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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. Find the ones with the best margins, then concentrate on marketing and merchandising them.

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22 Restaurant Advertising Ideas Driving Guests To Tables In 2022

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These can be professionally designed or made in-house to promote specials, events, or even a classic riff like the “Free Wifi, Cold Beer” sign found outside many-a-bar. These could be directions to the bar to increase drink sales or to the dessert display, for example. Image Source. Maximize Indoor Real Estate with Signage.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Alcoholic beverages, in particular, can have an enormous impact on guest checks, especially for bar and grill and more upscale restaurants. Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

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in early April, featuring an eclectic collection of 10 artisanal food stalls in addition to Denver-based Sonder Coffee and Tea and the signature indoor/outdoor 40-foot Junction Bar. The signature 40-foot Junction Bar will open onto a vast 4,000-square-foot outdoor space, which will fit up to 140 guests. Colorado Blvd. Peacock Room.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Franchising for Heroes and Shaq-a-Roni for Charity

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Apple American Group LLC (AAG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Flynn Restaurant Group LP (FRG), was named the 2021 Abe Gustin Franchisee of the Year by Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar. Guests can win prizes and merchandise among other giveaways while experiencing the fresh design. A few years later, she married Ian.

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German Restaurants Are Expanding: 57 Concepts You Should Know

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Aspiring franchisees will find different types of locations for all settings: food stalls and mobile food trucks for areas with high foot traffic, and mini counters and larger bars for train stations, supermarkets, and petrol stations. This vegetarian concept started out in 2005 in Berlin as a juice and smoothie bar.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

Modern Restaurant Management

While originally created for restaurants, OhWaiter has expanded its capabilities to include hotels, stadiums, bars, just to name a few. Merchandise specific to New York City and Times Square to commemorate the experience. OhWaiter customers are provided with up to two tablets per location.