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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Spending, Franchise Optimism, and Pickle Energy

Modern Restaurant Management

The report analyzes orders placed throughout the year—from restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and more—delivered to customers at home, work, college campuses, hotel rooms, and beyond. Caffeine College This year, energy drinks trended as a caffeine sidekick and coffee alternative.

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Niche Marketing for Restaurants: Finding Your Audience (Infographic)

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Whether you’re serving gourmet food in a fine dining establishment or flipping burgers next to the local university, there’s going to be an audience that works best for your business. For example, if you own a food truck adjacent to a university, you could focus your marketing efforts on college students.

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

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PopID, a Cali Group company, today announced the city-wide deployment of its PopPay “face-pay” service following the successful roll-out of the company’s PopEntry facial recognition device that lets workers and students safely “scan-in” to their workplace and college campus facilities. US Foods Ghost Kitchens.

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IT’S TIME FOR RESTAURANTS TO PLANT THE SEEDS AND HARVEST THE TALENT

Culinary Cues

We have a problem right now that seems to be universal and there is no shortage of complaints and posts on social media that proclaim the effects, but little is done to point to active solutions. Identifying problems has never been a challenge in the restaurant industry – there are many.

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Entrepreneurial Hospitality: How Fourth-Generation Restaurateur Alex Canter Became a Tech Mogul

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But, first, college became a testing ground for his entrepreneurial nature. It was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied economics and entrepreneurship that Canter learned some of his greatest lessons. He formed Red Lights, LLC, so he could throw the Red Lights Music Festival.

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Reimagining the Restaurant Experience Is a Recipe for Success in Staffing

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Others worry they cannot compete with eye-catching incentives offered by competitors, like full or partial college tuition or hefty sign-on bonuses. A number of operators have had to reduce hours or operating days due to a lack of available staff.

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How Fast-Food Apps Took Over The Drive-Thru

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The mobile app gives them a centralized way of collecting data on customers across different locations of the chain, says Yuping Liu-Tompkins, the director of the Loyalty Science Lab at Old Dominion Universitys Strome College of Business, which studies customer and brand loyalty.