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

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With so many people leaving the industry, restaurants stepped up—raising wages, creating new opportunities, and doubling down on the employee experience. Much of that confidence comes from focusing on stronger employee benefits—like mental health support—and rising wages.

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THE IMPORTANT THINGS I LEARNED IN THE KITCHEN

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Here is one excerpt from his journal of observations: Service industry work develops the soft skills recruiters talk about on LinkedIn discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. Every time I look back on a long career, these words seem to resonate.

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

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Even with these enhancements in service quality, consumers still value having a real employee on the other end providing services. Also, keeping employees in a high-turnover business continues to be difficult, with QSRs requiring competitive wages and benefits to secure employees.

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Restaurant Accounting Tips Made Simple: Expert Ways to Boost Profits in 2025

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Balancing your books and managing your finances are not really part of that overarching plan. This also includes payroll taxes and employee benefits. First, employees who work for more than 40 hours weekly have a statutory entitlement to overtime rates for every extra hour worked. This amount does not include your COGS.

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28 Strategies to Cut Costs in the Restaurant Business

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Book Your Free Demo Now How to Determine Labor Cost Percentage To determine the labor cost for a restaurant, you will need to calculate the total amount of money spent on labor (wages, salaries, benefits, etc.) Be transparent and reward employees. Employee referral bonuses for recommending cost-effective suppliers or vendors.

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Self-Order Kiosk Price Guide 2025: How Much Does It Really Cost to Boost Restaurant Sales?

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There are many benefits of including these kiosks in a fast casual or quick service restaurant: Save on labor costs because you won’t need as many employees to take orders. If a customer gets stuck in the ordering process, one of your nearby employees can jump in to help everything get sorted out.

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Restaurant POS Software Guide: Choose the Best System to Boost Profits in 2025

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Related: 8 Features to Look for in Restaurant POS Software What Are the Benefits of Using Restaurant POS Software? Whether you’re a manager that needs to track table layouts and employee shifts or you’re a server that needs to ring up customers efficiently, having the proper restaurant POS system is an aid that cannot be underestimated.

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