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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

What can you expect to see on menus in 2025? From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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28 Strategies to Cut Costs in the Restaurant Business

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Running a successful restaurant in 2025 means more than just great food—it requires smart financial decisions. By closely monitoring and optimizing this percentage, restaurants can better manage their inventory, minimize waste, and lower their overall expenses, ultimately maximizing cost reduction. Food cost control is crucial.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Restaurant Trends to Look For in 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2025, more plant-based menu items will be appearing at an incredible rate of speed as well. Here are a few early observations of what 2025 could bring to the hospitality industry. There are new technologies coming out for restaurants that will help them better track inventory, analyze their purchases and calculate waste.

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Adopting Tech Solutions Is the Smartest Decision Restaurants Can Make

Modern Restaurant Management

Hot Palette Holdings uses AI to improve their forecasting, optimize inventory, and reduce waste. Innovative tech tools, like AI, can improve forecasting, inventory management, scheduling, customer service, marketing, and many other essential business tasks. For instance, technology can help restaurants: Optimize operations.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

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Dynamic pricing is not new; for decades, the airline, fashion, and hospitality industries have all found that dynamic pricing — the incremental adjustments to prices to reflect inventory, demand, and supply — has helped companies cut waste and save money. There are a lot of hurdles to [implementing dynamic pricing],” Schweizer says. “I

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MRM Franchise Feed: Currying Up Favor and Committed Taco

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Curry Up Now also limits their disposal waste by using real plates, silverware and cloth napkins in-house and packaging all to-go orders in recyclable and compostable containers. Taco Bell committed to making all consumer-facing packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025 worldwide. Taco Bell's 2020 Commitments.