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Wrapping Up a Restaurant Marketing Trend

Modern Restaurant Management

At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. We advertised in local papers, supporting youth sports and wrapping our vehicles.

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Perkins and Huddle House aim for revivals with boba, smash burgers and drive-thrus

Restaurant Business

11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Huddle House will add drive-thrus as it moves into more urban and suburban markets. | Perkins, the 68-year-old chain best known for its bakery case, recently began serving boba and frozen margaritas, while its younger sibling Huddle House, 61, is rolling out smash burgers. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining.

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How to Diversify Your Brand by Adapting Plant-Based Food Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Effectively educating those (bartenders, wait staff, back of the house, etc.) With today’s food trends moving toward the direction of fresh, healthy, local, and sustainable, the term “plant-based” continues to enter the conversation on every playing field. Choose a Versatile Plant-Based Protein.

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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

Modern Restaurant Management

By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing. In the near future, we’ll look at printed menus the way we look back at newspapers today. Inventory stock changed significantly.

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Air Quality in Restaurants – An Economic and Environmental Necessity

Modern Restaurant Management

With COVID-19 positive cases on the decline, restaurants can finally focus on getting customers back into dining rooms and promoting their dining experiences. They can advertise to their customers that they are helping to protect the environment. This translates to an air exchange rate of six times an hour as a minimum.

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Seven Top Restaurant Marketing Ideas And Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Promotion and advertising are what we call a restaurant’s “secret sauce.” ” Let’s look at seven ingredients that you should include in advertising and promotional campaigns for your restaurants. If you pull a joker, the meal is on the house. Emphasize Best-Selling Items.

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