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What Restaurants Need to Know About RTD Adult Beverage Trends

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As restaurants and bars struggle through the pandemic, the alcohol industry is suffering along with them. While it won’t last forever, consumers are unlikely to give up RTD beverages even after returning to restaurants and bars. The pandemic has only made RTDs even more popular. Premium and Celebrity Brands.

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MRM Research Roundup: Top F&B Trends to Watch

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Dash From the Past: A Decade Delivered In 2013, things started off small, with a simple idea. Today, we’re looking back on the decade to see how much our tastes have changed since 2013 and what’s stayed consistent — our passion for chicken sandwiches, for one. Since 2013, more than 600 million (!)

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

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In the Bushwick area of New York City, the four or so dive bars that existed in the once predominantly working-class Latinx neighborhood a decade ago now sit alongside dozens of swanky new watering holes catering to the influx of young urban professionals. New bars have a similar relationship with higher cost of living.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

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Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5 They were gaining in popularity prior to the pandemic, with the Census Bureau estimating 5,970 food trucks in 2018, “nearly double the 3,281 in 2013.” million since the start of the pandemic. ” That number grew to 23,873 in 2020.

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Raw and Ready: Growing a Healthy Fast Casual

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The owner of Delicious Raw, a healthy fast casual concept launched in 2013, is looking to grow the brand and create a one-stop-shop for healthy consumables for a broad audience. We first launched Delicious Raw in 2013 and once we opened our Miami Beach location in 2018, there was no turning back. Flemming Madsen.

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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

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Chef-owner Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky opened the restaurant in 2013 after working for renowned Boston chef Lydia Shire and at various East Coast restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern in New York City. It’s a great tool for our overall success,” said Emily Lyall, operations manager at the Lafayette Public House , a coffee, bar, and kitchen.

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Meeting Today’s Demand for Less Alcohol

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It is truly the breakthrough year for non-alcoholic "adult drinks" served behind the bar, sold in stores, and developed in labs, kitchens and bars at a breakneck pace. It’s all over the industry news and bleeding into the public domain, but is it right for your bar? The culinary side can’t slack either.

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