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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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We’re continually learning about new and innovative ways to help our clients be more sustainable—whether that be choosing eco-friendly materials and fixtures or finding new products that use recycled or compostable packaging. In 2016, there was plenty of compelling robotics technology geared for the restaurant industry.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

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While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. billion dollars in 2016 and experienced a staggering 300 percent surge to a $4.65

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

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Dunkin’ is also on track to fully transition to new, recyclable hot coffee cup lids in all of its U.S. The company is also on track to be fully transitioned to recyclable hot coffee cup lids in its U.S. The new lids are made of #5 polypropylene that can be recycled in cities and towns that offer #5 recycling.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-May 2021 Edition

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And 34 percent have only one month or less left of cash reserves (that’s up 4 percent from April). Cultivated meat companies received more than $360 million* in investments in 2020, which is six times the amount raised in 2019 and 72 percent of the amount raised in the industry’s history (2016–2020).

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

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When Emma Meigneux was hired as an extern in 2016, she says, it was a dream come true. “It Amy Huo started in 2016 as an unpaid extern. This was the latest iteration of Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ compost oven, which cooks food in the most sustainable way imaginable — with heat from waste being recycled on-site.

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Changes at McDonald’s and Reducing Food Waste

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“We’ve designed two new features that react to incoming reservations in real time and which adapt to operating goals. “The turn controls keeps moving, adjusting and adapting to how reservations come in. 70 percent of our most popular restaurants use these turn and flow controls to run and grow their business.”

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Will Climate Change Lead to More Black Truffles? It’s Complicated.

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Unless you count the truffle oil-laden fries of the mid-aughts, which no self-respecting truffle enjoyer would, the decadent flavor of truffles is still mostly reserved for more rarified meals. Hotter summers and decreased summer rainfall mean the groundwater reserves are drying up. But I should imagine [it’s] perhaps not very good.”.

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