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Olive Garden sales surge on delivery and free take-home meals

Restaurant Business

Restaurants less so How the owner of Krystal and Logan's Roadhouse makes it work Financing Olive Garden sales surge on delivery and free take-home meals Same-store sales rose 6.9% Photo: Shutterstock Delivery and a take-home meal deal drove a lot more customers to Olive Garden this spring.

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Manage Inflation with Produce to Keep it Fresh!

Modern Restaurant Management

Many restaurants are doing this by raising prices, cutting costs, taking items off the menu, and making do with lean crews. We are also going to take a guess that you haven’t considered looking at produce as another way to manage rising supply costs. Does my supplier: Tell me how to store, keep, and rotate produce.

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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

To be added to this guide, reach out to Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Click here to learn the 10 steps to take now. The National Restaurant Association has provided a list of best practices to ensure business continuity.

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How this entrepreneur's bagel runs became a business

Restaurant Business

He poured over cookbooks and learned what he could, testing recipe after recipe with his young son helping out. We’d sell out. Another bagel baker wanted out and offered his assets. By Lisa Jennings on Jun. 27, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Jeff's Bagel Run has 15 units open, expecting to reach 30 by the end of the year.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-February 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the National Restaurant Association's State of the Indusrty Report, food industry pressures, foodservice opportunities, influencer marketing, foot traffic analysis and the dining-out dollar. 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry.

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Does Chipotle have a structural problem? Probably not

Restaurant Business

It's complicated Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants could sell Bahama Breeze Olive Garden sales surge on delivery and free take-home meals Premium OPINION Financing Does Chipotle have a structural problem? And then the company reported its first negative same-store sales quarter in five years. By Jonathan Maze on Jun.

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

Restaurant Business

They are popping up more often in conversations this year, and they point toward deeper trends in the restaurant tech market. Edge computing “Computing that takes place at or near the physical location of either the user or the source of the data.” —Red By Joe Guszkowski on Jun. Add these six terms to your vocabulary.

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