Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

Company Analysis and Financing

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• Company profiles on project sponsors

• Financial fundamentals for valuation

• Executive bios

• Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue

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Capital IQ
Profiles of public and private companies; information on investment firms and capital transactions.

LSEG Workspace
Financial fundamentals for valuation; equity research and investment firm data.

Industry and Market Research

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Market reports on consumer facing sectors including restaurants and food retail. Relevant topics covered include:

• consumer trends in dining out

• restaurant and food service segments including: full service restaurants, quick service restaurants, fast casual restaurants, snack, bakery, & coffee shops, bars & taverns,buffets & cafeterias

• social media marketing and restaurant apps

• brand management

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Mintel Reports
Consumer market studies and primary and secondary data analysis (primarily for European and US countries) for sectors including restaurants, food and beverage. Consumer demographic specific reports are also available.

Passport
Global market research on the consumer foodservice industry. Sectors include: 100% Home, Delivery/Takeaway, Cafés/Bars, Consumer Foodservice by Location, Fast Food, Full-Service Restaurants, Self-Service Cafeterias and Street Stalls/Kiosks.

EMARKETER
Includes market data, statistics, and analysis on the Internet, e-business, online marketing, media, and emerging technologies; useful for understanding the growth and impact of the Internet as well as for keeping up with new trends, such as social networking and mobile marketing;

LSEG Workspace
Equity research from investment banks.

Articles and News

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Articles on topics related to the restaurant industry, for example:

• plant forward dining

• animal and plant based protein

• restaurant franchising

• restaurant expansion

• food safety and supply chain

• restaurant technology management

• restaurant private equity funding

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ABI/ProQuest and Business Source Complete
Primary article databases for academic, professional management journals such as Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, American Journal of Public Health

Google Scholar
Specialized search engine optimized for locating scholarly and academic material licensed by Harvard covering all disciplines. The FIND IT @ Harvard button will automatically appear with search results if you follow the directions here.

Factiva
Articles from newspapers and trade publications worldwide, including over 30 publications focusing on the restaurant and food service sectors

Books

Books and journal titles on all aspects of the restaurant industry and food service sectors

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HOLLIS
Catalog of information about books (including location) in the collections of all Harvard Libraries. Use "Request Item" link to have books from other Harvard libraries sent to Baker.