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The American Restaurant 2022 (Post Pandemic)

Culinary Cues

Let’s start with what we are fairly comfortable saying: whatever “normal” is will likely not make an appearance until the end of 2021 – so…let’s begin our speculation with January of 2022 to be safe. I know what you are thinking – WHAT!!!! Restaurants cannot wait that long, no way, no how – this is the end of the world, as we know it.

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The Rise of Exclusivity: VIP vs Traditional Discounting

Modern Restaurant Management

The fast-food giant brought back the Mexican Pizza in May 2022 as a Limited Time Offer. In addition to special-access menu items, loyalty programs can offer events, merchandise, or experiences like cooking classes or cookbook signings as exclusive perks. For the quarter, the number of rewards members increased 10 percent.

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Toast Survey: Guests Are Dining In

Modern Restaurant Management

On-premise dining sales were up 46 percent from Q1 2022 compared to Q1 202, according to Toast's Q1 Restaurant Trends Report. The top five performing cities in Q1 2022 were San Francisco (57 percent), San Diego (55 percent), Seattle (54.percent), For the same time period, takeout and delivery sales were down seven percent.

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Improve Your CX and Reduce Operating Costs with a Simplified Payments Strategy

Modern Restaurant Management

Nearly 90 percent of Americans are now using some form of digital payment, and they are engaging with these solutions in various ways, according to McKinsey’s 2022 Digital Payments Consumer Survey. Consumers want the freedom to use digital wallets and cryptocurrency payments from their mobile devices.

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Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

A merchant typically has 45 days to dispute a chargeback and even when they do, they need to have kept meticulous records about the condition of the merchandise, the transaction itself as well as the delivery method, often including pictures. What’s in a Chargeback?

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Coffee News Recap, 16 Sep: Brazilian coffee export revenue up by 61.4% in 2022, EU votes in favour of anti-deforestation law & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Agnieszka Rojewska wins 2022 Polish Brewers Cup. Rojewska, who is a former World Barista Champion and the 2022 World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion, will represent Poland at this year’s World Brewers Cup in Melbourne, Australia from 27 to 30 September 2022. in 2022, despite 2.5% Tue, 13 Sep.

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How Martha Moments Creator Andrew Ritchie Built a Martha Stewart Community

EATER

Ritchie was invited on Martha’s podcast last year, appeared as a guest on her show in 2010, and has attended numerous events she’s held like the Great American Tag Sale in 2022. Andrew Ritchie Ritchie’s 258 issues of Martha Stewart Living span the publication’s lifetime, from its start in 1990 to the last issue published in 2022.

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