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Downturn Dining Trends: Loyalty, Value, and Menu Innovation Are Key for Survival

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Rising restaurant prices and increased cost-of-living expenses are significantly altering dining out habits in both the US and UK, according to a new survey from Attest. Among the key findings affecting restaurants: Price Sensitivity : 86 percent of consumers in both the US and UK feel restaurant prices are higher than last year.

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What Restaurant Operators Need to Know About Music Licensing

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It's important for operators to ensure they are abiding by the law and compensating the creators and rights holders. What should restaurant operators know about music licensing? Why do you think so many operators are unaware of licensing fees? Are there licensing scam schemes operators should be aware of?

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

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. – Frenchie Audette, VP of Food Service at Divert In 2024, the restaurant industry continued to adjust to changes sparked by 2020. .

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‘In the Future, Customers Will Drive Up to a Drive-Thru to Just Pick Up Their Food.’

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Restaurant brands are seeking out emerging technology to be more efficient and using data analytics to improve the drive-thru experience and this is only the beginning, according to Tim Tang, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Hughes. "In retail and restaurants, everyone is fighting for the same shrinking pool of frontline labor.

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Revealing Data: Minimum Wage, Closures, and Macroeconomic Trends

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Restaurant industry eyes have been fixed on the impact of the minimum wage law for fast-food workers in California. However, when they then reviewed closure data for states of a similar economic size (for example, Florida and New York, both of which had a minimum wage law increase on Jan.

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‘A Core Tenet of the Hospitality Space Is that You Focus on People Over Profits’

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, demand has shifted to cage-free and other specialty eggs with nine states enacting laws that require eggs sold in their states to be from cage-free hens. Commercial operators who have been impacted have moved swiftly to repopulate hens. Through January 2025, the U.S. “That seasonality appears to be gone.

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‘A Core Tenant of the Hospitality Space Is that You Focus on People Over Profits’

Modern Restaurant Management

Additionally, demand has shifted to cage-free and other specialty eggs with nine states enacting laws that require eggs sold in their states to be from cage-free hens. Commercial operators who have been impacted have moved swiftly to repopulate hens. Through January 2025, the U.S. “That seasonality appears to be gone.