Our long march through 2020 continues as we’ve reached the halfway point in the year, and things have remained just as challenging as before. Restaurants around the U.S. face unprecedented losses, with an expected $240B hit to total revenue by the end of the year. After quarantine restrictions were …
QSR Automations COVID-19 Operator Survey: Results
What we wanted to Know COVID-19 has walloped the restaurant industry — you've been reading it for the last three months! But terms like "hit hard" and "unprecedented times" become rote when we say them nonstop. With this survey, we wanted to assign some "faces" to these anxieties and break down …
June 2020: Restaurant Good News Roundup
The first two quarters of 2020 have been an exceptional time in modern history, no matter how you cut it. Between the continued threat of the coronavirus, economic tensions, international protests, and murder hornets, there are many intense things to confront in the world. Because of that, we've …
Your Guide to Creating a Restaurant LTO
During these unprecedented times, how can you draw customers to your restaurant as things reopen? How about introducing an item for a season? You can promote that it’s “while supplies last” or “only for a limited time” and Eureka! You have created a limited time offer! It seems as easy as we just …
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 …