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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. 43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What While consumers mostly dig new digital dining options, they also lament the impact it is having on in-person dining.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Finding and retaining employees remain among the biggest obstacles operators struggle with. First, at 2.1

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10 Alternative Foodservice Formats Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Aaron Allen & Associates

Price inflation has gone up three times as fast in restaurants as it has in grocery stores, largely attributable to wage increases and the requisite labor levels in a restaurant environment Sales per employee in grocery stores are 3.6x In the U.S., can reduce costs as much as 25% compared to standard restaurants 6.

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How to Use Technology to Deliver on Customer Expectation

Restaurant365

According to the National Restaurant Association’s recently published State of the Restaurant Industry, the percentage breakdown of operators who plan on investing in back-of-the-house technology in 2022 are as follows: Family dining – 30%. Casual dining – 28%. Fine dining – 28%. Quickservice – 29%. Fast casual – 26%.

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#LifeOrDeathRecipe Challenge and ‘A Woman’s Place’

Modern Restaurant Management

Etana Diaz, who began her career as a pastry chef and a line cook in fine dining, but found her true love for butchery after discovering that pastry wasn’t her passion. an offshoot of the Hot Shoppes family-dining chain that eventually was rebranded as Roy Rogers Restaurants. Plamondon, Sr. Dies at 88.

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