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Restaurant Design Trends for 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

Some trending concepts over the past several years have included more open seating, high ceilings, and exposed structure concepts. As restaurant owners in Florida, patio seating can be seen as a less than desired component to our space specifically in the spring and summer months. With the current climate of the U.S.,

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2021 Restaurant Insurance Outlook: Updated

Modern Restaurant Management

restaurant sales experienced a “healthy” increase in total sales in July, 2021, according to Restaurant.org. billion in June, 2021, the organization estimated. In fact, nearly 16,500 restaurant reopen in April 2021 just as restrictions began to start being lifted, according to recent data from. restaurant scene.

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31 NYC Wine Bars You Should Check Out

Restaurant Clicks

Wine bars aren’t places for wine enthusiasts and snobs to gather and talk about the notes and tannins they get from their glasses. Instead, wine bars are popular restaurant destinations for friends to gather, dates to mingle, and events to take places. You can’t go one block without stumbling upon one or two NYC wine bars.

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Coronavirus and Restaurants: A Year In Review

7 Shifts

Bars and nightclubs were hit the hardest—an 89% drop in sales. Breweries and Taprooms were close to pre-pandemic levels by the end of summer—dude to to-go cans and outdoor seating. Some had to get creative with their outdoor seating and greenhouses, yurts, and igloos became the way to dine out. It appears so.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

A whopping 88 percent will dine inside fast casual and fast food restaurants, but there are high expectations for safety protocols including sanitized tables (70 percent), staff wearing masks (69 percent) and/or gloves (51 percent), and limited seating (52 percent). percent) in bars or restaurants, and nearly a quarter (23.5

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Total restaurant visits were down -6 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2019 but were up +23 percent from a year ago, recovering from a -23 percent decline in May 2020. Snack periods, were down -5 percent in May 2021 compared to May 2020, and for a pre-pandemic view, down -11 percent compared to same month two years ago.

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Designing the Ultimate Cocktail Space for 2021’s Evolving Expectations

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2020, the pandemic forced over 111,000 bars and restaurants in the United States to close permanently, severely impacting the drinking and dining scene abandoned last winter. Bars—and bartenders—create artistry the people at home cannot duplicate.

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