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Coca-Cola Research Reveals What Guests Want Post-COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

Maintain visible hygiene cues : vaccinated consumers are among the most cautious and will continue to crave health and safety reassurance before returning to pre-COVID life. Pick-up and curbside delivery will gain stronger relevance post-COVID, and dine-in recovery will be stronger than pre-COVID levels. Pre-COVID: 10.3 dine-in visits.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Data findings in the series have offered insight into customer expectations to support restaurant brands as they navigate through the health crisis and continue to move forward through the recovery. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers.

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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. Other than your most loyal customers, there is no guarantee that your old guests will return to dine with you while social distancing and other public health recommendations remain in effect.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-June 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features recovery data, POS performance and shifting habits of diners. On the Road to Recovery. New Zealand was the first to record a strong trend towards recovery, in correlation to its success in containing the spread of the virus to date.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Must haves for local chain restaurant apps include easy ordering (66 percent), easy payment (61 percent), loyalty/rewards points (52 percent), and coupons and/or deals (52 percent). One in two ranked points and/or dollars off for rewards as most important followed by coupons. Loyalty programs are most popular for fast food.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fatigued by cooking at home, consumers are anxious to dine at their favorite restaurants according to a new Oracle Food and Beverage study. "But while consumers are anxious to get back out there to eat, they come with new expectations on everything from menus to the technology used to increase safety. See details here.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-July 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Using order data from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020 and a national consumer survey, DoorDash’s mid-year report checks in on popular food trends, nationally and regionally, how users ate through social distancing, cravings across the country, and more.

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