Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 20, 2025

From independent eateries to major chain restaurants, chefs and operators are getting creative, introducing innovative dishes and customizable options for younger diners. Children today are exposed to a variety of cultures and cuisines from an early age, whether through travel, social media, or community diversity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

" Rose suggests operators should focus on better understanding and segmenting their loyalty program members to communicate their value-based menu innovations as well as new premium offerings. "They "Also, leveraging demographic data to augment loyalty programs and special offers was a critical factor in successful campaigns."

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SpotOn

APRIL 14, 2025

Recent product innovations enhance operational efficiency and guest engagement for restaurant operators.   Driving Innovation: New Product Launches and Enhancements SpotOn continues to bring new updates to streamline operations, enhance guest experiences, and drive restaurant profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Expect to see functional plants like burdock, angelica, and osha root popping up more frequently, adding a fresh, innovative twist to dishes. The findings provide industry partners with exclusive data on emerging consumer preferences and innovation areas poised to differentiate brands in a highly-competitive marketplace.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

Growing menu innovation and healthy fast food further drive the growth of the market. As consumer preferences evolve, QSRs must constantly innovate their menus, marketing strategies, and customer service models to maintain market share. Italy dominates as the dream food destination (55 percent want to travel for pasta).

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2025

In Pennsylvania alone, the travel and hospitality sector is the second-largest revenue generator, surpassed only by agriculture. These technologies not only reduces energy costs but also lowers maintenance expenses and improves kitchen environments, allowing businesses to redirect savings into innovation, better wages, and growth.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2023

As travel and leisure activities continue to rebound from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands like ours have a unique opportunity to position themselves for growth in non-traditional venues like airports, casinos, college campuses, sports stadiums and other travel centers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Beyond Basic Balancers : The team found many cocktails that were made using an innovative variety of methods or modifiers to balance the drink or add layers of flavor. Meaningful Menu Innovations : Restaurants and bars are evolving their menus beyond being a functional tool to improve the consumer experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I grew up in a family where food was ubiquitous at home and while traveling and in a country with a strong culinary heritage. I am in charge of marketing for a global food ingredient company and travel often for my day job. I love traveling and go on culinary adventure. My passion for food started when I was a kid in France.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 11, 2025

The dishes in your menu that are prepared with local products tell your customers that the food is fresher, as those ingredients have a shorter distance to travel. If your brand is modern and innovative, your dishes should reflect this same spirit. Every item on your menu should match who you are as a restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Tech tools will be instrumental in helping the food industry innovate to ensure that today’s problems don’t reduce our future food supply. During the pandemic, travel restrictions and social distancing efforts meant that many restaurants couldn’t conduct third-party inspections per usual. Increase Quality and Accuracy.

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EATER

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While there may be overlaps and innovative fusions with traditional Eurocentric pastries, I believe it is equally important for us as Mexican bakers to preserve the integrity of our traditional breads.” But Sibrian says, “Mexican baking is a distinct art form deserving of appreciation in its own right.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Travel and Dining Habits Next, we looked at travel preferences and how that relates to dining, and we found some interesting patterns. “While the fallout of the pandemic transformed restaurants, the industry is seeing a need to continue innovating and adapting. The bigger difference is for those who spend less.

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EATER

MAY 25, 2023

After a stint in the beauty world, Jack missed working in food and found herself drawn to mission-driven brands, so she jumped at the opportunity to join the product marketing and innovation team at Bowery Farming , a company dedicated to vertical farming, a practice of growing crops in stacked layers, often in a controlled environment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

After speaking with some of our partners in the industry on how they toe the line between investing in innovation and cutting costs during this time, we found five things restaurant owners can do to boost profits and stay open beyond the COVID shutdown. Re-engineer Menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Create new foods that are designed to travel. With every order destined to travel some distance , Living Kitchens can be a laboratory for packaging, technique, and ingredients that are ready for take-out. Better Kitchens: Iterate the Engine.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Bakery café chain Paris Baguette takes a departure from its Korean-French origins to travel to the Middle East with its latest menu additions. She provides in-depth coverage of chefs, trends and menu innovation. View All Articles by This Author Want breaking news at your fingertips?

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Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 9, 2025

Brewing coffee while travelling or outdoors usually means investing in a traditional hand grinder, often requiring patience and labour to achieve the optimal grind size, especially when grinding larger doses. It’s turned travel brewing from a compromise into an opportunity to enjoy premium coffee anywhere.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Additionally, Square spoke to businesses and industry experts to share how retailers and restaurateurs are facing challenges, embracing innovative solutions, and forging new paths forward in 2021. Square collaborated with Wakefield Research to survey restaurateurs, retailers, and consumers across the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

'Travel Safe' Tools. Tripadvisor® launched a new suite of “Travel Safe” tools to help consumers find, filter for, and validate health and safety information to feel more confident with their future travel choices across town and around the world. How Travel Safe helps travelers and business owners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 26, 2024

Tell trading partners what happened, which batches of products were contaminated, where the products traveled, and how to dispose of contaminated products. Using innovative tech tools can help immensely, enabling companies to communicate more effectively, sparking more immediate action at a time when every moment counts

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2024

The debate over manufactured plant proteins and whole plants has begun, and it has spurred innovation in menus across all segments of the foodservice industry. International travel has renewed appeal post-pandemic and with it comes food and culture exploration.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 18, 2025

Thompson Street managing partner Bob Dunn described the 130-unit Bubbakoo’s as an “innovative and compelling brand that resonate with a broad and growing customer base.” The New Jersey-based fast-casual chain has been acquired by private-equity firm Thompson Street Capital Partners, the company announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

A survey conducted by Morning Consult commissioned by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) found that only 44 percent of Americans are planning overnight vacation or leisure travel in 2020, with high interest in road trips, family events, and long weekends over the summer months. ” Cabin Fever is Real.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Supporting nearby farmers boosts your local economy and means you’ll get fresher products that haven’t had to travel far distances to get to your restaurant. These innovative tools will help you get a better handle on your supply chain, organizing supplier certifications into a system you can see and manage.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 18, 2020

According to the data from the 2019 Travel and Hospitality Industry Outlook by Deloitte , industry growth is consistent throughout the past decade. That’s not just because people are traveling more. It’s also because marketing teams have more opportunities to create innovative campaigns to boost sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2022

Not only do they improve restaurant operations, but their cute and innovative designs also make them a great attraction to draw customers. Traditionally, waiters/waitresses spend more than 50 percent of their time traveling between the kitchen and customers' tables, which could be significantly reduced with the help of robot assistance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Although these fees can be a growth inhibitor, innovative credit card processing software, services and solutions can help drive growth and mitigate the impact of rising interchange fees. Credit card acceptance is an essential part of doing business today as more consumers move toward cashless forms of payment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 22, 2022

Different innovative payment methods are being leveraged to increase food services efficiency in fast-food joints to fine dining. Travelers would have the opportunity to order in their own languages, over their own devices, and in their own time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 6, 2022

During the pandemic, travel restrictions meant restaurants had to figure out new ways to inspect their facilities. This flexibility, innovation, and creativity will be essential to your continued success. The exercise felt punitive, leaving employees feeling devalued and disengaged.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2023

Imagine travelers pulling off the highway for the fast-food sandwich they’ve been craving, only to be disappointed because a fryer is malfunctioning. Since COVID-19 began, limited- and full-service restaurants have stepped up their technological innovation to regain strength. © Modern Restaurant Management, 2023.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

Success will depend on inventory management and expense agility with consumers prioritizing value and experiences like travel after years of volatility triggered by the pandemic. The food service industry is one of the important sectors in the economy of Canada, creating employment opportunities and innovating culinary trends.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2024

And delivery becomes the most complex of all, with food quality dropping by the minute as it travels miles from your kitchen to someone else’s. Futuristic delivery solutions like drones and sidewalk robots, while innovative, are just new layers of complexity and cost on this already struggling system.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Food that naturally travels well—chicken wings, burritos, Chinese food—was bound to have a leg-up. When it comes to dining in, start considering what innovations or alterations could create a better, more enjoyable restaurant experience. The establishments that made it through did so because of product, platform, or both.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 19, 2022

For the tour, we traveled to Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, visiting a wide collection of over 80 bars and restaurants, from brand new and iconic to others that have stood the test of time. On our travels across the U.S., working to help our restaurant partners. Time to Sparkle.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

Companies have invested heavily in digital experience innovation, but remain challenged by technical issues that prevent consumers from accomplishing their tasks, erode trust, and negatively impact sales. ? “The most important aspect of traveling is to always stay safe and healthy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

We’re continually learning about new and innovative ways to help our clients be more sustainable—whether that be choosing eco-friendly materials and fixtures or finding new products that use recycled or compostable packaging. Ashley Kirkland, NCIDQ, Director of Interior Architecture, GrizForm Design Architects.

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