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Culinary Digital’s Food Service Management Trends: February 2025

Culinary Digital

All institutional food service teams should start planning for 2026 The start of February will mark a little under one year to go for the implementation of the FDAs new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) food traceability rules (3).

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is still dealing with pandemic-related issues, including supply chain disruptions, new COVID variants and surging cases, labor shortages, rising prices, and a shift in consumer demand. As a result, ghost kitchens, delivery-focused kitchens without a storefront or dining area, are growing in popularity.

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Can AI Address Labor and Food Safety Challenges?

Modern Restaurant Management

Ofer Zinger, co-founder of Kitchen Robotics, thinks so. It also self-cleans, helping ensure food safety. Cost remains another major barrier, as the pricing of robotic solutions often remains unrealistic, and the unit economics may not be sustainable, making it difficult for operators to justify the investment.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Think behind-the-scenes kitchen tours or insights into who the people are that work at the restaurant, offering patrons a chance to immerse themselves in the brand. Restaurants will reinvest margin in value products, pricing and messaging 2024 will start to see first-party ordering AND first-party delivery take flight.

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Menu Development: 12 Steps for Success

Apicbase

Operational realities like ingredient sourcing, kitchen workflow, pricing strategy, and branding play a role in menu development. Let’s look at how those two strategies differ: Menu Engineering Menu engineering requires a thorough analysis of price variables and a method to predict costs consistently.

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How the Right Restaurant Tech Stack Supports Scalability

Apicbase

Apicbase is the backbone of your kitchens. Executive chefs and menu developers can be creative while also seeing the effects different ingredients and quantities have on food costs, profit margins, allergen occurrence and carbon footprint. Let’s take a look at the key functions it integrates.

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Restaurant Automation: The Key to Back of House Efficiency 

Apicbase

Restaurants use software and smart hardware to automate everyday tasks and management duties, such as purchasing ingredients, managing inventory, making production lists, dealing with allergens, and calculating costs. Production Maximise kitchen efficiency with precise production planning.