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Radical Reconsideration and the Behavior Change Opportunity for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants ranked as one the most dramatically impacted sectors of the economy during the pandemic, right up there with airlines, hotels, gyms and movie theaters. A year later, we see the promise of accelerating vaccination rates, and the lifting of crippling capacity restrictions imposed on restaurants.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2021 Edition

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Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions. In fact, 30 percent of recent casual dining visitors think there is an opportunity to improve the quality of the beverage offer.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-April 2020-COVID-19 Effects Edition

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Other businesses have seen a surge of consumer interest, including chicken-wing joints (+84 percent), pizzerias (+71 percent) and fast-food restaurants (+55 percent). dine out more often to fulfill basic needs and gravitate toward drive-thru and take-away options associated with QSR and fast casual. In the U.K.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

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Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin. Other leisure-related categories affected the most included travel, cruises, lodging and airlines. How Is Casual Dining Doing? Risking it for the biscuit? :

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

The kiosk trend will be embraced like it is in the airline industry. In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Restaurants will become increasingly casual. Consequently, restaurants can easily be staffed 24 hours a day with limited additional cost.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

A new report from NELSON Worldwide that takes a look at the immediate future of dining and fast-casual restaurants. Based on data collected from 6,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S., Respondents continue to view the fast casual and quick service sectors as the greatest areas for market expansion.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Überrito Getting Aggressive and Cinnaholic Success

Modern Restaurant Management

UNO Pizzeria & Grill will provide its General Managers at the restaurant level with two round-trip airline tickets to travel anywhere in the continental United States. Markets are selling out fast, and we’re still targeting development in cities like Dallas, Houston and Charlotte. UNO Rewards GMs.

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