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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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What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022?

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What Hotel Menu Trends Will Define 2022? For these travelers, the dining experience will be back on the menu. Plant-based options are a must on any menu from bed and breakfasts to five-star resorts. Finding innovative ways to incorporate novel foods into your menu sets your properties at the forefront of healthy dining.

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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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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.

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Riding on the Vegan Flow, Restaurants Must Innovate and Compete

Modern Restaurant Management

The rapid rise in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity is linked to economic growth and subsequent "nutrition shift," or changes in dietary habits brought about by differences in the way food is produced, delivered, and eaten in recent decades. Less of Meat Intake – A Leap toward Better Planet.

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How to Use ChatGPT to Create Training Material for Restaurant & Cafe Employees

Ken Burgin

Here are the training suggestions I was given by ChatGPT for FRONT OF HOUSE S TAFF Menu Knowledge Training : Utilise ChatGPT to create quizzes and interactive modules to test employees’ understanding of the menu. Questions could range from ingredients of dishes to potential allergens.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Over one-third (36 percent) of respondents reported more customers in 2023 than 2022, almost half (47 percent) reported higher check averages in 2023, a slight majority (51 percent) reported tracking better or the same as 2019, and almost three-quarters (72 percent) reporting increasing menu prices by 10-25 percent in the last year.

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