Black Box Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Top 3 SOTI Takeaways The Slowdown in Sales, Traffic & Average Guest Check Growth April marked the industry’s weakest sales growth since July, making it the second-worst month in over two years. Unfortunately, the answer is not that clear-cut.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're SpotOn Secures $60M Funding.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 22, 2020

In January of 2020, Impossible Foods, a leader in plant-based meat alternatives, primarily focused sales on the restaurant trade, selling to less than 200 supermarkets; by May of 2020, the company was selling its line of plant-based products in more than 3,000 retail markets and grocery stores. agriculture supply chain are felt.

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Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Many industry experts point to Japanese brand Ueshima Coffee Company (UCC) as the inventor of canned coffee as we know it today. To find out more about the history of canned coffee, as well as potential for the market to grow even further, I spoke with Giovanni Betteo, Director of Sales at Minor Figures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. Same-store sales growth was -2.1

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Lavu

MARCH 25, 2020

Customers, especially Millennials, are looking for delicious food at affordable prices. Not surprisingly, sales for this category of restaurant have grown by 550% since 1999. However, in 2016 this is beginning to change. This occurs when congestion slows the productivity of a particular point in the service process.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This edition of MRM News Bites features The American Food Association, Branch and Delaget, Restaurant Revolution Technologies, Popmenu, The Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille, ParTech, Casio America, Radobank, Koomi and Helios, Cudos, Postmates and TGI Fridays and Catania Oils. “Special thanks to voters and consumers for your support.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They touched on topics such as delivery, ghost (dark) kitchens, automation, plant-based menu items, food waste, sustainability, staffing and retention and more. Even cost of sales may go down as the ghost kitchen typically has a smaller, more manageable menu. Food Halls – the numbers for current and future growth are substantial.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some restaurant chain owners see the transition as a step toward the future, largely because restaurant point-of-sale systems make it so easy. While 20% to 25% of Park Café’s sales were paid for in cash before the switch, Hart estimates that just 5% or 10% of customers paying in cash didn’t have a card.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6 percent in November, which represents the third consecutive month of positive sales growth and the strongest since January. Thanksgiving typically represents lower sales volumes for most industry segments.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

of consumer foodservice sales globally, but it’s significantly higher in more developed regions like Western Europe (7.2%) and North America (4.5%). The vending machine model has clear benefits for unit economics, both from the CAPEX investment point of view and labor and staffing cost optimization.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We have not figured out how to replicate matter, nor have we abolished money, so even in our most progressive and sustainable restaurants, the food has to come from somewhere and must be paid for by someone. The only ethical restaurant I have ever heard of is on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

They collected and analyzed sales data between January 2018 and July 2019 from over 10,000 restaurants nationwide, measured the sales performance of each item, and ranked each item based on its overall and trending popularity. National Menu Trends. The team at Upserve just released their latest trends report.

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EATER

MARCH 29, 2022

It was early fall around sunset, still warm enough to eat outside a little longer, but a sudden breeze forced me to make a decision for my handbröd, a palm-sized roll stuffed with cheese or vegetables and with my choice of toppings. I went with the lentils and cream cheese, paid — 3.50 The answer: not yet, though maybe in the future.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Like a child who’s constantly outgrowing clothes so parents buy them a few sizes up to “grow into,” a rapidly expanding business is often at a point of either being under-supported with infrastructure or having systems (or people) too advanced for the current operations. It begs the question: is that feasible? Reasonable?

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Minimal Waste – Ono’s food truck is designed to be environmentally sustainable. From cups to straws, all of Ono’s consumables are compostable, making Ono more sustainable compared to traditional smoothie establishments. World’s First Mobile Restaurant Powered by Advanced Robotics. Ono Food Co.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

Additionally, YEA finds slower, but still consistent changes in consumers getting back to pre-pandemic activities, as well as sustained interest in supporting Black-owned businesses. Yelp Sees COVID Effect. YEA reflects data from millions of local businesses and tens of millions of users on Yelp’s platform measuring U.S. “As U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Under Allen’s leadership, this C-suite team has been instrumental in implementing a multi-faceted transformation plan designed to ensure long-term sustainability, enhance brand relevance, accelerate innovation, improve guest satisfaction, increase overall profitability and create a clear growth plan to propel the company forward.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding. Ordermark closed its $120M Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2[1] and joined by returning investor Act One Ventures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As more meatless options become popular throughout the hospitality scene, Tripleseat released three popular menu options trending this holiday season as restaurants prepare for dinner parties. Menus are accommodating dietary preferences and identities, as well as taking various cultures into consideration, and even creating entire vegan menus.

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Sante

AUGUST 25, 2020

Chef Erickson and his wife Mary Anne participated in a Travel, Food and Wine Writing Class in Provence for The Writer’s Workshop , hosted by Nick O'Connell in May, 2016. The wine list was helpfully arranged by price, on one page the bottles were all 20 euros, the next 25 euros and so on. I would soon find out.

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