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How Your Restaurant Can Take Advantage of the Virtual Event Trend

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Here are a few tips your restaurant can use to take advantage of the virtual event trend: Live Entertainment. Does your venue host live entertainment such as bands, DJs, or comedy? These could include cocktails, food and beverage tastings, appetizers, main courses, desserts, event decor, and just about anything else you can think of.

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Taking a Bite Out of the QSR Market through Effective Advertising

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Drives market share growth – The fast-food industry is made up of several large competitors and many smaller brands. Advertising that entertains audiences generates market-share growth over the long term. Fluent devices are ideal because they speed up processing and entertain audiences. 5-Star Ads Encourage 5-Star Reviews.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Offering Bento Packs for individually portioned meals and a la carte buffet-style trays for customizable group settings, L&L’s catering options bring Hawaiian-style comfort food to events large and small throughout our locations nationwide. Leveraging AI throughout all touchpoints and will not only be a trend but a need in 2025.

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Jibaritos and Fried Crab Dip: How Baseball Stadiums Serve Their Teams’ Fans

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When you think of baseball stadium food , youre probably thinking of the classics: hot dogs wrapped in foil, buttery popcorn, a crinkly bag of Cracker Jack. One of the most important factors to consider, however, is that new menu items are hand-held or easily enjoyable finger foods. Heres how they got there.

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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

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We also sent our marketing teams to contact large businesses, hospitals, manufacturing plants, and schools to find out if we could help with food and catering. While the airline, entertainment, and travel industries will take months — maybe years — to return to normal, restaurants will be simple entertainment for guests.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

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Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

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In recent years, the food service industry has undergone a rapid transformation of automation and increased technology usage. Fast Food and QSR Value The United States Fast Food & Quick Service Restaurant Market size was valued at US$ 248.8 Growing menu innovation and healthy fast food further drive the growth of the market.