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2021: A Year of Strategic Questions for Restaurants 

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Perhaps the biggest question on restaurateurs’ minds right now is: “Do I plan for the 2021 I was expecting, or can I just go back to 2019?” We're sanitizing all surfaces—and people are still getting sick. ” After all, the news is swarming with stories about vaccines that seem to be working.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

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With safety being top of mind, venues will start offering optional safety packages at an additional fee – think PPE, deep cleaning and sanitizing stations. Next year, we will see even greater adoption of technologies that lend to operational efficiencies – in both the back- and front-of-house. For example, BOHA!

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Three Ways to Bring Your ‘A’ Game to Accessibility 

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PDFs can be viewed on guests’ smartphones and other personal devices or on sanitized tablets provided by the restaurant (although awkwardly, plus they can quickly go out of date and don’t do much for your brand). Beyond safety, this saves on printing costs and keeps all those disposable menus out of landfills.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

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Cleanliness – The robotic kitchen is NSF 169 certified, which is the equivalent to best in class sanitation, to ensure customers know that their blend is created in the cleanest, safest, and most sanitary environment possible. With self-cleaning technology, there are never issues with equipment going uncleaned.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

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Reach3 is taking an ongoing look at consumer sentiment about restaurants and food retailing to determine how Americans really feel about issues such as sanitization, social distancing and the potential for exposure to infection and how they might be a barrier to visitation as restaurants reopen. In 2019, 15.7 Dining During COVID.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. In the front of house, we are seeing more kiosk adoption. Especially when grocers are short of staff, constant sanitizing could fall through the cracks.

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Takeout For Good and Menus Go Tech

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Added sanitizing stations. "PathSpot works alongside the food industry to promote handwashing and enhance a positive culture around sanitation, using data to help plan and protect against future risk," said Christine Schindler, CEO and co-founder, PathSpot. "I'm New and enhanced cleaning and disinfecting procedures.

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