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

Modern Restaurant Management

Culinary and Cocktail Trend Forecasts Kimpton is returning with its annual Culinary + Cocktail Trend Forecast highlighting predictions from its global team of restaurant and beverage talent. ” Guests will have the opportunity to experience many of these trends come to life at Kimpton restaurants and bars across the globe.

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Taking Care of the Back of the House

EATER

Next, the cars pulled up to a second tent, where volunteers loaded boxes of food into open trunks, back seats, and any other space they could find. Who was taking care of back of house?” 1,300 families, 120,000 pounds of food: How No Us Without You feeds LA’s undocumented restaurant workers At 11 a.m. Nolasco wondered.

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Waffle House lifts 50-cent egg surcharge as prices fall

Restaurant Business

Photo: Shutterstock Waffle House customers no longer have to pay extra for eggs. “Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu,” Georgia-based Waffle House wrote on X. But supply has bounced back in recent months, bringing prices back down to earth. By Joe Guszkowski on Jul.

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Condado Tacos overhauls its margarita lineup and drink sales spike by 20%

Restaurant Business

The combination of lemon and lime juices highlights the house-developed syrups and purees and doesn’t overpower the margaritas. We also brought back two flavors—prickly pear and blood orange—because guests told us loud and clear that they missed them when they were taken off the list.” By Patricia Cobe on Jul.

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Digital Transformation in the Restaurant Industry

The list goes on well beyond the restaurant back of house or food and beverage related challenges. Advanced analytics and forecasting. automated procurement. you name it, tech companies (like Apicbase) are already working on it. Think, a 25-75% reduction in food waste that translates to millions of dollars in savings.

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RESTAURANTS – POLI-ACTIVE / POLI-NEUTRAL

Culinary Cues

In those early days of European coffee houses, during the 17 th century, politics were the main source of conversation. In the American colonies, public houses, or taverns, followed suit as meeting places for the common man and self-proclaimed intellectuals. Today we are engulfed in information and misinformation.

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Vibe Check: Elevating Experience for Better Guest Engagement

Modern Restaurant Management

" Photo by Parker Hospitality Bringing a refined twist to a nostalgic favorite Urban Hill in Salt Lake City has a tableside s’mores experience with every element made in-house. ” Newly opened House of Yoshin in Huntington, NY. "We offer tableside prosciutto carts with three different prosciuttos. .”