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

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– Frenchie Audette, VP of Food Service at Divert In 2024, the restaurant industry continued to adjust to changes sparked by 2020. First and foremost, there often aren’t enough sustainable options available, and the production costs can be significantly higher.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

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Most Important safety initiatives. Followed (not surprisingly) by restaurants and delivery drivers following proper safety protocols, price, and ease of ordering from the restaurant. 77 percent of restaurants and bars indicated that ensuring the health and safety of employees was their top concern. Broader SMB concerns.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part One

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? In 2020 the restaurant industry learned that offering delivery and running an efficient operation is necessary to stay alive.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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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. Green Restaurant and Slow Food were others we considered. But it was the pivots in the pandemic that pointed us toward B.

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Avoiding Warewashing Woes Ensures a Profitable Kitchen

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Additionally, a 2020 survey conducted by Datassentials found that consumers rank “clean and sanitary” ahead of traditional decision-factors like taste, value and location when choosing a restaurant. Certified for its performance – Credentials demonstrate a product’s safety and efficacy.

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How AI Can Work for You

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For your restaurant, communications are limited to the closed circuit of your business, from the front-of-house to the kitchen. Relative to dynamic reaction time, capacity management looks at the whole picture in your restaurant to determine the maximum output that your operation can sustain without a loss in quality. Food Safety.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

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One hotel in upstate New York increased salaries of kitchen staff to $20 from $12.50 Ongoing public health and safety concerns push down demand for the indoor restaurant experience. ” That number grew to 23,873 in 2020. Restaurant and bar employment (as of July 2021) remains down by 1.5