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MRM Franchise Feed: Tropical in Colorado and The Halal Guys New App

Modern Restaurant Management

“In addition to our growth and brand milestones so far this year, we have more in the pipeline in new and existing markets to increase the experience for both guests and franchisees. At the same time, we’re excited about creating a new generation of Subway guests!” ” Perfectly Designed Pizza Hut. ."

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

restaurant recovery is underway, but it will take time for it to return to pre-pandemic levels fully,” said David Portalatin, NPD food industry advisor and author of Eating Patterns in America. The restaurant industry has made progress restaffing, but job recovery for the industry is lagging the overall economy. “The U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

Overall, “large parties,” or a party with eight or more guests, had a +2 percent increase in same-store transactions in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. Cheers to 2023: Overall, restaurant and bar guests drank approximately +11 percent more alcohol in Q4 2023 compared to the average for Q1 through Q3 2023.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

Modern Restaurant Management

Its proprietary guest engagement solution, which is used by more than 600 restaurants throughout the U.S. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. We are very pleased to welcome them to our TouchBistro family.”

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The Best Ways to Measure and Reduce Restaurant Turnover Rates

Black Box Intelligence

According to Black Box Workforce Intelligence data, half of hourly front-of-house workers left within 90 days in 2018, compared to 43% in 2017. The industry’s labor challenges will persist through the economic recovery and beyond. Around 20% of operators have increased prices by more than 5%. Strategies to reduce turnover.

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Restaurants Beat Labor Crisis with Daring New Wage Structure

Cheetah

Dining rooms are reopening and with the promise of return to normalcy just a few days away, the unprecedented staffing shortage is dampening the hope of economic recovery. Many people and organizations have fought to amend this law and in 2018, Congress enacted a variety of amendments to the FLSA.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Guest Intent Shows Positive Trend. While the recovery has not been universal or consistent – due to geographical, economic, and household differences – there are a number of key overarching trends. In fact, 67 percent of all SMBs fear that inflation will hurt their recovery. Online sales grew 19.9 percent and 95.6

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