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2025 F&B Trends: Newstalgia, Stealth Health, and Botanical Beverages

Modern Restaurant Management

Read on for predictions from industry insiders that include chili crunch, black limes, newstaglia, stealth health, and elevated snacking. Culinary and Cocktail Trend Forecasts Kimpton is returning with its annual Culinary + Cocktail Trend Forecast highlighting predictions from its global team of restaurant and beverage talent.

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Best Practices for Trimming Alcohol Overhead in the COVID World

Modern Restaurant Management

For BevAlc buyers, price point as a function of quality, although always important, will become crucial over the coming months and years. Finding the right balance of what local guests want, at the maximum price point and minimal cost could be the difference between surviving and closing the doors. The first important factor is margin.

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Toasting the New Year like a Pro

Goliath Consulting

The Crowd Pleaser La Marca Prosecco ($) Twenty years ago, very few wine industry watchers would point to an Italian sparkling (prosecco) brand leading all sparkling wine sales in America. Pop this cork and it will be clear how it soared to top of national sales. It is light, subtly sweet, refreshing, and affordable. Think again.

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Enhancing Guest-Centric Experiences with QR Code Technology and Time-Tested Human Connections

Modern Restaurant Management

Tech-Driven Strategies for Tech-Savvy Diners Hospitality is a guest-centric industry, and as such, it has a vested interest in exploring opportunities to enhance the customer experience. The restaurant industry, once slow to adopt modern technology, has undergone a significant digital transformation in response to the pandemic. There are 6.92

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For Marginalized Chefs, Are Pop-Ups the Path to Success?

EATER

For chef Preeti Mistry, who helped conceptualize the series with J Vineyards, developing Shifting the Lens was a way to center chefs of color who put their values and politics at the forefront of their work, but who may not have their own restaurant at which to showcase their talents. Dola Sun /Eater.

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Black Vintners and Wine Professionals in the Spotlight?

Sante

The interest and sales of Black-owned wineries are up. opened Woburn Winery, the first American, Black-owned vineyard and winery, in Virginia. Business was growing when Long entered a partnership with Bronco Wine National Sales and Marketing in early 2020 to nationally distribute a new white Longevity label. ” ??.

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Foraging Classes, Wellness Yurts, and the Agritourism Fantasy

EATER

A guest at Wildflower Farms feeds a mix of dried mealworms and grains to their flock of chickens as part of their Feed the Animals activity. They seem slightly irritated but unsurprised. A child runs up, shoves one of the chickens aside, and snatches two eggs. I reach for an egg from an empty nest. I reach for an egg from an empty nest.