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Inside the World of Hospitality and Leisure Accounting

Paper Chase Accountancy

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. Complex Revenue Streams: Revenue can come from room nights, food and beverage sales, event bookings, spa services, merchandise sales, and more, each with different recognition rules and tax implications.

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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable

SpotOn

Quick-service restaurants—like cafes, fast food, and fast casual—are estimated to have decent profit margins with lower food and labor costs. This is all the income from your food and beverage sales, catering, branded merchandise, packaged goods, venue hire, etc. Look in your accounting books for these.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

Within QSRs, fast-casual restaurants led the way, growing transactions by 2 percent in March. State of the Plate Olive Garden is the most popular casual dining restaurant with Americans in 2025, with 19 percent having dined at the Italian-themed restaurant in the past 90 days, according to a new report from YouGov.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

On Menu Ingredients We predict the rise of “bougie” ingredients like caviar, lobster and truffle popping up at restaurants at more affordable prices and in more casual settings like fast casuals and QSRs.

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Costa Rica’s Iconic Caldosas Combine Ceviche and Barbecue Chips

EATER

The company started hiring sales representatives to visit cevicherias (today, there are around 200 of them on the streets), creating merchandising materials for venue owners, and promoting caldosas throughout the country. He is the author of the book The Food Revolutions.

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Tamper-Proof Delivery and TacoTuesday.com

Modern Restaurant Management

Customers can also purchase limited-edition merchandise from Chicago-based visual artist Mac Blackout to take home with them. Select sought-after restaurants on OpenTable will now allocate tables during their busiest shifts, which can be booked exclusively by Capital One credit cardholders via the OpenTable app.

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4th of July Specials for Restaurants: Promotions and Ideas for 2021

Touch Bistro

Conversely, if your restaurant is more casual, diners may be more willing to go completely red, white, and blue for the day. If you’re fast-casual, consider doing a pulled pork version. A meal kit that includes merchandise like a handmade apron. And speaking of merchandise… 9. Sell 4th of July Merchandise.