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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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As the pandemic raged, hordes of hospitality workers shifted to in-office or at-home jobs, leaving a large labor gap to be filled, especially as tourism returns to pre-pandemic levels. I am concerned that rising insurance costs may force some chains to exit the market. Golden Corral is one.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

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According to new research from faculty members in Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) and the school’s U.S.-Asia Asia Center for Tourism and Hospitality Research, the ability to visit restaurants is one thing folks have greatly missed over the last few months. A total of 71.6

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Three Trends That Will Keep Restaurateurs on Their Toes in 2020

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That’s on one front, at least, as restaurateurs across the country scramble to get a piece of the action as the fledgling cannabis tourism industry starts to take off. A Harder Insurance Market Puts a Premium on Smart Risk Management. But the influence of legal marijuana is being felt on more than just menus.

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After Two ‘100-Year Floods’ in Just a Dozen Years, Vermont Restaurants Look to Rebuild Stronger

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Three Penny Taproom also has flood insurance. Time will tell, with insurance and the rebuild, what we do with that space,” he says. Not only are low-income Vermonters’ homes and businesses less resistant to flooding, but they have less in savings and insurance coverage. Whatever it takes, he says, Three Penny will rebuild.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

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In recent months, they have been advising clients on issues ranging from Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to reducing and rehiring employees to recovering losses from insurance companies and renegotiating leases. Selvin (insurance and business interruption) and Elliot N. Other members of the new practice include: Randy S.

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How (and Why) to Forage for Ant Eggs in a Northeastern Thai Forest

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Without economic or political leverage, Isan is stuck in a kind of catch-22: too poor to build enough infrastructure to attract tourists, yet not enough tourism money to rise out of poverty. His ringtone, Nino Rota’s “Speak Softly, Love” (the theme to The Godfather ), hints at the role he plays in the local food world.

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MRM Research Roundup: Labor Struggles, Holiday Habits, and Food Truck Trends

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This sharp decline reflects a stabilization in post-pandemic hiring after a surge in demand for hospitality workers as travel and tourism rebounded. National food truck insurance provider FLIP recently released results from a national survey of food truck operators about key menu trends. The hospitality sector saw a significant 33.80