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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. January is an infamously slow period for beverage alcohol sales after the fourth quarter holiday rush.

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How Restaurants, Retail and Mixed-Use Environments Are Capitalizing on a Surging F&B Market

Modern Restaurant Management

For nearly 25 years, Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio has worked to establish itself as a premier mixed-use environment with one of the largest and most influential food & beverage programs in the Midwest. As a longstanding lifestyle development, every year brings new opportunities to evolve its F&B offerings.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

Modern Restaurant Management

Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Employees designated as receivers should be able to both recognize various quality levels of merchandise and be trained how to handle the necessary paperwork and any digital recordkeeping.

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California Bill Legalizes CBD as Food and Drink Supplement

Cheetah

We anticipate that these Trendy Tasters will actively seek out CBD beverages and CBD-infused foods at specialty cafes and restaurants. Where can I buy CBD beverages? With a profit margin of over 60% from distribution to sale at your establishment, CBD beverages can be high grossing products. 5 Things to know before stocking CBD.

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Prepare Now for a More Profitable Christmas

Ken Burgin

An opportunity to sell ‘parties in a box’ with a wide variety of food and beverages, plus decorations and even music play lists. Merchandise and display the items with smart signage – these are great for last-minute giving. Sell your t-shirts, jams and souvenirs like a real gift shop.

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The Top 5 Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Restaurant365

SOLUTIONS: Whether using excel for inventory management, printed F&B inventory sheet, or a food and beverage inventory software, be sure the restaurant kitchen inventory list is broken down by restaurant inventory categories such as storage location, list all items in order (shelf to sheet), and includes pars. Mistake #4.

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Menu Engineering: Innovating Menus for Profitability and Simplicity

Aaron Allen & Associates

Coffee and Snack chains are among the most frequent innovators, with Krispy Kreme, Dutch Bros, Dunkin’, Starbucks, and Tim Hortons leading the pack — especially with a focus on LTOs for beverages. It’s about more than tactical design, merchandising techniques, promotional tactics, and pricing strategies though.