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

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With so many people leaving the industry, restaurants stepped up—raising wages, creating new opportunities, and doubling down on the employee experience. Much of that confidence comes from focusing on stronger employee benefits—like mental health support—and rising wages.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. ” Additionally, you will speak to or put in place written policies around employee and manager expectations and a code of ethics.

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From acqui-hire to vaporware: The new restaurant tech ABCs

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Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” AI agents will no doubt make their way into restaurants themselves, where they could be used to create schedules or order supplies, easing the workload on managers.

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

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Even with these enhancements in service quality, consumers still value having a real employee on the other end providing services. The Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund (FARE Fund) is paid for by the American Rescue Plan Act. The report analyzed data from more than 30,000 QSR restaurants that generated a total of 4.5

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

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Year of Experimentation Square released early insights from its forthcoming annual Future of Commerce report, providing a unique look at the restaurant, retail and beauty industries across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. ” A Year of Challenges U.S. Texas Roadhouse’s visits grew 7.2 percent during 2024 and were up 4.2

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

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alcohol products from retail stores. However, confidence does not always equate to effective supply chain management, with nearly half (43 percent) reporting that they struggle to maintain supply chain visibility. Within QSRs, fast-casual restaurants led the way, growing transactions by 2 percent in March. Additionally, U.S.

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2025 Small Business Outlook

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• The Global Supply Chain : The global supply chain today is functioning better than it was several years ago as we emerged from the pandemic. 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.