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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

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In 2024, restaurants across the country saw an average five percent increase in transactions and an average eight percent increase in profits with only four percent caused by price hikes. In recent years, the food service industry has undergone a rapid transformation of automation and increased technology usage.

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AN EVEN BIGGER THREAT TO RESTAURANT SURVIVAL

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Growing cycles will continue to change, unpredictable alterations in weather patterns will continue to haunt farmers, and crops that would normally thrive in certain parts of the world may not be able to survive there now. [] WAR: Ukraine was the 5 th or 6 th largest agricultural country in the world.

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Unpeeling the Layers: How Do Food Banks Actually Work?

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Lille Allen Organizations like Feeding America support the nations food-insecure communities. She told me she had been trying to figure out how to get a turkey from a food pantry; she had fallen on her hip recently, complicating existing mobility issues. I made a note to check into regular food deliveries from a local service.

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

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I pulled the car around and watched a massive garage door open to reveal my prize: a stack of mango boxes on a dolly cart, this batch with a going price of about $8 per fruit. My father, honestly not a big food lover, was praising God upon eating them. Department of Agriculture. Apparently this wasn’t a first for him.

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Sustaining the Earth and Customers’ Goodwill: The Impact of IoT

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So technicians climb into their trucks, making three extra 40-mile round trips to complete the necessary repairs. For restaurants and QSRs, the high price of cooking oil is an ongoing pain point. percent (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, reported by Marketplace ). Could these extra trips be prevented?

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Avocados Will Get More Expensive, But the Costs for Growers in Mexico Are Much Higher

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According to Zhengfei Guan, associate professor of food and resource economics at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Americans have a voracious appetite for avocados. In 2019, in the town of Ziracuaretiro, a gang robbed a truck full of USDA inspectors at gunpoint.

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Surviving COVID-19: 7 Financing Options for Restaurants

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Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) were also a hot commodity, but the government has since limited application to the agriculture industry—so they're not any use to restaurant owners at this time. A short term loan can get you the cash you need in as little as 24 hours, but that speed comes at the price of higher interest rates.