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Restaurant Supply Chain Management: New Era, New Measures

Modern Restaurant Management

The turmoil caused by the pandemic has disrupted global supply chains more than any other period in recent history. It has highlighted the critical importance of evolving supply chain systems to be more responsive and agile to the changing dynamics around us – which the past two years have been extensive.

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How Delivery Services AreĀ  Impacting Restaurant Supply ChainsĀ 

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This new trend is not only how restaurants are preparing food, but also their entire logistical supply chain. While this new trend could save money, it also creates new challenges, including potential impacts on a restaurant’s supply chain.

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Preventing Supply Chain Shortages

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There are a number of proven strategies for being proactive about possible supply chain shortages including menu optimization, building partnerships and LTO maximization. If there are supply chain issues that make an ingredient unavailable or cost prohibitive, what are best ways to address it with customers?

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How a Virtual Supply Chain Identifies Challenges and Solutions for Restaurants

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While the restaurant sector shut down during the pandemic, food supply chain technologists were working hard to open new avenues to improve automated processes for restaurants. As restaurants reopened to increased costs and staff shortages, automation has become less a future goal than an urgent need.

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Best Practices for Fast-Casual Restaurants Evaluating Labor and Supply Chain Issues

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The landscape has changed since the pandemic, and as restaurateurs, we need to push the bounds of innovation to develop short and long-term solutions to the things keeping us up at night – staffing and supply chain challenges. Supply Chain and Distribution. Labor – Retaining Quality Staff. Aloha Poke Co.

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Supply Chain Transparency Can Make Your Restaurant Safer, Boost Key Metrics

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What if I told you that you could solve a variety of your problems by improving your supply chain transparency? Supply chain transparency can provide vital information about suppliers’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. Doing so helps these brands: Reduce risk across the entire supply chain.

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How the Meat Supply Chain Can Meet the Demands of a Food Service Industry in Turmoil

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Since the labor shortage across the supply chain is likely to persist past the short-term and with other costs also increasing, one of the few ways restaurants can maintain their margins without raising their prices is to find ingredients that have better yields and require less labor to prepare. So how do we get there as an industry?

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