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Table for One – Elevating the Solo Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Solo dining – a time dedicated to eating a meal alone at a sit-down restaurant – is an opportunity for diners to practice self care over a meal, whether that be by relaxing and reflecting at the end of a long day or even by engaging the mind with a book or catching up on the news. Just the “cover count.”

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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

2025 Dining Trends Embracing Newstalgia Chefs and mixologists will lean into ‘newstalgia’ by adding playful twists on classic dishes. While swicy took the front seat this year, Rubix’s proprietary research found that 5 percent more Gen Z respondents reported having frequent sweet and salty cravings over sweet and spicy.

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Restaurants Can Use Music to Elevate the Guest Experience on Mother’s Day 

Modern Restaurant Management

Mother’s Day reigns queen as the largest dining-out holiday of the year, with Americans projected to spend around $35.7 Diners are booking their tables well in advance, turning “no reservations available” into a badge of honor that signals high demand and exclusivity. billion on celebrations this year.

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The Next Era of American Fine Dining Is Here, Care of West Africa

EATER

He opened the buzzy 15-seat Brooklyn restaurant, one of Eater’s Best New Restaurants of 2022 , after winning the city over with a dinner series called Iya Eba in the late summer of 2020. “I Chefs bringing West African cuisine into the American fine dining space have inevitably had to educate even the most interested customers. “I

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Debt-Free Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

The duo transfomed a dilapidated cottage themselves entirely by hand into an intimate 12-seat restaurant that has received numerous accolades. In what ways does having a limited seat count offer advantages when containing costs? We want to one day dine at those restaurants. Few things affect this scale more than cover count.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Lessons Learned From Two Years of Socially Distanced Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Reports show that 81 percent of fine dining establishments, 78 percent of family restaurants, and 77 percent of fast-casual spots added curbside pickup, pivoting away from dine-in services after March 2020. Booking an in-person reservation was a much more immersive experience. meal delivery consumer spending.

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The Restaurant Operator’s Guide to Restaurant Apps in 2025

ChowNow

Diners want the convenience of ordering, booking, and engaging with their favorite restaurants straight from their phones. A packed dining room is great, but without the right system, long wait times and disorganized seating can lead to frustrated customers and lost business. Staff scheduling and management apps.

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