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From Clutter to Connection: How Regional Tastes Drive Brand Success

Modern Restaurant Management

A standout menu is no longer just a necessity — it’s a critical asset for success. One of our most effective methods for creating a deeper connection beyond a transaction is through storytelling, using local flavors and regional influences in our menu.

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Little Palates, Big Flavors: Reinventing the Kids’ Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

For example: Legal Sea Foods features a kid-friendly, diverse, and budget-conscious menu that includes healthier choices, allowing children to customize their meals with a "first bite," main dish, and two sides, with popular options like grilled salmon and fish fingers.

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How Virtual Brands Can Help Restaurants Expand Their Reach and Drive Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Today, virtual brands are disrupting the foodservice industry, with celebrities, YouTube stars and influencers helping them go mainstream. Virtual brands can be especially useful in testing new menu items and mitigating supply chain challenges. Virtual Brands are Influencer Magnets.

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Menu Engineering: The Science of Optimizing Your Menu to Maximize Profit

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Menu engineering: while the name might suggest you need to go to college at MIT to be good at it, is actually a common and essential task that all restaurateurs should regularly undertake. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Menu Pricing and 2.

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Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over?

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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. There are around a dozen dishes, which can be ordered as a tasting menu or a la carte. “We But just as that information once did, the minimalist menu is disappearing.

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The 11 Best Restaurant Event Ideas That Actually Bring In New Customers And Keep Regulars Excited

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1) Pop-Up Collaborations Partner with other local businesses, like a bakery, brewery, coffee shop, roastery, or food truck, for exclusive menu items or drinks. This can be as big or small as youd likefor example, you could connect with a local distillery and use their spirits for one cocktail or develop an entire menu around it.

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Great Expectations as Customers Show Increased Appetite for Swift Service and Customization

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that restrictions have well and truly lifted and people are returning to restaurants, their expectations for their dining experience are considerably higher. In addition, many restaurants are now using digital menus in-house. In order to build and maintain loyalty, businesses must rise to these challenges.