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

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. 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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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

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While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual. Goodreads: 4.09

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Why Is Summer an Increased Time for Restaurant Injuries?

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Learn why it is important to implement restaurant safety tips to help reduce the risk of injury for these seasonal workers and throughout the entire year. For most teenagers and young adults, summertime means a break from the books and long hours of studying. Seasonal Jobs and Restaurant Injuries in the Summer.

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COVID-19 Best Practices for Restaurants: Navigating Coronavirus for Staff & Managers

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With new social distancing and self-isolation strategies, it’s clear that COVID-19 will have, and is having, an extreme impact on the restaurant and hospitality industry. Here’s what we know about the COVID-19 situation and what your restaurant can do during this uncertain time. How is COVID-19 impacting restaurants?

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How Insurance Needs Differ for Traditional Restaurants v. Mobile Food Businesses 

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Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. Running a restaurant can be validating, exciting, and thrilling all at once. Restaurant insurance can provide your business with a safety net when it comes to claims and risk. Dram shop law. Fire Coverage.

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The Formula for Franchise Success

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There were power outages, increased fuel prices, and ever-changing labor laws. Just before building out our second location, I got a call about a closing restaurant looking to sell their walk-in cooler for pennies on the dollar. This is everything related to work. Some circumstances were more favorable. Operations.

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How Mattenga’s Pizzeria Simplifies Labor Management—and Gets Back to Family Life

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2 hours per week When Mattenga’s bought the restaurant in 2014, they had been using spreadsheets to keep track of their weekly schedules. Optimizing & reducing labor costs Mattenga’s kept their labor costs steady at 22% - 27% A restaurateur’s labor costs are one of the largest—yet most flexible—of all the restaurant costs.