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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part Two

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The modern Kitchen Display System (KDS) will be more interactive to increase operational efficiencies and improve quality of food for the chefs and their teams. Expand Customer Loyalty : This year, many restaurants didn’t necessarily see a drop in topline sales, but instead suffered drops in visit frequency.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Church’s Goes Hybrid and Curry Up Incentives Now

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This program, piloted last year, is designed to help KFC team members build short-term savings and create lasting savings behaviors. “This program is a way to empower and equip restaurant employees with tools and resources to help them succeed and achieve their goals. To be able to offer these types of resources means a lot.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part One

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In the last year we’ve been able to really focus on growing our off-premise business, and we found that guests enjoy our home-style comfort food in the comfort of their own homes. Food delivery was an already booming industry, but when COVID hit it increased even more.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Franchising for Heroes and Shaq-a-Roni for Charity

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The organization is run by Veterans and former First Responders with a passion for helping heroes in search of their next calling and offers a variety of programs to help veterans and current and former first responders succeed within the franchising space.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Virtual BBQ and Pieology in China

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Because the facility includes a kitchen for restaurants to prepare foods, the only equipment needed to operate a Dickey’s location is a smoker and a warming cabinet. Virtual kitchens handle food delivery and have additional staff at the facility, so the barbecue brand will only need to employ a limited number of team members.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers. First, at 2.1 Top QSR Traffic.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Tropical in Colorado and The Halal Guys New App

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An inaugural loyalty program (September). “Salata is on an upward trajectory to become “the” premiere national fast-casual salad restaurant,” said Wheeler. Program, which has impacted more than 65 million students in 35 years. Local Subway® Day Program Celebrates Nearly a Decade.

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