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What consumers want from restaurants at breakfast

Restaurant Business

It’s more important on weekdays (63%) vs. weekends (61%), the latter a change from 2021 when 67% of consumers were seeking “good value for the money spent” on weekends. Nevertheless, 28% of weekend breakfast eaters are looking for “breakfast options that are inexpensive,” up from 22% in 2021.

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How Restaurant Robotics Is Reshaping Operations and Service

Goliath Consulting

Beyond labor savings, robotics also helps meet increasing hygiene expectations and throughput demands ( Middleby, 2024 ; FastCasual, 2021 ). For his restaurant, embracing robotics has become part of staying competitive in a challenging labor market. What once felt futuristic is now part of daily service in restaurants of all sizes.

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Beyond the Menu: Maximizing the Use of QR Codes

Modern Restaurant Management

million – a 433 percent increase since 2021. Sure, that time frame overlapped with the pandemic and a tidal wave of touchless demand, but it was also a period that saw brands explore and begin to understand new uses for QR codes – including marketing and brand loyalty.

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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

. “Restaurants can't simply rely on their traditional playbooks anymore," says Forrest Morgeson, Associate Professor of Marketing at Michigan State University and Director of Research Emeritus at the ACSI. "Smaller, Chick-fil-A and Starbucks show broad appeal across regional markets.

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Private-equity firm acquires Shipley Do-Nuts

Restaurant Business

Shipley Do-Nuts, which had been owned by the same family for 85 years before its sale in 2021, is being sold again. The company had been owned by the founding family until 2021, when it was sold to the private-equity firm Peak Rock Capital. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Shipley operates 375 locations in more than 14 states.

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How this entrepreneur's bagel runs became a business

Restaurant Business

That led to selling bagels at farmers markets. And then, in 2021, the couple found a site for their first brick-and-mortar. and Bruegger’s, Jeff sees a world of opportunity for bagels made better, especially in markets he sees as “bagel deserts.” We’d sell out. It was quite a phenomenon for a few months.”

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

“Every year we gave away over 1,200 free truffles, caramels, honeycombs, and more for people’s birthdays — no purchase required, no email signup, no catch,” it wrote on Instagram. But recently, it had to announce the ending of that perk. Handing out over a thousand chocolates a year no longer adds up.