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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

These changes have become permanent shifts in how they target customers, market themselves, and design their offerings." " As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry. This trend has held on in the last five years.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

Modern Restaurant Management

Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Curry Up Now attracted a new investment from seed-stage venture capital firm Liquid 2 Ventures (L2V). " Benihana Plans Franchise Expansion. Select U.S.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, read about efforts to help the restaurant industry and heroes as well as "new normal" restaurant technology and products. Dining Bond Goes Global. The Dining Bond Initiative, a campaign that helps get funds to restaurants impacted by the coronavirus COVID-19, has gone global.

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How I Got My Job: Founding a Hip and Sustainable Canned Wine Company

EATER

Only 30 percent of glass bottles are recycled in the U.S., I worked back of house at Boulettes Larder and Michael Mina , then went to front of house at Saison. they’re highly energy-intensive to produce, and the shipping emissions are crazy,” she explains. Eater: What was your first job? What did it involve?

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Coffee News Recap, 27 Jan: Proud Mary Coffee to sell Panamanian Gesha for US $150 per cup, PRF El Salvador to host 2023 Salvadoran Barista Championship & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Once a member, coffee businesses can use the Alt Dairy logo in window fronts, and can also benefit from social media and press release campaigns to promote their use of plant milks. The drive-thru concept store was opened in partnership with owner of Oasis Coffee, Oasis Griffiths Group, DHUWA, Coffee Lab, and Griffiths Bros.

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