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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the present and future of AI use in F&B, The Splintered Path to Purchase, the Datassential 500 Awards, and where chefs are earning six figures. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent in 2024 — falling short of the 4.1

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue? I have been fortunate to work with Sleepy Bee Cafe since its founding in 2013.

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For Restaurants in 2025, Change Is the Only Constant

EATER

But normalcy is increasingly a fragile concept, and in recent years, the cascade of disasters related to climate and environmental change has become its own ongoing crisis. Masked chefs make pizza in a restaurant kitchen in 2022. What I originally envisioned is the restaurant that exists now, says Stieber.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

“It now accounts for a larger share of sales for 58 percent of limited-service and 41 percent of full-service operators compared with 2019—providing a critical path to restaurant resilience and growth despite ongoing economic pressures.” More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago.

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‘Bring the Dining Room Experience to the Windows’

Modern Restaurant Management

Simply put, the experience should look, feel, smell, and sound differently from their last visit in 2019. Should the customer and employee experience not be altered to fit that lifestyle? Should the customer and employee experience not be altered to fit that lifestyle? How is QSR ownership changing? Every minute! Great question.

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[Data] Fast Casual Restaurant Trends: Sales and Labor

7 Shifts

What 3,700 Restaurant Employees are Looking For To Stay Engaged. There's an estimated half a million fewer roles than in 2019. Where we have seen significant changes are both in the total number of labor hours per day, and labor costs in relation to sales. Table of Contents. QSR Sales are trending upwards. Data Methodology.

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THE BEST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES

Culinary Cues

These words can relate to our personal, political, economic, career centric, or spiritual lives – thus the reason they are so compelling and poignant. We can easily apply Dickens profound human summary to the state of the restaurant industry today. Yep, it certainly seems like the worst of times even in the face of business optimism.