EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The numbers come from the 2022 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report of the vegan brand Beyond Meat , from which PLNT Burger gets its patties. Changing temperatures and weather patterns mean ingredients that were once common are now harder to come by , and sourcing ingredients from sustainable farms can often be more expensive.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Making the shift away from seed oils was a natural evolution for us—one that we started back in 2022 and have worked tirelessly to implement across all of our ingredients. This initiative was a multi-year effort that demanded extensive sourcing, innovation, and close collaboration with our culinary team and suppliers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Tight menus, for set prices, at times offering previously unapproachable product at approachable prices. Additionally, these software platforms have been critical in helping companies strategically source raw materials effectively. You go to that food locker and scan your code, and the door opens and you get your purchase.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

High menu prices have been an issue in the industry in recent years due to inflation, resulting in a decline in traffic as diners wish to spend less. In 2025, operators can offer elevated foodservice experiences at more affordable prices through emphasizing value in LTOs to drive sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Restaurants have faced labor shortages, supply and equipment shortages, and climbing food prices, with no past playbook on how to navigate the crisis. To help operators move forward, let’s take a look at some of the challenges the industry has experienced in 2021 and how they can come out on top in 2022 and beyond.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the bread aisle, you see two loaves identically wrapped; both are perfectly edible, but one is a day older and costs half the price. This is a business practice called dynamic pricing, and it may be coming soon to a supermarket near you. The price is changing throughout the [time] horizon.” Which do you choose?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Chefs are expressing optimism and anticipate a return to “normal,” according to the 2022 James Beard Foundation Fall Industry Survey. What were common menu items where prices were raised? . Sixty-seven percent of respondents raised prices throughout their entire menu, and 25 percent on a few items.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

According to The Wall Street Journal, food prices are estimated to rise on average five percent in the first half of 2022, while other sources point to a seven-percent increase by the end of the year. This estimate will likely be well under the price jump as fuel costs continue to rise. Increase in Costs. Labor Shortages.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As a global data analytics partner to private and public restaurant brands, we gather insights from many sources, including monthly QSR sales, traffic, average check and basket size. percent YOY and has been trending positively since June 2022. The average QSR price is at its highest since 2020 (+16.3

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

As is the norm in the widespread economic landscape of 2022, inflation has well-and-truly hit the restaurant industry. Additionally, menu prices at casual dining establishments rose by an average of 9 percent year over year from 2021. In August of this year, the cost for consumers of purchasing food away from home rose by 8.3

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

– Andrew Glantz, GiftAMeal Founder/CEO 2022 marked a pivotal period of societal adaptation to touchless interactions, accelerated by the challenges posed by the pandemic. Restaurants had all independently decided to increase platform pricing, tentatively at first and then more boldly when consumers didn’t push back.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 16, 2022

From increased restaurant unionization to record-high inflation, 2022 was, overall, a pretty rough year for restaurant operators. Here are our top restaurants stories of 2022. The labor movement gained a lot of momentum across the US in 2022, and restaurants were not spared from worker dissatisfaction.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2022, there were about 631,000 restaurants in the United States. Source: *Causeway Solutions 2023 Dining Out and Household Spending Now that we know a little bit about overall dining habits, we looked at how people’s feelings and attitudes about other things influence their dining preferences. including restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2023

As consumers watch food prices continue to rise, the demand for cost-effective meal solutions are prompting c-stores, full-service, and quick-service restaurants to increase their offerings. While raw and specialty ingredients have been the go-to for many businesses, shortages and sourcing issues are becoming the new normal.

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The Rail

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Problem with Restaurants’ Supply Chain Food Waste You’ve probably felt forced to raise menu prices to offset losses incurred by wholesale prices rising and fewer people eating out. The consumer price index for restaurant food costs increased by 7.7% from 2021 to 2022, the most significant increase in nearly one decade.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Reduce portion sizes slightly to maintain menu prices but account for increased costs. Don’t be afraid to increase price. Don’t be afraid to increase price. The key question is whether or not dining-out traffic will hold up long enough for restaurants to recover the profits they lost in 2022. and the U.K.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 17, 2023

According to the National Restaurant Industry’s 2022 State of the Restaurant Industry , 85 percent of Gen Zers use third-party platforms like DoorDash, Grubhub, or UberEats. Dynamic pricing on these platforms might be necessary to combat some of the lost revenue due to fees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2023

2023 brought new challenges to the table for the restaurant industry, from rising food prices due to inflation to continued disruptions in the supply chain. But, according to the same report, about 40 percent of consumers agree that with rising grocery store prices, it’s not necessarily cheaper to eat at home.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

As we end 2021 and consider the vast increase in takeout, comfort food, and overconsumption of alcohol that took place during the throws of the pandemic, many of us are resolved to doing better in 2022. Below are our 7 guest preference predictions for 2022. Sustainability will be top of mind. Healthy twists on comfort foods.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Since the labor shortage across the supply chain is likely to persist past the short-term and with other costs also increasing, one of the few ways restaurants can maintain their margins without raising their prices is to find ingredients that have better yields and require less labor to prepare. Where do you want to go tomorrow?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Over one-third (36 percent) of respondents reported more customers in 2023 than 2022, almost half (47 percent) reported higher check averages in 2023, a slight majority (51 percent) reported tracking better or the same as 2019, and almost three-quarters (72 percent) reporting increasing menu prices by 10-25 percent in the last year.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 19, 2022

Online ordering probably saved the restaurant industry, but salvation came at a price. It’s a comparatively tiny number of cases, though; the bulk of chargebacks result from first-person sources like friendly fraud. The numbers continue to climb, according to findings from the recently-published 2022 Chargeback Field Report.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Yelp’s engaged community of locals who share their opinions and reviews is what enables its community to connect with great local and affordable businesses – more than 85% of the businesses on the list are priced under 30 dollars per person. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that fast-food prices jumped 6.2

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The Trends to Watch in 2022 & Beyond The changing face of Food & Hospitality. With the pandemic starting to ease in some parts of the country and lockdowns becoming a thing of the past (hopefully), 2022 brings some cautious optimism to the industry as businesses start to see light at the end of the tunnel.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 31, 2023

For the most part, both the price of arabica and robusta rely on futures contracts. These are legal agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a predetermined price on a set date. Fluctuations in the market can influence prices paid by roasters and consumers and prices paid to farmers, as well as their production costs.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Learn how this affects your business, from restaurant suppliers struggling to keep up, to rising food prices led by labor shortages and increased consumer demand for quick, cheap food. As a result, ships are anchored at sea, waiting for their turn to dock, and this congestion is likely to continue well into 2022. Cheetah Tip.

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EATER

MARCH 7, 2023

percent for food prices last summer — the largest increase since 1981. Shoppers are told the full price of the food and given the opportunity to pay 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent of that price for a maximum of $30 off their total purchase. We have seen a large increase in prices for everything that we use on the farm.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 8, 2022

r wins 2022 Coffee Masters. Brighton Coffee Festival to return in 2022. SCA Netherlands announces winners of 2022 Dutch National Coffee Championships. The competitions were held at the 2022 Amsterdam Coffee Festival. Fairtrade International announces new Living Income Reference Price for Indonesian coffee producers.

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Perfect Daily Grind

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From early 2021 through until mid-2022, coffee prices increased steadily – with arabica futures reaching a ten-year high of US 258.95 cents/lb in February 2022. However, in recent weeks, the global market price of coffee (also known as the C price) has fallen to an 18-month low of US 174.20

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 18, 2022

between 2022 and 2031. Blank Street aims to open two dozen UK locations by the end of 2022. The NCA’s 2022 Spring National Coffee Data Trends report found 60% of the US population drinks coffee every day – a 14% increase since January 2021. Brazilian coffee farmers expected to use less fertiliser in 2022.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Australian and Thai competitor Jibbi Little wins 2022 World AeroPress Championship. Price of coffee dropped by 12.3% In its latest monthly report, the organisation says that while average prices for all group indicators decreased in November, the ICO Composite Indicator Price stabilised around US 160 cents/lb last month.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 22, 2022

The Sensory Summit will be held at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) from 5 to 6 September 2022. Colombian coffee production falls 10% in June 2022. However, overall coffee exports grew 6% in June 2022 compared to the same month in the previous year. lb at 2022 Cup of Excellence Guatemala. Tue, 19 Jul.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

The research found that businesses worldwide – particularly restaurants – intend to experiment more in 2025, especially with customer retention programs like loyalty, as they face the triple challenge of sustained high inflation, shrinking consumer wallets and the need to raise prices across the board.

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Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The government estimates that revenue from coffee exports could increase further in 2022/23 as coffee prices remain high. Coffee Fest Los Angeles takes place from 28 to 30 August 2022. The event will be part of the 134th Session of the International Coffee Council, and will take place on 5 October 2022 in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Perfect Daily Grind

AUGUST 9, 2022

However, in order to do so successfully, a WBC competitor must first source a high-quality coffee that will stand out on the global stage. And what factors need to be taken into account when sourcing coffee for the WBC? Seventeen years on in 2021, the record price paid at the auction was a staggering US $2,560/lb. Saša Šesti?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2023

From the seasoned craft beverage consumer to the newest consumers in the hospitality environment, the favorability toward “fresh,” “local,” and “locally sourced ingredients” is still a profit-driver you don’t want to give up. That may not be true.

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EATER

JANUARY 9, 2024

In January 2022, she announced plans for debuting a cooking show and has since been shopping it around to various networks. At the cash register there was a bowl of Ferrero Rocher priced at 75 cents apiece, alongside a bowl of stickers whose proceeds went to the Delaware County Food Bank. Most food items are under $10.

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