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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.

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Costa Rica’s Iconic Caldosas Combine Ceviche and Barbecue Chips

EATER

The company started hiring sales representatives to visit cevicherias (today, there are around 200 of them on the streets), creating merchandising materials for venue owners, and promoting caldosas throughout the country. He is the author of the book The Food Revolutions.

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Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the Global Pantry Problem

EATER

It stemmed from a recent interview that Roman gave in which she criticized both minimalism icon Marie Kondo and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen for peddling branded merchandise, implying that they were sellouts — while discussing her own “capsule collection” of cooking tools, no less. Thankfully, we already have one answer: Samin Nosrat.

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4th of July Specials for Restaurants: Promotions and Ideas for 2021

Touch Bistro

Conversely, if your restaurant is more casual, diners may be more willing to go completely red, white, and blue for the day. If you’re fast-casual, consider doing a pulled pork version. A meal kit that includes merchandise like a handmade apron. And speaking of merchandise… 9. Sell 4th of July Merchandise.

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Tamper-Proof Delivery and TacoTuesday.com

Modern Restaurant Management

Customers can also purchase limited-edition merchandise from Chicago-based visual artist Mac Blackout to take home with them. Select sought-after restaurants on OpenTable will now allocate tables during their busiest shifts, which can be booked exclusively by Capital One credit cardholders via the OpenTable app.

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Cuisine Solutions Collaborates with Taffer’s Tavern Founder and CEO Jon Taffer for New Restaurant Venture

Sante

The full-service casual restaurant concept is the brainchild of the industry’s leading hospitality consultant, Jon Taffer. ” His broad areas of expertise include product and brand recognition, merchandising promotions, customer acquisition, product marketing, go-to-market strategy, television, and public speaking.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

Modern Restaurant Management

Each Awards program (Restaurants and Chefs, Books, Journalism, Design, Broadcast Media, and Leadership) has its own subcommittee made up of industry professionals who volunteer their time to oversee the policies, procedures, and selection of judges for their respective Awards programs. . The first James Beard Awards were given in 1991.

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