MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features diner expecations over the next few months, robots for QSRs, and the best cities for coffee lovers, vegans and vegetarians.  How Comfortable are Diners?Rewards Network, together with American Airlines AAdvantage Dining and United Airlines MileagePlus Dining, surveyed their members to learn more about what they anticipate their dining habits will look like over the next few months. The survey results reveal that 35 percent of respondents feel the same level of comfort dining out now as they did at the beginning of the pandemic.

Some highlights inlcude:

Consumers' projected dining out frequency 75 percent of respondents said they plan on dining out at least biweekly, with 30 percent saying they plan to do so five or more times per month  Only about seven percent of respondents said they anticipate rarely or never eating outPrimary reasons for dining out less Overwhelming top response was fear of catching/spreading COVID-19, followed…