Lithos POS

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Imagine your restaurant as a complex business where each part, from the kitchen staff to the front-of-house team, plays a crucial role in creating a premium dining experience. Now, think of fast food restaurant management as skilled and efficient ensuring that each element works seamlessly together to produce a better dining experience.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Here are three ways restaurant operators can cut costs without customers noticing: 1. Standardize Recipes. This includes labor and inventory.

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Optimum Control

JANUARY 20, 2021

Are you currently using spreadsheets or pen and paper for managing your inventory? We know that making the switch to inventory management software for your restaurant can seem daunting, but the benefits make it worth the effort. What can inventory management software do for my restaurant?

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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

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

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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Optimum Control

MAY 27, 2021

When you’re unable to open your doors to the public, whether that be due to private events, or renovations, you may be asking yourself “what do I do with all of my inventory?” If you look at your restaurant’s inventory management software, how much of your inventory is simply sitting there unused and going bad?

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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Total Food Service

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

However, they are all essential for managing profitability in single or multi-unit operations, especially when inventory costs are rising, new fees are being charged by technology providers, rent is more expensive, and workers are demanding higher wages.

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Optimum Control

AUGUST 12, 2021

Step 1: Recipe costing Recipe costing is the process of taking your recipes and pricing them out by their individual ingredients. By doing this, you’ll be able to find the cost of your recipes track price fluctuations on a per-ingredient basis, assuming your yields are accurate and there is no wastage.

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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

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

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

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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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

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

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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JAMIX

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you run a restaurant, catering business, or any other food service establishment, managing operations effectively can be a challenging task.

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JAMIX

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you run a restaurant, catering business, or any other food service establishment, managing operations effectively can be a challenging task.

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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

MARCH 2, 2020

Help in identifying the most or least profitable locations, for better inventory and staff management. Restaurant analytics software takes restaurant data, visualizes it, and presents it for easy analysis. A restaurant analytics system can be built in the restaurant management software.

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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

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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Optimum Control

APRIL 14, 2021

Menu Management The most appropriate place to start looking at when managing your food cost is your menu. By costing out your recipes and calculating how much you’re making or losing on each dish, you’ll find where you can make menu changes to increase or your margins, or remove items entirely. Which are costing you?

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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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Optimum Control

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Increased Scrutiny of Inventory Management Practices While it may seem like a basic concept, using effective inventory management processes can help you curb inflation in your restaurant. Menu Changes Menus continue to be one of the most hot button issues restaurants face.

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