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2025 Restaurant Payment Trends and Predictions

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Mobile payment solutions such as apps like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and other mobile wallets will become even more commonplace in restaurants, allowing customers to pay via their smartphones or wearable devices. However, this increase in digital ordering and card-not-present transactions has skyrocketed their processing rates.

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

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Loyalty is a huge factor now as guests desire rewards and perks for sticking with a favorite small business, and repeat customers are keeping many restaurants going. While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. Customer habits have also shifted after the pandemic.

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

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"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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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 2024. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

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The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment.

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2024 Outlook: 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 2024. Just as the transition to renewables and electric vehicles has thrived on collaborative efforts, we foresee more collaboration for the cultivated meat industry in 2024.

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Keeping Up with Diners’ Expectations Amid Rising Prices

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But two non-negotiables have remained strong for diners: convenience and loyalty. The NCR Voyix 2024 Digital Commerce Index revealed nearly half (48 percent) of consumers dine out less than they used to because inflation is top of the menu. In doing so, they improve the customer experience, which, in turn, increases loyalty.

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