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Restaurant Licensing: Expanding Your Brand’s Reach and Revenue

Modern Restaurant Management

For a deeper dive, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out for insights from Frances Alvarez, Senior Vice President of Brand Management at Beanstalk, a global brand extension licensing agency operating in the F&B space. What current retail trends are influencing licensing strategies in the F&B industry?

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What Restaurant Operators Need to Know About Music Licensing

Modern Restaurant Management

Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) such as ASCAP and BMI represent songwriters and publishers and grant licenses to play copyrighted music. What should restaurant operators know about music licensing? Truth be told, music licensing can be complicated. What are common misconceptions about music licensing and the costs?

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‘In the Future, Customers Will Drive Up to a Drive-Thru to Just Pick Up Their Food.’

Modern Restaurant Management

" Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked Tang to take a deeper dive into technology and the drive-thru experience. Generic demographic details (age, gender) derived from computer vision can be as useful as identifying the individual using their license plate or mobile device.

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‘Repurposed Spaces Offer Three Key Advantages for a Fast-Casual Brand: Cost, Time, and Customers.’

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine tapped into Bonside CEO Neha Govindraj for insights into the real estate landscape for fast-casual. These spaces also typically come with licensing and zoning permits prepared in advance and won’t cause delays on your opening or drag out the process further.

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From acqui-hire to vaporware: The new restaurant tech ABCs

Restaurant Business

The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers. Cambridge Dictionary Restaurant tech M&A is heating up, and along with bold-faced deals like DoorDash/SevenRooms, there has also been a boom in smaller transactions in which the buyer brings on the acquired company’s team.

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The Potential of 3D Printing in Restaurant Design

Modern Restaurant Management

The world’s largest 3D-printed restaurant interior design recently debuted at MYATA Platinum Lounge, a hookah lounge with a restaurant and bar in the C2 Licensed District in Dubai's City Walk. How did this project come about, and what was the process?

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July will bring another step up in minimum wage rates around the country

Restaurant Business

Since then, restaurant jobs have increased, the group said, 856 new restaurants have opened in Chicago and business license cancellations have been cut in half. According to the activist organization One Fair Wage, tipped workers have earned $137.2 million in new wages since the phase-out of the tip credit began a year ago.