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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. percent in 2018). An Uncertain Start to 2020?

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An Eater’s Guide to Phuket, Thailand’s Island Hotspot

EATER

In 2022, 9 million tourists visited Thailand’s largest island (down from 15 million in 2018) in search of white-sand beaches, clear waters, and palm trees. In the last decade, tourist-oriented restaurants, cheesy cafes, and fast food have moved into the town’s Chinese Portuguese shophouses. A busy dim sum restaurant in Phuket Town.

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5 Ways to Control Food Costs in Your Restaurant

Margin Edge

Creating recipes and setting your initial menu pricing is Restaurant 101. Your recipe costing is based on specific ingredient prices, and those will change frequently even if you’ve negotiated set costs with your suppliers. Pricing on some ingredients is innately volatile because of seasonal availability or market forces.

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47 Scaling Restaurants In Scandinavia To Keep An Eye On (Because They Are Awesome)

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You may not have noticed, but some brilliant restaurant chains and franchises are shaking up the dining culture of the Nordic countries, both with new concepts and by revamping old ones. These restaurants are scaling fast, and quite often venture far beyond their country of origin. Fast Casual Restaurant. Oli Oli Poke.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining.

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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

EATER

How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. Instead, they began looking to street stalls, pubs, and casual bistros for culinary inspiration. This style of dining remains poignantly relevant here. Today the city of just 1.6 Monica Burton.

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Nickel and Dine: How to Stay in Control of Your Food Costs

Margin Edge

Creating recipes and setting your initial menu pricing is Restaurant 101. Your recipe costing is based on specific ingredient prices, and those will change frequently even if you’ve negotiated set costs with your suppliers. Pricing on some ingredients is innately volatile because of seasonal availability or market forces.

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