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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. Just as the transition to renewables and electric vehicles has thrived on collaborative efforts, we foresee more collaboration for the cultivated meat industry in 2024.

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Pandemic Effects on Funding, Growth and People – Plus Predictions for 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

However, our industry still is an attractive space for well-suited technologies, improving efficiencies at every level of the restaurant from inventory to customer service. In 2024, we will see blended effect on development pipelines for many brands, from low real estate availability, high rents and construction costs.

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Boosting Profits One Sip at a Time: The Power of Specialty Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

Rethinking Beverages The typical drink upsell—soft drinks and coffee or tea—has decreased over the past few years as customers increasingly eat restaurant food at home. Delivery users are less price-sensitive than customers using other sales channels. For restaurants with liquor licenses, catering to millennials is key.

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Where to Eat in 2024

EATER

Where to find the best food around the world in 2024 There’s a big world of food out there and it’s never been easier to taste all of it. All 12 culinary destinations on this list are hitting their strides in 2024, according to our global network of on-the-ground contributors, making them obvious choices for hungry travelers.

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Chefs Love Wonder, the Latest App Trying to Disrupt Delivery. Will Diners Follow Suit?

EATER

The vans were outfitted with kitchen equipment and loaded with partially prepared food; drivers parked outside customers’ homes and fired, finished, and plated dishes in the back, delivering meals to diners’ front doors as soon as they were ready. Customers place orders on the Wonder app for delivery or pick-up.

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The Top Restaurant Stories of 2023

The Rail

of workers in the “food services and drinking places” industry were union members in 2022. The NFL Started its Drive to Streaming-Only While sports moving to streaming services has become a little more common in the residential consumer sector, it’s been a little slower to move for commercial vendors, like sports bars.

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How to Set Up and Run a Ghost Kitchen for Your Restaurant Business

Restaurant365

Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders. Once the customer places the order, the kitchen staff is notified, and food preparation begins. Size of U.S. market for online food delivery.