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Keeping Up with Diners’ Expectations Amid Rising Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

To stay in the know, 46 percent of today’s diners want the ability to view their loyalty point balance, 48 percent want to place a delivery request and 56 percent want to track their order from their mobile device. The Index revealed 57 percent of consumers have canceled a delivery order after seeing the additional fees.

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Price Matters: Inflation Wearing on Consumer Dining Behavior

Modern Restaurant Management

RMS just released our latest findings around consumer sentiment for Q1 , which revealed, among other things, that price is starting to matter—and not by an insignificant amount. When asked why they were getting less value from a restaurant visit, 82 percent reported higher prices. The sentiment has changed rapidly.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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. In its place, we’ve seen an explosion of specialty beverages that serve as enticing add–ons or stand-alone orders.

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QSR and Fast Casual Concepts Forego Expensive Commercial Real Estate Buildouts

Modern Restaurant Management

For the quick-serve (QSR) and Fast Casual industry, a re-examining of all operational processes is taking place at a rapid, yet reactive rate. At Aloha Poke, we discovered these nuances well before the global pandemic and were already shifting away from the typical Fast Casual model. COVID-19 global pandemic changed nearly everything.

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Fast Casual vs. Fast Food Restaurants — What’s The Difference?

The Restaurant Times

It’s important to understand the dynamics of both fast food and fast casual restaurants, whether you’re considering opening a franchise, starting your food business from scratch, or simply trying to decide what kind of restaurant to eat at while on the go. Additionally, it frequently costs less than fast-casual eateries.

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2024 Outlook: Glass Half Full? 

Modern Restaurant Management

Net sales are primarily driven by average check increases and pricing opportunities are diminishing. When asked if they had ordered more or less from full-service, fast-casual and QSRs in the past month, respondents were primarily bearish, except when it came to QSRs. Drive-thru remains down -7.1 Inflation slowed to 3.4

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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

While consumers might seek culinary experiences they can’t have at home, they have vastly different expectations for how they engage – whether via phone, app ordering, third-party take-out, or dining in, they want the same seamless interactions they’ve come to expect in all areas of their lives. ” It gets better.

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