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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Growth of specific terms in job listings on restaurant websites: 386 percent increase in “PTO” 175 percent increase in “paid vacation” 100 percent increase in “health care” 53 percent increase in “mental health” Looking ahead to 2024, more restaurants will start to advertise as great places to work.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

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Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. Pivoting to a digital-first mindset: More than a quarter of SMBs (28 percent) have tried targeted advertising on social media or sold products or services online (27 percent). Another 20 percent have adopted contactless payments.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

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Rewards Network, together with American Airlines AAdvantage Dining and United Airlines MileagePlus Dining, surveyed their members to learn more about what they anticipate their dining habits will look like over the next few months. How Comfortable are Diners? The importance of making guests feel comfortable.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

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It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. The best option, still, is ordering them off WhatsApp and picking up at least eight boxes from your local Southwest Airlines cargo bay. Pakistani mangoes began arriving in the U.S.

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Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind

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The blind waitstaff helps the diners find their seats, and then serves them a series of mystery dishes, which the guests taste and guess at in total darkness. For us in Memphis, going to chain restaurants like Applebee’s or an O’Charley’s helped, since they advertised dishes on television.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

The kiosk trend will be embraced like it is in the airline industry. Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. Consequently, restaurants can easily be staffed 24 hours a day with limited additional cost.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Kitchen of the Future, Restaurant Sherpas and Dunkin’ Hirin’

Modern Restaurant Management

To shine the spotlight on the immediate opportunities that exist for all Americans to find employment at franchised restaurants of an iconic brand that holds a unique place in people’s daily lives, Dunkin’ is launching its first-ever national advertising campaign aimed at recruitment.

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