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MRM Research Roundup: Labor Struggles, Holiday Habits, and Food Truck Trends

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Staff retention struggles However, recruitment issues aren’t the only factor contributing to staff shortages. To avoid hiring shortcomings, Expert Market recommends business owners focus on implementing effective recruitment strategies. Cashiers came in third place taking up seven percent of all open roles.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Cold Weather Lull

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Should you consider entering the food truck business? Recruiting the right people and investing in them from day one can save you the hassle of finding new people every 6 months. Evaluate whether internal systems are running at their peak and identify opportunities to introduce new menu items or to open new locations.

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As Police Use ‘Foodie’ to Recruit, What Does the Word Mean?

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Ferdman notes that while in the 1980s to be a foodie was novel, now it is the way many more people interact with food. When I first saw a police recruitment poster that called to “Foodies, Gamers, Techies, Influencers” like the four horsemen of some Twitter apocalypse, I assumed it was a joke. View this post on Instagram.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

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In recent years, the food service industry has undergone a rapid transformation of automation and increased technology usage. Fast Food and QSR Value The United States Fast Food & Quick Service Restaurant Market size was valued at US$ 248.8 Growing menu innovation and healthy fast food further drive the growth of the market.

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The Leftovers

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Can an app promising discount, end-of-day goods make a dent in America’s food waste problem? Now, in a bid to reduce food waste, an app is using the appeal of cheap, unexpected food to motivate consumers to buy items restaurants would otherwise throw away. Lille Allen/Eater. Too Good To Go, which launched in 2015 in the U.K.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature Ono Food Co, DoorDash, Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice, Rouxbe, Presto, Burger King and Uber Eats, Pared, Tork, Restaurant Technologies, Willie Degel, Bolay, Ritual, Preoday and TISSL, AdTheorent and Voodoo Doughnut. Ono Food Co. Ono Blend Founders Daniel Fukuba and Stephen Klein.

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

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Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table. Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food.