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12 Mobile Food Ordering Statistics in 2025 That Reveal Explosive Customer Demand

Lavu

Food delivery is worth more than $150 billion, having more than tripled since 2017, via McKinsey report. Only 45% of QSR customers prefer to place orders through employees. The increase in mobile phone traffic to online stores is partly fueled by another trend: the rise of social product discovery and effective social ad targeting.

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MRM Research Roundup: Cautious Optimism, Beyond the Burn, and the Taylor Swift Economy

Modern Restaurant Management

Though takeout is popular, dining out has its own allure, especially for social occasions. Socializing with friends (48 percent) and enjoying higher-quality food than they can prepare at home (47 percent) also rank highly. Wait Time Woes: Wait time-related reviews increased 8.5 What Drives Americans to Dine Out?

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9 Important Hospitality Sales and Marketing Tips

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

In a world driven by social media and online search, sales tactics are essential to generate revenue. From 2009 to 2017, gross bookings in U.S. Organize a wine tasting event, or anything related to local products. Provide Career Growth Opportunities for the Best Employees. Follow Social Media Trends.

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‘It Was a Losing Fight to Write Anything That Wasn’t “Ethnic”’

EATER

In many cases, the employees’ personalities were turned into their personal brands. There’s this idea in food media that it’s somehow easier to cook the food of your culture because you grew up with it or that it’s a part of you,” Martinez tells me. The feeling of being slotted into a niche is all too familiar for Martinez.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. The prepared food category is expected to grow 17 percent year-over-year, surging from a seven percent rise in 2017.

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Famous Dave’s: A Quarter Century of BBQ Evolution

Modern Restaurant Management

What are some lessons you have learned along the way you could relate to someone just starting out in the restaurant industry? Today, your customers are your advertising agency on social media. Today, your customers are your advertising agency on social media. How is tech incorporated into operations?

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Feast on Sushi, Steak, and Globalization at Iraq’s American-Themed Buffet

EATER

With a flagship 1,800-seat location in the city of Erbil and a second 800-seat location in Sulaimani (also spelled Sulaymaniyah), ABC is one of Iraq’s most popular restaurant brands, with often busy dining rooms, large social media followings, and billboards all over. The restaurant finally opened in December 2017.