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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Kimpton is particularly seeing a rise in Asian and French influences for the sweetest course. The Future of AI Kimpton culinary experts anticipate more chefs will be open to integrating AI tools to optimize processes, reduce food waste and help make food more accessible, providing a new solution to operating as sustainably as possible.

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

Ken Burgin

Sustainability Practices: Create learning modules about incorporating sustainability practices into the restaurant, including waste management, energy efficiency, and sourcing local produce. Seasonal Tea Recommendations: Discuss how the season and weather can influence tea choices, enabling baristas to make appropriate recommendations.

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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. Yet, this route requires a larger kitchen and more inventory, and may result in a higher risk of food waste. This can also help you understand the influence color has on guests. How do you organize a menu?

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Resurrect Your Dead Times and Fill Seats with Marketing Innovations

Modern Restaurant Management

Dead times are a hit to your wallet as a business owner as empty seats represent wasted capital investment. Without question the superior answer is a strategy and implementation that creates customized experiences, fosters strong connections, boosts guest engagement and significantly influences customer behaviors.

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

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Sometimes you need these staples to accommodate more niche groups, like those with special dietary restrictions or picky eaters who won’t come to your restaurant unless that one item is on the menu. Holding your back-of-house staff responsible for ensuring as little food as possible is wasted or stolen could be the fix your menu needs.

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Restaurant cleanliness: Importance of cleaning & sanitation in food industry

Clover - Restaurants

Recent surveys confirm the importance of cleaning and sanitizing in food industry establishments for building customer confidence and in influencing diner choice. Use the first-in, first-out method to use ingredients that are closer to spoiling first, so that you can decrease food waste. Frequently empty and wash waste bins.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

46 percent would love to manage their dietary preferences with their favorite establishments. Illinois reports a +85 percent year-over-year increase in sales velocity in the week to January 1, largely due to the stringent COVID-19 restrictions which were in place at the start of 2021. Sales velocity is now 0 percent vs January 4, 2020.

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