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What is a Ghost Kitchen? Winning Models, Trends, and Opportunities

Apicbase

According to Statista , in 2023, the revenue of online food delivery was estimated at over $1 trillion, and it is expected to hold a 50% share of the drive-thru and takeaway food service markets by 2030. Indeed, they have been around for over a decade: a NYT article from 2019 dates them back at least to 2013.

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Restaurant Robotics: How Robots Are Changing Foodservice

Aaron Allen & Associates

This can include anything from using automats to take orders to use robots to cook food. Already in 2019, restaurants were not able to pass inflationary costs on to consumers (back then, the average restaurant price increase was 3.1% and food at 5%). Restaurant margins have been under pressure for years.

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How DoorDash and Postmates Make an Already Dangerous Job Worse

EATER

In 2013, Saru Jayaraman founded One Fair Wage to put an end to the tipped minimum wage, which, One Fair Wage has found , perpetuates racial and gender disparities in the hospitality industry. My parents and I lived in an old trailer in Sonora until I was two or three, then they came back to Arizona and they bought a house.

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Everything You Need to Know About Ghost Kitchens (aka. Cloud Kitchens)

The Food Corridor

And more and more often, whether we realize it or not, it’s also where we’re ordering our food. Introducing cloud kitchens , commercial facilities purpose-built to produce food specifically for delivery. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. Customers order online on food delivery apps (such as Grubhub, Doordash, etc.)

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A Brief Guide to Buying Champagne

EATER

Start with a bottle from one of these Champagne houses. Start with a smart bottle from one of the great Champagne houses. But the wines produced by these houses have been snubbed over the last decade by a certain kind of drinker, typically younger, relatively new to wine, and predisposed to drinking natural wines first and foremost.

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What’s Next?: MRM Restaurant Survival Guide Updates

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. The Foundation will administer the grants, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

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White Castle Flips for Flippy and Burma Bites

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding. Ordermark closed its $120M Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund 2[1] and joined by returning investor Act One Ventures.