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By restaurateurs for restaurateurs: Advice for opening in 2020

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Are you opening a restaurant in 2020? As you plan out your concept, location, menu, staffing, and marketing, take a read through the advice left by hundreds of restaurateurs to ensure you’re set up for success in 2020. Start with a small, focused menu featuring quality ingredients and hiring kind, skillful servers.

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Restaurant Menu Ideas That Maximize Your Profit Margin

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Simple adjustments to your restaurant menu can help increase profits during the pandemic. Your menu plays a bigger role in this than you’d think. As a restaurant owner, how often do you audit your menu to maximize profits? MAKE YOUR MENU WORK FOR CURRENT TIMES. You work tirelessly in order to keep your doors open.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The 2020 holiday season may not offer the same gatherings, parties and hoopla of years’ past, but diners are making sure it is still filled with amazing food. In addition to gift cards, consumers are looking to bring their favorite restaurant faire to friends and family this holiday season. Diners Show Holiday Spirit.

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How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

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But, if you have a playful style that could be embodied by a mascot character, consider developing a fun mascot figurehead to speak directly to your customers from your social media posts, signage, menu, website, and maybe even merchandise. Make it easy to find important things like your menu, location, phone number and hours of operation.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Modular Chicken and 2020 Year-End Results

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We are continuing to expand to new locations and introduce new menu items – you never know what we have up our sleeves. “Naf allows us to align and grow with a clearly differentiated restaurant brand with fantastic food, run by a seasoned and successful management team.” Good 2020 for Mountain Mike's.

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

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This edition of MRM Research Roundup features top trends for 2020, how 2020 changed food and the year's top wines. BentoBox released its comprehensive 2020 Restaurant Trend Report. The most ordered menu item of 2020 came from South Carolina chain, New York City Pizza, and its “New York” thin-crust pizza.

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Restaurant Forecasting: How To, Formulas, Methods, and More

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Staff scheduling, inventory management, menu analysis , guest satisfaction, profitability, and so much more rest on the shoulders of accurate restaurant forecasting. It's a disruptive experience for guests who need to take time to review the menu all over again and decide on a dish they might not enjoy as much. Get granular.