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Keeping Up with Diners’ Expectations Amid Rising Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

With loyalty programs giving diners access to special deals and third-party delivery services charging additional, unwanted fees, consumers prefer to go directly to the source for takeout orders. Although some of these innovations aren’t completely baked out, similar technologies exist.

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What Do Guests Think About Dynamic Pricing?

Modern Restaurant Management

Dynamic pricing would add friction to the guest experience, according to Capterra’s 2023 Dynamic Pricing in Restaurants. Sixty-five percent of consumers say dynamic pricing would make the decision of where and when to eat more difficult; 63 percent say it would make it harder to budget their restaurant spending.

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Is There a Right Way to Raise Prices?

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. As food prices rise, restaurants should try to stay within their target ratio for food cost to gross food revenue in order to maintain target profits.

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Menu Engineering: Innovating Menus for Profitability and Simplicity

Aaron Allen & Associates

In the dynamic landscape of the restaurant industry, one of the most critical challenges is striking a balance between offering innovative menu items and maintaining a simplified, navigable menu. Many restaurants had to trim their menus during COVID and haven’t had a chance yet to make updates or innovate on menu items. LTOs per week.

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CHEF-CENTRIC RESTAURANT OR RESTAURANT-CENTRIC CHEF

Culinary Cues

A restaurant centric operation relies on analytics, competitor analysis, surveys, budgeting, price comparisons, and knowledge of what the marketplace is comfortable with. They look for consistent, personalized quality commitments, a “yes” attitude when special requests are made, dependability, and a pricing that makes sense.

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Plant Based Protein Adds Innovation, Sustainability and Profits to Restaurant Menus

Sante

Rather today’s consumer demands menu innovation as well as eco-friendly and sustainable practices. ” Prices Move in the Right Direction. After some fairly dramatic price increases in the last few years, the price of meat substitutes has started to level off. from $62 a case to $99 a case.

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Food Chain Crisis Explained: Rising Food Prices & Supply Disruptions

Cheetah

But the root cause of the current food chain crisis and rising food prices runs deeper than that. Learn how this affects your business, from restaurant suppliers struggling to keep up, to rising food prices led by labor shortages and increased consumer demand for quick, cheap food. Energy prices are very high right now too.