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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Outsourcing high-risk services, such as delivery, can alleviate exposure to rising auto insurance costs, which are projected to climb in 2025. To remain resilient, businesses must prioritize enterprise risk management (ERM) strategies that integrate risk management, HR and insurance planning.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

. – Peter Kellis, CEO of TRAY Since the pandemic, it has been complicated managing through government issues, supply chain issues, manufacturing shortages of restaurant equipment and, of course, hardest of all the loss of great staff and managers who were forced to leave the hospitality industry.

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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Spending, Franchise Optimism, and Pickle Energy

Modern Restaurant Management

percent increase compared to 2023, with the last five days of the holiday season accounting for 10 percent of all holiday spending. percent) coming in well above the national total for e-commerce sales compared to 2023. percent compared to November of 2023. million in 2023 with the overall volume of cards sold jumping to 338.5

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

Modern Restaurant Management

The focus on offering a wider variety of prepared and ready-to-eat food items is clearly paying off, as c-stores registered record sales in 2023. An analysis of insurance claims processed in 2024 compared to 2023 shows a 4.4 percent growth from 2023, other chicken dishes like Sesame Chicken (+7.32

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MRM Research Roundup: Midyear Report Card, Cowboy Carter Boost, and the Evolving Pumpkin Craze

Modern Restaurant Management

On the other hand, fine dining excels in experience-driven differentiation, albeit with cost and margin trade-offs: Sales at fine dining restaurants declined by 13 percent in early 2024 compared to late 2023, likely due to reduced discretionary spending, but recovered to between 2.1 percent and 3.1

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

Modern Restaurant Management

From a legal perspective, Insurance : the pandemic highlighted the limitations of insurance policies. Several high-profile restaurant groups brought litigation against insurance companies for their coverage position, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Wages have risen roughly 13 percent since early 2023, leveling out at $13.62

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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable

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At the beginning of 2024, the NRA reported that 73% of operators expected profit to be less or the same over the year, with 38% saying they didn't make any profit in 2023. These include rent, utilities, licenses, equipment, repairs, credit card processing fees—anything that's not labor or COGS. Overhead costs.