Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

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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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2023

Who among us hasn’t ordered food through a convenient mobile application, with menu choices ranging from not just quick-serve or fast-casual restaurants, but convenience stores as well? Wendy’s , for example, recently announced it would scale back plans of opening 700 ghost kitchens to between 100-150 by the end of 2025.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 5, 2025

05, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn BJ's has shown promising results recently. On Thursday, the casual-dining chain promoted Lyle Tick, its president and chief concept officer, to the top job. “I News casual_dining Joe Guszkowski is a senior editor with Restaurant Business covering technology and casual-dining chains.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The quality and origin of ingredients, will become a decisive factor, pushing establishments to emphasise the source and sustainability of their offerings. This trend is not just in fine dining, but though positioning levels – bars/pubs, clubs, smart casual, fast casual, cafés, QSR and right down to impulse.

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Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

In 2025, staying competitive means embracing digital payment trends. The Cashless Restaurant Revolution: Why Restaurants Are Going Cashless in 2025 In the ever-evolving landscape of the restaurant industry, the concept of not leading with a “pay with cash” option has emerged as a transformative trend.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. Sustainability Is Increasingly Important to Customers, Even in a Struggling Economy. Sustainability Is Increasingly Important to Customers, Even in a Struggling Economy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The goal is to work with health care systems all over the country and help them commit to 50 percent plant based daily offerings by 2025. Expanding menu offerings to include JUST Egg further speaks to Sodexo’s commitment to quality ingredients, health, sustainability and addressing evolving consumer dietary preferences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A more optimistic economic future as uncertainty decreases Despite current woes, the food and beverage industry is optimistic about its future as predictions for 2025 suggest that concern about economic uncertainty will drop from 20 percent to 16 percent. The fast-casual burger chain increased prices by 2.5 percent for QSR restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The fast-casual brand continues to grow amid the pandemic and is on track to open more than 30 restaurants this year. million over the next five years to build and sustain the program. With drive-thru equipped buildouts as low as 1,200 sq. The alliance aims to catalyze additional franchises and companies to join the effort.

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Squirrel Systems

MARCH 3, 2025

Whether you’re running a fast-casual concept or a fine-dining establishment, embracing the right technology can help optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and increase profitability. In 2025, these ten must-have technologies will be essential for staying competitive, efficient, and relevant in a crowded market.

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EATER

JULY 1, 2024

Today those foodways are clearest at takeaways, casual roadside joints that serve homestyle food mostly to a crowd of locals. The company hopes to grow into other markets by touting its sustainable harvesting practices. As Wadia puts it, quoting her elders, in Seychelles, “If there was no coconut, there would be no life.”

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EATER

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In 2025, a 350-acre Walmart campus is projected to open as its own self-contained community, complete with a food hall, hotel and rooftop bar, on-site childcare, parking garages, an amphitheater, bike paths, and a couple of lakes. Despite the environs, the seasonal menu is casual, complete with a kids’ menu.

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Black Box Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Comp Traffic Best Region: New England Best Segment: Family Dining Best Cuisine: Breakfast Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Fast Casual Worst Cuisine: Sandwich The December 2024 Restaurant Industry Trends + A Year in Review 2024 saw many ups and downs. DECEMBER: BY THE NUMBERS (Y-O-Y) -0.3% Comp Sales -3.2% higher Y-o-Y traffic and 0.5%

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

This investment comes at a pivotal time, as the Indian fast casual has more than 50 franchise and corporate locations in varying stages of development across the United States, including two franchised locations that recently opened in Atlanta and Orange County, California. Taco Bell Sustainable Packaging.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Winnow aims to continue growing in the market, with hospitality being a key industry, as there has been a significant focus on companies to act sustainably, with food waste being a large contributing factor to this. 63 million tons of food is wasted every year. ” Marc Zornes. ” Epic Generosity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

As restaurants around the country look towards reopening, Edward Lee and Lindsey Ofcacek, director of The LEE Initiative are committed to helping reset the supply chains for farmers and restaurant operators who are committed to sustainable food. Dunkin' Sustainability.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Highlighting the Challenge While not all cost of living pressures affect the consumer segments in the same way, the current range and depth of cost pressures across the Australian economy has started to make an impact on F&B spend, eating out and sustainability of F&B businesses. Ali & the Queen, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne.,

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Highlighting the Challenge While not all cost of living pressures affect the consumer segments in the same way, the current range and depth of cost pressures across the Australian economy has started to make an impact on F&B spend, eating out and sustainability of F&B businesses. Ali & the Queen, Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne.,

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 3, 2024

Restaurant Advisory Services … BUT SOME CASUAL DINING RESTAURANT CEOs ARE USING THE RIGHT STRATEGIES TO BOOST SALES… The casual dining sector recovered in 2023, and many chains recorded healthy same-store sales growth (leading the pack were Texas Roadhouse, Maggiano’s, and Kura Sushi USA). How are they doing it?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

. – Jackie Abril-Carlile, Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts Culinary Instructo r and Executive chef and general manager at North Mountain Brewing Everything Has Changed At the onset of COVID, most fast casual restaurants went from primarily dine-in business to mostly takeout and delivery models.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 9, 2019

On Wednesday, December 11, employees at the family-friendly casual dining chain will pool 100 percent of the tips they earn and purchase toys locally to donate to the U.S. In addition to consistently improving the nutritional profiles of its products, the company has announced its commitment to use 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025.

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EATER

JUNE 6, 2024

Along with other influential contemporary cultural documents, like Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation in 2001 and Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, Super Size Me changed the way many Americans think about fast food by exposing the nefarious underworld that sustains it. Thousands, if not millions, of people felt the same way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2025

In fact, the number of consumers who dine out weekly or more often was actually up slightly from 39 percent to 42 percent, according to TouchBistro's 2025 American Diner Trends Report , surveying 1,500 diners across the country. “These restaurants are building sustainable business models for the future. markets. . "We've

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Franchisees who commit to individual and/or multi-unit development agreements for restaurants slated to open from 2022 to 2025 will be eligible to take advantage of the Jimmy John’s incentive deals. ” Michele Maerz brings over 30 years of restaurant industry experience to her role as VP of Operations at Salata Salad Kitchen.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

New data from the National Restaurant Association’s 2025 Off-Premises Restaurant Trends report highlights how off-premises dining has become both a consumer preference and business essential, with the convenience and availability of takeout, delivery, and drive-thru now deeply embedded in everyday life.

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EATER

JANUARY 7, 2025

As more people have joined the surge in travel in the last few years, 2025 is set to be one for the record books and the guest books in crowded hot spots, where its become hard to truly get away. We tapped our team of culinary experts to find out about some of these overlooked destinations. Raul Him Andrea Pinzn at work at Baran Bl.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Identifying Challenges and Uncovering Opportunities SpotOn unveiled its 2025 Restaurant Business Report , revealing the financial challenges restaurant operators face and the opportunities to strengthen their businesses. Yelp has named Holbox in Los Angeles the top restaurant of 2025. Independent operators feel the squeeze the most.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 22, 2025

The severe, sustained market crashes coincided with marked contractions in restaurant expenditures throughout the two-year recession NBER. President Trump’s announcement of international tariffs in April 2025 sent an already unstable market falling. Similarly in 2025, from February 19th to March 13th the stock index retraced −10.0%

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