Restaurant Business

JULY 2, 2025

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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ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

In this article, you will learn: The five most important restaurant costs to track and manage Easy strategies for controlling food costs and labor costs Tactics to save money without hurting your guest experience Lets start with the big picture and learn where your money is actually going.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

– Sophia Goldberg, Founder and CEO, Ansa The big lesson I learned is that I've had to continue to adapt my pricing, because people are still watching their spending. That's why we instituted lower-priced lunch specials and made other adjustments. During the shutdown I made more than 10,000 meals to give away.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

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. Running a restaurant is a balancing act. Its tough, and cant be done passively. What is Restaurant Operations Management?

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EATER

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The most accurate measure of land or CO2 “saved” by ordering a PLNT Burger is only attained if every purchase were originally intended to be for a fast-food beef burger instead. The numbers come from the 2022 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report of the vegan brand Beyond Meat , from which PLNT Burger gets its patties.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Do you lose money due to food waste? A higher-priced system that saves time and reduces errors might be more valuable than a cheaper, less effective alternative. What was once a gradual process turned into a rapid transformation, permanently reshaping how restaurants operate and interact with customers. Are labor costs too high?

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 13, 2025

This set the precedent for future astonishing auction prices, which have since surpassed US $10,000/kg. With the 2025 BoP auction scheduled for 6 August, all eyes will be on the bidders of the 97- and 98-point coffees, as many eagerly anticipate the extent of the prices they’re willing to pay.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

11, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Huddle House will add drive-thrus as it moves into more urban and suburban markets. | Perkins, the 68-year-old chain best known for its bakery case, recently began serving boba and frozen margaritas, while its younger sibling Huddle House, 61, is rolling out smash burgers. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The restaurant industry is going mobile, and restaurant apps are at the center of this transformation. If your business isnt keeping up with the changes, you risk falling behind and not meeting modern customer expectations. Diners want the convenience of ordering, booking, and engaging with their favorite restaurants straight from their phones.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

In 2024, restaurants across the country saw an average five percent increase in transactions and an average eight percent increase in profits with only four percent caused by price hikes. In recent years, the food service industry has undergone a rapid transformation of automation and increased technology usage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 27, 2025

The sale comes off the back of Starbucks’ continued market struggles in China. Homegrown rivals like Luckin and Cotti are outperforming the coffee giant, offering consumers similar quality drinks at a fraction of the price. Price and quality no longer suffice; coffee businesses must increasingly offer value in new, differentiated ways.

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The Rail

JULY 18, 2025

Diners are increasingly conscious of the environmental impact of their meals, not just in terms of ingredients, but also how their food is packaged. The fear is understandable: rising costs, supply inconsistencies, and confusion about materials can make the change feel overwhelming. Compact packaging takes up less storage space.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 15, 2025

High and volatile green coffee prices , along with increasing operational costs, are creating a more competitive market. In 1924, popular US brand Maxwell House spent the modern-day equivalent of US $4 million on marketing , including sponsored TV shows, which helped increase sales by 85% in just a few years.

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SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Now, as a copywriter at SpotOn, he helps restaurant owners and managers learn how to run a more profitable operation. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs. Contribution margins.

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Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

Available to developers and users with few restrictions. Backed by open data that is free for anyone to republish or use as is. While most restaurants do not have an in-house programmer, some work with their POS provider, or opt to hire third-party developers to build onto the API of their POS system. What is an Open API?

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Lavu

JUNE 30, 2025

Running a successful restaurant today requires more than great food and friendly service—it demands smart technology that drives efficiency. From the front-of-house to the kitchen, modern POS solutions reduce manual errors, improve staff productivity, and enhance the customer experience. Want to know more?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

While working hard to bring customers back into the restaurant is very important for success, it has become more important to figure out the third-party equation in terms of pricing, commissions and fees, and value – which is ultimately the difference between success and failure. This trend has held on in the last five years.

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Lavu

APRIL 25, 2025

Running a successful restaurant in 2025 isnt just about serving great food and offering good serviceit also requires the right technology behind the scenes. Kitchen Display Systems (KDS) : Streamline communication between front-of-house and kitchen staff. Want to run your restaurant more smoothly and save time?

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Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just about great food and service—it’s also about smart financial management. You probably joined the industry to make delicious food to serve and create a great environment for your patrons. You cannot manage your restaurant properly without going into the accounting details.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 30, 2025

See how outsourced bookkeeping saves time and reduces error: Explore the tangible benefits of delegating your financial back office to expert professionals. See how outsourced bookkeeping saves time and reduces error: Explore the tangible benefits of delegating your financial back office to expert professionals.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Data Gaps Hinder Pricing Strategies : 73 percent of operators lack full confidence in their pricing strategy, with most relying on gut instinct or competitor pricing instead of real-time cost analysis. decline in veganism, shift away from seed oils, Starbucks Monday, and spirts holding steady.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 18, 2025

Accra, Ghana) Tue, 15 Jul – Lucky Cup opens 6,000th store amid China price war. Robusta prices fell to their lowest levels since May 2024 after Brazil’s crop reached 69% completion, as improved supply prospects outweighed remaining quality and demand concerns, according to Safras & Mercado. from total figures in 2022.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

Editor’s note For the first time since December 2024, the C price has fallen below US $3/lb. Accelerated selling in an effort to capitalise on high prices has also helped drive the C market down. illycafé CEO Cristina Socchia recently told Bloomberg that prices will continue to fall before levelling out between US $2 to $2.50/lb

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Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 11, 2025

Ultimately, EUDR requires more due diligence across the supply chain, and consumers will bear the cost. Liverpool, UK) Wed, 9 Jul – Latest ICO report shows sharp decline in prices and global exports. to 92.4 US cents/lb, with Brazilian arabica FOB export prices down 13% to $1.78/lb billion US IPO for Joe & the Juice.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Restaurants will continue to invest in comprehensive Back-of-House Technologies Following the pandemic, restaurants focused heavily on Front-of-House technology to streamline and digitize the diner experience. Many operators have a wealth of data but aren’t putting it to work.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But to vast numbers of Main Street Americans, prices remained uncomfortably high, wages stagnant, housing scarce and expensive, and while unemployment was low, good paying jobs with dependable shifts and quality benefits were elusive. Twenty twenty-four will be remembered for many things, but the soft landing of the U.S.

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Restaurant Business

JULY 3, 2025

debut, Olo goes private and more A look back at the week’s biggest news in the restaurant industry from Restaurant Business. The fast-food beverage wars have begun. So long, farewell, egg surcharge With egg prices falling, Waffle House has lifted its 50-cent per egg surcharge. By Heather Lalley on Jul.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Social reckonings and politics and pandemics and recessions and all kinds of horrific real-world stuff have intersected with restaurants in a way that had to happen, but which has turned the act of eating food into pretty serious business. And that’s a good thing; food is serious business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2022

In the back of the house, rampant inflation and ongoing supply chain disruptions are cutting into margins. Simultaneously, staffing is an urgent and ongoing front-of-house concern. It is even more so for independent restaurants, which usually have one manager for all front- and back-of-house duties.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Certainly one thing on everyone’s mind today is price. Inflation, scarcity in the supply chain, and labor constraints have tacked on dollars. Fresh, premade guacamole is readily available and can be used as a base for your specific recipe and frees up your team’s time for other tasks like customer service front of house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2021

From full service to fast-casual to legacy fast-food brands, the one constant was disruption. This approach required fewer front-of-the-house staff to maintain a dining room, complied with government orders, and kept many brands from closing. Just as one issue seemed fixed, another presents itself.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2020

Business begins at the endpoint, especially in food service and hospitality. As well, pick-up lockers located away from in-room dining could allow guests to pick up food without human contact. As a new normal emerges, it will be more important than ever to elevate the dining experience with experiences that are personal and delightful.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since the pandemic, restaurants have endured a plethora of issues ranging from fluctuating dining restrictions to supply chain issues to rising food prices. But arguably no issue has proven to be as constant and bedeviling as the labor shortage. Demand for Dining Out Isn’t Going Anywhere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2022

When properly deployed, they can transform the employee experience by improving daily operations, syncing front-of-house and back-of-house communication and execution, and delivering a memorable dining experience that won’t send staff to the walk-in cooler for a good cry. Hospitality is greater than the sum of its parts.

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