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Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

And, with many restaurateurs and bar managers being newcomers to card-not-present transactions – be they for food and drink prepared for on-site pickup in BOPUS set-ups, or for delivery by the restaurant’s or affiliated drivers – people in this industry are less aware of the dangers this payment model entails.

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THE END OF BEING CIVIL, KIND, LAW ABIDING AND PROFESSIONAL

Culinary Cues

Expression and even bold argument had always been part of our culture – debate was a way of presenting what we knew and/or believed in an effort to gain support or stimulate thought, but it had never spiraled into hate and negative action as it is today. In the meantime, we follow the laws or suffer the consequences.

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8 Tips for Selling Merchandise at Your Coffee Shop

Lavu

Coffee shops have a unique customer base that stands and waits patiently (we hope) for their lattes—and not selling merchandise is a lost business opportunity. Those minutes could be spent checking out your café’s merchandise instead of idly scrolling through Instagram feeds. How to Merchandise a Café. Travel Mugs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks. New F&B Trends.

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The Leftovers

EATER

When I presented my app screen, a mildly bewildered employee called his boss and asked what pastries to give me, filling a bag while wandering the store on the phone. The bakery sells to wholesalers as well, and two men inside were already loading a delivery truck. Nothing wrong with day-old pastries on sale.

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7 key restaurant revenue streams to prioritize in 2024

7 Shifts

Branded merchandise Selling branded merchandise lets you generate additional income while promoting your restaurant. Eater points out the “pics or it didn’t happen” mentality as one reason branded merchandise has become popular among restaurants.

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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.