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

Modern Restaurant Management

Building on the company’s 2022 tour, this year’s research included six markets – Tampa, FL; Los Angeles, CA; Austin, TX; Portland, OR; Denver, CO; and New York City, NY – spanning 45 diverse casual dining, polished casual, fine dining, and cocktail bars.

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The Ultimate Guide To Restaurant Marketing: Strategies for Restaurant Operators In 2025

ChowNow

Between online reservations, third-party delivery apps, and direct ordering from your website, digital interactions often happen before a guest ever steps through your doors. A casual brunch spot in a college town will attract a different crowd than a high-end steakhouse in a business district. Are you all about sustainable sourcing?

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86 Your Brand Issues: How to Build Cohesive, Memorable Brands that Resonate with Guests

Modern Restaurant Management

We were entering the saturated fast-casual burger space and knew we needed to make an impact. First, You need toensure you’re maintaining brand consistency across multiple locations, and that involves streamlining logistics, sourcing, and staff training to keep quality high across your chain.

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From acqui-hire to vaporware: The new restaurant tech ABCs

Restaurant Business

One example is OpenAI’s Operator, a tool that can perform web-based tasks like making a restaurant reservation or ordering food from a delivery app. Edge computing “Computing that takes place at or near the physical location of either the user or the source of the data.” —Red They are getting into restaurant reservations.

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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

Benefit expectations vary by restaurant type: For example, respondents from casual dining restaurants hope to achieve a significantly greater benefit in enhancing customer experience (60 percent) compared to those in the quick service, fast casual and café segments (48 percent). What's Fueling QSR and Fast Casual Visits?

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DoorDash acquires tech firm Symbiosys to supercharge its advertising business

Restaurant Business

Ads are appealing for delivery apps: They are another source of revenue, and a profitable one at that. In addition to delivery, it now offers software such as online ordering and mobile apps, and will soon add reservations and marketing tools with the pending acquisition of SevenRooms. “At Sign up here. Have consumers moved on?

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tableside ordering via tablets, tableside payment, POS systems designed with mobility and flexibility in mind have dominated the market growing out of the fast casual. We’re also seeing many of our clients find new ways to be more sustainable in sourcing their food products. Ilona Knopfler, Partner, Le Bilboquet.