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Why Starbucks Doesn’t Hit Like It Used To

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Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images New CEO Brian Niccol is hoping customers will fall back in love with the coffee chain. Starbucks hasn’t had a hit new drink in years Starbucks has, outside of a few new flavors and latte options, failed to successfully innovate its drink menu over the last decade or so.

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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

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With revenue down, millions of workers laid off and countless eateries closed – many of them permanently – experts anticipate the operational strategy going forward to be driven by innovation and methods for doing more with less. Lines, regardless of what creates them, are never good things in the service industry.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

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Having a strategy for plant-based is now a business imperative–your customers want it and your competitors are doing it. Qdoba Mexican Eats’ nation-wide Impossible Foods launch in 2019 made it a standout, with the restaurant chain allowing customers to add Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat to any of its core dishes.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Customers simply approach Ono’s ordering kiosk, place their custom order, and watch as robotic systems create their blends from scratch. Quality Control – Ono can ensure orders are to the customers' standards 100 percent of the time. Within 60 seconds, blends are ready at Ono’s pick-up area.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

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We strongly believe that our significant experience in the QSR space, our strong digital focus, our ability to innovate, as well as our proven execution capabilities, will enable Subway to become a dominant player in the region.” . “Everstone Group is delighted to be a partner and custodian of Subway in the region.

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MRM People & Places: Azteca Foods Celebrates 50 Years and State Dish Showdown

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Azteca also supplies freshly made products to the Food Service and Industrial channels. Our customers, suppliers, brokers, and ultimately our consumers who brought us to their dinner tables for decades. “We owe many thanks to our Azteca family,” said the Velasquez’s.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Sandwiches Up North and Taco John’s Gets Aggressive

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Prior to Boston Market, Allen served as President of Jack-in-the-Box from 2014 to 2018, where she held full strategic and operational responsibility for the 2,200-unit, $3 billion hamburger quick service restaurant chain, generating superior results and upgrading the quality of the menu. Taco John’s International Inc.