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These Are the 2024 Eater Award Winners

EATER

Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/Eater NY Raise a glass to the year’s best bars, restaurants, pop-ups, and roving trucks across 20 Eater cities What does 2024 taste like? These places represent the trends and triumphs of the past year: family-run legends for which word-of-mouth won over social media. Resurrected restaurants.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Food Trucks Factor in the New Normal. Mobile food trucks are adopting new technologies, reducing costs, and responding to change. The Store Experience.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Should you consider entering the food truck business? Does your dining room layout need a social distance inspired layout? Investing in digital marketing efforts, prioritizing Google ads, SEO and paid social media advertising can go a long way to reach new audiences during this challenging time.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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How Insurance Needs Differ for Traditional Restaurants v. Mobile Food Businesses 

Modern Restaurant Management

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. And when it comes to a traditional sit-down restaurant versus a mobile food business, such as a food truck, catering business, or food cart, the insurance needs of both are vastly different and unique.

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Building a New Customer Base for Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Quality food and top tier service with the incentivization of loyalty programs and a good location should be enough to get a good share of local customers. It is common for curious prospects to Google “food near me”, and one of the factors that helps your local ranking capability is reviews.

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Niche Marketing for Restaurants: Finding Your Audience (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Whether you’re serving gourmet food in a fine dining establishment or flipping burgers next to the local university, there’s going to be an audience that works best for your business. For example, if you own a food truck adjacent to a university, you could focus your marketing efforts on college students.

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