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MRM Research Roundup: Delivery Fraud, the Playground Effect, and Top 100 Places to Eat

Modern Restaurant Management

Data Gaps Hinder Pricing Strategies : 73 percent of operators lack full confidence in their pricing strategy, with most relying on gut instinct or competitor pricing instead of real-time cost analysis. decline in veganism, shift away from seed oils, Starbucks Monday, and spirts holding steady.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

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. CoGS for the period is $2000. Lastly, food cost should always be a consideration when making menu changes. Optimize Inventory.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

EATER

Community activists were able to resist these efforts through the early 1990s, but by the 2000s, political leaders, including the community’s alderman, invited pricey new development into the neighborhood, paving the way for rapid change. Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent. In the video , S.K.Y.’s

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Quality Matters: An Excerpt from ‘Around the Corner to Around the World’

Modern Restaurant Management

During a contentious meeting that day, my dad argued passionately for quality over price. This conviction was reinforced early in my presidency when my father told me the story of Charlie Lubin, a man he met during one of his many extended stays at the Rice House Diet Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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What We Miss When Vacation Rentals Become Contactless

EATER

Shared lodging like bed and breakfasts, boarding houses, and room rentals are falling out of favor, replaced by contactless, host-less vacation rentals. I, however, came back with boiled eggs. But at what cost? They weren’t packed away in the cargo hold; they were plastered in my memory.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

I pulled the car around and watched a massive garage door open to reveal my prize: a stack of mango boxes on a dolly cart, this batch with a going price of about $8 per fruit. After dropping off most of the load at my cousin’s house, I took my cut, a private stash of two boxes. The next day, my family gorged.

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