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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

We’ve seen this trend take off at many quick-serve or fast-casual chains, where displays and screens provide entertainment value for patrons as they wait for their meals or decide if they are staying for dessert. Experiences like these are here to stay as the lines between physical and digital media continually blur.

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30 Bar Game Ideas + How To Choose The Perfect Game For Your Customers

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More and more often, we see games of all kinds played at bars, breweries, and cafes. Drinking has, of course, traditionally been the main activity that takes place at bars. Bars and cafes must adapt to provide more value to these demographics, other than just alcohol and a place to sit. Why add games to your bar.

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Behind the Scenes: Cinco de Mayo Prep

Modern Restaurant Management

“Immediately after the event the team meets to gather feedback and create a recap,” Kurt Pahlitzsch, Vice President of Casual Dining at Doherty Enterprises, franchisee of Chevys, told Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. In 2018, Womply estimated restaurants saw a 44-percent increase on Cinco de Mayo over a typical day.

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Garage Doors Drafted for Entertainment Complex

Modern Restaurant Management

The unique indoor/outdoor entertainment complex features a sprawling setting with pickleball courts, a variety of yard games, a restaurant and sports bar. The casual dining restaurant was designed with an open-air concept — except when the weather turns bad. Yes, garage doors. That's where the garage doors come in.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Consumer Data Analytics Reveal Dining Patterns to Attract Customers 

Modern Restaurant Management

For casual dining habits at restaurants like Olive Garden: 56 percent said they ate at casual restaurants frequently or occasionally. 29 percent said they rarely ate at casual restaurants. Bar type restaurants such as Buffalo Wild Wings had a much higher “never” rating at 29 percent.

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Dumbo Bars You Should Visit For A Drink Tonight

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And, what better way to get to know an area than by trying out some local bars? As someone with a few friends in Dumbo, I’ve been to my fair share of bars in the neighborhood. Best Bars in Dumbo. Olympia Wine Bar. You’ll find this wine bar on the corner of Water and Jay Street, next door to Blank Street Coffee.

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Together At Last! In-Venue Entertainment Sparks Post-COVID Connections

Buzztime Business

Home is the first place, work is the second, and third place includes pretty much everywhere else: from salons to coffee shops, bars to bowling alleys. That’s where interactive, in-venue entertainment like Buzztime trivia comes in. Others may casually compete while catching up with friends or meeting new ones. But third places?