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

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When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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Modernization Is on the Menu: How Restaurants Thrive in Today’s Competitive Landscape

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The margins are too fine for inefficiency and waste to compound challenges – not to mention bigger problems that can result from incorrect food information. The better and more consistent each customer touchpoint, the clearer information can be provided to staff to execute operations.

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How to Calculate and Improve Your Restaurant Food Cost Percentage (Free Calculator Inside)

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This is a problem because without a firm grasp of your food cost percentage, it’s nearly impossible to make informed decisions on pricing, purchasing, and profitability. It flags inefficiencies in your kitchen, purchasing, or inventory management. Subtract your ending inventory, meaning what’s left at the end of the time period.

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

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Accuracy of food order leads the way at 88, while beverage quality and waitstaff performance both score 86. Mobile app reliability is 1 percent lower at 84, matching beverage quality, staff courtesy and helpfulness, food quality, and website satisfaction (the only metric to increase in 2025). BBQ sales also jumped 31 percent.

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How Real-Time Inventory Tracking Helps Restaurants Cut Food Costs

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Real-Time Inventory Tracking offers a powerful solution by giving operators instant visibility into whats in stock, whats being used, and what needs to be reordered. With real-time data guiding inventory decisions, restaurants can take tighter control of their food costs and boost long-term profitability.

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Tariffs & Turmoil: How Restaurant Operators Can Navigate Supply Chain Chaos and Rising Costs

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The most critically important element in getting through this long-term challenge is to stay informed on what I actually is happening with policy and the impact on supply-chains, according to Kafarakis. "And The only path to successful innovation is through collaboration with manufacturing partners.

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Restaurant KPIs Every Operator Should Track (With Easy-to-Use Formulas)

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Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) Cost of Goods Sold tells you how much it actually costs to make the food and beverage sales you sell. This includes kitchen ingredients, beverages, and packagingbasically, all of your raw materials. If your Cost of Goods Sold is too high, your profit margins sufferno matter how packed your dining room is.