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Zaza Cuban Comfort Food goes for an all-day-diner vibe, but with great coffee

Restaurant Business

And that’s how Zaza was born in 2013.” By Lisa Jennings on Aug. 11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The classic Cubano at Zaza. Photo courtesy of Zaza Cuban Comfort Food. Ruben Perez’s father was a chef from Cuba, and he was a good one. So I said to my father, ‘Pop, we need to do a really cool Latin or Cuban restaurant in town,’” Perez said.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

“It now accounts for a larger share of sales for 58 percent of limited-service and 41 percent of full-service operators compared with 2019—providing a critical path to restaurant resilience and growth despite ongoing economic pressures.” More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago.

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Martha Stewart Has 99 Books. Do People Collect Them?

EATER

Though this pushes the pricing of Entertaining up, that interest inevitably dies down again: As of this writing, recent eBay sales of Entertaining have been more in the $5-$15 range. Hayden’s interest in Entertaining was inspired by CNN’s Martha Stewart docuseries that dropped in January. It also picked up with the start of the pandemic.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry took the brunt of the pandemic’s economic and societal impact and is now being asked to respond to the permanently changed consumer landscape. Here are five trends in the restaurant industry to consider post-COVID: Labor Supply, Wages and Automation. Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5

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How AI Will Save the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Within a decade, it could be possible for an individual to approach a drive-through in an autonomous vehicle, order through an AI-powered voice ordering assistant, and eat food that was prepared by robots. One of the most obvious aspects of this interaction is that there is not a single human involved besides the consumer. Voice Ordering.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Since our founding 10 years ago, we’re proud to have facilitated 5 billion consumer orders, driven over $100 billion in sales for merchants, and helped Dashers ​​earn over $35 billion through the platform.

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Redefining ‘Dine and Dash’ and Review Hub

Modern Restaurant Management

“National and multi-location brands are looking for sophisticated products to help them drive ad performance, demonstrate ROI on their campaigns, and better tell their story in an increasingly noisy digital landscape,” said Tom Foran, Yelp’s senior vice president of national sales. Toast Secures $400M Funding.