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Five Predictions for 2025 (and How to Prepare)

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2024, restaurant traffic slowed while price sensitivity grew. While October showed signs of hope (YOY quick-service restaurant (QSR) traffic was positive for the first time in two years), we expect consumers will be cautious in 2025. Recurring customers. Go digital for increased loyalty and sales.

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Restaurant Menu Pricing: How to Set Prices That Boost Profits And Keep Customers

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Menu pricing isnt just about covering costsits about finding that sweet spot where profitability, customer perception, and operational reality meet. Set prices too low, and youre leaving money on the table. Too high, and youll drive customers away.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

These changes have become permanent shifts in how they target customers, market themselves, and design their offerings." Customer habits have also shifted after the pandemic. The focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Customer Service Trends in the Restaurant Industry to Look For in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that consumers have become more particular with dining, service standards have skyrocketed, and expectations are higher than ever before. Statistics show that 96 percent of consumers from across the globe say that customer service plays a critical factor in choosing a brand they’ll be loyal to. Self-Service Tech.

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What Do Guests Think About Dynamic Pricing?

Modern Restaurant Management

Dynamic pricing would add friction to the guest experience, according to Capterra’s 2023 Dynamic Pricing in Restaurants. Sixty-five percent of consumers say dynamic pricing would make the decision of where and when to eat more difficult; 63 percent say it would make it harder to budget their restaurant spending.

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Menu Prices Are Rising, But Loyalty Programs Can Help Restaurants Stay Ahead

Modern Restaurant Management

In October, the USDA reported year-to-date averages, noting that food-at-home (grocery store) prices have increased 2.5 percent and food-away-from-home (restaurant) prices have increased 3.6 percent, and food-away-from-home prices are expected to increase between 3 and 4 percent. If current projections from the U.S.