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Dining Trends for 2024

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Among the findings: Casual experiential dining appeals on many fronts to consumers of varying ages in different parts of the country looking for affordable culinary experiences. Chef driven fast casual restaurants feed consumers’ desires for high quality menu items delivered quickly and on the go.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-May 2021 Edition

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In addition to the emergence of indoor dining, it explores rising competition between fast food and fast casual restaurant brands with COVID restrictions loosening. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers. . Fast food reigns supreme.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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The data collected will help create future strategies to identify customer preferences influencing a company's sales and marketing strategies. As the pandemic raged, hordes of hospitality workers shifted to in-office or at-home jobs, leaving a large labor gap to be filled, especially as tourism returns to pre-pandemic levels.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

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And it is relevant to mention that this is not driven by fine dining or even upscale casual. Steak was the most mentioned menu item in casual dining when describing a positive food experience. For full-service restaurants, the menu item that got the largest number of positive guest mentions during November was steak.

2020 166
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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Edition

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“They’ve had to basically adapt and change their entire business model,” says Yang Yang, an associate professor in the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) at Temple University. Asia Center for Tourism and Hospitality Research, the road to recovery could still be a long one. Shopping malls.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2020-COVID-19 Effects Edition

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Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. In the U.K. In the U.S.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

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SOBEWFF®, which benefits the Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Florida International University (FIU), has raised more than $30 million for the School to date. “I want to show people that hibachi and ramen can be just as thoughtful and delicious in a casual setting,” said Liang. in Plano, Texas.