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Restaurants Diversify Cooking Oils and Optimize Operations as Prices Soar

Cheetah

Cooking oil prices reached an all time high this October. Operators are diversifying oil types and supply sources, while adjusting menus and learning how to prolong fry life. . Cooking Oil Prices Triple amidst Global Shortages. The first years of the pandemic came after nearly 6 years of low vegetable and crude oil prices.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. location debuted in Midtown Atlanta in 2014 and the brand has since opened 11 other locations around metro Atlanta. The first gusto!

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Deconstructing Russia’s Coffee Market

Perfect Daily Grind

During this time, people would go through great trouble to source green beans to roast and grind at home. To this day, tea dominates the country’s hot drink sales, accounting for around 60% of all beverages sold between 2009 and 2014. As a result, instant coffee made up just over 60% of the coffee consumed in 2014.

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Restaurant Trends in the Farm-to-Table Movement

Next Restaurants

As the demand for healthier and whole foods that were responsibly-sourced grew, the movement officially began. But when guests enjoy farm-to-fork cuisine, it means the ingredients can easily be tracked to a specific source, whether that’s several local farms or one specific farm. Start with your marketing efforts.

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Pay-What-You-Can Markets Provide Produce for the Common Good

EATER

percent for food prices last summer — the largest increase since 1981. Shoppers are told the full price of the food and given the opportunity to pay 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent of that price for a maximum of $30 off their total purchase. We have seen a large increase in prices for everything that we use on the farm.

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Fewer Seats, More Shelves: How Restaurants are Preparing for the Takeout Order Boom

LevelUp

Since 2014, online ordering for pickup and delivery has grown 300% faster than dine-in traffic. Source: Yelp ). Source: Tri-Cities Area Journal of Business ). Source: CBS News ). Source: QSR. In its early years, digital ordering provided an opportunity to access tech-savvy customers and boost sales.

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How NYC.PIE is Creating A Niche In The Pizzeria Market

The Restaurant Times

NYC.PIE was founded by Mr. Raj Rao, an F&B veteran in August of 2014. Source: nycpie.co.in. NYC.PIE too was launched as a brick-and-mortar brand but with the high real estate prices and overhead costs, the pizza brand adopted a cloud kitchen model. Online Ordering And Cloud Kitchens: The Future of Restuarant Industry.