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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. Now, the process is fully digitized.

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Building Resilient and Less-Stress Restaurant Operations

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Here are a few delegation ideas: Assign a team member to manage inventory, like tracking stock levels, placing orders, and ensuring proper storage. Ask a team member to post social media updates or answer customer inquiries online. This takes some work off your plate and empowers others to take on more responsibility.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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These trends are driven by Millennial and Gen Z consumers, who are more willing to pay a premium for sustainable products; those consumers also tend to be more online and acutely aware of the impact of business practices on the lives of people and the future of the planet. But is B Corp certification something restaurants should pursue?

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Why Your Restaurant Should Prioritize Order Accuracy

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Here’s an important – but often overlooked – truth for the restaurant industry: To make your customers to feel valued and appreciated, you must get their orders right! Perhaps they’re understaffed and struggling to keep up with incoming orders. Why is order accuracy so important for a restaurant?

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

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The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. The “ PLNT Impact Tracker ” on PLNT Burger’s website wants you to think about what you’re eating.

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Avoid Digital Pitfalls When a Restaurant Changes Hands

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The challenge then becomes finding and purchasing a new domain name appropriate for the restaurant, updating all of the collateral branding pieces, online listings, social media, (possibly email accounts) and starting from scratch with SEO. hours, offerings, website link, ordering link, reservations and reviews).

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AI Flips into White Castle and Resetting America

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Add a dynamic QR code link to seater receipts, allowing operators to point guests to any relevant website including digital menus, loyalty programs, COVID-19 policies, promotional offers or online payment options from the comfort of their own device. Certification. ” Valrhona Secures B-Corp. "Together, good becomes better.’