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

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Food Trucks Factor in the New Normal. Mobile food trucks are adopting new technologies, reducing costs, and responding to change.

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MRM Research Roundup: Labor Struggles, Holiday Habits, and Food Truck Trends

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The survey was conducted in January 2024 among 522 US-based Food and Beverage professionals, including owners and managers from single-site establishments and small multi-site chains with fewer than 20 restaurants. percent in 2018. This sample size ensures statistically robust and representative data for the industry.

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The Great Birria Boom

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But Teddy Vasquez and Omar Gonzalez, along with his brother, Oscar, would go on to change the direction of Mexican street food in America by making a dish from their small, Poblano community in Tijuana a sensation north of the border. Coatzingo is one of many small towns near Izúcar de Matamoros.

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

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New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report.

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Exploring Food Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

" Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door: 50 American Chefs Chart Today’s Food Culture " by Emmanuel Laroche offers insights from leading chefs and readers will walk away with advice and inspiration from noted chefs, restaurant owners, bartenders, and industry leaders, all of whom have shared their stories in their own words.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

Modern Restaurant Management

General Mills Foodservice' s Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest will award $100,000 to restaurants and food trucks nationwide. ” Ervin Cohen & Jessup Launches Food, Beverage and Hospitality Practice. .” Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest. ” DeliverThat Expansion.

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‘We Need to Feed People — Thousands of People’

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The morning after the fire, Jennifer Karaca, founder of Common Ground Collective , a Maui nonprofit dedicated to increasing food security by supporting local farmers and producers, woke up to a phone call from Nicholas Winfrey, president of Maui United Way. “He WCK was mobilizing, and it needed to connect with people on the ground.