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2025 Restaurant Outlook: A Recipe for Success with Risk Management

Modern Restaurant Management

By mid-2024, 82 percent of food and beverage operators were still actively recruiting, with chefs and cooks comprising 30 percent of open roles. Technology: The Double-Edged Sword Technological innovation continues to redefine the restaurant industry, offering tools to enhance efficiency and improve the customer experience.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurants that thrive today are those that balance innovation with human connection. As we look ahead, we are focused on delivering innovative solutions that not only address challenges we foresee, but propel this industry to new heights. Beyond logistics, the biggest transformation has been in leadership.

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Three Simple Ways Restaurant Owners Can Boost Retention and Drive Recruitment 

Modern Restaurant Management

To thrive in this labor climate, it is essential that food service employers explore innovative ways to stand out among competitors to recruit and retain sharp, dedicated talent. This could mean providing clear pathways for promotions and leadership opportunities for employees seeking to move up within the business.

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The Downfall of a Restaurant: A Leadership Deficit

Embrace the Suck

As such, it's a tragedy when these establishments falter, collapse, or disappear, not due to a lack of talent, vision, or culinary prowess but because of a deficiency in leadership. I've distilled this undeniable truth: The success or failure of any restaurant is invariably linked to the quality of its leadership.

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5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Restaurant in 2025

The Rail

A significant part is also played by tech integration ; loyalty programs, app-based ordering, and QR code menus are not innovations but necessities. Balancing Menu Innovation with Operational Efficiency and Cost Control While survival depends on stability, creativity drives interest.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

To shine the spotlight on the immediate opportunities that exist for all Americans to find employment at franchised restaurants of an iconic brand that holds a unique place in people’s daily lives, Dunkin’ is launching its first-ever national advertising campaign aimed at recruitment. “The D.C.

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Podcast 16: Digital Innovation & Leadership in Hospitality Management

Ken Burgin

Ken Burgin interviewed Michael to find out what he’s learned during the pandemic about Innovation & Leadership in Hospitality Management. We also discussed changes in managing people – recruitment, retention, mental health, skill development, culture and productivity.