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Restaurant Industry in Review: Trends from June 2025

Black Box Intelligence

Monthly Restaurant Trends Review Out of the Box: June 2025 Same-store sales rose 2.0% Only three of the past 22 months have posted stronger sales growth results than June 2025. The weakest regions in sales growth border the southern edge of the country; the strongest? Comp Sales -0.9% Comp Sales -0.9%

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. From a legal perspective, Insurance : the pandemic highlighted the limitations of insurance policies. Workforce : COVID fundamentally changed the labor market.

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MRM Research Roundup: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features dining trends, hiring trends, tech trends, brunch trends, alcohol trends, and egg prices. American Diner Trends Despite a higher cost of living, the average consumer’s dining habits are unchanged.

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The Guide to Equitable Restaurant Tip Payout Methods & Systems

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Servers, sometimes other FOH staff. Full-service restaurant, fine dining. Servers, other FOH staff. Fast casual, cafes, breweries, Percentage of sales. All servers or cashiers, other FOH staff. All servers or cashiers, other FOH staff. Points based. Tips paid to those who collect. Tip pooling.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry movers and shakers: "What do you feel is going to cause disruption in the restaurant industry over the next decade?” Elo’s Sonal Apte, vice president of retail and hospitality. Guests will demand a personalized journey when food is delivered to their door.

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How The Snug Took Control of Labor and Evolved Their Restaurant

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Outdoor dining One way they evolved their operations was by taking advantage of San Francisco’s new shared spaces program to extend their dining outdoors in order to keep revenue up. So there was no way for one driver, even two of us at one point, my partner, to get hot food to that many people across the whole city.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. From cleaning flat tops to refilling sanitizers, it’s easy for tasks to get lost in the shuffle.