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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

From updating policies to gearing up for tax season, these steps will enhance your compliance and position your restaurant for sustained growth. Below, I’ve outlined nine key HR and payroll items to prioritize over the coming weeks that will also start next year off right.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

With products now cleared for consumer sale in both the United States and Singapore, the cultivated meat industry is moving from proof of concept and early-stage R&D to a focus on demonstrating scalability, sustainable unit economics, and consumer and customer demand. How was the food sourced or produced?

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How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

But, if you have a playful style that could be embodied by a mascot character, consider developing a fun mascot figurehead to speak directly to your customers from your social media posts, signage, menu, website, and maybe even merchandise. Serve up furniture made from sustainable materials along with your seasonal fare. Your Website.

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The Enduring Appeal of Signature Staples at QSRs and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

Marketing and Branding: Sustaining the Popularity of Classics Effective marketing and branding play a crucial role in sustaining the popularity of core menu items over time. Innovate with core items, throwback campaigns, packaging and merchandise to give newness to the menu.

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Inside the Starbucks Collectors Cup Market, Where a Single Tumbler Can Sell for Nearly $2K

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In May 2020, Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra told CNN Business that his site had seen a 100 percent increase in sales of Starbucks merchandise, much of it centered around cups and mugs. They started buying cups from previous collections released in China, Hong Kong, Australia, and other locales, and trading amongst themselves.

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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. There appears to be a slowing in basket size growth in retail channels; momentum peaked in the first couple weeks of the pandemic.

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Coffee News Recap, 7 Oct: Severe weather forecast across several of Brazil’s coffee-growing regions, Nestlé commits US $1 billion to sustainable coffee production & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

As part of the initiative, local artists in three US cities – Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Portland, OR – designed street art murals to raise awareness of sustainability issues in the coffee supply chain. Nestlé commits US $1 billion to support sustainable coffee farming. Nestlé is aiming to sustainably source 100% of its coffee by 2025.