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Beyond the Scoop Shop: A Blueprint for Scaling Artisan Food Businesses

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What starts as a passion for quality, craftsmanship, and unique flavors often turns into a logistical challenge when demand grows beyond the capacity of a single storefront or kitchen. We decided to expand into the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) space, aiming to get our ice cream pints into grocery stores.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home. Early adopters tend to succeed quickly, while others may fall behind.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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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. And B Corp was the only one looking at both environmental and social scorecards. Is It Worth It?

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The Future of Restaurant Design Post COVID-19

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In this article, we discuss how restaurant design is changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight how we must rethink the consumer-facing footprint to make the restaurant experience more sustainable and bolster consumer confidence. Rethinking the Consumer-Facing Footprint.

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

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” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Tips For Restaurants to Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

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All restaurants should proactively work to reduce food waste, which will also help you save money, increase profits, spotlight your commitment to sustainability, and help the environment. Practice good stock control. Consider the following: US restaurants generate an estimated 22 to 33 billion pounds of food waste each year.

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

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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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