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How to Expand Your Franchise: A 10-Step Roadmap for Restaurants

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Step 1: Audit Your Current Location(s) Before you start planning for your future, take a look at your past and your present. Still, you should conduct a thorough audit of your current restaurant(s) before expanding your business further. Read on for our actionable, step-by-step process on how to expand your franchise.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits.

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Understanding the co-operative model in Kenya’s coffee sector

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Many of these co-ops are well-managed and add value to coffee in a number of ways, including through quality control, packaging, and even domestic sales in some cases. Mr. Gathura is a retired wet mill manager from Kenya. He explains why well-managed co-operatives are essential to the success of the country’s coffee industry.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their views on trends. With more options to work outside of the hospitality industry, operators must offer employees more scheduling flexibility, facilitate transparent communication between management and team members, and avoid overworking staff.

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Coffee News Recap, 30 Sep: SCA announces 2022 WBC and WBrC winners at MICE, new study links daily coffee consumption with increased longevity & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Speakers will include Head of Beverages at Nestlé Professional, Patrick Stern, and Relationship Manager at Perfect Daily Grind, Nicholas Yamada. Coffee Planet partners with The Waste Lab to implement sustainable waste solutions. World AeroPress Championship announces Oatly as official 2022 Sustainability Sponsor. Take a look.

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Virtual Acceleration, Raising the Bar and Insult Monitor

Modern Restaurant Management

US Foods Holding Corp.entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Smart Foodservice Warehouse Stores from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. NYSE: APO) (the “Apollo Funds”) for $970 million in cash.

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How To Run A Successful Restaurant Franchise — 10 Essentials For Sustainable Growth

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Managing a chain of company-owned restaurants is very different from working with franchisees. Besides cost estimates, audited financial statements and projections should be included, like: the expected growth rate for (at least) the first year; the estimated restaurant cash flow; the expected payback period.