Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

This is a restaurant world that is not sustainable. In a recent article about Danny Meyer – NYC restaurateur extraordinaire, he talks about his epiphany over the past year – an opportunity he had to truly assess everything about his restaurants and the accepted approach towards operation.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 21, 2023

And while these actors can certainly play an important role, their presence in the supply chain can often mean that producers end up receiving a smaller percentage of the final price of each cup of coffee. As part of this, farmers can receive higher prices for their coffee. This is especially important to note.

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Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If the coffee industry is to tackle this problem, it needs to address the increasing need for long-term sustainable coffee sourcing. So what exactly is long-term sustainable sourcing and how can it be achieved? You may also like our article on what to consider when developing a sourcing programme.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Even when they manage to attract online orders, a lack of repeat business makes sustained growth feel out of reach. For more information on food photography, read our article How to Take Menu Photos Like The Pros. To learn how to set this up, read our article, Order with Google for Restaurants: How to Get Started.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 30, 2023

Over the past year or so, rising food prices and energy costs have been affecting many people around the world. In fact, in March 2023, the BBC reported that food prices had reached a 45-year high in the UK , with many other major coffee consuming countries also going through similar price increases.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article explores some considerations for updating three key sections of your FDD this season and why franchisors should focus on them. Not only is it a critical sales tool for the franchisor, but it also gives a prospective franchisee vital insight into the franchise opportunity and help them make an informed decision to invest.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In this article: How to calculate your restaurant customer acquisition cost (CAC) How to optimize your restaurant’s CAC and reduce costs What is a good cost per customer acquisition? By focusing on these organic customer acquisition strategies, you can build a sustainable customer base that costs less to acquire over time.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By the time you finish this article, youll know how to approach restaurant marketing the right way and not waste time doing guesswork, crossing your fingers, and then hoping you see new customers walking through the door. What price points are they comfortable with? Look at their pricing, menu offerings, branding, and customer reviews.

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The Rail

JANUARY 13, 2023

By placing non-alcoholic drinks in a higher price bracket with premium ingredients, restaurants can attract customers who are looking for quality non-alcoholic options. According to a recent article, 26% of Gen Z does not drink alcohol in any form. With this article, you can now create a winning strategy!

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Culinary Cues

JULY 23, 2023

Put them on the table, require rationale, and in some cases business commonsense, i.e.: feature local ingredients, sustainably sound, respectful of the seasons, core of vegetarian, humane treatment of animals by vendors, etc.,

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ChowNow

JULY 1, 2024

With inflation driving up the prices of ingredients, utilities, and labor, it’s become increasingly difficult to maintain profitability. Implementing cost-saving measures not only helps in sustaining business operations but also ensures long-term success by improving financial stability and resilience.

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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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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2023

Despite a steep decline in food prices, many families did without milk or meat.” -The Starting as a raw, not always well thought out movement in the 60’s this became the organic food movement, sustainable practices, recycling and composting, the farm to table movement, and learning about the connections between what we eat and how we feel.

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ChowNow

JULY 30, 2024

Manage COGS by negotiating better prices with suppliers, minimizing waste, and regularly updating your menu to focus on high-margin items. Learn more tips for reducing COGS in this article. Check out this article to learn how to effectively manage labor costs. By keeping COGS low, you can increase your gross profit margin.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 14, 2022

What they are less interested are pretentious environments, stuffy service, gimmicks, and absurd pricing. Think about packaging: find sustainable solutions, create attractive presentations to match what you offer in-house, and work with vendors on options that can maintain temperature and presentation through effective packaging solutions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

. “All of these factors point to the heightened importance of platforms like Uber Eats in the economy of the future,” said NYU Stern’s Arun Sundararajan , the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship, who co-authored the study with NYU Stern PhD student Manav Raj and Uber Technologies data scientist Calum You.

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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 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 cents/lb in February 2022. How do coffee co-operatives work?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 11, 2022

You may also like our article about redefining “specialty coffee”. Farmers sometimes use more experimental processing techniques, such as anaerobic fermentation or carbonic maceration , for micro and nano lots to help drive up the price. Sustainability, traceability & transparency. Read on to find out what they told me.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 25, 2022

You may also like our article on how specialty coffee can become more accessible. But the main focus in packaging is sustainability. “We As part of the general push for more sustainable coffee, consumers are also demanding to know more information about where their coffee was grown and who produced it.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 3, 2023

You may also like our article on whether coffee roasters should add robusta to blends if arabica prices increase again. On top of this, the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine has worsened the situation – leading to record gas prices and potentially resulting in high energy and food prices for the next three years.

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EATER

MAY 19, 2020

Despite factory farms being hotspots of the virus , causing meat shortages and price spikes, small farms are struggling. Link in bio to see the full survey and the article in The Counter. Without support, this is devastating for the very farms we most need for our future. resourcED.? ? Of the respondents, 28.1%

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

MenuDrive allows restaurants to add their own delivery services, or utilize Lavu’s national partner for fixed-price, commission-free deliveries. The customer can then see the menu on offer, the prices and can place an order by adding an item to their shopping basket. restaurants.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

AUGUST 23, 2019

How to Reduce Food Cost Responsibly Is your menu properly aligned with existing and emerging consumer dining behaviors and trends that could impact purchase price, frequency, check average, and product preferences? Learn more about how to assess your brand strategy. Learn more about how we can help.

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Perfect Daily Grind

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You may also like our article on whether it is possible to get good quality coffee from unripe cherries. Moreover, Nucoffee provides farmers with up-to-date market information, which can allow them to keep track of fluctuations in the price of coffee, as well as any emerging trends in the coffee industry.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 8, 2022

Sustainability continues to be a major focus across the coffee industry, specifically in coffee production. You may also like our article on carbon-neutral coffee production. Justin Archer is the Head of Sustainability at Sucafina , a sustainable farm-to-roaster coffee trader. Read on to find out what they said.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 4, 2023

You may also like our article on why more producers don’t market their own coffee. Forging connection to origin: a specialty “special” One of the main selling points of specialty coffee is that it is more sustainable, traceable, and transparent than commodity-grade coffee. But why is this?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 17, 2022

You may also like our article on exploring AI in coffee roasting. While this article has so far focused on the increase in technology in coffee shops, roasters and producers have also become more reliant on technology over the past few years. How can technology improve sustainability? Want to read more articles like this?

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 6, 2022

You might also like our article on how home coffee roasters have evolved. To start with, at the minute, the price of green coffee is very high, and that doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon. You depend on that roaster, [and effectively defer to them on] quality, availability, and price. “If Read on to find out what he said.

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Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although stock rotation can be challenging, there are several ways in which roasters can do this effectively, sustainably, and profitably. You may also like our article on whether you can freeze green coffee. If you compare quality and cost, roasters typically sell much more mid-tier priced coffee than more expensive coffee.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Modern Menus The humble menu has had a thorough overhaul in the past two years and as businesses are reopening, we are seeing the emphasis that has been placed on menu flexibility, pricing, structure, and menu size. Fresh, local, sustainable, ethical and seasonal will continue to be in fashion and shape most good menus we peruse.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 5, 2022

And will doing so help the coffee industry become more transparent and sustainable? You may also like our article on how digitalisation can improve profitability on coffee farms. This could be anything from coffee prices and predicted weather conditions to farm maps and soil health. What does digitalisation mean for producers?

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 21, 2022

In recent years, a growing number of airlines have begun to invest in the coffee they serve to their customers, both in terms of sustainability and quality. You may also like our article on changing your business’ coffee strategy after Covid-19. Consumer demand for quality and sustainability.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 30, 2022

You may also like our article on how producers can define sensory profiles for their coffees. This largely means that farmers generally receive smaller proportions of the final price than other stakeholders. However, there are ways for coffee farmers to add more value at origin and increase the price they receive for their crop.

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Perfect Daily Grind

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

To understand more about how the use of technology could affect coffee production in the future, I spoke with several industry professionals who are developing these technologies and who work with Sucafina , a sustainable farm-to-roaster coffee trader. Collins Mugabi is the Sustainability Business Analyst Manager for Sucafina.

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Perfect Daily Grind

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The latter is an indication that global demand for robusta has been increasing in recent months – thanks in part to rising arabica prices in 2021 and 2022 , which have since fallen to between US 180 cents/lb. You may also like our article on whether coffee roasters should add robusta to blends if arabica prices increase.

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The Rail

MAY 9, 2024

While the industry has been clouded by a variety of pressures that defined 2023 (such as inflation and price sensitivity), Restaurant Dive predicts that such challenges may push restaurants to embrace new solutions this year. The value triangle refers to three primary points in business: speed, quality, and price.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 9, 2023

In recent years, it’s become increasingly important for roasters to focus on sustainability – in terms of sourcing traceable and ethical coffee, as well as their environmental impact. You may also like our article exploring the environmental impact of coffee roasting. Sustainability issues in coffee roasting.

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