Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Certainly one thing on everyone’s mind today is price. Before we begin, we need to realize that the guacamole product served to customers is not solely factored on the price of the ingredients, but you’ll find the sneaky costs in labor, waste, food safety, and shipping. It is when these costs sneak in that margins go down.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The system can also help to streamline front- and back-of-house processes to increase employee workflow and production efficiency, as well as customer capacity requirements, allowing outdoor orders to be handled quicker and with better service.

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Synergy Suite

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Changes continued to shake the industry with supply chain issues, soaring prices, and global staffing issues. Restaurant brands began to cut their menus , switch out recipe ingredients, or changed portion sizes (shrinkflation), as well as other creative solutions to combat rising prices. Prime Cost Optimization: Back of House.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While some brands have already begun passing costs on to consumers without too much pushback (Chipotle, McDonald’s), brands will need to closely monitor customer response, as value-oriented customers are likely to begin to be more price sensitive as they also feel pressure from inflation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Every restaurant has a back of house and a front of house. Cloud Kitchens are restaurants with no front of house. This indicated a clear trend that a “restaurant” does not need to necessarily comprise of both front of house and back of house components.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. We’re seeing strong and growing interest in IoT connectivity and automation in the back-of-house – especially for multi-site operators.

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Hotel Business

MARCH 5, 2024

Amadeus Value Hotels equips leisure travel sellers with a range of exclusive prepaid net rates and allows sellers to set their selling prices to optimize revenue. Leisure Connect also allows hotels to improve their control over distribution, manage inventory, optimize pricing strategies and ensure rate parity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Your back-of-house equipment may well be long overdue for upgrades. This doesn’t mean you should cut corners by bringing in the lowest-priced contractors. There will be items your contractor will be able to source for you at trade prices. Arranging Your Finances. Remodels can be expensive.

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Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Duetto , provider of revenue management systems, has acquired Micerate, a provider of dynamic pricing and online booking tools tailored for meetings and event spaces. Duetto is built on innovation, constantly staying ahead of the market to ensure our customers maintain a consistent competitive advantage,” said David Woolenberg, CEO, Duetto.

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Hotel Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Unlike existing solutions, users can also respond to real-time booking demand by executing time-sensitive revenue management functions in-app, such as instant rate and availability adjustments, minimum and maximum stay length adjustments and room sale closures until pricing is fully optimized. “We It’s been a game-changer for us.”

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EATER

JULY 7, 2023

Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2021

For franchise development executives, it was not uncommon to see the endcap in the strip side have four to five different fast-casual concepts running up the per square foot price in an effort to outbid competitors and win the space. The Aloha Poke model was re-imagined based on several factors that did not require the 2,400 sq foot endcap.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2021

For example, a CBS MoneyWatch article from June of this year cited several well-known fast-casual brands' move to boost prices as much as 4 percent to help offset higher labor and other costs. More recent price increases have nearly doubled this number.

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Hotel Business

MARCH 29, 2023

Automated Configuration for G3 RMS completes the following modules to ensure confidence in a property’s system settings and outputs: Rooms configuration: Automatically groups room types that have similar pricing and demand into room classes to maximize room performance with optimal pricing decisions, last room value and overbooking controls.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2022

Over the last few years, restaurants have been feeling the heat amid concerns about COVID-19, worker shortages and rising food prices. With this expected influx on the horizon, it’s important that your restaurant takes stock of proper cleaning and hygiene measures for key front-of-house (FOH) and back-of-house (BOH) areas.

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Synergy Suite

APRIL 18, 2024

For example: $50,000 worth of initial inventory + $25,000 worth of inventory purchased – $45,000 worth of ending inventory = $30,000 in actual costs (or COGS) This calculation is more accurate than cost-per-dish because you’re using tangible inventory and purchase price numbers. Raise menu prices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2022

These spaces are only used to prepare food for off-premises consumption; there is no dining room, curbside pickup or drive thru, which means operators can get by on skeleton back-of-house (BOH) crews. Case in point: demand for chicken wings skyrocketed during the pandemic, resulting in wholesale prices doubling in many markets.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2021

The dangers are even more acute for back-of-house staff, like line cooks and dishwashers. “We Even when cities were under “lockdown,” plenty of restaurants were open for takeout and delivery, and back-of-house staff were bearing the brunt of the labor and the risk. We need to make this an attractive business to work in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Kitchen workers usually cede the better qualities of a space to customers: Back of house isn’t known for its natural light, ergonomics, or general comfort. Such things come with a price tag, and with margins already thin, those resources are typically deployed elsewhere to acquire new business.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Menu Pricing and 2. Consider marginally lowering the price on these items to increase popularity without decreasing overall profitability. Two common courses of action to address plowhorses are to: Raise menu prices on these items, provided that this doesn't drastically diminish their popularity or reduce sales. What to do?

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Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

a global provider of SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, to integrate RateGain’s global distribution, central reservations and pricing capabilities into HotelKey’s PMS platform. Through the collaboration, hotels on the will see RateGain’s pricing and distribution tools on the HotelKey platform.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2021

Fresh prepared produce delivers many benefits to foodservice operations from cost and labor savings along with increasing back of house efficiency, food safety, and freshness. When helping restaurants optimize their produce programs, the biggest and best thing we can tell them is to stop chopping, scooping, and prepping their veggies!

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

Despite potential price increases, food service businesses can still generate creative strategies to bolster foot traffic and drive sales. Customer Loyalty Is Crucial for Recession-Proofing Cultivating customer loyalty is especially paramount for businesses in today's challenging economic landscape.

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Hotel Business

APRIL 18, 2023

Cloud-based hospitality platform HotelKey has partnered with OTA Insight to give hotels access to rate data and actionable insights to make more effective pricing decisions. The collaboration also offers hotels parity, demand, search, review, and ranking APIs, with on-the-books (OTB) and benchmark APIs launching soon. “We

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Hotel Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“In a new era of innovation and consumer and product diversification, we are pleased to bring IDeaS’ market-leading automation, pricing approach, and a singular focus on holistic revenue optimization to Accor’s diverse brand portfolio.”

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Hotel Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

These include hiring talent with complementary skillsets that don’t have a background in hotels and hospitality, investing in automation software for back-of-house tasks and implementing creative pay or work structures. Push rates judiciously and keep disciplined cost management solutions employed during the pandemic.

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Restaurant Engine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Although a small price to pay to keep people safe, it is a hefty cost for businesses with famously thin profit margins. “Seeing tickets that somebody else made, not that I had literally put together when in-house. . “Seeing tickets that somebody else made, not that I had literally put together when in-house.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. Everything was built into the menu price. are among the states and districts that don't allow tips to be shared with the back of house.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Cleaning back of house offices and spaces. In terms of hotel building functions, it’s useful to have housekeeping stations and supply closets on every floor as well as centralised back of house facilities for laundry and so on. A desk in the back of house office near these departments would therefore be advantageous.

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Les Roches

JUNE 5, 2023

The main duties include: Menu planning, pricing and design, often working alongside the head chef to decide on what kind of food to offer Managing food and beverage staff, including scheduling and training Maintaining high service standards that are consistent across the food and beverage operations.

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Hotel Business

MAY 16, 2023

These prices and restrictions in your rates can then be pushed to all booking avenues/OTAs. By using dynamic pricing tools that adjust rates based on occupancy and seasonality, you can incentivize guests to book during your shoulder season and drive additional revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

Taking the example of dishes with a high ‘perceived value’, such as proteins, desserts and drinks, can allow for higher prices and better the bottom line. Given smaller staff sizes during the pandemic, it is more important than ever to empower kitchen teams to get more done with less effort.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, it means enacting ways to incentivize guests to order from a brand’s direct ordering channels, with offers like exclusive items and pricing, to drive in-house digital sales and therefore retain owned guest data. – Noah Glass, Founder & CEO, Olo Looking ahead to 2024, we anticipate more change.

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Hotel Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

These hoteliers should have access to industry-specific technology without paying ERP prices. “M3 aims to deliver value, efficiency and robust automation within a simplistic software eco-system designed for smaller hoteliers,” said Scott Watson, chief sales and marketing officer, M3.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Reduce portion sizes slightly to maintain menu prices but account for increased costs. Don’t be afraid to increase price. Don’t be afraid to increase price. "In 2023, we’ll see AI becoming more widely integrated into restaurant operations spanning front and back of house.

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Restaurant Engine

JUNE 9, 2021

When considering restaurant equipment financing, don’t forget to look at the prices of used versus new equipment. If it’s cosmetic, and back of house, it’s not necessarily a problem. If you’re using it in the front of the house, make sure you can repair any cosmetic issues. 5: Consider Used Equipment. tweet this). #7:

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