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How to Grow Your Catering Business

Goliath Consulting

Whether they be for office parties, conferences, birthdays or weddings, catering profits from the promise of efficiency, safety and most importantly—safe of mind. You may be used to catering for corporate meetings, office parties, weddings or cocktail parties, but what about outdoor festivals, picnics and movie sets?

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How a New York City Restaurant Loses Money on a $14 Sandwich

EATER

Breaking down the food, labor, and fixed costs of Dirt Candy’s popular spinach croque-monsieur We often presume to understand restaurant economics because we know what a chicken breast costs at the supermarket. “I to -$2.48 (loss) Profit (outdoor dining): $0.90 (profit). Food Costs: $3.45. percent food cost. Bechamel: $0.27

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-October 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

For the respondents who reported having outdoor seating (or planned to add outdoor seating soon) and whose climates allow them to seat people outdoors nine or fewer months of the year, the decision to “weatherize” the patio for the colder weather was split. Patio dining in colder weather.

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Food Truck Design 101: How To Design A Food Truck

The Restaurant Times

If you are planning to start your food truck, you must know that it involves a lot of work because you will be competing with more than 35,000 food trucks that are currently operating in the US. The number of food trucks has grown almost four times in the last decade resulting in very high competition. Food Service License.

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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

Tastewise, an AI-powered food intelligence solution, launched in the UK. With real-time data into consumer behavior data, the solution offers immediate, location-specific food and beverage insights into an industry that is changing faster than ever before. ” Tastewise Data. social interactions, and 1.2M online recipes.

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Grubhub Grabbed and Contactless is Everywhere

Modern Restaurant Management

In a deal that creates the world’s largest online food delivery company outside of China, Just Eat Takeaway.com plans to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Grubhub in an all-stock transaction. The transaction represents Just Eat Takeaway.com’s entry into online food delivery in the United States. The deal is valued at $7.3

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Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative

EATER

Food is grilled over a traditional charcoal grill; udon is handmade; Wasabi root is grown locally. To translate this aesthetic to go, takeout food is creatively wrapped in compostable packaging and adorned with colorful custom labels. It feels refined, relaxed, upscale, and approachable all at the same time.

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