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MRM Franchise Feed: Krystal Refranchising and Pieology in China

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Coolgreens just turned 10 and is looking towards its future: the company has a goal of opening a total of 150 corporate and franchise locations within the next five years.

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How Education Can Attract Workers to QSRs Amid High Turnover

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider a large Mexican fast-casual chain that implemented a tuition coverage program for employees pursuing degrees in fields like agriculture, culinary arts, and hospitality. In response, the company developed a new initiative aligned with its corporate culture and offering technical flexibility to accommodate individual franchises.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

In the context of 2024, we anticipate the cultivated meat industry expanding its horizons by forging more meaningful partnerships with a diverse array of stakeholders, such as governments, large industrial and agricultural players, NGOs, academia, and investors. Franchise operators are also stepping in for their franchisees.

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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

EATER

For example, it helped Sonic burger franchise owner Spencer Hart install solar panels on the drive-in canopies at four of his Long Island locations. Meg Wilcox is an environmental journalist covering food, agriculture, water, environmental health and justice, and sustainability. But I have to remember.

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Navigating the Supply Chain in the Restaurant Industry

Goliath Consulting

According to this McKinsey Report, these “changes in consumer behavior continue to ripple through the US food and agricultural supply chains” even today (1). This is precisely what Akash Kapoor, CEO of Bay Area-based franchise Curry Up Now, has been doing to get around the problem of ingredient deficits.

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What Now? COVID-19 Survival Guide for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant enterprises and franchise owners can take advantage of this technology immediately as it does not require professional installation and is readily available.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

“The genesis of this study was the ‘Fight for $15’ movement, which focused heavily on hourly service jobs, such as those in franchised quick service restaurants,” she said. San Francisco has the most community-supported agriculture programs (per square root of population), 0.0172, which is 21.5

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