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How to Build a Food Delivery App for Your Restaurant

The Rail

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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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. The report analyzed data from more than 30,000 QSR restaurants that generated a total of 4.5 billion transactions and $67 billion in sales in 2024. labor costs at 3 percent.

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Restaurant Industry in Review: Trends from June 2025

Black Box Intelligence

Monthly Restaurant Trends Review Out of the Box: June 2025 Same-store sales rose 2.0% in June, making it the industry’s strongest month since January. Only three of the past 22 months have posted stronger sales growth results than June 2025. The weakest regions in sales growth border the southern edge of the country; the strongest?

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Coffee News Recap, 18 Jul: Scooter’s Coffee reportedly considering US $1bn sale, China to remove all tariffs on African coffee-producing countries & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Washington, DC, US) Thu, 17 Jul – US House of Representatives serves 100% Puerto Rican coffee. In recent years, Africa’s exports to China have been steadily increasing, playing a crucial role in boosting the development of the continent’s agricultural sector. from total figures in 2022.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

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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2025 Small Business Outlook

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Cutting Food Stamps Isn’t Just Cruel, It’s Also Bad Economic Policy

EATER

Well into the wee hours of Thursday morning, House Republicans were hard at work doing what they do best: making the lives of all but the wealthiest Americans harder. When the economy is bad, SNAP dollars are immediately infused back into the system , resulting in $1.50 Republicans clearly dont care. in GDP growth for every $1 spent.