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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

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Most of the restaurant technology tools operators use every day were first introduced years ago, but it wasnt until the 2020 Tech Boom, brought on by COVID-19, that widespread adoption became essential. Identify your biggest pain points. Do you lose money due to food waste? Can it increase sales or customer retention?

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Why Restaurants Are Going Cashless: 7 Key Benefits for 2025

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Some restaurant chain owners see the transition as a step toward going cashless in the future because restaurant point-of-sale systems make it so easy. Other bars and restaurants tout the benefits of increased safety and cleanliness (more on that below). In 2025, staying competitive means embracing digital payment trends.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

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Many restaurant owners had believed they would be covered in the event of something like the pandemic, and found themselves without a safety net. Overall, the pandemic highlighted the vulnerabilities, margin issues, and lack of safety net to restaurants in a way the industry is still recovering from. – Pooja S.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

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This shift ensures that operations run smoothly, and sales revenue is optimized. No matter how much technology evolves, or trends shift, people will always come back for quality food, great value, and friendly service. One of the biggest struggles for restaurants post-covid is staffing. This trend has held on in the last five years.

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MRM Research Roundup: Delivery Fraud, the Playground Effect, and Top 100 Places to Eat

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On a year-over-year basis, small business sales (+2.1 Month-over-month sales (+0.1 Year-to-date, combined sales growth for January and February is 3.5 percentage points less than sales growth from the same two-month period in 2024. Independent operators feel the squeeze the most. percent) showed healthy growth.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-October 2020 Edition

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The Manifest surveyed 501 people about their food delivery and restaurant habits during COVID-19 and found that two-thirds of people ate in-person at a restaurant in July 2020. Doordash is the most popular food delivery app with 12 percent of people using the app in July 2020. What Customers Want. Foot Traffic Study.