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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

Merchandise and gift card sales If you have merchandise for your eatery, you can feature it as part of your digital menu. Environmental impact and sustainability It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when transitioning your establishment to a digital-first POS system. Tablets bring new possibilities to the table!

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How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

But, if you have a playful style that could be embodied by a mascot character, consider developing a fun mascot figurehead to speak directly to your customers from your social media posts, signage, menu, website, and maybe even merchandise. Serve up furniture made from sustainable materials along with your seasonal fare. Your Website.

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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

Globo Rural Magazine names Fazenda Pinhal as Brazil’s most sustainable farm. The exclusive collection, which includes coffee products and merchandise, was launched at the Art Basel pop-up store in Miami, Florida, which also featured an espresso bar. Last month, exports decreased to 854,000 60kg bags, compared to more than 1.1

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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. Episode Takeaways: The average consumer’s view of plant-based foods has transformed—vegans and vegetarians are no longer the only people buying these products. Most people in the public do not view fish as farmed animals.

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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.

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