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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

“It now accounts for a larger share of sales for 58 percent of limited-service and 41 percent of full-service operators compared with 2019—providing a critical path to restaurant resilience and growth despite ongoing economic pressures.” Chad Moutray, Chief Economist at the National Restaurant Association.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite softer nationwide searches for malls, restaurants/food businesses contribute to many of the top growing categories since 2019, including bubble tea, vegan food, beer bars, waffles and Filipino food, and make up 17 of the top 25 brands seeing the most consumer interest in malls. Searches are also down eight percent from 2019.

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Coffee News Recap, 11 Jul:  Joe & the Juice explores US $2.4 billion IPO, 18 countries call for EUDR simplification & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

At the same time, Starbucks’ market share in China has plummeted from 34% in 2019 to 14%, prompting its first price cuts and talks of a local partnership. Mixue’s sub-$1 beverages and agile trend adaptation have grown its network to over 46,000 outlets and a $25 billion valuation.

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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. By 2019, the number of flu-fighting hand washers in the U.S. had risen to 79 percent. ” Spring 2020 Key Findings. 2 ranking, Nike.

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How I Got My Job: Designing NYC’s Coolest Restaurant Merch and Food Labels

EATER

My designs range from branding (logos, menus, merchandise) to physical assets (wallpapers, lighting, and events) to digital assets (social media, emails). When I started designing merchandise for brands, I really wanted to create something people would constantly want to wear and feel cool in. The second part of my job is design.

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The Corner Store, Curated

EATER

Given the emphasis on design, it’s unsurprising that some of these things can be found at home goods stores like Superior Merchandise (a sister brand of distillery Yesfolk ) in Troy, New York, and Yowie in Philadelphia. I didn’t even know that when I started this company, which was an experiment,” she says. “I

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

Modern Restaurant Management

” Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii was purchased in mid-2019 by the Royal Aloha Coffee Company, which then set in motion a strategic plan for the brand’s aggressive growth plans. After moving to Maquoketa in 2011, Radtke began creating special moments for Happy Joe’s guests as a server a year later.