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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. Find the ones with the best margins, then concentrate on marketing and merchandising them.

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Retail Trends of 2024: Driving Connected Shopping Experiences

Mad Mobile

Many retailers have already adjusted their approach to shopping and merchandising, introducing powerful omnichannel technologies to streamline operations and help them better compete in a new digital landscape. This could be the secret weapon needed to stay afloat during these uncertain economic times.

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The Impact of Restaurant Tablets on Table Turnover and Revenue

Mad Mobile

These visuals not only enhance the dining experience but also present a golden opportunity for guests to discover and crave appetizers, desserts, or beverages they might have overlooked otherwise. Merchandise and gift card sales If you have merchandise for your eatery, you can feature it as part of your digital menu.

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Coffee News Recap, 9 Dec: Jibbi Little wins 2022 World AeroPress Championship, EU agrees to ban coffee and other imports linked to deforestation & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The exhibition will be the first in the UK to exclusively showcase Ethiopian coffee, and will include cupping sessions, roasting technique demos, coffee tastings, and short presentations by coffee professionals from across Ethiopia. Globo Rural Magazine names Fazenda Pinhal as Brazil’s most sustainable farm.

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The Future of Alternative Proteins

Foodable

Plant-based milk is now placed next to cow’s milk, and plant-based meat is beginning to be merchandised in meat cases. Seafood is a huge opportunity for plant-based companies, as there are only a few plant-based options available at present. Most people in the public do not view fish as farmed animals.

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Coffee News Recap, 27 Jan: Proud Mary Coffee to sell Panamanian Gesha for US $150 per cup, PRF El Salvador to host 2023 Salvadoran Barista Championship & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The number of attendees at this year’s Sigep came close to the record number of visitors at the 2020 event, with people from over 155 countries present. The Coffee Champions League focuses on areas such as green coffee trading and sustainability, and will take place in Kigali, Rwanda.

2023 112
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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic.

2020 196