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Embracing the Future: Key Trends Shaping the Restaurant, Bar, and Hospitality Industry in 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

As we step into 2025, the restaurant, bar, and hospitality industries are experiencing transformative shifts driven by evolving consumer preferences, technological innovation, and economic dynamics. As we navigate these changes, one theme stands out: innovation.

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Twenty Years of Change: How Hospitality Tech Evolved and What’s Next

Modern Restaurant Management

Twenty years ago, hospitality looked very different. Yet even then, operators were innovating—often quietly and creatively. Over the last two decades, I’ve worked alongside operators in just about every hospitality setting—independent cafés, high-end dining rooms, food halls, and regional chains.

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Balancing Dining Experiences with Cost-Conscious Strategies

Modern Restaurant Management

“This enduring customer loyalty drives the restaurant industry forward, creating clear opportunities for restaurants to enhance the dining experience through strategic limited time offers, efficient delivery and exceptional in-person service," said Samir Zabaneh, CEO of TouchBistro.

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Expanding the Definition of Value

Modern Restaurant Management

More than eight in ten restaurant operators expect 2025 sales to meet or exceed 2024 levels, but rising competition will require differentiation through experience, service, and innovation, according to The National Restaurant Association’s 2025 State of the Restaurant Industry report. Consumers have pent-up demand for restaurant meals.

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5 Examples of Customer Service Innovation in Hospitality

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

The hospitality industry constantly changes and evolves in the face of new industry and consumer trends. Customer service is at the core of innovation and good business practices. Customer service is at the core of innovation and good business practices. Unique socio-economic shifts also dictate the course of the market.

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Value-Driven Messaging Fuels Increased Traffic

Modern Restaurant Management

"Also, leveraging demographic data to augment loyalty programs and special offers was a critical factor in successful campaigns." Despite the value that appears to come from having deeper knowledge of loyalty program members, only about half (52 percent) of QSRs leverage third-party demographic data in their loyalty programs.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

We'll see the continued shift of leveraging AI to help with other commodity tasks to free up humans to have more time to give customers higher-quality hospitality. These insights will help anticipate individual preferences and empower restaurants to reimagine their loyalty programs and ordering systems with exceptional precision.

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