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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The new report captures a steady rise in mobile ordering, reinforcing the critical importance of mobile initiatives for restaurant brands. According to the data, consumers deleted restaurant apps if menu items were missing or if there was limited ability to customize orders. Mobile orders are on the rise.

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Adapting to Changing Consumer Food and Hospitality Needs Amidst Rising Cost of Living Pressures

Future Food

For retail centre management and F&B operators, this scenario presents a partnership opportunity to plan and implement strategies to adapt to new consumer F&B spending patterns and continue to drive visitation, overall spend and maintain or increase asset value.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Throughout subsequent waves of the pandemic, the reports explored the growth of off-premise strategies including the spike in mobile apps and, more recently, captured softening safety concerns among consumers when they began favoring shorter wait times over safety protocols. Order accuracy and speed top list of what consumers want.

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Adapting to Changing Consumer Food and Hospitality Needs in Shopping Centres Amidst Rising Cost of Living Pressures

Future Food

This trend continued through to FY23 until prices rose faster (F&B CPI 6%, ABS) than costs in order for businesses to try to recoup losses from the previous two years. Shopping centres driving initiatives and experiences in order to adapt to the changing consumer landscape. Quay Quarter F&B revitalisation.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Fast Food Has Become a Hi-Tech Job

Modern Restaurant Management

Taking orders at the counter and preparing quick meals were not necessarily perceived as stepping stones to better-paid careers with expanded responsibilities. Restaurant and retail employees were hard to come by while the number of channels for interacting with customers multiplied. Cashiers, cooks, and other QSR crew members.

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Restaurant Loyalty Programs to Boost Revenues

Cheetah

Restaurants, retailers and airlines have been using loyalty programs to drive revenue for nearly three centuries. From their humble, though ingenious, beginnings as copper tokens and stamps, through the era of credit card clubs, to today’s mobile apps, loyalty programs have become indispensable marketing tools.

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Radical Reconsideration and the Behavior Change Opportunity for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

My mom might love JCPenney, but even she knew pre-pandemic that many of her bricks-and-mortar retail faves were going down the tubes. Smart fast-casual concepts were laying the groundwork for their own off-premise future – reconfiguring stores for majority carry-out business and installing drive-through lanes of their own.