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How the Restaurant Industry Can Begin Planning for the Future

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Lacking cash reserves and the resources to access money (traditional bank loans), most restaurants were forced to lay off their employees. If, prior to the pandemic, your restaurant had a seating capacity of 120 seats, that may be reduced by 20 percent or more. 75 percent of the prior year’s monthly payroll cost.

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Adapting Post-COVID: What’s Changing For Restaurants?

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With social distancing guidelines in place and capacity and party size restrictions like we’ve seen outlined in other states , we can expect to see increased spaces between tables, eliminated host stand waiting areas, reductions of bar seats and even entirely new layouts for restaurants that highlight contactless offerings.

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OpenTable: Dining Trends for 2019 (Infographic)

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On OpenTable’s plate in 2019, diners moved towards more health-conscious dining preferences. “We hit a major milestone this year – 10 billion diners seated, using our software. This uncovered a treasure trove of food trends and shifts in behavior to provide insightful context as to how people are eating in 2019.”

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Native American Museum Cafes Preserve Tradition, Embrace Innovation

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Off the Rez Cafe at the Burke Museum, Seattle The University of Washington’s Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture , renowned for its rich natural history, anthropology, and cultural heritage collections, opened Seattle’s first Native-owned food truck-turned-cafe, Off the Rez , in 2019.

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Second Wave of Restaurant Chain Bankruptcy Filings Could Offer New Opportunities  

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In 2019 alone, companies seeking bankruptcy protection included Perkins, Houlihan’s, Restaurants Unlimited (multiple locations including Kincaid’s and Palomino), Kona Grill, Granite City, and The Palm. providing and requiring PPE; taking reservations only for seating). A Little History.

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The Return of the Hot Table

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at Shukette, the group’s latest addition, are full up for the next three weeks on Resy, the reservation-making platform. That happens minutes after reservations open at 9 a.m. From what she’s seeing, the reservations in the city are more in demand now than they were even in 2019. Lucia Pham /Eater.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

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Ensuring greater inclusion of Black-owned and operated businesses across NBA business activities addresses the goal of the 2019-20 NBA season restart, which is to find tangible and sustainable ways to address racial inequality across the country. Seated Acquires VenueBook. Seated acquired digital event booking platform VenueBook.