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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. 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. Take digital kitchen management platforms, for example.

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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. From reimagining workflows to enhancing guest interactions, technology is shaping how restaurants, bars, and hospitality businesses operate.

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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. However, new uncertainties—from economic pressures to labor shortages—underline the importance of robust risk management strategies as the linchpin for future success. Navigating Emerging Challenges in Profitability In 2024, U.S.

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Smarter, Faster, More Human: Why AI and Automation Are Transforming Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

The hospitality industry has always been about delivering great service—but today, that means more than just good food and friendly staff. It’s about taking friction out of operations—so staff can spend more time focused on hospitality, not paperwork. This isn’t about replacing people with machines.

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Preventing Employee Burnout in Restaurants & Hospitality: An Integrated Approach

Speaker: Lissa Bowen - Chief People + Culture Officer, Full Course Executive Director, Full Course Foundation

Effectively addressing this challenge requires a comprehensive approach that combines conventional management techniques, insights from neuroscience, and stress management strategies.

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From Tools to Touchpoints: Reimagining Hospitality for 2045

Modern Restaurant Management

Hospitality has always been a balancing act, between quality and speed, consistency and creativity, guest expectations and operational reality. As we look ahead, one thing is clear: the future of hospitality won’t be defined by a single trend or flashy tech. Labor forecasting tools aren’t shortcuts. grams of CO2.

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Why Hospitality Still Matters: The Heart of Restaurant Success

Goliath Consulting

Hospitality isnt just serviceits the emotional connection that keeps guests coming back. In todays competitive dining landscape, hospitality is what truly sets a restaurant apart. Hospitality vs. Service Though often used interchangeably, hospitality and service arent the same. Providing good food is just the beginning.

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Restaurant Management Masterclass

Speaker: Harlan Scott, Founder of Harlan Scott Hospitality and Industry Restaurant

Due first to necessary staffing cuts, extreme safety protocols, and now the need to rehire against outsized government stimulus, unemployment benefits and wage requirements, managing and staffing have become the most urgent conversation in restaurants today. How establishing company Core Values gives your team purpose and decreases turnover.