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Will coffee consumers’ focus on education continue beyond Covid-19?

Perfect Daily Grind

Naturally, this led many consumers to start brewing more coffee at home. As coffee shops around the world closed, many consumers turned their focus to preparing their own coffee at home. As such, more consumers started to experiment with different brew methods and origins.

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Restaurant Consumer Trends Post-Pandemic

Black Box Intelligence

What are Restaurant Consumer Trends? Consumer trends are the overarching shared sentiments expressed by restaurant consumers. Consumer trends are often uncovered through gathering, aggregating, and continuously tracking restaurant customer feedback. . Good Ambience.

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STOP THE 100% TARIFF ON EUROPEAN GOODS

Culinary Cues

imposed a 25% tariff on European wines and other perishable goods – this of course, was very challenging for European winemakers, but it also impacted importers in the U.S., wine shops, longshoreman, wine distributors, restaurants, and wine consumers.

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Good Business: How The Salad House is Making a Difference During the Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

Putting good food in your body for sustenance can be an important part to fuel your work. Consumers are our lifeline and we want to ensure they are taken care of during this time. Operations The Salad House NJ Franchise Doing Good Adam Chandler Giving Back

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A Good PR Plan Should Be Top of Your Holiday Wish List

Modern Restaurant Management

With the recent stay-at-home orders and kids out of school soon, more and more people will be home consuming content. Globally, consumers have moved much of their lives online. This is also a good time to check for any broken links and optimize your online content.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: How Restaurants Can Use Pandemic-Era Consumer Behavior to Inform Their Strategies

Modern Restaurant Management

This isn’t lost on the National Restaurant Association, which sent a letter to Congress this summer to highlight the results of a recent consumer confidence survey and to urge leadership to replenish the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. Keeping Pace with Consumer Behaviors.

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Relationships are about more than just paying a good price for specialty coffee

Perfect Daily Grind

However, price isn’t everything – direct trade also often means more open communication between producers and roasters, as well as more transparency with consumers. There are many actors involved in the coffee supply chain.

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Restaurant Consumer Trends Post-Pandemic

Black Box Intelligence

What are Restaurant Consumer Trends? Consumer trends are the overarching shared sentiments expressed by restaurant consumers. Consumer trends are often uncovered through gathering, aggregating, and continuously tracking restaurant customer feedback. This tool is how we’ve aggregated data and discerned some of the top post-pandemic industry-wide restaurant consumer trends. Who Should Pay Attention to Restaurant Consumer Trends? Consumer Insights

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Consumer Dining Survey: Sales Inching Up; Basket Size Trending Down

Modern Restaurant Management

Come June, the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index saw that annual rate climb even further to 9.1 In the 2022 Q2 Trends Report , nearly one in three consumers reported ordering "more or much more" from their favorite QSRs (up from 21 percent in Q1). The good news?

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Yelp Economic Average: Consumers and Restaurants Adapting to New Normal

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumers described more inflationary experiences within their reviews on Yelp in 2021 than ever before, according to fourth quarter 2021 data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report, a benchmark of local economic strength in the U.S.

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How can producers use green coffee to barter for other goods and services?

Perfect Daily Grind

But is there a way for coffee producers to improve their access to goods and services without exchanging money? This is where two parties directly exchange goods and services for other goods and services – meaning no money is exchanged during the transaction.

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HE COOKS REAL GOOD – FOR FREE

Culinary Cues

He Plays Real Good for Free offers not so subtle advice to her contemporaries in the music business – think about why you became a musician. Food for thought – the same can be true for all of us who spend a good portion of our lives in professional kitchens.

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Takeout For Good and Menus Go Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Takeout For Good. Expanded service offerings to best meet consumer needs.

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How Tropical Smoothie Uses Consumer Intelligence to Identify New Opportunities

Black Box Intelligence

To inform your restaurant strategy, you need to be able to interpret and even predict consumer behavior. Being able to recognize trends and shifts in consumer behavior and demand will help you optimize your decision-making. How did Consumer Intelligence help with these challenges?

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As Inflation Rises, Restaurants Look to Gift Cards to Attract Newly Cost-Conscious Consumers 

Modern Restaurant Management

As business owners know well, when inflation rises consumers often cut discretionary spending. For restaurants, this presents a challenge: How can you keep attracting customers to your restaurant when consumer purse strings tighten? As consumers reevaluate their spending habits, one lever many restaurants are turning to is the gift card. These add-ons give consumers the ability to stretch their spending power when money gets tight. Consumers Love a Deal.

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Be Nimble, Be Quick: What Consumers Want in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

And, based on our recent survey of 830 US consumers, it’s likely a good mantra for 2021. While still in the minority, consumers are eating healthier (21 percent), eating less (four percent) or on a diet (six percent).

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How COVID-19 Will Change Consumer Eating Out Habits?

Bingage

The coronavirus crisis is urging all consumers to embrace new habits surrounding dining at restaurants and eating in general. dark kitchen concept will be the new trend in the market and a good opportunity for a restaurant owner to enter the new market.

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Rosie’s | A Couple’s Journey to Offering Feel-Good Soul Food

Foodable

Listen to "Rosie’s | A Couple’s Journey to Offering Feel-Good Soul Food" on Spreaker. These artisans have a whole new approach to reaching and satisfying the next generation consumer. The next generation of culinary artisans are changing up the industry.

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What Is Good Employer Branding?

ExactHire - Restaurants

And if you’re like the smartest recruiters, you’ve invested in an applicant tracking and onboarding system that simplifies the hiring process and lets you focus on the big picture strategies to attract high quality applicants, like good employer branding.

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Organic Content, Is It Good For You?

Indoor Media

They’ve quickly become the go-to search engine for most consumers, and with direct searches growing through Siri, this number is only going to increase. This is one way you can grow your searchability organically and appear trustworthy to consumers.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Good Food Restaurant Scorecard. 42 of the country’s favorite fast food and restaurant chains still don’t offer a plant-based entrée, according to a report released today by The Good Food Institute (GFI). ” Too Good to Be True.

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Pay-What-You-Can Markets Provide Produce for the Common Good

EATER

To the north, you have the Kelly Miller housing projects, where about 94 percent of residents are below the federal poverty limit and most are unemployed,” says James, who worked as the farm programs manager at Common Good City Farm until early January. “To

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As Pandemic Lingers, Adding Good Communication to the Menu Can Reduce Customer Concerns

Modern Restaurant Management

The good news is, with a thoughtful and ongoing communications plan this work can be accomplished while also promoting the restaurant to new and existing patrons. With COVID-19 continuing to be a consideration for consumers across the U.S.,

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Taco Bell Debuts the Only Good Fast Food Subscription

EATER

Whether or not it is actually a good idea for any human body to consume 30 Taco Bell tacos in one month is questionable, but there’s no denying that getting all those tacos for ten bucks is a hell of a bargain Joshua Blanchard/Getty Images.

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Consumer Attitudes' Shift Towards Health-Conscious Lifestyles

Foodable

Barron and Asseo discuss how consumers nationwide are changing their eating habits amidst the coronavirus crisis. How has your business evolved—especially in light of consumer trends—since the onset of the pandemic? Asseo describes the company’s extensive consumer feedback processes.

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Defining a Post-COVID19 Consumer: What Your Guests Will Look for When They Walk Through Your Doors

Goliath Consulting

But much has changed since you’ve last had dine-in guests; consumer spending behavior and eating habits have been reset. First, we know that consumers will continue to regard safety and sanitation in high importance, possibly going towards 2021 (1). by Bora Kang.

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Blue Hill at Stone Barns Tells a Beautiful Story. Former Employees Say It’s Too Good to Be True.

EATER

You were scared any time that Dan would come near you because you had no idea if he was going to tell you you were doing a good job or if you should go f**k yourself,” Meigneux, who started at Blue Hill as an intern in 2016 and worked there in multiple capacities until 2020, told me.

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Developing a Brand to Meet Consumer Demand

Foodable

Listen to "Developing a Brand to Meet Consumer Demand | Wing It On!" a good partner if you are looking to get into the business or are already in the restaurant industry. on Spreaker. On this episode of Emerging Brands , Matt Ensero, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wing It On!

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Mocktails for your Margins- Crafting Alcohol Free Cocktails for Conscious Consumers

Cheetah

What is a mocktail and why would consumers pay almost as much for one as a traditional cocktail? It’s all about the experience for health conscious consumers these days. Conscious consumers care about where you source your beverages from. Reading Time: 2 minutes.

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Is it possible to get good quality coffee from unripe cherries?

Perfect Daily Grind

What would this mean for consumers? There can be no doubt that consumer demand for higher-quality food and beverage products has grown in the last few years. According to Mintel , a staggering 78% of US consumers believe that eating healthy food improves their emotional wellbeing.

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Consumer Interests Driving Plant-Based Proteins

Foodable

With commentary from Chris Kerr, the chief executive officer of Good Catch , this session explores consumer interests and rising plant-based trends. Good Catch currently specializes in white fish, as it is the most popular type of fish worldwide.

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Why Restaurant Accounting Software is Good for Your Business

Lavu

Let’s have a look at some of the reasons why a restaurant accounting software is good for your business: Eliminates Data Entry Redundancy . While this is a cumbersome and time-consuming process, a restaurant accounting system can automate it.

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Ghost Kitchens Are the Wave of the Future. But Is That a Good Thing?

EATER

Nikki Freihofer, a senior strategist for the Culinary Edge, a restaurant consulting firm that regularly advises clients on virtual brand creation, compares the current wave of virtual restaurants to direct-to-consumer brands like Casper mattresses or Quip toothbrushes.

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Feeling Anxious? Here’s Why Having A Glass Of Red Wine Could Be Good For You.

Sante

It has been proven that certain key elements in red wine may help to improve physical health, and now, it looks like you may have another good reason why you should enjoy the occasional glass of Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir after a stressful day at work.

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Three Fresh Tips for Leveraging PR to Grow

Modern Restaurant Management

This is a good time to revisit your lists of industry leaders and identify what news they like to consume. This is also a good time to offer free industry-related content that is useful to your readers.

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Good Food Lab Series: JUST Egg

Foodable

In the latest episode of the Taste Kitchen ’s Good Food lab series, Brittany Cascone chats with Josh Tetrick, the chief executive officer and co-founder of Eat Just, Inc. The egg is far and away the most consumed animal protein on the planet—1.4

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11 Inexpensive Rums That Still Taste Good

Restaurant Clicks

On the other hand, “golden” and “dark” rums are usually consumed neat or “on the rocks.” The post 11 Inexpensive Rums That Still Taste Good appeared first on Restaurant Clicks. Rum has been around since the 1650s, but it was likely produced before.