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7 Game-Changing Trends That Will Define Fast Casual & QSR in 2025

Qu

Today’s best loyalty programs offer early access to new menu items, surprise merchandise drops, and exclusive experiences. Catering's Comeback Story With offices reopening, catering is surging—24% of brands are making it a key focus for 2025. Here are the highlights from the webinar conversation: 1.

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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. Beneath the surface of the hospitality industry includes seamless operations and financial complexity that far exceeds standard business accounting. Key Takeaways Understand the key functions and principles of hospitality and leisure accounting.

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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable

SpotOn

This is all the income from your food and beverage sales, catering, branded merchandise, packaged goods, venue hire, etc. Your Cost of Goods Sold are your food and beverage costs along with the cost of any merchandise you sell. We all know it. Restaurant profit margins are pretty low. Labor costs.

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MRM Research Roundup: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged. Among delivery apps, DoorDash is the clear favorite.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features trends in off-premise, coffee wars, the AI lifeline, the return of lunch, and how teens spend their dollars. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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Martha Stewart’s ‘Entertaining’ Let Me Party Like It Was 1982

EATER

This would have been around 1996, by which point Stewart was about to launch her own media and merchandising company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She had been a contributor to House Beautiful , managed a food boutique, and ran a successful catering business that often served well-heeled clients in New York and its suburbs.

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The American Restaurant 2022 (Post Pandemic)

Culinary Cues

There are numerous multi-billion dollar chains along with countless mom and pop operations that do a great job on this front. This was (is) the design of classic coffee houses, speakeasys, and corner cafes for generations. I know what you are thinking – WHAT!!!! At least the real bad news is out of the way.

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