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Franchise Portfolio Diversification: Trends Taking Shape in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

From full service to fast-casual to legacy fast-food brands, the one constant was disruption. This approach required fewer front-of-the-house staff to maintain a dining room, complied with government orders, and kept many brands from closing. Just as one issue seemed fixed, another presents itself.

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

EATER

The company currently offers five sustainably farmed, low-intervention wines that Olszewski has chosen to be widely pleasing. I got a full-ride scholarship to UMass Amherst, where I majored in sustainable agriculture and gender studies and minored in English literature. Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S.,

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How The Snug Took Control of Labor and Evolved Their Restaurant

7 Shifts

Here’s how they evolved their operations to sustain their business during the pandemic. However, self-operated delivery was not sustainable for their business concept and staff. “I As one of 7shifts’ most tech-savvy restaurant clients, the founders of The Snug always have their fingers on the pulse of the restaurant industry.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual. We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. Mark Hoefer, General Manager, Le Bilboquet Atlanta.

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How To Unite Technology and Staff  For Restaurant Success

Modern Restaurant Management

News headlines give you a pretty good idea of what’s top of mind for employees at QSRs and fast-casual locations: Staffing Shortages : We’re still 14,000 restaurant jobs short of where we were in February of 2020. Three Strategies for Achieving Better Alignment The staff vs. tech dynamic isn’t sustainable.

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Restaurant Sales Remain Strong With Last Two Months Posting Highest Growth Since March

Black Box Intelligence

On the guest count front, there continues to be good and bad news. Despite the declining guest counts, the primary driver behind the industry’s sustained increase in sales remains the unusually high average check growth. The segments with the weakest 3-year growth remain family dining and casual dining. in October, a 0.4

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes. Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour.

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