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Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

Modern Restaurant Management

My business plan laid out my steppingstones: open three artisanal ice cream shops, create synergy, and ride out the cash flow. Increased interest from wholesale buyers or retailers requesting larger orders. Space or equipment constraints that prevent further growth in the current setup.

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Why roasters are demanding more from their machines

Perfect Daily Grind

With margins and cash flow stretched thin, a machine that just roasts coffee is no longer enough; today’s roasters are increasingly demanding more from their equipment. Inflated pricing has left many coffee roasters with shrinking cash reserves, making it difficult for them to continue operations as usual.

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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the present and future of AI use in F&B, The Splintered Path to Purchase, the Datassential 500 Awards, and where chefs are earning six figures. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent in 2024 — falling short of the 4.1

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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Nowadays, though, owners and managers unable financially to bring back their full complement of staff are relying on the technology to facilitate almost everything with a food order, except make it. Many kiosk manufacturers don’t offer kiosks with cash options. Here’s how: Augmenting the Workforce.

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Cash Will Still Be on QSR Menus

Modern Restaurant Management

Last year, one of the first brands to go cashless, Sweetgreen, changed its policy to accept cash at all its locations. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) started accepting cash after Amazon confirmed it would take cash payments in all of its previously cashless Amazon Go stores. To eliminate cash is to eliminate customer choice.

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Restaurants Go Digital to Attract and Retain Talent

Modern Restaurant Management

To recruit new talent and alleviate strains on current staff, restaurant managers are looking for new ways to streamline their operations and enhance the employee experience. A mobile employee experience has now become table stakes in seamlessly recruiting, onboarding, training and managing staff. Embracing Digital Transformation.

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Coronavirus: Restaurants Respond

Modern Restaurant Management

.” The cashless multi-vendor open-air gastronomic market has two locations in Prague, and a total of 34 independently operated restaurants, bars and retailers. That being said, we have been starting to plan responsibly for impacts in Europe, where we see food retail starting to be affected, “ he continued. Cash is dirty.