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2025 Restaurant Payment Trends and Predictions

Modern Restaurant Management

When customers can pay quickly and without friction, it enhances their experience and shortens wait times, leading to improved customer satisfaction—particularly in fast-casual settings where speed is essential. According to Statista , the global online food delivery market size was valued at $151.5

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Big Way brings a fast-casual take on hot pot

Restaurant Business

Cheese debuts a new arcade concept for adults who want to be kids Emerging Brands Big Way brings a fast-casual take on hot pot This 13-unit chain from Canada recently opened its first U.S. Only this one is fast casual. Founded in 2022 in Vancouver, the chain has 13 units there, and will also continue to grow north of the border.

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How to Build a Food Delivery App for Your Restaurant

The Rail

Today, more than ever, restaurants are turning to custom-built apps to improve convenience, streamline operations, and foster customer loyalty. Building a food delivery app for your restaurant can help you expand your reach, streamline operations, and foster customer loyalty. If so, you’re not alone. The numbers speak for themselves.

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MRM Research Roundup: Experimentation, Valentine’s Vibe Shift, and Wine Cork Market

Modern Restaurant Management

The research found that businesses worldwide – particularly restaurants – intend to experiment more in 2025, especially with customer retention programs like loyalty, as they face the triple challenge of sustained high inflation, shrinking consumer wallets and the need to raise prices across the board. percent in November.

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C-stores are stealing fast-food tactics. And fast-food customers

Restaurant Business

Photo: Shutterstock Made-to-order food, value offerings, loyalty programs. Increasingly, however, they are becoming the hallmarks of convenience-store foodservice programs. By Heather Lalley on Jun. 17, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Convenience-store pizza edged out chain pizza in a survey of consumer taste preferences.

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Explaining Crumbl's franchise profitability

Restaurant Business

After adding 264 locations in 2022 and 281 in 2023, Crumbl added just 87 new restaurants in 2024. Premium Technology Loyalty programs are growing. Tech Check: Restaurant loyalty programs are increasingly popular, but they’re far from a silver bullet for driving traffic. It’s now experimenting with dirty sodas.

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Fighting for traffic, pizza chains push more discounts

Restaurant Business

Traditional pizza chains have long competed on price, because consumers generally have little brand loyalty. Since the first quarter of 2022, the chains collectively have averaged a 0.19% same-store sales decline. It could have been worse: Fast-casual pizza chain sales declined 5%. It’s not just those three.