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

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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. ” Guests will have the opportunity to experience many of these trends come to life at Kimpton restaurants and bars across the globe.

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Five Predictions for 2025 (and How to Prepare)

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Go digital for increased loyalty and sales. Winning restaurant brands have two things in common in this environment: digital transactions account for a majority of overall sales and they’ve won over the still-buying younger generations. In 2024, restaurant traffic slowed while price sensitivity grew. Recurring customers.

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New Year, New Deals: How Smart Operators Keep More Profit

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Where to Tap into Hidden Revenue If you want to boost profits, the quickest way isn’t to raise menu prices or cut portions, it’s to go straight to the source of your costs: manufacturers, distributors, and beverage companies. That’s a different story. billion, reflecting a 4.7 percent increase from the previous year.

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How Transaction Monitoring Can Help Prevent Food and Beverage Fraud

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As cash intensive businesses (CIB), food and beverage businesses have historically been sites of fraud. Yet, as such businesses move their sales, ordering, operations, and bookings online, the rates of fraud have only increased. But with the intention of seeing if any sales are suspicious. What Is Transaction Monitoring?

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Being Proactive to Protect Your Restaurant and Bar

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The impact of tariffs are top of mind for many restaurant operators and a cause for anxiety. According to The Distilled Spirits of the United States (DISCUS), the most recent timeline regarding alcohol products calls for: April 2 : The U.S. April 13 : The EU’s previously imposed 25-percent tariff on American whiskeys is currently suspended.

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A Matcha Shortage Hits TikTok’s Favorite Brands

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In the US, matcha sales have reportedly reached in excess of $10 billion over the past 25 years. They did roughly six months of sales in a little less than a month,” Mangan says. At least four manufacturers that Sazen works with are experiencing supply shortages over their “entire matcha portfolio” and have suspended sales.

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

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Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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