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Effectively Targeting and Marketing to Gen Z

Modern Restaurant Management

This new year is a perfect time to begin shaping a long-term vision and identifying opportunities for growing your restaurant or food services business over the next ten years. The sheer market size of Gen Z and their discretionary spending dollars should make restaurants and food services businesses sit up and take notice.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Greg joined the Restaurant Facility Management Association (RFMA) in 2016, earned his Certified Restaurant Facility Professional designation in 2017, was chosen Restaurateur of the Year in 2019, and currently serves on the RFMA Board of Directors. Paul Soulliere: Information Systems Manager | 25 years. Upping the Umbrella Experience.

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YEA: Restaurants Showing Resiliency with New Openings

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New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. There were only 100 fewer new restaurant openings in September of this year, compared to September 2019.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-July 2021 Edition

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The edition of MRM Research Roundup features restaurant payment transaction data, foodservice equipment purchasing and the lasting appeal of chicken sandwiches. The comparable week in 2020 (to July 25), while in recovery compared to the height of restrictions, was still lower than the same week in 2019. Rent Struggle Is Real.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2021 Edition

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Consumer spending at restaurants was up +32 percent in the April-May-June 2021 quarter compared to the same quarter last year, and for a pre-pandemic view, flat compared to the same quarter in 2019. Quick service restaurants (QSRs), representing 81 percent of restaurant visits in the U.S., foodservice industry. “The U.S.

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CDC: Food Service Workers are a low, but not a no risk of Hepatitis A infection

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One study found that in >90% of case investigations of infected food handlers, only the food handler was infected, with no secondary cases ( 172 ). The risk for secondary infection from hepatitis A–infected food handlers to food establishment patrons in these person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks was <1% ( 173 ).

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October 2020 Edition

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percent above 2019 levels for the equivalent Tuesday. Yet, compared to National Coffee Day 2019, which took place on a Sunday last year, visits were down 10.0 percent year over year that Tuesday compared to the same day in 2019, and down 37.9 Food Service Orders Begin to Rebound. percent and 18.8