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How To Attract Gen Z Customers to Your Restaurant

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Gen Z is a generation born from 1997 to 2012 , with the oldest members turning 25 this year. Test out local organic produce or farm-raised meats as specials on temporary, seasonal menus to gauge interest and test profitability without having to commit to updating your normal menu. With this group accounting for approximately 20.66

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Taco Bell’s New Giant Cheez-It Is the Stuff of Fast Food Fever Dreams 

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Taco Bell The chain’s latest menu gimmicks are improbably good After a decade or so of writing about food, I am relatively immune to a fast-food gimmick. Think all the way back to 2012, and consider, for a moment, Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos taco. It’s weird, but it works.

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Meeting Today’s Demand for Less Alcohol

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I, like many others I would assume, had a bit of an epiphany about the need for flavorful, complex, and “adult” beverages in the modern bar scene when my partner became pregnant and stopped drinking alcohol in 2012. Today, the ELIXIR Low Impact menu is about eight percent of sales and growing. And you should too.

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The Cost of Doing Business: Hidden Payment Fee Red Flags

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To help recoup the cost of accepting cards, some restaurants are raising the prices of menu items, and others (where permitted by state law and merchant services agreement) are adding a credit card surcharge to bills. According to the Wall Street Journal , the dollar amount of interchange fees more than doubled from 2012 to 2019, and U.S.

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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

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Noma, the acclaimed tasting menu restaurant helmed by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, landed at No. 1 restaurant in 2021 is not one of the eight tasting menu spots below that have taken turns in the highest spot over the past 18 lists. A sea snail dish on the seafood menu from Noma. 1 winners ineligible. Except it kind of is.

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The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The Full List of Winners

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But because Noma is actually new Noma — it opened in its current location in February 2018 with a tasting menu that now rotates a few times a year — the wins from 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 do not count. Another Copenhagen tasting menu restaurant, Geranium, took the number two spot. Now that Noma 2.0 Now that Noma 2.0

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

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The concept is centered around a 900-degree coal fired oven, and its streamlined menu offers “well-done” pizza, coal fired chicken wings, homemade meatballs, and a variety of handcrafted sandwiches and salads. Dickey's Offer Full Bar Menu. Dickey’s Barbecue Pit is now offering full bar service and bar menu.

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