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How to create a menu from scratch: 10 key tips for restaurants

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You may consider an extensive menu to appeal to pickier eaters and those with allergy or dietary restrictions. You can brainstorm on a piece of paper, or digitally in Google Sheets or Excel. It takes only 15 menu items to catch 59% of guests’ interest, according to OpenTable’s recent diner survey. How do you organize a menu?

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Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

EATER

It’s a familiar scene: After sitting down at a table, the waiter brings you a sheet of fancy paper with the day’s menu printed in pretty fonts. The breast of the chicken is cubed, seasoned, and swiftly sautéed in a mixture of oil and white egg. “The Lille Allen/Eater. Menus represent the changing values of the restaurant industry.

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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. The Pandemic Has Permanently Altered the Consumer-Restaurant Relationships. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off. 71 percent rely on delivery for 11 percent or more of sales.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. Holiday Traffic Not Enough. Topline numbers show robust restaurant sales growth during November. Same-store sales growth was 1.6

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