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2025: The Year of Contradictions in the Restaurant Industry

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Instant Gratification and Sustainability Consumers today are deeply immersed in a culture of instant gratification, where anything that disrupts immediacy can feel like an inconvenience. Technology plays a key role in this, as smartphones serve as an endless stream of information, entertainment and social connection.

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What Consumers Want? A B2C Checklist

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Using technology to facilitate contactless payments, online ordering, and quick table rotation can increase consumers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Also, consider providing curbside, takeout, or delivery services in addition to flexible and quick ordering and delivery alternatives, including online, phone, or in-app ordering.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

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” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. You can see which other restaurants they frequent, too, and the types of items they order from those places.

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

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Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant. I think smart, AI-enabled platforms will turn data into intelligence around visit frequency, ordering, traffic patterns and more. As of 2024, over half of U.S.

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

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The report also includes additional key industry insights, including: Delivery sales and transactions increased industry-wide despite economic uncertainty: Kiosk as a channel is up 27 percent YoY and 49 percent since 2020, and mobile is up 21 percent YoY and 368 percent since 2020. billion in 2024 and is anticipated to rise at a CAGR of 3.74

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Digital Dining and ‘Restaurant Recovery’ Show

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Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. This approach is often expensive because these platforms charge a commission to fulfill the delivery for each order. On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store.

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MRM Research Roundup: Seasonal Hiring, Online Ordering and Feeding the Workplace

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features news on summer restaurant employment, indecisiveness ordering, online ordering trends, and the world's best cities for food. percent stating these hikes have changed their ordering decisions.