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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. 43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers.

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18 Best Beer Gardens in Philadelphia

Restaurant Clicks

2020 was a dumpster-fire of a year. This menu is so elevated, and offers lots of choices for friends with dietary restrictions. Plus, you get to dine in a certified pollinator garden. If you like fine dining, with tuna tartare, oysters with mignonette, grilled octopus, and crème brûlée, this is the place for you.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Combining our backgrounds in tech, automation, and culinary fine dining, we knew we could fill this void to give more people access to healthy, high-quality food.” “Plant-based dining is not a fad that is going away. ” Presto Vision is currently being piloted at Outback Steakhouse.

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AI Flips into White Castle and Resetting America

Modern Restaurant Management

Miso Robotics understood where we could improve and stay true to White Castle’s brand of taste, innovation and best-in-class dining. They are offering $0 delivery fees** from all merchant partners in DoorDash’s program to support Black-owned businesses on DoorDash and Caviar through the end of 2020.

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Rather, it’s from looking at what changes in emerging consumer dining behaviors are driving these things and developing a modernized M&A strategy and investment thesis to support sustainable growth. There were some 180 food halls in the U.S. In the U.S., can reduce costs as much as 25% compared to standard restaurants 6.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. A cook who left Blue Hill at Stone Barns in 2020 told me they received a 50-cent raise that brought them up to just $13.75.

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