Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Suddenly we find that 2024 is almost behind us now but Future Food would like to share with you the trends and insight that we see across the food and hospitality sector. From the rise of AI to the increasing popularity of experiential dining, businesses are adapting creatively to meet new consumer demands.

Hospitality

The Food Corridor

APRIL 11, 2025

As whispers of an economic slowdown grow louder and fears of rising prices for food and equipment continue to rise, many shared kitchen operators are asking the same question: How can we stay resilient if a recession hits? And build for sustainability—not just survival. Small improvements here can have big payoffs. Stay nimble.

Cash Management

Lavu

JUNE 26, 2025

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just about great food and service—it’s also about smart financial management. Whether you’re a seasoned operator or just getting started, understanding the numbers behind your business can mean the difference between breaking even and breaking records.

2025

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

Enhanced Security: Built-in safeguards for customer and business data. The results speak for themselves: businesses using these systems see a 25% improvement in order accuracy and a 30% reduction in customer wait times. Beyond operational speed, these systems equip business owners with real-time data to make informed decisions.

POS

EATER

JANUARY 31, 2025

They were, at the time, tasked by the food relief nonprofit with feeding firefighters in the Altadena community, a historic African American neighborhood all but destroyed by the raging Eaton Fire just days after New Years. Like so much that week, things quickly and repeatedly changed.

Food Truck

Restaurant Clicks

APRIL 8, 2025

These places have earned loyal fans by serving stellar food. From big-city legends to small-town treasures, each offers something special. Texas BBQ is more than food—it’s tradition, passion, and community. This relatively new spot has made waves by serving high-quality meats with a focus on sustainability. 14 Blood Bros.

Seasonal Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2025

Identifying Challenges and Uncovering Opportunities SpotOn unveiled its 2025 Restaurant Business Report , revealing the financial challenges restaurant operators face and the opportunities to strengthen their businesses. On a year-over-year basis, small business sales (+2.1 Independent operators feel the squeeze the most.

Delivery

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 6, 2025

The petition, initiated by New York’s Coffee Bros, calls for the Trump administration to exempt coffee from tariffs under US trade policies, recognise coffee as a non-manufactured, essential agricultural commodity, and protect US small businesses and the global producers they depend on.

2025

EATER

MARCH 19, 2025

Appalachian Sustainable Development The USDAs decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls, and the end of donations at charitable groups across the country all as hunger continues to climb Ayurella Horn-Muller is a staff writer at Grist. And its good food that can build bonds in the community.

Food

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2021

As the world grapples with the next wave of COVID-19, businesses are confronted with product and labor shortages, a sudden increase in ecommerce and a variety of shifting consumption patterns. As for the thousands of restaurants that operate as a small business, Gen Z business owners seemed to be more poised to pivot to digital.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

Experiential dining, plant-based menus and sustainability were hot topics in the Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) 2023 Trends Report. The discussion included food, beverage, nutrition, lifestyle and unique aspects of boutique and high volume foodservice. Lcal and sustainable food is a mega trend in the restaurant business.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Expert Market’s survey results also revealed that labor shortages have been cited as a top concern for nearly a quarter (23 percent) of US F&B businesses, top chart. This insight highlights staffing issues as a concerning and current challenge faced by US F&B businesses. Economic Uncertainty (52 percent) 3.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2023

Those areas of your restaurant that aren’t typically seen by customers but directly impact your business. So, even if your customers are unaware of what’s going on behind the scenes, any operational inefficiencies will eventually surface – with potentially dire consequences for your business.

Front of House

Culinary Cues

MARCH 30, 2020

Low profitability, vendor challenges, rising cost of goods, cumbersome regulations, high rents, expensive marketing, and ebbs and flows of business volume have collectively made this enticing business to enter – nearly impossible to maintain. “We Food is the universal language, a language that everyone speaks and enjoys using.

Small Business

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Remove buffet and other communal food areas. This has forced businesses and city officials to get creative , blocking off sidewalks and even closing down streets in order to create al fresco dining rooms. Restaurants could also consider implementing a modern point-of-sale system to streamline their business processes.

Outdoor

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

So technicians climb into their trucks, making three extra 40-mile round trips to complete the necessary repairs. This is just one of the questions restaurants are tackling in their focus on sustainability. Not only are restaurants themselves driving this sustainability movement, so are their customers.

Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” 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. Over the next decade, a generation passionate about health and wellness will demand restaurants be transparent about food from farm to table.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. Business owners have had to adjust quickly under these new circumstances, and SpotOn's solutions are filling that need. ” Tastewise Data.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2021

Alignable’s July Rent Report has just been released, based on a poll of 5,911 small business owners that concluded last week. Times are even tougher for 64 percent of nonprofits, 50 percent of entertainers/artists, 48 percent of small businesses in the transportation sector, and 43 percent of event planners.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Few scenarios strike more fear into a restauranteur’s heart than the prospect of serving food to patrons that makes them sick. However, even with the greatest attention to food safety, there is no single way to eliminate all foodborne illness because its sources are numerous and diverse. Traceability Is Essential.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature help for small business owners and products for the 'new normal' for restaurants as they reopen. “The ability to customize delivery limits and costs to our customers was especially powerful, as it helped us remain competitive at a cost our business can afford.”

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

TouchBistro Loyalty will give restaurateurs in-depth customer insights so they are able to deliver an exceptional guest experience, every time; drive more sales and encourage repeat visits by implementing powerful customer data-driven campaigns; and efficiently and effectively promote their business using sophisticated CRM and marketing tools.

Food Safety

EATER

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Airbnb owners gave free housing, local business owners donated everything from hygiene products to headlamps, and the culinary community got to work cooking 50,000 meals in six days for people affected by the fires, many of whom were grieving or in shock. WCK was mobilizing, and it needed to connect with people on the ground.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 8, 2020

From takeaways to contact-free deliveries, discounts, and collection services, hospitality businesses have rolled up their sleeves to try and provide their regular services from the distance. Upon such request, the UK government announced a £330bn loan support package which aims to help businesses impacted by the coronavirus.

Food Truck

7 Shifts

AUGUST 27, 2021

Mike Bausch and his brother Jim opened their first location, Andolini's Pizzeria , in 2005, and have since expanded the business to include multiple locations of Andolini's as well as other restaurant concepts including pizzerias, slice shops, food trucks, and fine dining restaurants. Table of Contents. Keeping in sync.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

“The food at Taco John’s was definitely a differentiator as I was doing my research in the industry. “As we expand to larger cities, restaurant entrepreneurs like Dara are just who we’re looking for – with a passion for the food, and his background in the industry, we definitely have a winner here.”

Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

They include PepsiCo, Uber Eats, Constellation Brands, Moët Hennessy USA, Robin Hood Foundation, Ecolab, Cargill, Boston Beer Company, Shift4 Payments, P&G Professional, Ventura Foods, United HealthCare, The Elliot Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and the Light Foundation. makes it easy for guests to support local restaurants.

Employee Relations

7 Shifts

JULY 21, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, social distancing, and business closures make it next to impossible to generate pre-coronavirus revenue numbers. From small business loans to microgrants to business credit cards, cash is available; it just takes a bit of application work and a little know-how. And no money means mo' problems.

Cash Management

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

. “Without assistance at all levels of government, many of these businesses will be forced to close their doors. This coalition seeks to provide a unified front willing and able to affect positive policy changes that support restaurants and bars both large and small.” Unfortunately, many already have. NAB Acquires SALIDO.

Fast Casual

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It remains difficult to fully staff a restaurant ; making food trucks can be the most logical concept to open in the current economy. Large cities like Portland, Los Angeles, and Austin are best known for their food trucks, but cities of all sizes are seeing more of these concepts pop up. 33 Food Truck Ideas.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In a survey of 4,079 small business owners conducted from 8/15 to 9/13/21, 66 percent reported having a "very difficult" time finding the right employees to fill open roles, many of which are necessary to help them drive revenue and rebound. Delivering Excellence. ” Supporting Local. ” Attracting New Diners.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

A number of restaurant and retail store owners in the city of Pasadena have quietly established the nation’s first dense “face-pay” network, top video.These small business owners have embraced an advanced facial recognition technology that lets their customers make secure, hands-free purchases using only their faces.

Kitchen Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

believes the coronavirus is not going to have a single blanket impact on all aspects of the economy or even the retail economy or food sector more specifically. 17 percent said they were just avoiding dining-in (opting to pick-up or have food delivered), with 10 percent appearing to lean toward Ordering for Pickup only.

Mobile Ordering

Cheetah

JANUARY 30, 2022

Disposable restaurant supplies are part of critical inventory used by every restaurant, food-truck and caterer on a daily basis. This is both for food safety, but also for personal health. Cheetah provides a variety of critical disposables and detergents for the protection of food-service workers. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

Supplies

Cheetah

JANUARY 30, 2022

Disposable restaurant supplies are part of critical inventory used by every restaurant, food-truck and caterer on a daily basis. This is both for food safety, but also for personal health. Cheetah provides a variety of critical disposables and detergents for the protection of food-service workers. Reading Time: 3 minutes.

Supplies

EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The cocktails embody what makes Amazonia so special: its massive pisco collection, the way smoky flavors weave through both food and drink, and how distinctly Peruvian ingredients are the star. Visionary border cooking awaits at Austin’s best new taco truck. The Tipping Point. Jaya Saxena. It’s a winning approach. Erin DeJesus.

2022

Cheetah

APRIL 13, 2021

When we first set out to provide e-commerce solutions for Small-Medium business supplies, we were hoping to make just a bit of a dent. We pride ourselves on developing a platform that provides a simple, flexible, and fast solution to support thousands of restaurants and SMB businesses with their grocery and supply needs.

Operations