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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Place high-profit items in the middle or top , which is where most customers’ eyes travel when looking at a menu. Consider selling food or merchandise If you aren’t doing it yet, consider selling food or merchandise to increase your bar's profit margin and create new streams of revenue.

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Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

Merchandise new take-out procedures that will make customers feel more secure — such as curbside pickup and mask and glove requirements. While you’re at it, also reconsider items that don’t travel well. Offer online ordering on your website, and display the link prominently. Deliver a Stellar Customer Experience.

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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

Modern Restaurant Management

If your cooks are mostly fulfilling off-site orders, you can do away with niceties like a slick front of house, visual merchandising, and a location with hungry walk-ins. Create new foods that are designed to travel. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-November 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Among the highlights: Online Ordering sales of pizza (+9 percent), burgers (+10 percent), and fried chicken (+5 percent) were up from last year, but the largest trend in online ordering was sandwiches and wraps as guests give up on slapping bread together at home and restaurants pivot to menu items that travel well. The sheer convenience.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

“It’s encouraging to see consumers continue to rally and support local businesses, with many planning to purchase merchandise, specialty items and gift cards as holiday gifts.” With travel and larger gatherings constrained due to the pandemic, gift cards are a popular choice. No Holiday Travel.

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8 Tips for Selling Merchandise at Your Coffee Shop

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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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The Recipe for Rebranding Success: Transforming Your Restaurant’s Image

Modern Restaurant Management

Some common examples of why a restaurant might rebrand are: The locals that held your restaurant afloat aren’t coming in as much Your food used to cater to a lower price point, but you are trying to increase your quality You’ve acquired a business that needs to improve business materials for menus, signage, merchandise, etc.