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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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Prepare Now for a More Profitable Christmas

Ken Burgin

Create special deals to fill less popular times: these could be Sunday to Wednesday, or late November. What about a special bonus for people who give 100% all through December? An opportunity to sell ‘parties in a box’ with a wide variety of food and beverages, plus decorations and even music play lists.

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California Bill Legalizes CBD as Food and Drink Supplement

Cheetah

Sure, you may have seen CBD drinks hit specialized shelves around the country over the past few years, but their content, claims, and dissemination has long been operating in an FDA ‘grey area’. We anticipate that these Trendy Tasters will actively seek out CBD beverages and CBD-infused foods at specialty cafes and restaurants.

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Leveraging Relationships to Build a Better Bar Program

Goliath Consulting

Almost every restaurant with liquor on the menu has their share of creatively named house cocktails and luring drink specials, but is your restaurant making the most of its beverage program? Every bar/beverage manager can tell you about their distributors purchase incentives. Buy two bottles, get one free.”

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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.

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The Impact of Restaurant Tablets on Table Turnover and Revenue

Mad Mobile

These visuals not only enhance the dining experience but also present a golden opportunity for guests to discover and crave appetizers, desserts, or beverages they might have overlooked otherwise. You can schedule updates for happy hour or special events to capitalize on the boost in traffic.

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The Weird (and Wired) Truth Behind What’s Really in Coca-Cola

EATER

Here, a chemical company manufactures cocaine legally, with special permission from the U.S. It was this beverage that the Coca-Cola’s founder — a morphine-addicted, down-on-his-luck Civil War veteran named John Pemberton — decided to copy, creating Pemberton’s French Wine Coca.