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

Modern Restaurant Management

Star of the Show: Salted Egg Yolk This centuries-old ingredient has been a staple in traditional Chinese dishes, offering a umami flavor and saltiness, perfect for items like a creamy pasta or topping a Caesar salad and featured on menus including District at Kimpton Shinjuku Tokyo and Bambara at Kimpton Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City.

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IMMIGRATION AND THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

Culinary Cues

If you enjoy dining out, its time you gave some thought to what it takes to prepare and serve those items that give you pleasure on the plate. How do you think hotels will survive without immigrant workers? How do you think hotels will survive without immigrant workers? Who would do much of this work if it werent for immigrants?

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No Reservations About Putting Restaurants First

Modern Restaurant Management

"Pre-pandemic, only fine dining establishments typically used tools like prepayments or deposits. ." Nick Kokonas was trying to solve Alinea's costly no-show problem and the resistance they faced when introducing prepaid reservations. Tock's origin story is all about problem solving.

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5 Ways AI Reduces Food Waste in Restaurants by 30%

The Rail

Example : IHG Hotels & Resorts partnered with Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution that helps the hotel chain optimize food production across several of their properties. This enables restaurants to adjust orders, create specials, and repurpose ingredients before they spoil.

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WILL THE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE BECOME IMPERSONAL

Culinary Cues

Customers are becoming more discerning about value and anxious about the price of a meal (from quick service to fine dining). The restaurant has been, is, and hopefully will remain a special place for gathering, celebrating, relaxing, learning about, and enjoying the work of the chef and mixologist. This is true for every business.

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Book Dinner and a Room at Paris’s Best Hotel Restaurants

EATER

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Thomas Tissandier Inside Citrons et Hutres.

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An Eater’s Guide to Sri Lanka

EATER

hadynyah/Getty Images A local food expert provides the ideal culinary tour of Sri Lanka, from the islands palm tree-lined beaches to its rolling highland tea plantations Floating just below the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka is a stunningly verdant island cloaked in jungles. Travel around and youll be rewarded. Whats the food in Sri Lanka like?