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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. Waste management programs like recycling, composting, and any food-waste reduction measuring done can also help in this category.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. "We're very impressed with their quality of execution, product cadence and customer centric approach in these unprecedented times.”

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. The buying journey is how a customer makes the decision to eat at YOUR restaurant instead of someone else’s.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers want restaurant experiences : 84 percent of consumers say going out to a restaurant with family and friends is a better use of their leisure time than cooking and cleaning up. commercial foodservice customer traffic to restaurants and other foodservice outlets ended 2022 flat compared to a year ago.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

They are also a good choice for someone who wishes to give an experience rather than a material item,” said Riehle. Verbal skills, customer service and multi-tasking are the top 3 skills needed to work in the events industry. "The percent hold more than 500 events. percent at hotels. Top QSR Traffic. percent of market share.

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Can you run a zero-waste coffee shop?

Perfect Daily Grind

We also use compostable and recyclable items, so our landfill bin is only a quarter-full every two weeks.”. This can include staff training, replacing certain equipment with more sustainable alternatives, and informing customers about new systems like reusable cup schemes. The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” she tells me.

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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

Modern Restaurant Management

“We’re both humbled and lucky to support our amazing customers during this critical time. SALIDO continues to execute on its hiring plans to recruit and invest in talent across their Product, Engineering, Customer Experience, and Sales Teams. Lunchbox Partners with Ordermark.