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Radical Reconsideration and the Behavior Change Opportunity for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants ranked as one the most dramatically impacted sectors of the economy during the pandemic, right up there with airlines, hotels, gyms and movie theaters. A year later, we see the promise of accelerating vaccination rates, and the lifting of crippling capacity restrictions imposed on restaurants.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin. Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. How Is Casual Dining Doing? Risking it for the biscuit? :

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How I Got My Job: Running NYC’s Hottest Indian Restaurants and Winning a James Beard Award

EATER

In addition to these celebrated restaurants, the duo and their team also run fast-casual fried chicken concept Rowdy Rooster , the Biryani Bol delivery operation, and immersive virtual reality dining experience Aerobanquets RMX. In 2008, I quit hotels and took a job as a food and beverage manager at an international airline in India.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-June 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Rewards Network , together with American Airlines AAdvantage Dining and United Airlines MileagePlus Dining, surveyed over 1,300 loyalty members to better understand how consumers feel about dining at restaurants in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dining When Safe. percent “much less than before” Restaurant Traffic.

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What’s Next for Shared Kitchens? Getting Ready for the New Normal

The Food Corridor

With the peak harvest fast approaching and most of the country still locked down, growers and producers need a marketplace and will flock even more quickly to online platforms to shift their produce. With unemployment at such alarming levels, there will be a larger pool of workers looking for gig or casual work.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2020-COVID-19 Effects Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. In the U.K.

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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. In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Restaurants will become increasingly casual. Consequently, restaurants can easily be staffed 24 hours a day with limited additional cost.