Articles by tag: National Restaurant Association
Amid a climate of recovery and relentless transformation, the restaurant industry braces for new challenges and opportunities. Fresh off a year marked by tremendous disruption, the sector is projected to record a staggering $997 billion in sales this year. Yet, this growth comes at a time of significant menu price inflation and continued […]
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How To Turn Around A Restaurant With The Restaurant Coach
Food is serious business. Now, on The Main Course, host Barbara Castiglia will invite insiders on the front lines of food to share their expertise, strategies, and forecasts for navigating the ever-changing restaurant industry. The restaurant industry took a significant hit over the past year, perhaps more than any other industry. Despite record takeout numbers, 1 in […]
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National Restaurant Association Gives Desperate Plea to Congress for Industry Relief
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to starve the restaurant industry, with more than 110,000 businesses—the majority of which were well-established restaurants to community fixtures—permanently closed in 2020. That’s more than 17% of all of our nation’s restaurants, with 16% of which had been in business for at least 30 years. Further, 87% of those […]
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What are Restaurant Owners Challenges Right Now?
On this episode of The Main Course, host Barbara Castiglia and Mike Whatley, Vice President, State and Local Affairs for the National Restaurant Association, discussed the wide range of challenges facing restaurants during this period of reopening and efforts being made to help owners and operators address them. In particular, the duo tackled how restaurants […]
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What the NRA Show Said About the Future of the Kitchen
The culinary world is now one week removed from perhaps its largest annual event, the National Retail Association Show. The 2019 event was littered with informative sessions, culinary demonstrations and commentary on the new challenges facing restaurants. New kitchen equipment was also extremely prevalent of course and the continued investment in these tools will allow […]
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Beer Goes Digital at the National Restaurant Show 2019
One of the biggest points of emphasis at this week’s National Restaurant Association Show was the future of the dining experience. Margins have always been thin in the restaurant industry but today there are more means of tracking inventory, cutting costs and optimizing restaurant operations than ever before. Digital dashboards have helped restaurants better […]
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National Restaurant Association Looks to the Future at 100th Annual Show
The National Restaurant Association Show is underway in Chicago. The organization is celebrating its 100th annual event, but the theme for 2019 is strictly focused on the next century of dining. Attendees are getting a glimpse into new recipes, ingredients and cooking methods but what is perhaps more meaningful is the amount of technological innovation […]