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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Specifically, technology and digitization has been coming to the front of house. Today it’s common to see monitors that double as order kiosks greeting you as you walk in, POS systems that conveniently allow you to pay and tip in one place and tablets that waiters use to keep track of reservations and customer orders.

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How this top Brooklyn restaurant is able to pay teams more than industry average

7 Shifts

But if you rewind to 2009, 2008 when I started cooking, it was heavily glorified and still is in a lot of places, and was seen as the only really meaningful metric to measure your career by, in gastronomy and this obsession with the chef-celebrity, and the chef is God, an artist, and genius. It [can be] abusive, it's toxic, it's exploitative.

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P.F. Chang’s To Go and Wing Squad Delivers

Modern Restaurant Management

They sought an all in one software solution that could meet the day-to-day front of house management needs as well as could offer their customers the ability to order online. They opted to utilize Digital Diner’s wait line and reservation management features and well as their online ordering solution.

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How Both Alinea and Tock Are Thriving Through the Pandemic

EATER

Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I saw their reservations go from 96% occupancy to zero. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. She founded Virtus Wines International in 2008, dba Wheelhouse Libations, and The SIP Agency.

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How to Cook a Direwolf

EATER

In 2008, on the tail of working her way around Chicago’s high-end kitchens and fronts of house — notably Alinea, the restaurant Achatz established in 2005 after leaving Trio; Schwa, a genre-breaking project from fellow Trio alum Michael Carlson; and the late Lettuce Entertain You high notes L2O and Tru — she began a pierogi-making business.

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The 20/20 on 2020: Restaurant Experts Weigh In

Modern Restaurant Management

At Yelp, we're seeing restaurants move away from a strictly reservations planning model. Restaurateurs are valuing a hybrid approach to reservations and running a waitlist to manage their floor and seat more diners, especially during the holiday season. Off-premise dining is here to stay.