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

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory.

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The Rise of Transparent Dining and What It Means for Restaurants

The Rail

Diners are researching menus, scanning quick response (QR) codes, and evaluating supply chains with a level of detail once reserved for industry insiders. Advancing technologies are foundational to supply chain transparency. Showcase sourcing on websites, digital menus, and social media in a straightforward way.

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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. They then sell the reservations on unauthorized online resale sites and social media. Top categories by share: Whisky: 27 percent share (+3.6

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Avoid Digital Pitfalls When a Restaurant Changes Hands

Modern Restaurant Management

Beyond the brick and mortar, there are many digital assets to manage during the transition phase. If the restaurant uses a third-party hosting service for its website, be sure to get record of the login information and contact information of the service provider. The same applies to websites on other platforms like WordPress or Drupal.

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Is Your Ghost Kitchen Haunted by Food Safety Breaches?

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is still dealing with pandemic-related issues, including supply chain disruptions, new COVID variants and surging cases, labor shortages, rising prices, and a shift in consumer demand. Therefore, post your health inspection reports on your website and social media platforms. Commit to ongoing training.

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Five Tips to Minimize Super-Sized Labor Costs

Modern Restaurant Management

One smart idea is investing in software that can schedule employees’ working hours, manage HR processes, prepare payroll, analyze labor data, and monitor employee attendance. Self-service kiosks can maximize the number of on-premise orders while mobile apps or websites allow customers to place orders directly without staff intervention.

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Keeping the Food Chain Safe with Master Data Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Add cybersecurity risks, mix in consumer desire for transparency, then layer in the collection of consumer data collection and you’ve got a perfect storm of data management challenges across the food supply chain. For clarity: ELM Customers are both internal and external.