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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the dismal March restaurant sales, security, loyalty, trends and teen consumer behaviors. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic. March Sales Decline.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Franchising for Heroes and Shaq-a-Roni for Charity

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The organization is run by Veterans and former First Responders with a passion for helping heroes in search of their next calling and offers a variety of programs to help veterans and current and former first responders succeed within the franchising space.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Among the highlights: Online Ordering sales of pizza (+9 percent), burgers (+10 percent), and fried chicken (+5 percent) were up from last year, but the largest trend in online ordering was sandwiches and wraps as guests give up on slapping bread together at home and restaurants pivot to menu items that travel well.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

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A number of restaurant and retail store owners in the city of Pasadena have quietly established the nation’s first dense “face-pay” network, top video.These small business owners have embraced an advanced facial recognition technology that lets their customers make secure, hands-free purchases using only their faces. .

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-June 2021 Edition

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Seasonal Favorites. They don’t have the luxury of time or space to check emails on a computer, join a town-hall meeting with the CEO, and other programs/activities that only office workers can have access to. Diners jumped on board with the top orders ranging from light beer, tropical cocktails, and a brunch favorite.

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Ghost Kitchen Franchise and Pandemic Resources

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Permanent Closures Continue to Increase Across Restaurants, Retail and Other Industries. The restaurant industry now reflects the highest total business closures, recently surpassing retail. Shopping and retail businesses have endured 26,119 total business closures, of which 48 percent are permanent (12,454 permanent closures).

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PPP Flexibility, Free Reopening Resources and HungerForce

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7010 – Paycheck Protection Program (PP) Flexibility Act of 2020 which extends provisions of the act to give more time to both use and pay back the funds. Just Salad announced a commitment to label all of its menu items with a corresponding carbon footprint, becoming the first U.S. PPP Goes Flexible. President Trump signed H.R.7010