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Where Is Surge Pricing Headed?

Modern Restaurant Management

"Restaurants thinking about implementing surge pricing need to balance the revenue upside with the potential brand backlash," says Savneet Singh, CEO of PAR Technology. "While Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Singh to elaborate on his views on where the pricing model is headed in the QSR landscape.

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Is There a Right Way to Raise Prices?

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. As food prices rise, restaurants should try to stay within their target ratio for food cost to gross food revenue in order to maintain target profits.

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How does foreign exchange affect the price of coffee?

Perfect Daily Grind

For the most part, both the price of arabica and robusta rely on futures contracts. These are legal agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a predetermined price on a set date. Changes in the foreign exchange market (also known as forex, FX, or currencies market) can affect many people across the coffee supply chain.

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Four ways for small and medium-sized coffee roasters to manage price risk

Perfect Daily Grind

In the coffee industry, larger roasters generally have a greater capacity to manage price risk, but small and medium-sized roasters also have tools at their disposal. To learn more about how coffee roasters can manage and minimise the impact of price risk, I spoke to some industry experts to learn more. What is price risk?

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Relationships are about more than just paying a good price for specialty coffee

Perfect Daily Grind

And while these actors can certainly play an important role, their presence in the supply chain can often mean that producers end up receiving a smaller percentage of the final price of each cup of coffee. As part of this, farmers can receive higher prices for their coffee. This is especially important to note.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

EATER

In the bread aisle, you see two loaves identically wrapped; both are perfectly edible, but one is a day older and costs half the price. This is a business practice called dynamic pricing, and it may be coming soon to a supermarket near you. The price is changing throughout the [time] horizon.” Which do you choose?

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LA Chef Conference 2020 Offers Education and Inspiration to Chefs

Sante

Come hungry for education, inspiration and delicious bites. The LA Chef Conference 2020 is offering limited industry pre-sale tickets priced at $160 for the event to be held at the ArcLight Cinemas in Santa Monica, California on March 30. Event date: March 30, 2020 (All day). General admission tickets cost $190.

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