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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2025, the restaurant and broader hospitality industry finds itself at a critical juncture. After weathering years of pandemic-related challenges, the sector continues to rebound with optimism. In 2023, the average cost of a hospitality-related breach surged 14 percent to $3.36

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MRM Research Roundup: Experimentation, Valentine’s Vibe Shift, and Wine Cork Market

Modern Restaurant Management

As businesses seek routes to greater efficiency while still maintaining hospitality, Square’s research shows that 85 percent of restaurant leaders plan to invest in technology, such as new AI and automation tools, to help improve their companies this year. An analysis of insurance claims processed in 2024 compared to 2023 shows a 4.4

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2025 Small Business Outlook

Modern Restaurant Management

It is estimated that 10 percent of all restaurant employees are undocumented as are at least 25 percent of all agriculture employees, according to the Pew Research Center. A significant loss of undocumented labor could force both the cost of labor and food for restaurants considerably higher. should be a catalyst for growth in 2025.

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What a Nuclear Verdict Means for a Restaurant

Society Insurance

A $10 million lawsuit would be the nail in the coffin for nearly every hospitality business. Society Insurance has spent 110 years helping protect businesses and has seen firsthand how nuclear verdicts have evolved in the U.S. This information does not amend, modify or supplement any insurance policy.

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2025 Trends: What Hospitality Businesses Should be Preparing For

Modern Restaurant Management

For more than 100 years, Society Insurance has been providing coverage to hospitality businesses. To commemorate the start of 2025, we compiled four trends that could dominate conversations surrounding hospitality businesses longevity this year. More Storm Preparation Storm-related devastation was all too familiar in 2025.

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Four Things Bar and Restaurant Owners Should Consider in their Coverage 

Modern Restaurant Management

With the laundry list of everything bar and restaurant owners need to handle on a daily basis, proper insurance coverage should be top priority. With the guidance of a skilled agent that is well educated in the hospitality industry, bar and restaurant owners should be able to let the experts lead the way.

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Pandemic Pivots Don’t Offset Restaurants’ Need to Manage Looming Risks

Modern Restaurant Management

These virtual brands have allowed restaurants to hone in on hot niche trends (anything chicken related, typically) with consumers. If they are payroll employees, they should get additional auto coverage; the restaurant is protected in the event of a driver’s accident. Cracker Barrel trialed a chicken and biscuit concept.