Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

We've reached a point where we're recognizing the value and limits of these technologies. And while automation and robotics can help streamline some elements of operations, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a newfound appreciation for human connection and dining experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 22, 2023

While it’s promising, it’s not the magic bullet to increase your revenue in 2023. This might include correlation of social media posts, to reviews, to point of sale metrics. Menu optimization : AI's impact on menu optimization extends beyond merely analyzing sales data and customer feedback.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2023

Own Your Changes In March 2023, restaurants’ food prices were 8.8 One of Merriam-Webster’s definitions for orchestration is “to arrange or combine so as to achieve a desired or maximum effect.” Customer expectations are level set by their most advanced in-store and digital experiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 12, 2023

The 2023 WAC finals will take place immediately after this year’s Australian AeroPress Championship, which will be hosted by Fieldwork Coffee. points at 2023 Best of Ka‘ū competition. ZHAW Coffee Excellence Centre opens applications for 2023 Certificate of Advanced Studies.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Milan Coffee Festival 2023 to take place from 2 to 4 December. New Ground predicts coffee shop sales and reliance on automation will increase in 2023. New Ground predicts coffee shop sales and reliance on automation will increase in 2023. SIGEP 2023 to be held from 21 to 25 January in Rimini, Italy.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. Try 7shifts for free.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. Try 7shifts for free.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Sharwani, who is Pakistani American, launched Paro in early 2023 as a line of nutritious and time-saving boxed meal kits inspired by Pakistani comfort foods. Meaning “to temper,” it is an essential final step in making dal where garlic, chile, and spices are bloomed in hot ghee or oil. It’s a costly endeavor, with no guarantee of success.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Costa Coffee to open first Austrian store at Vienna Airport in early 2023. Costa Coffee to open first Austrian store at Vienna Airport in early 2023. The store will be operated by franchise partner Legardére Travel Retail, which already manages around 200 Costa Coffee stores in the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Poland.

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Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The pop-up coffee shop will become permanent in 2023. World AeroPress Championship announces Café Imports as 2022 official sponsor. The green coffee trader has sponsored and provided green coffee for the event for the previous seven years. Expo Café announces 2022 Mexican Barista and Brewers Cup Champions. Wed, 14 Sep.

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7 Shifts

MAY 1, 2023

37% of restaurant operators say employee retention and productivity is one of their priorities for 2023. Ellesse Piper is the Operations Manager at 7 Leaves Cafe , a QSR franchise with 40+ locations in 4 states. Their perfect scenario is that the store manager acts as the main point of contact for new hires.

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Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 8 Aug. Researchers develop laser-powered extraction to prepare cold brew in three minutes. Scientists at the University of Duisberg-Essen in Germany used a “laser synthesis and processing of colloids field” to pulse ground coffee in water 80,000 times per second. Keurig Green Mountain Inc. Tue, 9 Aug.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 1, 2022

All 26 coffees scored over 87 points, with the highest-scoring coffee (a natural Catuai Rojo from the Mario José González Rodríguez farm) receiving 90.74 All 26 coffees scored over 87 points, with the highest-scoring coffee (a natural Catuai Rojo from the Mario José González Rodríguez farm) receiving 90.74 Here are this week’s stories.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 24, 2022

From each sale of the Colombian coffee, £1 (US $1.23) will be donated to Stonewall. Welsh Starbucks franchise receives £10 million (US $12.3 Chemicals company BASF manufactures coffee berry disease (CBD) fungicide for Kenyan farmers. The Priaxor 225 EC fungicide inhibits growth of CBD for up to 28 days. The Magic Bean Co.

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Apicbase

JANUARY 13, 2023

The F&B industry grew in 2022… and it will keep growing in 2023. This trend is expected to continue in 2023. Having an easily scannable menu online will be table stakes for most operations in 2023. Agile businesses that invest in their own online ordering platforms stand to reap benefits from this shift in 2023.

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Qu

MARCH 31, 2023

That’s why we’re dubbing 2023 The Year of Efficiency. The industry has reached a turning point. 1) More predictable digital sales will enable operational efficiency. 1) More predictable digital sales will enable operational efficiency. For the most in-depth analysis, download the full report.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

2023 has been a challenging year for restaurant operators, caught as they were between rising food costs and labour shortages. In a 2023 survey, 29% of operators said they are very likely to open new locations in 2024. Most operators raised their menu prices in 2023, but fewer expect to do so in 2024. Let’s dig in.

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Rocket Fuel

APRIL 15, 2024

Delaget provides technology solutions and services that help QSRs operate more efficiently, serving the needs of franchise owners and brands and helping deliver a better experience to customers. All of this has rolled up to the franchise owners and operators, who have to implement these ways of doing business.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

AUGUST 15, 2023

Economic Growth Will Continue to Shape the Middle East HORECA Landscape Economic Indicators Encourage Hotel/Restaurant/Catering Sales Generally, the HORECA industry grows at the pace of GDP growth, population, inflation, and share of discretionary income. Hotel sales grew 23% over 2022, and Restaurants & Cafés grew by 17%.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 11, 2023

And automated order taking, well, it is going to be one of the top trends in the restaurant industry in 2023. . Here are some reasons why you should integrate automated order-taking in your restaurant: Boost Sales and Generate More Orders. The drive-through voice ordering system is a well-known example of automated order-taking. .

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

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EATER

APRIL 20, 2021

Individual venues can apply for grants of up to $5 million directly on the SBA website or through point-of-sale (POS) systems like Square, while restaurant groups can seek up to $10 million — as long as they have fewer than 20 locations and are not a publicly traded company. No firm date has been set.

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Perfect Daily Grind

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

PRF El Salvador will take place on 16 and 17 March 2023 at the San Salvador Exhibition Centre. points at 2022 Cup of Excellence Brazil. Specialty Coffee Association opens nominations for 2023 Sustainability Awards. Applications close on 13 January 2023. Natural Catuaí 144 variety scores 91.41

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EATER

JUNE 18, 2024

According to Google Trends , search interest in the term “popcorn bucket” went from basically negligible between 2004 and 2022 to slightly more appealing in 2022 and 2023 to hugely, shockingly popular in early 2024. Accompanying 2023’s flashy Barbie , AMC offered pink toy Corvettes for holding popcorn.

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Perfect Daily Grind

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rwanda to host 2023 African Fine Coffee Conference. The 19th edition of the conference will be held at the Kigali Convention Centre in the country’s capital from 15 to 17 February 2023. The researchers found that although cold brew tastes less acidic than hot brewed coffee, it may contain a similar amount of acids. Tue, 8 Nov.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

Key data points: The demand for takeout and delivery has slightly outpaced the demand for dining in. Nearly half (47 percent) of diners say they engage with loyalty programs at least once a week, up significantly from just 34 percent in 2023. Among delivery apps, DoorDash is the clear favorite.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

JUNE 13, 2024

*Originally Published in the Aaron Allen & Associates Newsletter on 06/03/2024 The 50 fastest-growing emerging restaurant chains expanded their sales by a median of 35% year-over-year (in 2022). This growth rate has remained consistent through the years for fast-growing concepts with sales between $20m-$60m.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 3, 2022

The biggest drivers of the market are online sales and demand for plant-based creamers. Applications open for October 2022 intake for Certificate of Advanced Studies in Coffee Excellence. The 21-week course is open to those with at least two years’ experience in the coffee industry. A Chinese study found people who consumed between 2.5

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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EATER

OCTOBER 17, 2024

though the soda is manufactured in Turkey ) in November 2023, with the mission of not only providing an alternative cola (as well as a sugar-free cola and a lemon-lime “Yemonade”), but a cola with ethics. Eater/Lille Allen As activists call to boycott Coca-Cola, Salaam Cola offers an alternative. Is the solution another soda?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 30, 2025

Editor’s note Last year, the EUDR was a central talking point in the coffee industry. Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the week. However, as sustained high coffee prices and tariffs took effect at the beginning of 2025, the industry’s focus on the EU’s deforestation regulations noticeably waned.

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