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MRM Research Roundup: Price Wars, Influencer Impact and No-Show Fees

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant leaders representing nearly 3,700 QSR, fast casual, casual dining, and fine dining locations shared 2024’s top challenges and opportunities alongside plans for investment in back-of-house technology, increased sales, and team training, benefits, and support.

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A Guide to Black Box Intelligence Data: How to See Current Trends Broken Down by Restaurant Category

Black Box Intelligence

Quick-service and fast casual restaurants fall under the limited-service umbrella. Fine dining, upscale, casual family dining and casual dining restaurants fall under this category. Many are pointing out frustrations with cleanliness and wait times, both of which are indicators of teams being stretched thin.

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Restaurant Payroll Percentage

Restaurant365

Your payroll is the process of calculating and distributing wages to your employees. The restaurant industry faces a lot of industry-specific regulations on payroll, with laws regulating hourly employee scheduling and tipped wage workers, as well as compliance with the Affordable Care Act regarding seasonal and variable hour employees.

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The Latest Restaurant Customer Service Data & What It Means For You

Black Box Intelligence

Pandemic-related issues continue to be the dominant factors driving restaurant customer satisfaction trends. Casual dining is also trending?about Off-premise Sales and Restaurant Customer Satisfaction. Despite the steadiness of off-premise sales, it’s tied to lower satisfaction. the week of Labor Day.?

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Meeting Off-Premise Demand While Rebuilding In-Restaurant Sales to Boost Profitability

Restaurant365

But while off-premise demand has grown, in-person sales are coming back as more regions open up again. For restaurant owners and operators, how do you balance between maintaining off-premise business and rebuilding in-restaurant sales—at the same time? However, in the era of social distancing, these burgeoning trends took off.

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The 3 Rs of Loyalty Programs for Restaurant Operators

Mad Mobile

In fact, according to the Harvard Business Review , recruiting new guests can cost up to 25 times more than repeat visitors. Customer retention Since the restaurant industry includes tons of variation–fine dining, fast-casual, quick-service, and so on–it’s hard to pin down average customer retention rates.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-January 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features a gloomy start to the new year, dining trends for 2020, the importance of discounts, holiday gift card sales results, delivery frustrations, soda curiosity and a consumer culture report. Same-store sales growth was -2.1

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