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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

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Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. For both safety and ease, there isn’t a better option. diners prefer to view menus, order, and pay for their meal using their phones rather than interacting with servers during the pandemic.

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How To Start A Catering Business in 20 Steps

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So you want to start a catering business? The catering industry is ripe with potential and profit. To help you get things cooking, we discuss some of the more important steps for how to start a catering business. If money were no object, how would you run the catering business? That’s great!

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Great Expectations as Customers Show Increased Appetite for Swift Service and Customization

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers ordering deliveries still want to make sure it feels like they are treating themselves. As a result, restaurants had to quickly adapt by offering takeout and delivery options to cater to their customers' changing needs. But with the growth in off-premise dining comes extra pressure for businesses.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Think behind-the-scenes kitchen tours or insights into who the people are that work at the restaurant, offering patrons a chance to immerse themselves in the brand. Machine learning is capable of organizing menu items in a way that incentivizes customers to order promoted items – an adaptable menu.

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Back to the ?Grind? ? Restaurant Reopening Guidelines and PPP Update

Modern Restaurant Management

launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint. Adapting with a tighter, more focused menu to allow kitchens to better plan labor and prep needs and manage enhanced sanitation routines. Embracing preparation and safety protocols as part of your restaurant's story.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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