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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on 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 2025. When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory.

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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2025, the restaurant and broader hospitality industry finds itself at a critical juncture. After weathering years of pandemic-related challenges, the sector continues to rebound with optimism. Consumer spending in 2025 is expected to tighten as households grapple with rising credit card debt, which hit a staggering $1.14

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

In recent years, the food service industry has undergone a rapid transformation of automation and increased technology usage. Even with these enhancements in service quality, consumers still value having a real employee on the other end providing services. percent from 2025 to 2033 and reach US$ 345.6

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From acqui-hire to vaporware: The new restaurant tech ABCs

Restaurant Business

23, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The restaurant tech vocabulary keeps expanding. Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” By Joe Guszkowski on Jun. Image by Nico Heins/Midjourney Want to sound smart at the next restaurant tech cocktail party?

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

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news of dramatic Valentine's Day shift, best food scenes, and the evolution of c-store foodservice. As they grapple with rising costs across their supply chain, 71 percent of restaurants plan to increase prices this year. percent during Q4.

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Does Chipotle have a structural problem? Probably not

Restaurant Business

24, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The flexibility of the menu remains a key strength for Chipotle. The company’s stock is down 14% over the past year and more than 9% so far in 2025. Continue to Site >>> Menu Does Chipotle have a structural problem? By Jonathan Maze on Jun. Photo: Shutterstock. Check out this table.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Grubhub's mid-year report checks in on the popular food trends to date and what quarantined Americans ordered through contact-free delivery, and predicts what we can expect to see more of in the second half of the year. State of the Plate 2020 – top foods across various cities. Top Foods of 2020. miso tofu bowl.

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