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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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How this entrepreneur's bagel runs became a business

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I’m more vision, creative, fly-by-the-seat-of-pants. And it turned out to be Justin Wetherill, the founder of the uBreakiFix tech repair chain, who had built that company to more than 500 units before selling it in 2019. By Lisa Jennings on Jun. Photo courtesy of Jeff's Bagel Run. It all started during the pandemic shutdown.

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How Quick-Service Restaurants Can Use Technology to Reduce Wait Times in 2025

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🍽️ Smart Ordering Systems for Quick-Service Restaurants: Redefining the Dining Experience Self-Service Technologies Enhancing Front-of-House Efficiency in Quick-Service Restaurants Self-service technologies, like kiosks and mobile apps, are transforming the way restaurants manage front-of-house operations. .

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For Restaurants in 2025, Change Is the Only Constant

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Randi Lee and his wife, Jeanette Zinno, took over the storefront that would become Leland Eating and Drinking House in Brooklyn in February 2020, ready to fully demo the space. 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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How the Restaurant Industry Can Begin Planning for the Future

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For starters, we are modeling a smaller restaurant with less front and back of the house staff. If, prior to the pandemic, your restaurant had a seating capacity of 120 seats, that may be reduced by 20 percent or more. Next, we can start to determine what cash will be needed to relaunch your restaurant.

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How the Pandemic Has Forever Changed the Way We Eat

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billion from the same period in 2019. As President of the Food & Delivery segment of Novolex, I’ve had a front seat to these dramatic changes, and to the challenges facing the industry as it struggles to survive and adapt. billion in revenue from April through September of 2020—compared with $2.5

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Can Technology Help Solve the Restaurant Labor Shortage?

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Despite facing the pressure to stay open and operational over the last year, restaurants have gone above and beyond the “new normal” to rethink their operations, including seating arrangements and menu offerings, and in many cases reducing their staff to just the barebones. Roles shifted too. But this is slowly starting to change.