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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Look for catering and event opportunities Offering catering for private events like weddings, corporate gatherings, or holiday parties can bring in additional revenue and help you reach new customers. Selling branded merchandise is another smart way to boost your bar's profitability.

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7 Game-Changing Trends That Will Define Fast Casual & QSR in 2025

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Today’s best loyalty programs offer early access to new menu items, surprise merchandise drops, and exclusive experiences. Catering's Comeback Story With offices reopening, catering is surging—24% of brands are making it a key focus for 2025. The takeaway: Stop collecting data and start connecting it.

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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable

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This is all the income from your food and beverage sales, catering, branded merchandise, packaged goods, venue hire, etc. Your Cost of Goods Sold are your food and beverage costs along with the cost of any merchandise you sell. You should be able to find this data in your POS reporting. Labor costs. Overhead costs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

Gross merchandise volume (GMV) rose 45 percent in Cleveland during the women’s championship but only 2 percent in Phoenix for the men’s. For QSRs, 55 percent eye first-party ordering for revenue growth, outpacing drive-thru and third-party apps. Fast casuals follow with 36 percent prioritizing direct digital channels.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

.” The report, conducted by Redpoint exclusively for GS1 US, is based on a national survey of more than 500 supply chain professionals ranging from directors to C-level executives in the retail grocery, foodservice, healthcare, apparel and general merchandise industries. This caterer offers 25.66 BDP has earned 454.66

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‘Everything Is in Question Again’

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At businesses catering to an immigrant community, customers arent showing up either , worried raids could strike at any moment. Kaufman-Gutierrez says another vendor, who specializes in Ecuadorian tripa mishqui, quit cooking and is now selling merchandise instead; others have quit vending altogether. The same is true in any city.

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MRM Research Roundup: Cautious Optimism, Beyond the Burn, and the Taylor Swift Economy

Modern Restaurant Management

As restaurants look to the next 12 months, they anticipate placing a greater emphasis on revenue streams such as on-premise dining, off-premise dining, and catering. Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) at local restaurants grew by 12.8 Local Sales On The Rise in Miami Miami restaurants saw a 9.1 The average ticket size grew by 2.6