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Why Starbucks Doesn’t Hit Like It Used To

EATER

Starbucks hasn’t had a hit new drink in years Starbucks has, outside of a few new flavors and latte options, failed to successfully innovate its drink menu over the last decade or so. It also helped popularize “ cold foam ,” or lightly whipped and sweetened cream , in 2014, which has since become a staple of many coffee drinkers’ lattes.

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Metaverse: What it means for restaurants

Goliath Consulting

These virtual reality worlds have been a thing since 2014-2019. 4 It serves as virtual and augmented reality which expands possibilities for businesses to be innovative and differentiate themselves from their competitors. 5 The restaurant opened in 2014 and was awarded Best Innovation Food & Beverage.

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Automation Proves To Be a Necessity for Restaurants During COVID

Modern Restaurant Management

With revenue down, millions of workers laid off and countless eateries closed – many of them permanently – experts anticipate the operational strategy going forward to be driven by innovation and methods for doing more with less. The approach was used during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak, as well as in the SARS outbreak in 2003.

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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

Modern Restaurant Management

Even before the pandemic, Nation’s Restaurant News was reporting that digital ordering and delivery had grown 300 percent faster than dining-in since 2014. Ghost kitchens are physical facilities which “virtual brands” rent to produce their product while virtual restaurants are a similar but do not rent from third parties.

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

We look forward to continuing to innovate and find ways to make ordering plant-based at Taco Bell even more accessible at a great value,” said Taco Bell Corp Chief Food Innovation Officer Liz Matthews. We have long been a haven for vegans and vegetarians, who replace meat for beans on almost any of our menu items.

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Red Lobster’s Demise Was Never About the Endless Shrimp

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In 2014, its parent company Darden sold Red Lobster to a private equity firm called Golden Gate Capital for $2.1 Of course, it’s much more complicated than that. Red Lobster has had a really rough last 10 years, maybe even worse than the rest of us; since 2021, the chain has had five different CEOs.

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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

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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. debuted on the 2019 list at No. And now that Noma 2.0 Jason Loucas/Noma. A sea snail dish on the seafood menu from Noma. Outside elBulli.

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