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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Fine dining and upscale casual were the worst performing segments during March based on same-store sales growth.

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How Restaurant CEO Priorities are Evolving in 2020

Aaron Allen & Associates

Here, we round up ten factors influencing how leaders are evolving their views and approach. To offset the rapid rise in labor costs around the globe, more creative strategies will need to be employed to maintain margins, market share, and guest satisfaction scores. A 2% increase in sales is equivalent to a 10% reduction in cost.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

State of Digital Qu announced the results of its fifth annual survey of quick service (QSR) and fast casual (FC) restaurant brands. Combine that with a tight labor market and we’re seeing a shift to self-serve ordering even in the store.” Digital ordering is still larger at fast casuals versus QSR.

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5 Ways America’s Restaurant Industry Has Changed Over the Last Decade

Single Platform

A CNN Money report from mid 2008 noted that casual dining chains were taking a major hit as people turned to cheaper food alternatives. At the same time, the job market was just as bleak, with unemployment rates reaching up to 10% in the years following the Great Recession. In 2009, food sales were only at about 4.06 trillion.

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5 Ways America’s Restaurant Industry Has Changed Over the Last Decade

Single Platform

A CNN Money report from mid 2008 noted that casual dining chains were taking a major hit as people turned to cheaper food alternatives. At the same time, the job market was just as bleak, with unemployment rates reaching up to 10% in the years following the Great Recession. In 2009, food sales were only at about 4.06 trillion.

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Two Groups in Oklahoma Are Developing a Blueprint for Successful Queer-Owned Restaurants

EATER

It started in 2009 when Humankind opened Picasso Cafe , which quickly turned into a veritable Cheers for vegan-curious queers. In a market that’s less dense and innately queer than, say, West Hollywood, there’s more of a need for queer refuge in spaces like restaurants, where diners feel seen by like-minded proprietors and employees.

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The Real Prize of Top Chef

EATER

Many are modest affairs in the fast-casual mode. Had the show not become canonical, would the public be as conversant in genres of restaurants from fine dining to fast casual? Into the etheric realm of influencing, chefs have burst, leveraging their restaurant bona fides into empires of personal brands.