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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. percent between 2015 and 2018, compared with a 2.5

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As Dollar Stores Proliferate Food Deserts, Some Communities Push Back

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“In part, this moratorium was put in place because of concerns about how SBDRs may be negatively influencing public safety, food availability, and property values in unincorporated DeKalb County,” reads the resolution. Retailers like dollar stores “may be negatively influencing public safety [and] food availability.”. “I

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Transparency into work environment precautions – Many restaurants and stores are publishing the precautions they are taking to ensure the safety of customers and employees. The top factor influencing the choice to buy alcoholic drinks with take out/delivery relates to ease and safety. Gift Card Sales Boom.

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The Great Birria Boom

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These were white, Asian, African-American, Armenian employees that told us they had something they’d never tried, and they loved it.”. A few of the brothers had worked for Nordstrom, and they applied the marketing skills they learned there to opening their first Birrieria Gonzalez truck in 2015.

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Why Celebs Risk It All Eating Spicy Wings on the ‘Hot Ones’ Talk Show

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For stars like Kevin Hart, Idris Elba, and Lorde, eating spicy wings is the key to relatability. Sean Evans has told the show’s origin story multiple times: One day in 2015, First We Feast general manager Chris Schonberger asked him, ??“What According to Kevin Hart, “your clothes are a clear virsitation of who you are.”

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Restaurant Industry Suppliers: Time to Retool and Realign

Aaron Allen & Associates

Between 2015 and 2017, Chipotle had a series of foodborne illness outbreaks related to compromised food safety. As a result, between September 2015 and January 2016, the company lost $10.5B One of the best KPIs for purchasing departments that we like to pay attention is number of SKUs per employee. in market cap.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Since 2015 the Humane Society of the United States has delivered plant-based training to nearly 11,000 culinary staff at large-scale food service operations, including working with over 95 health care facilities to increase availability of plant-based offerings in cafeterias, on patient menus or both. The Humane Society of the United States.