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2025: The Year of Contradictions in the Restaurant Industry

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Two-thirds of Gen Z and Millennials admit to spending more time online than they’d like, driving a desire for balance between online and in-person connections. Technology plays a key role in this, as smartphones serve as an endless stream of information, entertainment and social connection.

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MRM Research Roundup: Seasonal Hiring, Online Ordering and Feeding the Workplace

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news on summer restaurant employment, indecisiveness ordering, online ordering trends, and the world's best cities for food. percent stating these hikes have changed their ordering decisions.

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

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Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant. I think smart, AI-enabled platforms will turn data into intelligence around visit frequency, ordering, traffic patterns and more.

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How Your Restaurant Can Take Advantage of the Virtual Event Trend

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Virtual events allow people to feel connected and to enjoy themselves, despite the fact that they can’t do so in a restaurant, bar, or other venues. Although people may be restricted from dining in your physical restaurant space, there are many virtual events your restaurant can take part in order to connect with past and future guests.

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Lessons from the Pandemic and the Road Forward for Hospitality

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At this time last year, restaurants and bars across the country went from being houses of entertainment and joy to being forced to close as part of wide-spread mandated shutdowns to stop the spread of an uncontrollable and unknown pandemic. Shock, uncertainty, and confusion took hold of our lives and businesses. The Biggest Challenges.

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Food Delivery and Service Robots: Changing Face of Restaurants Industry

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In order to deal with these uncertainties, the top players had to work on bringing in technological advancements to survive and recover from the losses caused by the pandemic. Robots are able to improve the guest experience by analysing the online reviews from hotels and restaurants.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. One great thing about the online delivery market is that it produces massive amounts of data. Heloise Blaure, founder of HomeKitchenLand.com.