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COVID-19 Is the Opportunity Plant-Based Alternatives Have Waited For

Modern Restaurant Management

In January of 2020, Impossible Foods, a leader in plant-based meat alternatives, primarily focused sales on the restaurant trade, selling to less than 200 supermarkets; by May of 2020, the company was selling its line of plant-based products in more than 3,000 retail markets and grocery stores. agriculture supply chain are felt.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. Same-store sales growth was -2.1

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Fast-Casual: A New Dining Style for a New Generation

Lavu

Customers, especially Millennials, are looking for delicious food at affordable prices. Not surprisingly, sales for this category of restaurant have grown by 550% since 1999. However, in 2016 this is beginning to change. This occurs when congestion slows the productivity of a particular point in the service process.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6 percent in November, which represents the third consecutive month of positive sales growth and the strongest since January. Thanksgiving typically represents lower sales volumes for most industry segments.

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5 Reasons Why Restaurants Are Going Cashless

Lavu

Some restaurant chain owners see the transition as a step toward the future, largely because restaurant point-of-sale systems make it so easy. While 20% to 25% of Park Café’s sales were paid for in cash before the switch, Hart estimates that just 5% or 10% of customers paying in cash didn’t have a card.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

of consumer foodservice sales globally, but it’s significantly higher in more developed regions like Western Europe (7.2%) and North America (4.5%). The vending machine model has clear benefits for unit economics, both from the CAPEX investment point of view and labor and staffing cost optimization.

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There Really Is No Ethical Restaurant Under Capitalism

EATER

We have not figured out how to replicate matter, nor have we abolished money, so even in our most progressive and sustainable restaurants, the food has to come from somewhere and must be paid for by someone. The only ethical restaurant I have ever heard of is on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.