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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. Freeze-Dried Fruit & Veggie Powders Freeze drying fruits or vegetables enhances both flavor and texture in beverages.

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WILL THE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE BECOME IMPERSONAL

Culinary Cues

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). It is, after all, the experience that makes dining special and allows restaurants to play such an important role in communities. Whats going on, how do restaurants overcome this problem?

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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

With households increasingly treating dining out as a luxury, every menu item and service interaction becomes a potential make-or-break moment. Accuracy of food order leads the way at 88, while beverage quality and waitstaff performance both score 86. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent menu-price inflation rate.

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How To Optimize Menu Categories For Better Sales And Simpler Decisions

ChowNow

For more information on menu psychology, read our article, Digital Menu Psychology: How to Influence Ordering Decisions Online. Good example: A fine dining restaurant using just five clearly defined sections—Small Plates, Mains, Sides, Desserts, and Beverages. It’s called decision fatigue , and it kills conversions.

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An Eater’s Guide to Sri Lanka

EATER

To say Sri Lanka has one cuisine ignores its deep culinary influences and strengths. The British also brought down South Indian laborers to work the plantations, and their descendants now form the Malaiyaha Tamil community in tea towns like Nuwara Eliya, where theres a strong South Indian influence at vegetarian-only restaurants.

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Average Restaurant Profit Margins: What They Are And How to Improve Yours

ChowNow

Your cost of goods sold (ingredients, beverages, packaging, etc.) Factors that influence your profit margins Several things determine how wide or narrow your restaurant profit margins can be: Location: Rent in a prime downtown spot can devour your net profit. This is the number that truly reflects your restaurants financial health.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience. The question now becomes – how to make sense of that data and use it to elevate the dining experience.

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