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7 Guest Preference Predictions for 2022

Restaurant365

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throws of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Sustainability will be top of mind. Support of the local food movement. Healthy twists on comfort foods.

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Cleanliness in the Restaurant: Reality and Perception

Modern Restaurant Management

A recent New England Journal of Medicine study shows that the virus that causes COVID-19 can live anywhere from four hours on copper to two to three days on stainless steel and polypropylene plastic (often used to store food). Antimicrobials can be integrated into products like fabric and plastic, acting as a form of built-in protection.

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7 Guest Preference Predictions for 2022

Restaurant365

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throes of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Sustainability will be top of mind. Support of the local food movement. Healthy twists on comfort foods.

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Hospitality trends restaurants should know in 2023

Open for Business

Quick Links Technology Relationships Food and Menus Technology trends to watch People are drawn to the restaurant business because they don’t want to be glued to a screen all day. Digital kitchen display systems could make paper tickets obsolete. QR codes are here to stay QR code menus began as a pandemic safety measure.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

A new survey shows that Americans love new tech-driven options for ordering and retrieving food, but the flipside is that it is making them more impatient. ” The results are part of an Oracle Food and Beverage survey conducted by Untold Insights in September 2021. In Love with Tech, but Impatient. Kicking orders to the curb.

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Give Some, Take Some: How the Community Fridge Fights Food Insecurity

EATER

At these community-run sites, anyone is welcome to take or leave food One afternoon in May, artist and community gardener Sade Boyewa was scrolling through her Instagram feed when she caught a photo of a commercial fridge sitting outside a brownstone in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The line to the food pantry snakes around two blocks.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since this daypart has increased traffic during the pandemic, operators will need to innovate their food and beverage offerings to grow traffic. "Across COVID-19 brought a similar shift from paper to digital menus—but two thirds (65 percent) still prefer the former, and many of them are turned off by digital lists.

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