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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. January is an infamously slow period for beverage alcohol sales after the fourth quarter holiday rush.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

Modern Restaurant Management

Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Employees designated as receivers should be able to both recognize various quality levels of merchandise and be trained how to handle the necessary paperwork and any digital recordkeeping.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Meanwhile, guest checks dropped considerably for full-service restaurants, a drop that was fueled in large part by beverage sales being almost completely eliminated by the shift to off-premise only operations. While food and beverage had been declining steadily, retail is generally trending up. Patrick’s Day weekend.

2020 491
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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

A new survey from Oracle Food and Beverage found that 60 percent of respondents plan to stay at home during the holidays, and 42 percent are considering ordering their holiday meals from a local restaurant. 22 percent of customers are looking to buy restaurant merchandise. 22 percent of those polled are interested gifting recipe books.

2020 419
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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

More than 27 percent of Americans have not used cash to pay for food, beverages, merchandise, or services since Covid-19, and 77 percent will prefer contactless payments even after the pandemic ends. New Beverage Dynamics. " Demand for Contactless. 1 reason Americans use mobile ordering? The sheer convenience.

2020 402
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Leveraging Relationships to Build a Better Bar Program

Goliath Consulting

Almost every restaurant with liquor on the menu has their share of creatively named house cocktails and luring drink specials, but is your restaurant making the most of its beverage program? Every bar/beverage manager can tell you about their distributors purchase incentives. Buy two bottles, get one free.”

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How Restaurants, Retail and Mixed-Use Environments Are Capitalizing on a Surging F&B Market

Modern Restaurant Management

For nearly 25 years, Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio has worked to establish itself as a premier mixed-use environment with one of the largest and most influential food & beverage programs in the Midwest. As a longstanding lifestyle development, every year brings new opportunities to evolve its F&B offerings.

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