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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

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restaurants broke records with projected sales of $1.1 Additionally, labor shortages remain a critical pain point, driving up wages across the industry. Outsourcing high-risk services, such as delivery, can alleviate exposure to rising auto insurance costs, which are projected to climb in 2025. million.

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Leveraging IoT Solutions to Protect Profit Margins

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Restaurateurs, however, have options to mitigate these challenges with technological innovation. Additionally, the solutions deliver deep indoor coverage, requiring fewer access points, which makes deployment easier. Each year, insurers pay out $2.5 Low-power IoT solutions are affordable, secure, and reliable. Energy Management.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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We've reached a point where we're recognizing the value and limits of these technologies. People will increasingly choose innovative products not only because they align with their values, but because they taste and perform better or otherwise meet personal preferences or needs.

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The True ROI of IoT in Food Service 

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But what if by investing in technological innovation restaurants achieved both bottom- and top-line revenue growth? Finally, low-power IoT solutions require fewer access points, making deployment easier. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” It’s possible by looking at the true ROI.

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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Spending, Franchise Optimism, and Pickle Energy

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Those priorities include increased marketing and sales efforts alongside new benefits and programs to attract and retain staff. Despite potential challenges, the industry is both optimistic, as total restaurant sales crested $1 trillion for the first time on record, and ready to pivot to continue growing.

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ARE INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS PRICING THEMSELVES OUT OF THE MARKET?

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During an election year there is always a focus on what both parties call: “kitchen table issues” – the cost of groceries, mortgage, insurance, child-care, energy, and education, and how much is left for disposable income to be spent on the things we would like to do vs. what we have to do. So, what does the independent restaurateur do?

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Restaurant Staffing Crisis Solutions: Experts Weigh In

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While staffing has always topped the list of restaurant owner/manager pain points, it now seems to be at crisis proportions. March restaurant sale surged 36 percent year-over-year and nearly reached 2019 levels. And the situation isn’t likely to improve soon as more competition in the battle for talent is anticipated.