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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

Cheers to 2023: Overall, restaurant and bar guests drank approximately +11 percent more alcohol in Q4 2023 compared to the average for Q1 through Q3 2023. The findings in the report include the top challenges for enterprise restaurant operators, investment priorities, innovations, digital sales trends, and what brands can expect for 2024.

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Sprinkling Success: A Conversation with Dan Mesches

The Restaurant Times

Before joining Sprinkles, he served as President and CEO of Hopdoddy Burger Bar, where he led their expansion efforts into other markets and built a team of 100 to 1000 members, including the executive team. The keyword here is innovation. s most acclaimed restaurants, including Red Sage, followed by Penn Quarter’s landmark, Zola.

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2005, I stopped doing that and started working on building a private equity fund focused on emerging brands in the European fashion design industry. I visited a lot of juice bars and plant-based restaurants over the years, and I was seldomly impressed. Flemming Madsen. The quality of our expansion is everything.

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Coffee News Recap, 14 Oct: Early bird tickets now on sale for PRF El Salvador, 13-year-old wins 2022 Colombian AeroPress Championship & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The online event is part of the WCA’s TechnoCoffee Innovation Series, and featured CEO and founder of AgUnity, David Davies, and COO and co-founder of FarmersDirectCoffee, Ward de Groote. Fri, 7 Oct – Founders of Hinba Coffee Roasters launch Eighty Six cocktail bar in Glasgow, Scotland. Teruel first joined Starbucks in 2005.

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Top 40 Restaurants in Portland

Restaurant Clicks

Portland’s restaurant scene is yet another example of Portland’s creative originality, with the most diverse and innovative array of restaurants, featuring every world cuisine through a unique gaze. From the owners of Tusk, Ava Gene’s is a quaint yet refined Italian-inspired bistro and wine bar in the Division/Clifton neighborhood.

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Nashville Pizza Places to Check Out This Week

Restaurant Clicks

Located in East Nashville’s East End neighborhood, Five Points Pizza is a New York-style pizzeria and bar offering a wide selection of foreign and domestic craft beer on draft and in bottles to enjoy with a large slice or a whole pie. 2005 Belcourt Ave, Nashville, TN 37212 Phone: 615-622-4457 Visit Website. Porta Via Ristorante e Bar.

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Sacramento Restaurants You Should Be Dining At This Week

Restaurant Clicks

Paired with an excellent bar selection, it’s hard to beat the experience here. Ella Dining Room & Bar. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ella Dining Room and Bar (@elladiningroomandbar). In the heart of Sacramento’s downtown, not far from the convention center, sits Ella Dining Room & Bar.