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OUR DAILY BREATH: CHEFS & OPERATORS – KEEPING YOUR TEAM TOGETHER

Culinary Cues

If we hope to keep a core team together through crisis and be able to lean on them through eventual recovery then we must view them as family and treat them in that manner. This is where government comes into play. When belongingness exists then hope of recovery and future wellbeing feels certain.

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THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Culinary Cues

They are, at least in part – etched into our brains from those early days in English Composition class – lines that stand out as an umbrella statement that encompasses a point in time from yesterday or today. Now we have an opportunity to be reborn – to change what is wrong with how we operate and come out bigger and better in the end.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: IDEATION AND SCENARIO PLANNING

Culinary Cues

As you move through IDEATION that will help to define what your restaurant concept, menu, systems, and staffing will look like as we eventually move out of this crisis, it is just as important to discuss and plan for the things that can go wrong. Assuming that it can’t happen to you is at best naïve, and at worst – tragic.

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You Would Like Fries with That: Enabling the Next-Generation of Drive-Thru

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are serving guests who are more digitally enabled than ever before. Establishing a robust digital presence ensures restaurants can capitalize on this growth while, safely, reaching out and serving a wider array of diners. This way, operators can create highly personalized, almost predictive, guest experiences.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. But despite these concerns, 46 percent of people noted they will eat out daily to several times a week in coming months and showed a growing loyalty to their favorite brands.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-June 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features recovery data, POS performance and shifting habits of diners. On the Road to Recovery. New Zealand was the first to record a strong trend towards recovery, in correlation to its success in containing the spread of the virus to date.

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The Fog of War Is Clearing. Now What?

Aaron Allen & Associates

It’s the same thing over and over, and constant coverage we’re consuming on the pandemic in multiple facets — now on to restaurant recovery from COVID. The battlefield after the war is clearing out, but there’s so much shock from what just happened that many haven’t fully planned out what to do next. What did we fix?

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