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

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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 Trends to Look For in 2025

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To reduce what goes to a landfill, more restaurants will start using closed-loop composting that turns waste into compost in 24 hours using heat and microbes. Some have started wine memberships that offer free tastings, discounts when dining and even wine shipped to the house each month. For $14.99

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

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In pursuit of these objectives, restaurants must reimagine dining experiences through enhanced restaurant technology, deepen their commitment to sustainability, and fine-tune their core offerings. Finding the balance between innovation and tradition is the secret recipe for enduring success in the evolving dining industry.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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B Corp Restaurants As of early 2024, almost 150 restaurants around the world have achieved the certification, from fine-dining independents to fast-casual chains, with hotels, breweries and food delivery companies also dotting the list. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue?

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

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environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between. This movement toward more sustainably sourced food in both our fast-casual and fine dining restaurants will continue to expand in the future. Many restaurants have also pivoted to outdoor dining amid the pandemic.

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BRING BACK THE 20 SEAT BISTRO

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There was little waste since managing twenty seats was much easier than trying to fill expansive dining rooms with a turn or two on busy nights. Instead of thirty-gallon trash cans spread out through the kitchen, there were two much smaller cans, a recycling bin, and tubs for compost.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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Fine and Family Dining Hurt by Holiday Shift. The best performing segments during November were those whose sales are the most negatively affected by Thanksgiving: fast casual, upscale casual and casual dining. Expect for casual dining, upscale casual and fine dining to have abysmal sales and traffic growth numbers.

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