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Menu Development: 12 Steps for Success

Apicbase

That means balancing brilliant ideas with practicality and taking the time to consider all variables that can impact food costs , menu scalability, and customer first impressions. Setting a final menu takes time, because there are many factors to juggle beyond recipes. What is Menu Development?

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite the industry being at its most stable since 2019, customers being more educated and engaged around the issues impacting the food system, and massive strides made in creating sustainable and equitable conditions for staff, rising costs are greatly impacting both operations and the public’s dining out frequency.

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

Open for Business

Creating a new menu or improving an existing one takes time. The key is to figure out what option works best for your restaurant. If your restaurant focuses on sustainability, it should show in each dish. It takes only 15 menu items to catch 59% of guests’ interest, according to OpenTable’s recent diner survey.

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How to Meet The Needs of Today’s Coffee Shop Customer

Perfect Daily Grind

While COVID-19 will no doubt affect 2020’s sales figures, many countries are starting to ease their lockdown restrictions, which could see the industry experiencing growth in the second half of the year. Let’s take a look at what today’s coffee shop consumer cares about. Caffeine Goes Out of Fashion. Credit: Ana Valencia.

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A Registered Dietitian’s Critical Role in Battling the COVID 19

Culinary Digital

Dietary supplements can be helpful when taken regularly. Probiotics are live microorganisms – naturally present in some fermented foods, added to some food products, and available as dietary supplements. Another trend that is a consequence of COVID-19 are take-out menus.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Leveraging transactional, behavioral, demographic, and offline data from their most valued guests, operators can effectively personalize every guest interaction based on their likes, dislikes, dietary restrictions, preferred payment methods, and more, to drive lifetime value. – Joe Hand Jr.,

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Nearly half (47 percent) said they feel like all the delivery and take-out orders result in longer waits when they order in-person and 29 percent said the atmosphere of dining-in is hurt by delivery drivers picking up food. 46 percent would love to manage their dietary preferences with their favorite establishments.

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