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How to Meet The Needs of Today’s Coffee Shop Customer

Perfect Daily Grind

While COVID-19 will no doubt affect 2020’s sales figures, many countries are starting to ease their lockdown restrictions, which could see the industry experiencing growth in the second half of the year. Sustainability Is in The Spotlight. Sustainability was on everyone’s lips in 2019, and 2020 is no exception.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Since 2015, this segment has more than doubled its footprint, and interest in the format — which alleviates some operational risks and costs for operators — is not expected to slow down. Mechanization and Robotic At-Home Kitchens It’s not just restaurant kitchens that are being revolutionized. There were some 180 food halls in the U.S.

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Austin Breweries Serving up the Best Craft Beer

Restaurant Clicks

They believe in sustainable farming and brewing, and use many of the crops they grow on the farm in their beer and kitchen. The menu has vegetarian and vegan options to accommodate a wide range of dietary restrictions. This small brewery features sustainable brewing practices and a focus on environmental support.

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MRM Plant-Based: Trends in Meatless and Copper Branch Expands in Time for Veganuary

Modern Restaurant Management

Menus are accommodating dietary preferences and identities, as well as taking various cultures into consideration, and even creating entire vegan menus. Veggie Grill has sold almost 1 million VG Beyond Burgers since the menu item launched in 2015. Some trends the industry is seeing include: To Infinity & Beyond…MEATS.

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HAGS Will Be Queer First, and a Restaurant Second

EATER

The menu at HAGS will accommodate any number of substitutions and dietary restrictions. She was a fast study, and though she says she “didn’t have any life-sustaining skill [or] know how to cook anything,” she soon enough found herself ready for and craving a more technical culinary education.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

Located on a working farm that was once part of a sprawling Rockefeller estate, the restaurant is a beacon of the sustainable food movement. Connected to it was an “upmarket” restaurant intended to be a platform for — and to financially support — the center’s work advocating sustainable community farming.

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Should we allow plant milks in the World Barista Championships?

Perfect Daily Grind

So why should they be restricted to using a particular type of milk in the milk-based round?”. I was highlighting that the coffee industry talks so much about sustainability, but few of us are talking about the impacts of mass-scale animal agriculture on the planet.”. The global non-dairy market is expected to be worth US $40.6