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These full-service restaurant chains opened the most locations last year

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Most of its sales are digital, though customers can order in person at the counter, and there is limited seating. It was the chain’s best year for unit growth since 2018, when its footprint increased by 1.4%. Buffalo Wild Wings has big plans for the concept. full-service chain by unit count.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

A future forward restaurant model will be characterized by contactless delivery, curbside pick-up, and outdoor seating and will be more able to respond to heightened anxieties about business hygienic practices. If you currently lack outdoor seating, you may want to consider renovations or look for a new location that can accommodate.

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Managing Diner Expectations this Holiday Season

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Yelp Kiosk, which was originally introduced in 2018 for restaurants that didn’t have the budget to hire a dedicated host, has seen a spike in adoption this year as restaurants around the country leveraged the solution as a defacto host. .” Proactive communication and transparency is essential to managing the diner experience.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Can Technology Help Solve the Restaurant Labor Shortage?

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Despite facing the pressure to stay open and operational over the last year, restaurants have gone above and beyond the “new normal” to rethink their operations, including seating arrangements and menu offerings, and in many cases reducing their staff to just the barebones.

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

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New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. In Q3 2020, the share of U.S. And the share of U.S.

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NLRB Joint Employer Final Rule and America’s Classics

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” The NLRB issued an NPRM concerning joint-employer status under the NLRA on September 13, 2018. This comes on the heels of the company closing out 2019 by growing diners seated by more than 150 percent YoY and seating 3.3 The final rule will be effective April 27, 2020.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

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It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. It was 2018, and that order of mangoes was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. On that night in 2018, I knew I had stumbled on something unique. So, decadence it was. pound boxes.

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