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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. More than 8 million POS software installations at major retailers. In its new report, Placer.ai

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How to Prepare Your Café For The Festive Season

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Reuters reports that Starbucks exceeded its sales figures forecasts in 2018’s last quarter with the help of holiday-themed drinks. It’s the perfect opportunity for you to sell gifts such as specialty roasted coffee, brewing gear, and other related merchandise. . Another is to allow them to construct their own gift sets. .

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Coffee News Recap, 27 Jan: Proud Mary Coffee to sell Panamanian Gesha for US $150 per cup, PRF El Salvador to host 2023 Salvadoran Barista Championship & other stories

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Mon, 23 Jan Australian beverage retailer BWS launches Double Shot drive-thru coffee shop in Devonport, Tasmania. The merchandise pack includes a customised denim jacket with pin set, a cupping bowl, a Brewista electric gooseneck kettle, and a Brewista Smart Scale II. Here are this week’s stories. during the same period.

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How Rotel Became an Essential Part of Any Queso

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Merchandisers were able to scale up their production, which expanded the chile pepper’s reach and popularity across the south, including Texas. Over the last 10 years, Rotel has become nationally available at 95 percent of retail locations; it’s now available at about 82 percent of stores in the Northeast. million in sales in 2018.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

“It’s encouraging to see consumers continue to rally and support local businesses, with many planning to purchase merchandise, specialty items and gift cards as holiday gifts.” 22 percent of customers are looking to buy restaurant merchandise. 24 percent of people are interested in gifting signature sauces.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

"We're ready for the next step in the brand transformation that began when I came on board in 2018," said Paul Macaluso, Krystal president and CEO. "We've The brand has rebuilt nine restaurants since 2018, generating first year-over-year comp sales ranging from +29.8 percent to +107.5 Waters Edge in Peoria.