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Optimizing Your Restaurant Merch Game

Modern Restaurant Management

Merch might a somewhat newer term in a restaurant owner's lexicon, but having a focused merchandising effort can connect a person to a brand as well as be a great way to build awareness and put buts in seats. Promotional products are meant as giveaways, whereas merchandise is intended to be sold to represent your brand.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

Modern Restaurant Management

Seated Acquires VenueBook. Seated acquired digital event booking platform VenueBook. With Seated Events, Seated at Home, and Seated, restaurants can drive demand to their three primary sources of revenue in a single, easy to use rewards platform.” and the surrounding region. . and the surrounding region. .”

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Reopening Your Restaurant? Here’s Your Digital To-Do List

ChowNow

With many governments creating new restrictions on seating capacity due to health concerns, your restaurant unfortunately won’t be able to serve the same amount of dine-in guests you once did. In fact, it seems common now for eateries to have pantry items, take-and-bake bread, and merchandise on their menus.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Are there high-top, bar-style tables, regular seating, or a mix of both? But, don't limit your research to just that!

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How Restaurants, Retail and Mixed-Use Environments Are Capitalizing on a Surging F&B Market

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, at a time when virtually every restaurant or bar would like to add more outdoor seating, patio space is simply much easier to come by in a lifestyle center. More than ever, restaurants are a critical part of the inline merchandising mix, generating approximately $160 million in annual F&B volume.

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What Are We Wearing to Restaurants Now, Atlanta?

EATER

On this afternoon, both the indoor-outdoor bar and the 100-seat patio shaded by an enormous steel canopy were prime spots for sipping on tropically inspired cocktails and dining on seafood. Working from home made comfort take the front seat more than before, which says a lot since I’ve always been a tomboy. I know I’ve killed it.

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4th of July Specials for Restaurants: Promotions and Ideas for 2021

Touch Bistro

You could even partner with a business to offer a meal kit that includes merchandise like a handmade BBQ apron, or a local brewery to offer beer and food pairings. A meal kit that includes merchandise like a handmade apron. And speaking of merchandise… 9. Sell 4th of July Merchandise. Create a Signature Cocktail.

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