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Four Lessons That Shaped My Restaurant Industry Journey

Modern Restaurant Management

Balancing Innovation with Operational Efficiency While technology and innovation have been game-changers for the restaurant industry, there’s a balance to strike to ensure it’s not just innovation for innovation’s sake. Some of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned fall into four key areas.

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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2025, the restaurant and broader hospitality industry finds itself at a critical juncture. While corporate travel is expected to pick up, helping offset a predicted slowdown in leisure spending, the broader hospitality sector must grapple with economic and operational risks. restaurants broke records with projected sales of $1.1

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Here Are the 2025 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Award Finalists

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The announcement also includes winners of the foundations Leadership, Humanitarian of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement awards. Chad Houser was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year Award, and author and journalist Toni Tipton-Martin was granted the Lifetime Achievement Award. Ethical sourcing will also be considered.

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A Call for Human-Centric Restaurant Leadership in an AI Future

Modern Restaurant Management

Current Challenges of Rapid Technological Advancement As technology evolves, the hospitality sector faces the dilemma of integrating the useful tool of AI and robotics seamlessly into the customer experience. AI does have so much to offer the service industry in areas of fry cook tasks to food running robots.

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Former Red Robin CEO G.J. Hart joins food-and-games investment company Emerging

Restaurant Business

The growth capital firm behind the food-and-games brands Puttshack, F1 Arcade and Flight Club has added more restaurant industry firepower to its leadership team. Emerging is a company founded by Mathew Focht that describes itself as investing “at the intersection of restaurant innovation, technology and experiential entertainment.”

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MRM Plant-Based: Good Food Scorecard and Healthier Hospital Food

Modern Restaurant Management

We look forward to continuing to innovate and find ways to make ordering plant-based at Taco Bell even more accessible at a great value,” said Taco Bell Corp Chief Food Innovation Officer Liz Matthews. Healthier Hospitals. Council introduced the Healthy Hospitals Amendment Act of 2019.

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Growing a Restaurant Strategically – The Keys Are Alignment, Timing and Control

Modern Restaurant Management

Small pilots expose weaknesses, risks and required iterations so leadership can determine if initial plans need adjustment, delay or abandonment. They typically lack hospitality experience and starve long play investments that may temporarily compress margins like training, retention, community building and quality.