Just last year, it was reported that 78% of restaurateurs considered off-premise dining a strategic priority. The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically changed how the restaurant and hospitality industry operates now, from shuttering in-house traffic to limiting social gatherings in an effort to …
Capacity Management Can Save Restaurant Operators from Meltdowns — Here’s How
With the world navigating the realities of COVID-19, stories of upended "normality" have flooded the news cycle. We've become accustomed to scenes of "looted" grocery aisles and empty restaurant dining rooms, but Mother's Day 2020 may go down as a historical event. The holiday often cited as the …
May 2020: Restaurant Good News Roundup
As if the pandemic wasn’t distressing enough, now we can add unseasonable cold snaps, and murder hornets into our news cycle. But don’t let that darkness in, because there's always a bright side of life. On the pandemic front, researchers believe that once you have the coronavirus, you can't catch …
How COVID-19 Impacts Coffee Production, Consumption, and Sales
Today, the world is battling an invisible enemy that shows no mercy to race, social class, religion, and gender. First world nations and developing countries face the same problems: the collapse of the medical system, lack of ventilators, insufficient PPEs (personal protective equipment) for the …
April Restaurant Industry Roundup: COVID-19 News Updates
We’re in the midst of uncertain times, and around the world, restaurants and businesses are concerned about and working toward the post-COVID-19 “new normal.” What are some solutions to customer dine-in concerns? How are companies creating new streams of revenue? As states across the country are …
Off-Premise Dining During COVID-19: From Luxury to Lifeboat
No longer is off-premise ordering considered a mere luxury but an essential revenue stream for restaurants in survival mode during uncertain times. With the digital transformation of restaurants, the industry received an inadvertent steroid boost. Amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, public …