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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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Five Top Payment Trends that Must Be on Your Radar

Modern Restaurant Management

Key advancements in smart mobility payments during 2025 will include integrating payment functionality directly into travel cards and mobile wallets, mobile in-app payments, and fully automated options like license plate recognition for tolls or parking.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

With big-box retailers closing up shop, more than 140 million square feet of desirable retail space has become available, presenting the opportunity for restaurants such as fast-casual concepts to expand their businesses. It's the mass market lifestyle shift over the last 5-10 years that really fuels this.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

"In retail and restaurants, everyone is fighting for the same shrinking pool of frontline labor. Generic demographic details (age, gender) derived from computer vision can be as useful as identifying the individual using their license plate or mobile device. Seasoned store manager labor is even harder to find.

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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. Retail media network “A type of advertising platform that allows retailers to sell ad space on their digital channels to third-party brands.”

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How in-house roasting can help cafés manage high coffee prices

Perfect Daily Grind

Many are facing the difficult decision to raise their retail prices , seeking new ways to streamline operations and manage cash flow more effectively. Selling in-house roasted retail coffee often results in higher long-term profit margins compared to stocking wholesale coffee bags, building more resilience to weather future market challenges.