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Restaurant Workforce Research: Reflecting on 2024 and Optimizing for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

After millions left the industry in 2020, restaurants responded by increasing wages and leaning into incentives to attract employees back. To help restaurant operators better understand what employees want and need, close to 1,000 restaurant managers were surveyed regarding compensation, technology use, retention tactics, and more.

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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

After weathering years of pandemic-related challenges, the sector continues to rebound with optimism. This financial strain could dampen discretionary dining expenditures. By mid-2024, 82 percent of food and beverage operators were still actively recruiting, with chefs and cooks comprising 30 percent of open roles.

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Self-Ordering Kiosks: One Solution to the Current Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

With pandemic-related restrictions being eased and dine-in being allowed again, restaurant owners are in need of a lot of staff. In order to meet this massive shortfall, restaurants have had to up the ante on their recruitment drives. The food and beverage industry is on a hiring frenzy. million jobs (12 percent) short.

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Hungry for Growth: The Restaurant Industry in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants continue to mitigate impacts caused by COVID-19, many have pivoted and found new ways to redefine the dining experience. Several other pandemic-related trends will continue into 2022 and beyond, and new trends will also emerge. Consumers are showing similar signs of permanent behavioral change.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. Additional findings indicate that 44 percent favor a balance of human staff and some technology, while 41 percent prefer no AI use at all in their dining experience.

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5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Restaurant in 2025

The Rail

Opening a new dining space in 2025 calls for more than just a good recipe list or architectural sense. Evaluating Consumer Trends That Are Redefining the Dining Experience Consumer expectations have changed drastically; staying ahead implies creating your concept with those developments in mind.

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Experts Weigh In: What Are Key Challenges Restaurants Will Face in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

The challenges our teams have faced over the last two years specifically has made us value our employees now more than ever. As it relates to the labor crunch, we’re seeing in restaurant brands across the board: An impact in top-line revenue because customers aren't being served. Here are their insights.

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