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The Theater of Foodservice

How to create the sights, scents and sounds to make the sale.

Unfortunately for foodservice operators, it’s not always taste that sells—at least not at first.

The law of acquisition requires that a customer must first be swayed to buy your food before he or she can actually taste its worth. Fortunately, we humans often eat with our emotions rather than any sort of logic. That’s why effective merchandising is paramount to making the foodservice sale.

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