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

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With so many people leaving the industry, restaurants stepped up—raising wages, creating new opportunities, and doubling down on the employee experience. Still, keeping a steady team remains the top challenge, highlighting the need for ongoing innovation in restaurant workforce management.

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Three Ways to Transform Seasonal Hires into Permanent Staff

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As labor costs rise and compliance becomes trickier to navigate, keeping high-performing employees on staff will prove a vital cost-saving measure. ” Regardless of the time of year, restaurant leaders can turn their best seasonal hires into permanent team members with the right employee experience strategy.

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Grant Money Is a Viable Option for Restaurant Funding

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But if your restaurant or industry related business has been able to stay open or expects to resume operations once we are on the other side of the pandemic, now may be the time to apply for a grant. 2020 has been a year like no other for restaurants and the companies who support and supply them. Sadly, too many have closed permanently.

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Top Drive-Thru Tech for Keeping Guests – and Employees – Happy

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According to the National Restaurant Association, employment at eating and drinking establishments is 12 percent short of pre-pandemic levels , leaving many employees feeling stressed and burned out in the face of often unrelenting customer demand. Four Tech Solutions to Improve Guest and Employee Experiences. AI Voice Automation.

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Why Your Restaurant Needs Marketing and PR Now More Than Ever

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A flexible public relations and marketing program can help create interesting promos to draw consumers to your business, as well as generate timely media stories of interest to your customers and community. Keeping a restaurant in business, let alone the top of mind during this crisis requires getting innovative.

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Hungry for Growth: The Restaurant Industry in 2022

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Several other pandemic-related trends will continue into 2022 and beyond, and new trends will also emerge. In addition, 75 percent of restaurant operators say recruiting employees was their top challenge, the highest level ever recorded. From there, restaurants can build processes and inject innovation into this framework.

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BofA Report: New Appreciation for Restaurants

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Other supply chain related events, which spanned from restaurant equipment (creating issues for restaurant development and timing) to the Avian flu/eggflation issues, also negatively impacted the industry. Restaurants must also learn to operate with fewer employees and rely more on technology. Are some doing well and others not so?

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