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5 Tips to Take Your Restaurant to the Next Level

Restaurant Engine

There are several ways you can achieve this: Recycle plastic, glass, cardboard, etc. If you are a fast casual restaurant, provide recycling bins. The biggest key here is to let your customers know if you are using locally sourced food, if you’re recycling, and/or composting. Look into composting as well.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Randy’s Donuts Plans Rise and Burger King Makes Sustainable Commitment

Modern Restaurant Management

In addition, On The Border will launch a new Rewards program and an app that allows guests to track points for every visit. Despite the lagging global pandemic, the organic fast-casual brand is surging forward with record-breaking sales, franchise development growth, and new guest acquisition and satisfaction.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. We’re going to see companies come to market with the ability to tap into their security systems and use facial recognition and audio, enabling them to: Identify customers and attach them to loyalty programs. Reduce theft.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

Since its inception in mid-March, more than 500 restaurants around the world have joined the program and are reporting sales ranging from several thousand dollars to up to $60,000. "The program is inventive and very attractive to our guests." In Dunkin’ U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

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 times and 2.8

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October-2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Santa Rosa, California, has the highest ratio of full-service restaurants to fast-food establishments, 1.80, which is 3.5 With 78 percent of restaurant operators considering off-premises programs a strategic priority, restaurant brands are investing big in technology, but are struggling to keep up with changing consumer expectations.

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