Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Restaurants have faced labor shortages, supply and equipment shortages, and climbing food prices, with no past playbook on how to navigate the crisis. To help operators move forward, let’s take a look at some of the challenges the industry has experienced in 2021 and how they can come out on top in 2022 and beyond.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 6, 2022

While 2021 was the year of the comeback for restaurants, 2022 is proving to be a very different story. Restaurant traffic, while recovering and up nine percent in 2021 compared to 2020, is still 4 percent below pre-pandemic levels, with smaller chains and independent restaurants down by nine percent, according to a study by The NPD Group.

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Culinary Services Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2021, we wrote a blog about increasing food costs as the world was still grappling with the aftereffects of COVID-19. As the prices kept rising, businesses struggled to replace the profit losses and staff shortages that haunted them through the pandemic. has seen a 25% increase in overall food prices since the end of 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2022

Food prices are soaring amidst supply chain disruptions, increasing labor costs, and processing plant shutdowns. Poultry prices are up 15 percent to 18 percent ; the cost of eggs has risen 73 percent. Restaurants must keep innovating to elevate the diner experience. It’s a tough time to be in the restaurant business.

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GFI

APRIL 11, 2023

Given plant-based meat’s premium price and this period of inflation, this may have influenced consumers to trade down, underscoring the importance of reaching price parity with conventional meat. Purchasing patterns can further illuminate some of the factors at play. This article dives deep into plant-based meat sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

” Frequent users adjusted their purchase behavior. The concept had a few caveats: consumers want the menu has to be the same as dine-in (not just a few menu items), food prices can't just be marked up to offset the costs, and they wouldn't want high order minimums. Changing Restaurant Purchases.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 7, 2021

However, since the start of 2021, Randy’s has seen a wave of interest from both domestic and international franchisees. Mark Kelegian and his family purchased Randy’s Donuts in 2015. The Costa Mesa location, opened in March 2021 and the first in Orange County, sold over 100,000 donuts in its ten days.

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