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How Streaming Entertainment Can Help Restaurants

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Beyond just ensuring consumer health and safety , restaurants now reopening to the public need to create new marketing, entertainment and advertising strategies for incoming customers—especially now that live music could be unsafe, and just playing songs on a speaker might not be enough. Engage Consumers Even After They Leave.

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Martha Stewart Has 99 Books. Do People Collect Them?

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Hayden’s interest in Entertaining was inspired by CNN’s Martha Stewart docuseries that dropped in January. That cookbook, due next year, appears to bear at least some of Entertaining ’s influence.) Hayden posted about this only after getting the book, she noted, so as to not add to her competition even more.

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Time Traveling Through History’s Weirdest Entertaining Advice

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The middle class was growing, in the United States and beyond, and its members were impatient to show off their homes and (their wives’) cooking and entertaining skills. Here, written between 1880 and 1987, is a sampling of some of history’s most unhinged entertaining advice. Out, out, OUT!’

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2025: The Year of Contradictions in the Restaurant Industry

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Technology plays a key role in this, as smartphones serve as an endless stream of information, entertainment and social connection. Instant Gratification and Sustainability Consumers today are deeply immersed in a culture of instant gratification, where anything that disrupts immediacy can feel like an inconvenience.

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Looking to Increase Traffic to Your Restaurant? Try Holograms

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Whether it’s providing in-store entertainment, activating social media promotions or implementing QR-code menu options, the digital initiative among restaurateurs is clearly present, but it’s not enough. In the digital age, restaurants must put some focus on digital media, too.

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Expanding the Definition of Value

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These preferences illustrate the growing importance of innovative, hospitality-driven dining, where restaurants are not just places to eat, but spaces for entertainment, education, and community-building. Consumers have pent-up demand for restaurant meals.

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How Your Restaurant Can Take Advantage of the Virtual Event Trend

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Here are a few tips your restaurant can use to take advantage of the virtual event trend: Live Entertainment. Does your venue host live entertainment such as bands, DJs, or comedy? You can still hold these shows at your venue with a virtual audience.

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