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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Restaurants were harder hit than most because many food related businesses weren’t ready to transition to digital services. Reach Out to Local Foodies.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

Modern Restaurant Management

Using par levels based on real usage and not just a “guess” creates more accurate orders. Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Using a tool like a food waste log can help managers record sources of waste at the time it happens for analysis later.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Looking ahead, we predict a day when cultivated meat will find its place as a default choice -on menus, because it delivers on taste, nutrition, and food safety, in addition to environmental sustainability and animal welfare. Beyond the realm of food, a similar shift has occurred with electric cars.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Easy online ordering – Easy online ordering was nearly tied for second. Food and Alcohol Sales Trends.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

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Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? Many food businesses have gotten their start through sites like Kickstarter , Indiegogo , AngelList , GoFundMe. Food Handler's Permit. If you're serving food at your coffee shop, your employees should complete a food handler's course. Know of any local coffee shops?

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Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the Global Pantry Problem

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It stemmed from a recent interview that Roman gave in which she criticized both minimalism icon Marie Kondo and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen for peddling branded merchandise, implying that they were sellouts — while discussing her own “capsule collection” of cooking tools, no less. Because the aesthetics of food media are indeed white.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. The company is exploring collaborations with corporate partners and charities, as well as merchandise sales, to keep its mission alive. "When