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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. Integration between the POS and inventory management software allows inventory to be managed from end-to-end by automating steps such as tracking recipes, uploading invoices and auto-updating item prices.

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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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7 key restaurant revenue streams to prioritize in 2024

7 Shifts

Profitability remains a challenge for many restaurants, especially with prices for ingredients and labor going up. One of the best things to do is to find additional revenue streams to supplement your core food and beverage sales. In fact, only 27% of restaurant owners expect to be more profitable this year.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

On Menu Ingredients We predict the rise of “bougie” ingredients like caviar, lobster and truffle popping up at restaurants at more affordable prices and in more casual settings like fast casuals and QSRs. General liability claims are not likely to fade any time soon, either.

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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.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

In order to push catering for this holiday season, restaurants can provide pricing incentives in order to attract more customers, offer a-la-carte options for holiday meals, and push out more marketing material showing their sanitary precautions when preparing food to ease consumer's worries. New Beverage Dynamics.

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