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From 2019 to 2020: Tech-xtualizing the Three Major Challenges Restaurants Face

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From infamous chicken sandwich wars to on-trend plant-based burgers and acai bowls, it’s safe to say that 2019 was a trademark year for restaurants. With all of 2019’s success, restaurant operators are also facing challenges that can be addressed with the help of technology in the New Year. trillion in sales by 2030.

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Quick Facts About the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RRF) Process

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For some business types, at least 33 percent of 2019 gross receipts must have comprised on-site sales to the public. For businesses that were open for all of 2019 and 2020, the maximum amount they can receive is $5 million per restaurant or $10 million per restaurant group. This number is your annualized 2019 gross receipts.

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Surviving Disruption: How New COVID-19 Legislation Can Assist the Restaurant Industry

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times the average monthly payroll costs during a specific period (calendar year 2019 for most). $10 Eligibility measures are calculated each calendar quarter, and once the employer's gross receipts exceed 80 percent of a comparable quarter in 2019, the employer, at the end of that quarter, would no longer qualify for the credit.

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Open for Business?

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have reduced their operating hours since 2019, according to a survey by Dataessential. The firm examined the operating hours for hundreds of thousands of locations across two time periods: October 2019 and October 2022., percent reduced their operating hours since 2019, while just 19.8 percent in 2019. finding that 58.6

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Surgical Pricing Strategies: How QSRs Can Navigate Inflation

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Using the QSR traffic and sales data Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) has been gathering for 25-plus years, our analysts recently completed an exhaustive comparison of pre and post-pandemic data, comparing the first two quarters of 2022 and 2023 to the same period in 2019. Since 2019, however, QSR traffic has been down nearly 20% (18.4

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Number of Cooks and Chefs Employed in the U.S. Reaches All-Time High

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Cooks have enjoyed substantially larger pay increases in the post-pandemic years compared to chefs (18 and seven percent respectively from 2019 to 2022), reversing an almost decade-long trend that saw a growing pay gap between the two categories. Employment of fast food and counter workers was down 17 percent compared to 2019.

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Drive-Thru Shake-Up (Infographic)

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seconds compared to 255 seconds in 2019. 2019: Dunkin’, Carl’s Jr., 2020: Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s, Arby’s, Burger King, Dunkin’ 2019: Chick-fil-A, Burger King, Wendy’s, Arby’s McDonald’s. 2019: Chick-fil-A, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Arby’s, Dunkin’ Taste.

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