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

Modern Restaurant Management

When consumers order more food online, it’s clearly good for business – but it can also make it harder for businesses to manage inventory. In 2025, restaurants need to have a plan in place that ensures they are effectively managing inventory and redirecting unused, still edible food to donations.

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How to Read a Restaurant P&L (Profit and Loss) Statement + Free Template

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Your P&L line items should be consistent with the ones on different platforms—POS, inventory management, and accounting software. Joe Nicholson was a manager and tech consultant at one of the busiest restaurants in Sacramento, CA—Tower Cafe. Restaurant P&L statements can be downright confusing. Prime costs.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

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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. Among delivery apps, DoorDash is the clear favorite.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants will continue to invest in comprehensive Back-of-House Technologies Following the pandemic, restaurants focused heavily on Front-of-House technology to streamline and digitize the diner experience. Many operators have a wealth of data but aren’t putting it to work.

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Franchise Portfolio Diversification: Trends Taking Shape in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

This approach required fewer front-of-the-house staff to maintain a dining room, complied with government orders, and kept many brands from closing. The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a lot of chaos and accelerated several trends within the restaurant industry. Just as one issue seemed fixed, another presents itself.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Kitchen of the Future, Restaurant Sherpas and Dunkin’ Hirin’

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Franchise Feed offers a glimpse at what's new in the restaurant franchise and MUFSO environment. Send news to Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com.

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