Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 28, 2025

Coffee prices have soared over the past few years, pushing roasters, independent cafés, and specialty coffee retailers into challenging territory. For roasters and coffee shop owners alike, raising prices is no longer a choice but a necessity. Why are coffee prices staying so high?

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 20, 2025

The chain has kept its menu prices lower than inflation, and it has invested in other limited-time specials, such as its popular Never-Ending Pasta Bowl, in an effort to appeal to price-conscious consumers. It plans to keep prices down while also adding more lower-priced items to the menu. “If Sign up here.

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ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

In this article, you will learn: The five most important restaurant costs to track and manage Easy strategies for controlling food costs and labor costs Tactics to save money without hurting your guest experience Lets start with the big picture and learn where your money is actually going. Scales ensure every dish is exactly the same.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Labor shortages and other factors are affecting the global supply chain in never-before-seen ways, and certain commodities are intermittently not available, or if they are, they’re expensive. More recent price increases have nearly doubled this number. According to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence, U.S.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). Technology can save restaurants money, help them become more efficient, reduce dependence on a qualified labor pool, and trim some reliance on a challenged supply chain. This must be the answer right?

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ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

When you decided to open a restaurant, you probably didnt picture yourself glued to spreadsheets or tracking the price of eggs, but keeping an eye on the numbers is how you stay open year after year. This gives you a sense of how effective your menu pricing is. Without it, one bad month can wipe out three good ones.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 16, 2025

Green coffee prices have remained high and volatile , and so has the cost of everything else, including packaging, transport, energy, and labour. You may also like our article on how to start a microroastery. Green coffee prices have more than doubled over the last year.

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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. Exploring prices and costs at origin.

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Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2022

But not enough attention is being given to the issues surrounding the supply chain and the lack of real solutions. Most of the articles we read point to the pandemic as the culprit as well as the centralization of processing ownership. The war has nearly taken this robust farming nation off the map.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Convenience (66%) drives the majority of foodservice sales at convenience stores, but promotions and discounts (11%), taste (7%) and price (6%) are also driving sales that might otherwise go to a fast-food restaurant. Most c-store diners opt to eat in the car, either while parked or while driving. Sign up here.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It just goes to show how important drink pricing and cost management are to maximizing profits. In this article: How to calculate your profit margin for your bar What is the average profit margin for bars? Factors such as over-pouring, theft, or inaccurate pricing can increase your pour cost and hurt your profits.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 7, 2023

For any specialty coffee roaster, one of the key factors to running a successful business is a continuous supply of fresh green coffee. However, with many medium or larger-sized roasters often having anywhere up to a year’s supply of green coffee, how can they manage their inventories as effectively as possible? Enjoyed this?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 21, 2023

There are many actors involved in the coffee supply chain. However, there are also a number of intermediaries in the coffee supply chain, including those who mill, transport, and export coffee in producing countries. Conversely, other supply chain actors, such as roasters, retain much more value.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

Here’s the kicker: It cost each restaurant $900 to participate in the week (I guess to cover town wide promotion expenses) and every restaurant must agree to deep discount pricing for guests. There is no cache of money to turn to, and the prices we charge are not based on greed, but necessity. We would love that.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 30, 2023

Over the past year or so, rising food prices and energy costs have been affecting many people around the world. In fact, in March 2023, the BBC reported that food prices had reached a 45-year high in the UK , with many other major coffee consuming countries also going through similar price increases.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 4, 2022

In the coffee industry, larger roasters generally have a greater capacity to manage price risk, but small and medium-sized roasters also have tools at their disposal. To learn more about how coffee roasters can manage and minimise the impact of price risk, I spoke to some industry experts to learn more. What is price risk?

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 20, 2024

There’s a reactionary movement that I keep seeing in restaurants; a movement that assumes the answer to the restaurant bottom line is to take more and give less or give too much to justify raising prices. A menu should thus be designed and priced to make those items seem essential.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 15, 2025

High and volatile green coffee prices , along with increasing operational costs, are creating a more competitive market. You may also like our article on how digital marketing has evolved in the coffee industry. But as coffee prices stay high, operators are grappling with unprecedented volatility and uncertainty.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

The convenience-retailing giant on Wednesday announced a Craveables Value Menu, pitting it in head-to-head competition with fast-food chains also looking to win consumers over with low prices. The move comes as consumers continue to limit their visits to restaurants and rein in their basket sizes amid elevated prices. Sign up here.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Wishnow, a former Dunkin’ and Taco Bell franchisee, tapped menu consultants and brand builders The Culinary Edge to design a menu that falls somewhere between Salad and Go and Sweetgreen, price-wise. The way Greenlane prices its menu has evolved since the first unit opened in 2023.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

On the flip side, poor operations can lead to inefficiencies that snowballlike staffing issues that slow down service, supply chain mishaps that throw off the menu, or rising costs that eat into profits. This means budgeting, tracking expenses like food and labor, and adjusting pricing to balance profitability with customer appeal.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In this article: What strategies do you use to motivate and engage your restaurant employees? How do you handle unexpected challenges, such as equipment failure or supply shortages? How do you handle unexpected challenges, such as equipment failure or supply shortages? How do you handle disputes between customers and employees?

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Culinary Cues

JULY 31, 2022

We can’t find any employees, people don’t want to work anymore, restaurants treat employees like crap, the pay sucks and the benefits don’t exist, prices are too high, supplies are impossible to find, and profit is so small that it isn’t worth the sweat and tears. Are you willing to accept smaller menus because of this?

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 5, 2025

Scoring dictates the prices producers receive, reaffirming the widely held belief that the value of coffee is more than just a numerical rating. You may also like our article on whether cup scores mean anything to consumers. Two Q graders may award different scores for the same coffee, for example.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 22, 2022

The dish machine was likely an under counter unit and there was no need for a walk-in cooler since supplies were purchased every day; a reach-in or two would suffice. More than 800 articles and short stories on kitchens & restaurants. The kitchen was not filled with the most sophisticated equipment and certainly not computerized.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

COVID-19, supply chain issues and rising food prices have placed the future of major broadliners at risk. Heck, it might even feel good to know you’re a small cog in the food supply machine. To order supplies from Cheetah, you don’t need to get through a long phone call. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 4, 2022

The greatest threat is not the labor shortage or supply chain issues, it’s not the pandemic or the price of real estate – yes, all those concerns are troubling and must be dealt with, but they are not what will bring the restaurant industry to its knees. Well then – what will? Try apathy on for size. Is it ignorance or apathy?

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Culinary Cues

MAY 3, 2023

Your customers will rave, and you can raise your prices to cover the difference. I remember reading an article about a studio drummer by the name of Bernard Purdy who has played on more records than you can count. Sure, it will cost considerably more than what you are buying off the back of a “one stop” vendor truck, but it’s worth it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 31, 2020

This has changed the ratio of restaurant to retail at these centers and, in many instances, resulted in less overall potential customers for the restaurants, while increasing the supply of available restaurant choices. Even in pre-COVID 2020, at least five restaurant chains filed for bankruptcy protection.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In this article: How do you handle inventory management to keep the bar always adequately stocked? Was there a time when you had to adapt to last-minute changes, such as staff illness or unexpected supply shortages? Another factor to consider is pricing. Supply shortages require a different approach. what did you do?

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 6, 2025

She previously served as editor in chief of Winsight Grocery Business View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? News Heather Lalley is the managing editor of Restaurant Business, Foodservice Director and CSP Daily news. Get today’s need-to-know restaurant industry intelligence.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

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. Inflation, supply chain issues, and increased wages due to staffing shortages have driven up operational costs.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A higher-priced system that saves time and reduces errors might be more valuable than a cheaper, less effective alternative. It is the central nervous system of your restaurants operations, and most of the tools we cover in this article will need to integrate with your POS (point-of-sale) system. Consider your budget.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 31, 2023

For the most part, both the price of arabica and robusta rely on futures contracts. These are legal agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a predetermined price on a set date. Changes in the foreign exchange market (also known as forex, FX, or currencies market) can affect many people across the coffee supply chain.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 1, 2025

Green coffee prices remain high, while labour, logistics, packaging, and operational costs have all increased significantly. You may also like our article on why roasters and coffee shops need to strategise menu pricing. It’s a challenging time for roasters in today’s coffee market.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips? It is in California The Bottom Line: Data from Technomic’s Price Pulse shows that the average price for a medium Big Mac meal in California is about the same as the price for a Big Smasher on Chili’s 3-for-Me menu.

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The Rail

MAY 9, 2024

While the industry has been clouded by a variety of pressures that defined 2023 (such as inflation and price sensitivity), Restaurant Dive predicts that such challenges may push restaurants to embrace new solutions this year. The value triangle refers to three primary points in business: speed, quality, and price.

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