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

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2025 Cocktail/Beverage Trends Ingredients on the Rise Super Juice Acid correction is a technique that allows bartenders to sustainably mimic flavors not locally available, such as using acid-corrected local citruses in Roatán in the Caribbean to replace lemons in cocktails.

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Restaurant Experts Talk Sustainability Tips and Trends

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Sustainability continues to be a pressing issue for restaurants and the world. One of the penultimate responsibilities as a professional chef is learning to work sustainably. One of the penultimate responsibilities as a professional chef is learning to work sustainably. Lisa Dahl, Chef and Restaurateur, Dahl Restaurant Group.

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

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So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining. Expect 2025 to see a renewed fight for the survival and growth of local markets, driven by both consumers and restaurateurs who value authenticity, sustainability, and the vital social role these markets play. – Sharon Olson.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. In the short term, it’s QSR that will experience labor improvement, then fast-casual. Restaurants will become increasingly casual.

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MRM Research Roundup: Seasonal Hiring, Online Ordering and Feeding the Workplace

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Casual Dining Preferences Market Force Information unveiled a survey on casual dining preferences across the United States highlighting shifting trends influenced by economic factors and evolving consumer tastes. Sustainable packaging is a differentiator : 43 percent of orderers prefer sustainable food packaging.

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

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introduced "Perkins Griddle Go," a fast-casual concept for quick on-the-go meals, in 2024, with the first store opening in late October. Increased costs of sustainable packaging and adherence to government regulations contribute to financial burdens. Perkins American Food Co. in the U.S. economy. "The

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MRM People & Places: Cassoulet War, Zagat Stories and AQUAlounge

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With so many amazing new dining and entertainment experiences emerging around the world, it feels good to be a part of that revolution and to bring something unique back to San Diego.” “Mission Bay is the largest man-made aquatic recreation area in the world, entertaining 15 million visitors annually,” says Hunter.

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