inventory The first area of focus for any waste elimination strategy is your restaurant’s approach to ingredients. Automated inventory controls are becoming more accessible to even small restaurants, so implementing these throughout your organization is worth implementing. The rewards are certainly well worth the effort.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Real-time inventory systems help restaurants cut food waste , save money, and improve operations. Here’s how: Track Stock in Real-Time : Monitor inventory levels instantly to avoid overstocking or understocking. Reduce Spoilage : Get alerts for expiring items and use the FIFO method to manage perishable goods.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Running a restaurant is tough, and poor inventory management can make it even harder. That’s where POS inventory tools step in to help. Research shows that using POS systems can reduce stockouts by 15% and cut excess inventory by 10% , directly improving profitability.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Integrating mobile inventory systems with POS platforms simplifies restaurant operations by automating inventory updates, reducing errors, and providing real-time insights. Here’s what you need to know: Benefits : Real-time stock updates, improved accuracy, and smarter inventory planning.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 19, 2025

A strong POS system can streamline operations, inventory and menu management, assist with staffing shortages and scheduling conflicts, as well as assist with sorting through data and sales patterns to help personalize marketing campaigns in a new location. Tracking inventory can prevent unnecessary and costly food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should. For example, let’s say you run out of a key ingredient because inventory wasn’t tracked accurately. It can also help you manage inventory and communicate with your kitchen staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2025, artificial intelligence will continue to drive efficiency, particularly in areas like inventory management, personalization, and workforce optimization. Despite the hype, the robotic restaurant future remains further out than many think. However, the human element will remain critical to delivering exceptional service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Too many restaurants, even enterprise brands, are still using manual processes for various areas of the business, such as inventory, scheduling, and reporting. These time-consuming tasks not only burn labor hours when you can least afford it but losing track of your inventory will eat away your margins faster than you realize.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

For example, technology exists that allows restaurant operators to take inventory in a matter of minutes, while achieving 99.9-percent Ordering and inventory capture have long been manual processes for restaurant operators, but they have become increasingly more time-consuming and inefficient.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2022

How to Use Key Metrics for Proper Inventory. Mastering how to forecast your inventory is just the first step, you almost must control it. Inventory control traces the amount of product ordered, everything that comes out of the kitchen and bar and what is left over as sitting inventory afterward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Improved traceability means better inventory management, as restaurants have clearer insights into what’s coming in and going out of the kitchen. Imagine being able to identify the source of a contaminated ingredient in hours instead of days, protecting customers and avoiding business disruptions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

One study found that internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages and about 4 percent of restaurant sales. There are all kinds of different types of restaurant theft, ranging from food and inventory, theft at the register and checkout counter, external grease theft, time theft and employee product theft.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

Optimize Inventory. This is also a time to experiment with ways to preserve ingredients through techniques like pickling, smoking or canning to extend the shelf life of the inventory, as well as testing out new trends in fermentation. Let’s say you operate a burger shop with beginning inventory valued at $5,000.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

From lost inventory to the increased risk for making customers sick, you need a dependable fridge that will keep your inventory and ingredients fresh. Not only do faulty commercial fridges cost money due to lost inventory, but they also add to your energy bills.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 26, 2024

If they can successfully compromise a delivery platform, then they can use that as a foothold to gain unauthorized access to a restaurant’s system to steal payment information, manipulate order and inventory systems, install ransomware, or carry out other nefarious activities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Manage and Optimize Your Increased Holiday Inventory. The holidays bring an increase in beverage inventory, particularly kegged inventory for bars and restaurants centered around draft programs. Cooler management and on deck planning also becomes central to lowering the chaos that an increase in kegged inventory can bring.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Make Inventory a Best Practice, Not an Afterthought. It’s one thing to know you should be doing daily inventory on your top 10 items and a full weekly inventory, and it’s another thing entirely to actually do it. Better inventory ensures each location can order more accurately for their needs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Whether it’s speeding up order times, improving inventory management, or boosting loyalty programs, every tool should serve a purpose. In today’s post-pandemic environment, a solid tech stack is a game-changer for restaurant brands, driving efficiency and better customer experiences. Aligning tech with business goals is a must.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Gain informative data-based insights – By accessing a single source of data from anywhere and any device, restaurants gain invaluable insights about their customers, employees, inventory – you name it – particularly when artificial intelligence (AI) is layered in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Inventory management tools, for example, enable the real-time tracking of food stock, alerting staff to use items before they spoil and reducing waste. In quick-serve restaurants, staff can focus on preparing food rather than taking orders.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Think about it like this: just as your POS system predicts your inventory needs based on past sales, today's job seekers expect platforms to understand their skills and interests, then match them with the right opportunities. They expect jobs to find them, just like Netflix suggests their next show or DoorDash recommends their next meal.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2022

The key is to make the right decisions around inventory and pricing at the right times—and having the right technology can make all the difference. Back-office technology centralizes, automates, and improves operating processes related to purchasing, accounts payable, inventory management, recipe and menu engineering, labor scheduling,?and

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Keep an Eye on the Inventory There’s no substitute for taking regular inventory – not just knowing what’s been ordered, but what’s in stock, what condition it’s in, and how long it’s been in the restaurant. Got a few extra gallons of milk about to hit the expiration date?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In order to reduce cost, waste, and optimize inventory, the process begins with planning and forecasting. Connecting your financial, transaction, and restaurant inventory management systems enables you to optimize production and better control cost variance proactively. Planning and Forecasting. Creating a Singular Journey.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Elevate your inventory management. You can’t properly manage your spending if you don’t have a good handle on your inventory. Proper inventory management is essential to knowing what’s coming in, what’s going out, and what you need to order. Reduce food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2025

Finding ways to align inventory management with more environmentally friendly packaging helps reduce such waste. E-commerce order management systems allow for real-time monitoring of current food inventory. More than 63 percent of municipal solid waste in the US was a result of food packaging.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2023

Merchants use the collected data to manage sales, generate labor reports, track inventory and even keep an eye on customer reviews. By evaluating recipes, portion sizes and inventory levels, for instance, opportunities to cut back expenses are illuminated. The answer lies in restaurant analytics.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

The reasons for the accelerated growth of this idea, the contribution of POS to these kitchens, the display systems to make the operations easier, and the automated operations used in the inventory as well in the kitchen for easy food management- are some of the ideas that will be discussed in the following paragraphs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Money and Inventory Management The profitability of a restaurant depends on the careful management of cash flow. Inventory management is another key issue that can creep up if owners are not aware of what product they have and how much is currently available.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Product & Inventory Tracking. There also are monitoring systems that can track your inventory. Automatically switching modes (i.e. convection to steam, cook to hold, chill to defrost). Sending stats on recipe distribution and average cook times. Viewing real-time stats and statuses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

For instance, smart inventory systems can help reduce waste, while energy-efficient appliances cut operational costs and carbon footprints. The movement toward sustainable operations aligns with broader industry goals to minimize environmental impact and attract a generation of socially responsible diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Furthermore, digital tools for inventory and labor management became crucial for navigating supply chain disruptions and staffing challenges. The operational challenges brought on by the pandemic, such as limited staffing and food inventory planning due to supply chain issues, made it clear that reliable reservations are essential.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

By not standardizing your recipes, you may run out of ingredients more quickly and may need to order more inventory – which can put you over your weekly or monthly food budget. This includes labor and inventory. Back-of-house staff spend wasted hours manually counting inventory and trying to figure out their cost of goods sold.

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