Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 18, 2025

In recent years, Africa’s exports to China have been steadily increasing, playing a crucial role in boosting the development of the continent’s agricultural sector. Top stories of the week Mon, 14 Jul – US drive-thru chain Scooter’s Coffee reportedly exploring US $1bn sale. from total figures in 2022.

Café

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

The chain will convert 30 Southern California, Dallas, and Houston locations into beverage-focused cafés, serving over 30 drinks, including churro chillers and Refrescos, by trained “Bellristas,” supporting a US $5 billion beverage sales goal. lb over the next 15 months.

Pricing

Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 21, 2025

While revenue growth continued for many brands, macroeconomic headwinds, new tariffs, and shifting consumer behavior led to uneven comparable sales performance. They’re banking on a more resilient premium guest who’s still willing to dine out if the value is clear, even at a higher price point. restaurant operators.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 1, 2025

This raises questions about a potential sale, but Coca-Cola could consider new growth opportunities for its coffee business, including RTD offerings. Starbucks has reported its sixth straight quarter of same-store sales declines as turnaround strategy costs mount. But there is hope of a coffee exemption.

Workshop

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 11, 2025

Even with these initial delays, agricultural ministers from eighteen EU countries, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Sweden, have urged the European Commission to defer the start date further. High-risk origins, meanwhile, could face more hurdles.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

APIs, like those opened by Toast, are becoming critical to ensure systems—whether for sales, inventory, or payroll—“talk” to each other, allowing operators to get out on the floor while being accurately informed about their business. Many operators have a wealth of data but aren’t putting it to work.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Fortunately, many of these proposals appear to be starting points in a negotiation rather than settled policy. Twenty twenty-four will be remembered for many things, but the soft landing of the U.S. economy and the reelection of Donald Trump as President of the United States will likely prove most significant.

Small Business

EATER

APRIL 4, 2025

Cinnamon sticks ready to be exported from Sri Lanka, where a 44 percent tariff is set to go into effect. Jaya Saxena is a correspondent at Eater.com, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. split between the consumer and the firm doing the importing.

Food

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 17, 2025

All the signs point to a new era for coffee: one where high, volatile prices are a lasting reality. Current market volatility means that, should they commit to future sales at fixed prices, they expose themselves to financial or sourcing risks down the line. lb in February 2025. For many, this is a welcome and long overdue change.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 15, 2021

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features restaurant industry year-end totals, how restaurant labor is evolving, fast-food brand intimacy and top cities for locavores. An Unpopular Year. In April, the segment’s customer transactions declined by -70 percent compared to year ago, and improved its declines to -30 percent in December.

2021

EATER

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Claire Marie Vogel Luxury farm hotels present a glamorized version of agricultural work while promising to reconnect city dwellers with nature, uplift small farmers, and impact some of the food system’s biggest challenges The hens look up at me from their nesting boxes. . They seem slightly irritated but unsurprised. It is 8:30 a.m.

Agriculture

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Department of Agriculture prove accurate, this is a trend that is likely to continue—according to the forecast for 2022, food-at-home prices are expected to increase between 1.5 App users also prize the ability to place orders quickly, and to earn and track loyalty points. If current projections from the U.S. Rewards for Loyalty.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6 percent in November, which represents the third consecutive month of positive sales growth and the strongest since January. Thanksgiving typically represents lower sales volumes for most industry segments.

2019

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

"We want to remain optimistic, so this initiative shows solidarity within our restaurant community and hopefully reassures our guests that if they aren't able to visit us at this point in time, we'll be here for them when things settle down." Click here to learn the 10 steps to take now.

Food Safety

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.

2024

EATER

APRIL 16, 2024

Medellín’s bounty of coffee beans. Pergamino After decades of exporting the best coffee, Medellín’s local brands and cafe owners are turning residents on to the world-renowned specialty beans in their backyard and paying it forward to farmers “En casa del herrero, azadón de palo.” In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden hoe.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features diner expecations over the next few months, robots for QSRs, and the best cities for coffee lovers, vegans and vegetarians. How Comfortable are Diners? The survey results reveal that 35 percent of respondents feel the same level of comfort dining out now as they did at the beginning of the pandemic.

2020

Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 26, 2022

Nine coffees receive more than 89 points at 2022 National Yemen Coffee Auction competition. points) received the highest bid of US $400.50/lb Sales of the company’s Café Bustelo, Folgers, and Dunkin’ brands totalled US $598 million. Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 22 Aug. million by 2027. Olam Agri secures US $2.9

2022

7 Shifts

JULY 21, 2020

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. Every industry is feeling the impact of COVID-19, but restaurants face some of the most difficult challenges. And no money means mo' problems.

Cash Management

EATER

MAY 16, 2023

I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. UMass has an incredible sustainable agriculture program and an amazing community garden that feeds into a co-op vegan restaurant. Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S.,

Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Since our founding 10 years ago, we’re proud to have facilitated 5 billion consumer orders, driven over $100 billion in sales for merchants, and helped Dashers ​​earn over $35 billion through the platform. Restaurant industry insiders offer their insights on F&B trends we can expect to see in 2024.

2024

Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Over the past year or so, coffee prices have been steadily increasing. The first sign that prices would increase was a sudden frost which hit some of Brazil’s major coffee-producing regions in late July 2021. Since then, prices have consistently remained above the US $2 mark.

Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

TIPs offers training for individuals on the responsible sale, service and consumption of alcohol. This edition of MRM News Bites features tech takeovers and teamings, product introductions, the latest Fall Scoop and how much would you pay for a cup of ice? Hospitality Recovery Coalition. Unfortunately, many already have. NAB Acquires SALIDO.

Fast Casual

EATER

MARCH 7, 2023

Shutterstock Across the country, farm stands using a sliding scale payment model are feeding communities against tough odds This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Every day, Marc James sees blatant income inequality in the LeDroit Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. “To isn’t the only place where this kind of model is proving useful.

Marketing

Culinary Cues

MAY 14, 2020

Every day there are lessons to be learned. At this level of crisis there are bound to be ancillary challenges that arise – challenges that were not obvious until the domino theory took hold. If we failed to move in this direction then a crisis could bring things to a halt – sooner or later the bottom would fall out. The Grammarist.

Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

The previous spike we saw in community supported agriculture and grocery has started to dip (down 54 percent and 26 percent, respectively), as people head back into restaurants and cook at home less. Yelp's Economic Impact Report. Key findings for the restaurant industry include: Restaurant Closures Data.

2020

Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Starbucks Odyssey platform features coffee-themed NFTs, which allow customers to receive a number of rewards, including free drinks. The coffee chain is yet to announce whether the loyalty programme will be publicly available. Seattle company Decafino launches self-decaffeinating Decaf Pouch. 1 auction to highlight Bolivian specialty coffees.

2030

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.

2022

EATER

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Building a successful co-op should also be “rooted in justice, equity, and a holistic view of the world” This story was originally published on Civil Eats. On a corner lot in the North End of Detroit, the the framing is underway for a Black-led, community-owned grocery cooperative, the first of its type in the city in recent times.

Food

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features foot traffic analysis due to the COVID-19 outbreak, food trends evolving due to Coronavirus and changing shopping behavior. COVID-19 Foot Traffic Analysis. Conversely, Pizza's share of restaurant foot traffic had been increasing, and now has leveled off.

2020

Lavu

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Even though more than 37 million people struggle with hunger in the United States alone, 30 to 40 percent of all food produced is wasted, according to the United States Department of Agriculture , and the restaurant industry is far from innocent. Invest in a Modern Point-of-Sale System. Keep Track of Your Inventory.

Food

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 2, 2023

Fairtrade says it now represents more than two million international farmers and agricultural workers as consumers are still willing to pay more for its products. points at 2023 Cup of Excellence El Salvador competition. PRF Colombia attendees can apply here in English and here in Spanish. Semi-washed Pacamara receives 91.82

2023

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

" Macaluso added that the sales lifts from upgrading to a newer, smaller and more efficient prototype have been unlike others he has seen in his 25-year QSR career. The brand has rebuilt nine restaurants since 2018, generating first year-over-year comp sales ranging from +29.8 Krystal Eyes Refranchising. percent to +107.5

Franchising

Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

At this point, the specialty coffee scene was still a long way from becoming established. China might be the fourth-largest country in the world and have the largest population on earth, but it has one of the world’s lowest coffee consumption rates, with citizens consuming an average of just one cup a year. .

Marketing

Transact

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

of total convenience store sales , which is a big jump from previous years. According to the Department of Agriculture, families now spend more on food away from home than on food within the home–a change that occurred even far back as 2010. . Don’t believe me? Look at the stats. . American dining habits are evolving.

Food

Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 26, 2021

Here, we touch on several points what are the challenges and opportunities and how suppliers can better understand the mind of restaurant chain buyers. . Here, we touch on several points what are the challenges and opportunities and how suppliers can better understand the mind of restaurant chain buyers. . in bankruptcies in 2020 ).

Food Supply

Clover - Restaurants

MARCH 26, 2024

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture, for example, offers a directory of shared commercial kitchens across its state. Thousands of food and beverage makers across the United States use cottage food laws to sell edible or potable items they’ve made in their own homes. on weekdays and before 8 a.m. on weekends).

Food Truck