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

MAY 10, 2022

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. These days, restaurants are on the search for solutions to minimize costs and provide efficiency throughout their operation. Leverage Purchasing Data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2024

Partnering with November Five, Le Pain Quotidien launched Alain.AI, a tool that can be called the world's first digital twin of a chef-founder and used to help with menu development, recipe standardization, and culinary innovation. "As We are still in the process of continuously improving it. However, they embraced Alain.AI

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Employees can better understand their tasks and responsibilities with structured restaurant operations. Technology also helps bridge communication between restaurant management and staff. Similarly, restaurant visitors expect their food to be of a consistent quality every time they visit.

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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

MAY 19, 2020

Step 1: Cost out your specific delivery inventory items. Next, create a standard deliver recipe. Here’s a signature menu item, pulled pork sandwich (to stay): This sandwich includes three sub-recipes (in blue), which all contain other recipes, plus a purchased bun. What does a delivery fork cost? Food cost is $2.69.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Restaurant menu prices continue upward as the U.S. Technomic also reported that 45 percent of consumers say they usually pick restaurants with lower prices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2022

It is a particularly challenging time, to be sure, and the ever-shifting landscape demands agility of restaurant operators who must adapt to the changes in order to maintain their margins. 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2023

Automating these procedures can save about an hour of labor per day while improving the customer experience and equipment uptime, protecting inventory and more. Sharing recipe updates through thumb drives is a common one. © Modern Restaurant Management, 2023. What tasks would benefit from automation?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sending stats on recipe distribution and average cook times. Product & Inventory Tracking. There also are monitoring systems that can track your inventory. Automatically turning off equipment during scheduled downtime or at the end of the day. Automatically switching modes (i.e. Viewing real-time stats and statuses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2022

Prioritize Accurate Recipe Costing. Maximizing recipe efficiency is a moving target that is specific to your restaurant. It requires a careful examination of your recipes, your team’s prep efficiency, and menu item prices. Train Staff on the Importance of Restaurant Inventory Control.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2020

With the help of historical sales reports and known weather conditions, they can calculate how much raw material stock they will have to actually buy and eliminate the risk of spending extra to maintain inventory. Smart Inventory Management. Because AI keeps a close watch on inventory, it can help theft and waste be avoided.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2022

After adopting better delivery and takeout technology in 2020, restaurants are now turning their tech budgets toward bringing in back of house. Restaurant employees are used to managing their lives on their phones and have increasingly been managing their work on their phones, as well.

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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. The answer lies in restaurant analytics. By evaluating recipes, portion sizes and inventory levels, for instance, opportunities to cut back expenses are illuminated.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There are many factors that drive the bottom line for restaurants and properly managing maintenance is chief among them. Maintenance impacts multiple critical aspects of restaurant management and operations. Restaurant maintenance ensures technical difficulties don’t compromise food production and quality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q: What can I do to help my restaurants and community battle the effects of COVID-19? Plan to sell your existing inventory before you add more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With well-built reports, restaurant operators will be able to see real-time data from across their tech stack and get the key information they need to be proactive, catch problems early, and run a profitable restaurant. Make Inventory a Best Practice, Not an Afterthought. And restaurant tech can help cut waste in other ways.

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Sculpture Hospitality

DECEMBER 10, 2024

When it comes to operating a restaurant, managing inventory is like keeping track of every ingredient in a recipe - essential, but sometimes a little overwhelming.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Businesses in the food service industry are primarily adopting these advanced POS systems to streamline the communication between waitstaff and kitchen staff, inventory tracking, and improving team management. These systems are also being used as they support future restaurant technologies like self-serving kiosks.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2025

Tying up all our cash into aging inventory was not going to work for us. Standardizing recipes and batch sizes helps ensure consistency across larger volumes, which is crucial when scaling. Co-packers I talked to wanted to know what basil extract & commercially made blackberry sauce we wanted to use for our 10,000 minimum unit run.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Tapping into up-to-date restaurant technology lets operators instantly pull the most recent supplier costs when playing with various theoretical recipes. With a recipe costing tool, operators can easily substitute ingredients, change amounts of ingredients, or look at paper costs in a theoretical view.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

Finding the balance between innovation and tradition is the secret recipe for enduring success in the evolving dining industry. Leveraging technologies such as robotic food preparation and AI-powered inventory management systems can streamline processes and optimize resource utilization.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

These will become as essential to a restaurant as their secret recipes, holding the key to understanding guests’ behaviors and catering to their preferences. Restaurants can automatically capture and tag key details about a guest at every point of their experience and aggregate these details into a c entralized profile.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The importance of restaurant weighing scales cannot be underestimated. These weighing scales are designed to take the guesswork out of food measurement and ensure controlled costs and better inventory management. Let’s find out the types of restaurant scales and their uses: 1.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2024

You need to quickly and accurately ascertain whether any of the foods in your inventory or ordering system are impacted, so you don’t jeopardize the health of your customers, or your business’ reputation. In foodservice establishments, the same technology opens doors to greater food safety and ingredient transparency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

POS systems offer a multitude of benefits for businesses, including: Streamlined operations by automating various tasks such as sales transactions, inventory management and reporting. Enhanced accuracy through minimized human errors in order processing and inventory tracking.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the kitchen, there’s a POS, scheduling devices, recipe books, inventory tools and more. Consolidate Your Tech Stack Although technology can function as a positive tool, when many systems are used for different processes, it can become overwhelming.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

POS integrations simplify restaurant operations by automating tasks, reducing errors, and improving customer service. They connect tools like inventory tracking, payroll, and online ordering into one system, allowing real-time data access for smarter decisions. This gives your team the chance to adapt and helps pinpoint issues early.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2024

Creating strategic LTOs is a great way to keep customers interested each season on the brand, but it's also important to be strategic about the recipes you create. This allows suppliers to anticipate demand and make necessary adjustments to their inventory and production schedules accordingly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2024

To answer that and more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to an expert–Daniel Hawes, Vice President of Product Design at Givex, whose work marries the worlds of technology, design, and academic research. What other AI functionality do you feel will be utilized more in restaurants this year?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

It drove a noticeable spike in orders for cucumbers (177 percent), rice vinegar (180 percent), and sesame seeds (100 percent) on August 8th, following the recipe’s breakout moment. ” “AI and automation are reshaping dining, from robotic chefs to AI-driven customer interactions and predictive inventory systems.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2023

Yum Brands’ Recipe for Good reflects the organization’s ESG priorities, including social responsibility, risk management and sustainable stewardship of their people, food and planet. They prioritize transparency, and regularly spotlight their progress. Help stop (or reduce) the spread of foodborne illness.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Want to improve your restaurants performance? Start by analyzing these Top 7 POS Sales Reports to know where your restaurant is headed. These reports help you understand sales trends, manage inventory, optimize staffing, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2021

In general restaurants chains should look at intelligent process automation (IPA) opportunities across the value chain. Several of our customers have benefitted from IPA and machine learning (ML) and have used them to improve processes like ordering, demand forecasting, labor planning, inventory management, etc.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2024

” If your busy pizzeria or pizza chain faces challenges like incorrect online hours or out of stock inventory resulting in the “internal issues” cancellation reason, consider utilizing a menu management tool to update your hours and menu across all online platforms from one place.

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Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

Understanding Restaurant Management Software. The restaurant industry has been evolving consistently over the years. From the introduction of point of sale (POS) systems to accounting systems, technology is changing the ways restaurants operate today. Among the technology offered today is restaurant management software.

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