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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes. For example, there will be fewer human interactions when ordering takeaways during busy lunch hours, quick customer seating, or bill payments.

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

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The technology space is still the “wild west” in the spirits realm, and it is likely that technology will continue to innovate, and inevitably consolidate, the playing field. 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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Fewer Seats, More Shelves: How Restaurants are Preparing for the Takeout Order Boom

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Now, it is crucial that quick-serve and fast-casual restaurants offer the ability to order online. As takeout sales outpace dine-in sales, many restaurant brands are innovating to accommodate off-premise customers — or even prioritize them. Future stores will be as small as 1,400 square feet and seat as few as 26 people.

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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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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

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Innovative and inviting outdoor seating is going to be crucial in order for restaurants to survive. Also, innovative and inviting outdoor seating is going to be crucial in order for restaurants to survive. Chris Prociv, VP Marketing & Innovation at La Brea Bakery.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

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A consumer's brand loyalty was also impacted during recent events, with 33 percent of overall respondents citing an increase in loyalty to the brands they frequented during stay-at-home-orders. This sentiment was most prevalent with millennials, with 43 percent reporting an increase in loyalty.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

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Restaurants had to quickly adapt by adding outdoor seating while creating an inviting atmosphere, as well as offering the same experience your customers are used to receiving at your establishment via delivery and takeout. Chris Prociv, VP Marketing & Innovation at La Brea Bakery. Bruce Reinstein, Partner, Kinetic12.

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