Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Six major themes are expected to drive restaurant operator profitability and beverage attachment post-COVID, according to the Coca-Cola 2021 Fountain Foodservice Beverage Strategy Survey. trust in fountain beverages. Post-COVID, guests will still be more likely to order fountain beverages than bottled beverages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Data findings in the series have offered insight into customer expectations to support restaurant brands as they navigate through the health crisis and continue to move forward through the recovery. events and celebrations in May—and the opportunities for operators and beverage suppliers to collaborate and maximize sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While the PSL is a seasonal beverage reserved for the autumn months, Starbucks has offered it earlier and earlier every year. Since the start of the recovery, Starbucks’ peak foot traffic was more than 20percent below 2019 levels, showcasing the power of the PSL. 2020 was no exception, as the PSL hit stores on August 25.

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Rocket Fuel

MAY 1, 2023

This highlights the increasing consumer demand for convenience and the importance of offering delivery options for QSR operators. Higher guest checks for delivery: Guest checks for delivery have consistently been higher than other channels over the past three years. can increase your average guest checks and boost margins.

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Foodable

APRIL 30, 2020

Check out the Restaurant Recovery Resource to keep up to date for the latest innovations and ideas to help your business recover from the crisis. We are looking at narrowing our menu and beverage offerings and shallowing inventory, thus creating a cause-and-effect on the entire foodservice operation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 6, 2020

No Hot Shot (recovery) Deliveries. At the moment, many food and beverage manufacturers are stating that they are filling all orders with a focus and increase on to-go products, as off-premises meals have become the sole source of operator revenue. Delivery Windows & routes are shifting. Changes in minimum drop sizes.

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Black Box Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

After experiencing a slow recovery, west coast brands have figured out how to increase restaurant sales, and are starting to see growth. The pandemic recovery is rapidly evolving and we’ll continue to track restaurant sales statistics across the industry. And food prices are rising overall, with restaurants outpacing grocers.

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Black Box Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2021

Recovery from the pandemic is unlike anything we’ve ever seen; you can’t compare it to a typical recession or major crisis like a natural disaster. Whether you have lagging beverage sales or poor guest reviews, it’s likely that a number of factors contribute to those numbers. Taking on the Recovery with the right Data.

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2022

Restaurant Guest Satisfaction Snapshot™ – February, 2022. Behind this decline in sales growth is a similar slowdown in guest counts. Sales growth improved over twice the rate of traffic in February, as average guest check growth accelerated again. Top 5 Restaurant Brands. Sales growth was 2.7% in February, an improvement of 3.5

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Restaurant365

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Your cash flow may have been tight in 2020, so 2021 is the time to focus on your cash flow recovery and next steps. Your Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) is the total cost of your food and beverage ingredients over a specific period of time. Tracking your cash flow allows you to create a cash flow forecast. Review CoGS and P&L daily.

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Black Box Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

To drive your growth rate higher, implement marketing and social media tactics that will help you win over new guests or find ways to get current guests to come in more frequently. To learn how you can make changes like these to drive restaurant sales, consider using a guest intelligence tool that will help you eliminate guesswork.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

. “It’s incredibly important for us to continue to grow with strong operators in key geographies to increase the footprint of the brand and share our great Middle Eastern cuisine and hospitality with even more guests.” ” Fogo de Chão Inks New Deals. . ” Fogo de Chão Inks New Deals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

August saw a reversal in the upward momentum the restaurant industry’s sales and traffic had been riding in recent months, according to Black Box Guest Intelligence. Guests were marginally more positive about restaurant “food” during August compared to a year ago based on their online reviews and comments.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

The length of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the severity of the decline remains unknown, but reopening will need to be done carefully with possibly dramatic changes to pre-pandemic approaches to capital management, sanitation, operations, and marketing.

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EATER

JULY 2, 2021

As food industry professionals collectively push for structural overhaul in the service industry at large — raising the minimum wage , for example, or experimenting with new ownership models like co-ops — we can also use this recovery period to renegotiate and reimagine the relationships between restaurant workers, owners, and consumers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

The length of the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the severity of the decline remains unknown, but reopening will need to be done carefully with possibly dramatic changes to pre-pandemic approaches to capital management, sanitation, operations, and marketing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Fatigued by cooking at home, consumers are anxious to dine at their favorite restaurants according to a new Oracle Food and Beverage study. Since the week ending June 28 the industry’s recovery remains stagnant. Read more in the latest Restaurant Guest SatisfactionSnapshot. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends.

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Gourmet Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2020

Hotel recovery is entirely dependent on consumers’ behavior and trust and confidence in your establishment. Food & Beverage. Virtually lead your guests through the space. When travel begins to pick up again, it is presumed that business travel will bounce back first. Start the virtual tour off as if it were in person.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

With a QR code, guests can easily scan the code safely from their own device and join the waitlist through DineTime. QSR Automations CEO Lee Leet said, “As the restaurant industry continues recovery efforts from the pandemic, we’re going to see more and more social distancing measures required. ” Resetting America.

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Restaurant365

JUNE 24, 2020

Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) is the combined costs of food and beverage ingredients that were sold at your restaurant over a certain period of time. CoGS totaled takes into account the ingredients that make up your food and beverage sales, and related supplies (such as napkins and takeout containers). Don’t forget the alcohol.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

The partnership aligns Clean Juice’s core values of healthy, clean living with a focus on raising the nutritional and educational value of organic food and beverage choices available to consumers across the nation. Clean Juice® announced its official partnership with professional football player and philanthropist Tim Tebow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2021

restaurant recovery is underway, but it will take time for it to return to pre-pandemic levels fully,” said David Portalatin, NPD food industry advisor and author of Eating Patterns in America. The restaurant industry has made progress restaffing, but job recovery for the industry is lagging the overall economy. “The U.S.

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Black Box Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Restaurant Guest Satisfaction Snapshot™ – March, 2022. The restaurant industry continues to post growth year over year, but the rate slowed down considerably during March as the industry is starting to lap over a period of accelerated recovery last year. Guest counts have not been able to keep up. Top 5 Restaurant Brands.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The importance of making guests feel comfortable. Incentivize guests to choose your restaurant. Restaurant operators should also focus on remarketing to guests through email or other means, as well as offering return visit incentives to keep customers coming back. Small Business Recovery. The Buzz on Beverages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

Its proprietary guest engagement solution, which is used by more than 600 restaurants throughout the U.S. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. We are very pleased to welcome them to our TouchBistro family.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Altering seating arrangements to improve spacing between guests. Takeout For Good. Redesigning workflows to ensure safe distancing between employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

Now more than ever, new systems are empowering owners and managers to optimize service, boost guest engagement, enhance menu performance, slash waste, and much more. As the industry gets on the road to recovery, this will be more important than ever. Maintenance is Often Overlooked.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 8, 2024

Overall, “large parties,” or a party with eight or more guests, had a +2 percent increase in same-store transactions in Q4 2023 compared to Q4 2022. Cheers to 2023: Overall, restaurant and bar guests drank approximately +11 percent more alcohol in Q4 2023 compared to the average for Q1 through Q3 2023.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features COVID-19 crisis statistics and surveys about third-party delivery, guest expectations, QSR reliance and more. “The industry’s successful recovery will depend on a customer’s feeling of well-being,” noted Oakes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Among the highlights: Online Ordering sales of pizza (+9 percent), burgers (+10 percent), and fried chicken (+5 percent) were up from last year, but the largest trend in online ordering was sandwiches and wraps as guests give up on slapping bread together at home and restaurants pivot to menu items that travel well. Restaurant trends.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Ocean Spray is joining forces with Massachusetts Restaurant United and the COREcares Foundation for this hospitality stimulus, in addition to offering discounts on the brand’s cranberry products to support restaurants on the road to recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. " On #GivingTuesday (Dec. ” Curbside Olo.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

Features of the new restaurant design were determined following a thorough brand study on drive-thru operations and Guest habits, and include a double drive-thru lane, parking stalls for curbside pickup, a walk-up window, and patio seating. ” Franchise opportunities remain in areas across the U.S.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A Diversified Renewable Energy Portfolio, aiming to offset 50% of company-operated roasting and beverage production sites and electricity consumption in the U.S. "Together we look forward to empowering North American restaurateurs to deliver superior guest experiences and make them wildly successful."

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Goliath Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2020

With the industry’s recovery expected to be sluggish, some even estimating that the full recovery could take years (1), there’s little doubt that this trend of off-premise dining will continue to grow in 2021. Consumer behavior has also shifted, many preferring contactless options and off-premise dining than dining in.

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2020

The newly launched Restaurant Recovery Sales Flash is open to all operators. As of Saturday, May 9, on average almost 30% of the restaurants operated by the companies that participated in our Restaurants Recovery Sales Flash survey opened their dining rooms in some capacity. Collected and distributed 3 times per week.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Hotel guests said they feel “extremely safe” knowing a hotel room is cleaned with hospital-grade disinfectants compared to leading consumer brands1. Diminishing Customer Satisfaction With Restaurants May Hamper Recovery Efforts. says it is clear that the restaurant industry is well on its way to recovery.

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Uncorkd

APRIL 18, 2018

then take stock of these wine trends that will reward your guest’s eagerness to enjoy spring. With these wine regions in recovery, the wine world is ready to support the wine makers whose livelihoods and passions were torched. If you want your new spring wine menu to capture people’s attention (and dollars!),

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