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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. Cheers to Zero: Embracing Non-Alcohol Culture The dedication to non-alcohol culture while maintaining the integrity and spirit of the drink will be featured across cocktail menus.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

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Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Ignoring compliance can lead to fines, bad press, or even shutdownsso having clear protocols in place is mandatory.

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Restaurant Website Best Practices With Examples

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A great dining experience starts long before someone walks through your door. 77% of diners visit a restaurants website before they dine in or order takeout or delivery. When your website houses your menu, hours, location and ordering, it becomes the single source of truth for your business. One clear button = one clear path.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

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Paperchase Benchmarks: Navigating Hospitality Finances in High-Cost Cities

Paper Chase Accountancy

” Average Check: This represents the average amount that is spent by each customer dining. For a restaurant emphasizing quality ingredients, the COGS percentage reflects the focus on sourcing better products than a typical QSR, while still aiming for efficiency. Servers are often taught to upsell to raise average check.

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Following a Devastating Hurricane, Neng Jr.’s and Asheville Restaurants Rebuild 

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I do have concerns if it even feels right to have this fine dining or special experience restaurant at this price point when theres still so much suffering, Silver wonders. No server who has lost a loved one needs to relive that trauma every time they step out into the dining room. Its very difficult for us, Silver explains.

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Inside the World of Hospitality and Leisure Accounting

Paper Chase Accountancy

Restaurants and Food Service: Including fine dining, fast casual, QSRs, cafes, and catering. Complex Revenue Streams: Revenue can come from room nights, food and beverage sales, event bookings, spa services, merchandise sales, and more, each with different recognition rules and tax implications.