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Pouring Profits: How Restaurants Can Save Big on Water Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

While this uncertainty may seem like a challenge, it also offers restaurateurs the opportunity to step back and look at the factors that may be eating away at their bottom line. Owners and operators need to focus on back-of-house spending to find ways to reduce expenses. One often-overlooked area is water consumption.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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– Salad House CEO Joey Cioffi In 2025, restaurant chains will increase their usage of connected equipment to be more responsive, resilient, and ready to meet evolving customer expectations in a data-first, efficiency-focused world. At the same time, technology is poised to play an even bigger role in the coming year.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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How to Find the Target Market for Your Restaurant

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On the other hand, when you know exactly who your ideal customers are, you can craft an experience that resonates with customers on a deeper, emotional level, creating a connection that will keep them coming back for years. Every successful restaurant has one thing in common: they know exactly who they are serving.

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How to Increase Restaurant Sales: 15 Strategies That Drive Revenue

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The real wins come from small, smart shifts; things like improving your online ordering system, highlighting your most profitable dishes, and giving existing customers more reasons to come back. Use photos, item placement, and smart labeling (for example, “guest favorite or “house specialty”) to steer attention toward high-margin menu items.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

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Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Its tough, and cant be done passively. What is Restaurant Operations Management? Great restaurant operations dont happen by accident.

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How to Build a Food Delivery App for Your Restaurant

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Choose the Right Technology Stack For back-end development, PHP frameworks like Laravel are an excellent choice because they offer scalability, robust security features, and seamless integration with APIs and third-party services. Have you noticed how food delivery apps are becoming essential in attracting and retaining diners?

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