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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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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

With a proven track record for driving sustainable franchise growth and expansion for some of the world’s leading brands, including Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, Dunkin’ Brands, Inc., 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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Today, Nordsee operates solely as a seafood retailer and restaurant, with more than 370 stores worldwide and the same passion for fresh sustainable seafood. In 2009, Udo Granz had the idea of filling that gap in the German market and opened the first Miss Pepper : ambience of the 1950s and 1960s and authentic American food.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Ensuring greater inclusion of Black-owned and operated businesses across NBA business activities addresses the goal of the 2019-20 NBA season restart, which is to find tangible and sustainable ways to address racial inequality across the country. Merchandise specific to New York City and Times Square to commemorate the experience.

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Inside the Starbucks Collectors Cup Market, Where a Single Tumbler Can Sell for Nearly $2K

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A clear cup decorated with pink alpacas from a 2019 collection released only in China sold on December 4 for $1,075.99, and a 2009 mug from a store in Corfu, Greece, fetched a whopping $1,875 in late November. Spaulding’s first beloved cup retails for $24.95 at Starbucks, but sells for as much as $50 on eBay.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

Modern Restaurant Management

. “VISIT PHILADELPHIA and the James Beard Foundation are thrilled for our unique partnership that brings the culinary and tourism industries together to make it easy for travelers to support delicious, diverse, and sustainable food,” said Jeff Guaracino, president and CEO, VISIT PHILADELPHIA. As the first sushi chain in the U.S.

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