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Restaurant Licensing: Expanding Your Brand’s Reach and Revenue

Modern Restaurant Management

This desire is fueling a surge in food and beverage brand partnerships and collaborations. For a deeper dive, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out for insights from Frances Alvarez, Senior Vice President of Brand Management at Beanstalk, a global brand extension licensing agency operating in the F&B space.

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Boosting Profits One Sip at a Time: The Power of Specialty Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

More specifically, a specialty beverage break. Rethinking Beverages The typical drink upsell—soft drinks and coffee or tea—has decreased over the past few years as customers increasingly eat restaurant food at home. One in four respondents order specialty beverages more than once a week. What’s on the Menu?

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The Top Five Startup Costs Restaurant Owners Need to Know

Modern Restaurant Management

Food and Beverage Inventory and Paper Supplies. Similar to your payroll expenses, your food and beverage expenses are going to vary depending on the type of restaurant you run. In general, overhead expenses related to food and beverages should be between 35 and 40 percent of your total revenue. Licensing and Permits.

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How in-house roasting can help cafés manage high coffee prices

Perfect Daily Grind

High coffee prices are becoming a lasting reality for the industry. While many assert that this signifies a long overdue change, as coffee has historically been an undervalued commodity, price volatility affects all levels of the supply chain in various ways. For coffee shops, in particular, margins are tighter than ever.

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Average Restaurant Profit Margins: What They Are And How to Improve Yours

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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. Your cost of goods sold (ingredients, beverages, packaging, etc.)

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

Tack on obtaining permits and licenses, and you could be in for a pretty big check. According to recent data from the National Restaurant Association, restaurants overall sell for a median price of $150,000. The average price sits around half a million dollars, according to data from Restaurants for Sale. Table of Contents.

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Pandemic Hangover Coming for Restaurants and Municipalities

Modern Restaurant Management

city to pass a Beverage Tax in 2016, local operators have overcome the challenges of other taxes that have in many cases had greater impact. The Beverage Tax has been in effect for three and a half years, withstanding legal challenges, continued opposition by the beverage industry. Strategies to Minimize the Impact.

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