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How Fast-Casual Marketers Can Prepare for 2022 Dine-in Traffic

Modern Restaurant Management

Food that naturally travels well—chicken wings, burritos, Chinese food—was bound to have a leg-up. Sit-down establishments often did the same by upping their digital chops, adding curbside pickup, and even erecting sidewalk dining parklets when dine-in returned in a limited capacity.

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Hospitality and Travel (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course , host Barbara Castiglia talked with Joe Robert-Thornton, EVP and COO of HMSHost, a world leader in creating dining for travel venues. When folks compared the toll the travel industry took during the pandemic, they made comparisons to 9/11.

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Food, It Turns Out, Has Little to Do With Why I Love to Travel 

EATER

It’s the people that make a place — but these days, human interaction is hard to come by I used to love to travel. Let me be clear: I absolutely would not and do not recommend frivolous travel. Restaurants have always been my joyous entry point to a place and its people. A nasal-swab COVID test right before I departed.

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Would Delivery Work for My Concept?

Modern Restaurant Management

restaurant delivery revenues are expected to reach nearly $80 Billion by 2022 and digital ordering and delivery has grown 300 percent faster than dine-in traffic since 2014. 20 percent of consumers say they spend more on off-premise orders compared to a regular dine-in experience. Projected U.S. Need more proof?

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Maximize Your Restaurant’s 4th of July Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that the pandemic is finally under control, summer travel is underway, and people are able to get out and be social. Many consumers are ready to spend money and participate in the activities they missed the most during the pandemic, especially dining out with friends and family. With consumer spending up 11.3

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Consumer Data Analytics Reveal Dining Patterns to Attract Customers 

Modern Restaurant Management

With those stats in mind, Causeway Solutions conducted consumer research* on today’s dining trends compared to our research over the past few years. In August 2023, only eight percent of consumers we surveyed say they do not eat out, so dining out is “in” again. 62 percent rarely or very rarely enjoy fine dining.

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7 Tips for Hospitality Marketing During COVID-19

Social Hospitality

However, no one understands the consequences more than the travel and hospitality industries. After all, you don’t want to pay for search traffic if no one is actively searching for travel destinations. Beyond that, stay on top of the COVID-19 impact and assess how it’s directly affecting travel to your destination.