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

Modern Restaurant Management

From salted egg yolks and chili crunch fusions to mushroom-infused teas and freeze-dried fruit powder garnishes, Kimpton’s in-house experts share the standout ingredients, menu items and techniques that will come to the table in 2025.

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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back? Restaurants know this, and it’s why they are focused on connecting the back and front of the house. Moving to Interactive Menu Boards Speaking of dining being back – it’s back to being… different.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

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How the Minds Behind ‘The Menu’ Created an Authentic Fine Dining Hellscape

EATER

Star Anya Taylor-Joy, director Mark Mylod, and consulting chef Dominique Crenn on building the world’s creepiest restaurant It seems counterintuitive, but for many of us, there is perhaps no feeling more pervasive in the world of fine dining than discomfort. Mark Mylod: Rustic modernism was the aesthetic that felt most at home to us.

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ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A TAVERN

Culinary Cues

I know how much time, energy, money, and heart goes into that first day when a proud operator and/or chef looks up at the front door sign that proclaims they are open for business. I know how heartbreaking it is when the dining room is nearly empty, and how invigorating it is when it is full.

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WHAT WOULD ESCOFFIER SAY

Culinary Cues

It’s been 89 years since Escoffier stood in front of a range for the last time, yet his presence is still felt by professional cooks and chefs. In every office where I sat over the past 30 some odd years, has hung this picture of the master craftsman, leader, and ambassador of proper cooking and kitchen organization.

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CLOSING THE RINGS OF THE TOTAL RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

How powerful is a complete dining experience and what exactly is it? An owner for whom I worked years ago referred to it as the Total Dining Experience and I have held on to this concept ever since. For the past six months I have been committed to an exercise regimen thanks to my Apple Watch.