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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, customers using these sources are searching for restaurants with information about allergens, vegan offerings and other consumer concerns and interests. Similarly, third-party delivery services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats, which each reportedly doubled their business last year, rely on restaurant digital menus.

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Spark 2019: Re-Imagining Hospitality for the Restaurant Industry

Hot Schedules

Spark 2019: Re-Imagining Hospitality for the Restaurant Industry. The 2019 Spark conference, presented by HotSchedules and Fourth, brought restaurant industry leaders together to address challenges facing operators today. Consumer demands are changing more every day, labor challenges persist, and margins remain razor-thin.

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Stopping Post-COVID Chargeback Abuse in the F&B Space

Modern Restaurant Management

Back in December 2019 , I wrote a piece commenting on the rapid increase in chargebacks in the food and beverage industry. Food poisoning or items with undisclosed allergens. Of course, at the time of writing, no one could have predicted the massive changes that were waiting just around the corner. Providing the wrong order.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, I foresee a resurgence of health-conscious consumers, reminiscent of the trend we witnessed pre-COVID in 2019. This includes protein focused or protein forward ingredients, alternative tortillas, and innovative substitutes for common allergens.

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How to Meet The Needs of Today’s Coffee Shop Customer

Perfect Daily Grind

In the US in 2019, the café industry was worth US $47.5 The world we live in is fast-paced, with consumers becoming more and more focused on quality over quantity in many aspects of life,” says Dan Fellows, World Coffee in Good Spirits Champion 2018 and 2019. Sustainability was on everyone’s lips in 2019, and 2020 is no exception.

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A Coffee Shop Favourite: Why Is Oat Milk so Popular?

Perfect Daily Grind

Fast forward to 2019 and that number has shot up to around 3,500 coffee shops in the country. Sales of oat milk in the UK grew by 71% between 2017 and 2019, whilst in the US, retail sales of oat milk increased to US $29 million in 2019. Yet today, oat milk is everywhere in the coffee scene. These changes in behaviour are clear.

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Plant Based Protein Adds Innovation, Sustainability and Profits to Restaurant Menus

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Buyer's Edge compared case purchases of meat substitute products by its 20,000+ restaurant customers from 2018 to 2019. In 2019 available varieties jumped to 51 items that were available to order. In 2019, Executive Chef Bradford Kent blazed his own trail in plant based protein. Executive Chef Bradford Kent, Blaze Pizza.