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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. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Innovation, Cup by Cup: The Starbucks Sustainability Approach

Modern Restaurant Management

Starbucks recently announced that it aims to have every customer either use their own personal mug or cup or borrow a reusable cup from their local Starbucks — by 2025. This change will directly contribute to the coffee chain’s 2030 sustainability goals to conserve water usage by 50 percent and achieve carbon neutral green coffee.

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How Have Catering Supplies Transformed in 2019?

Modern Restaurant Management

If catering companies want to keep up with consumer trends, they must start focussing on sustainably and how their products can support social change. According to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and World Economic Forum, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2025. Cheap and easy solutions are no longer enough.

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

EATER

The results point to the fact that stopping waste at the source is more effective — environmentally and economically. Vermont established a universal recycling law that requires separation and diversion of food scraps from the waste stream. In this case, that means finding a home for food before it reaches its “sell by” date.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

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. franchisees for use in their restaurants.

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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. Reducing restaurant expenses is critical for improving profitability and sustainability. Taking proactive steps to minimize waste can save money and make the food industry more sustainable and responsible.

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What’s the difference between plastic and metal coffee pods?

Perfect Daily Grind

By 2025, the global market is expected to be worth over US $29 billion. And which is more sustainable? Recyclability & sustainability. And while the production of “virgin” aluminium is energy-intensive, it is infinitely recyclable. These high recycling rates also carry over to coffee capsules.

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