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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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Restaurant Staff Training 101

7 Shifts

Have you ever walked into a restaurant, excited for a great meal, but the server can’t answer your questions about the menu? Without the right training, even the best menu or ambiance can fall short due to poor service, leading to dissatisfied customers and lost revenue. Focused training also speeds up the onboarding process.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

ChowNow

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. Running a restaurant is a balancing act. Its tough, and cant be done passively. Great restaurant operations dont happen by accident.

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CHEFS – REMEMBER THE MAGIC

Culinary Cues

The aroma of a simmering veal stock, pans of bacon being pulled from the oven, fresh coffee brewing and pastries hot from the bake shop meld together like a cacophony of sound produced by a finely tuned orchestra. Cooks are busy at work with their own preparations as breakfast orders from the dining room arrive at a harrowing pace.

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Designing a Next-Gen Teaching Facility

Modern Restaurant Management

Art featured throughout the facility pays homage to the University and the fresh ingredients used daily in the 1856 kitchen – four kaleidoscope art pieces for each season of the year. 1856 is the first-of-its-kind, student-run culinary experience in the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center in Auburn, Alabama.

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Shifting into Soup Mode and Streamlining Operations at Soup’d Up

SpotOn

To produce 10+ soups per day, the Soup'd Up kitchen runs like a finely oiled machine. Occupying only 900 square feet, with a chef’s table for on-premise dining, Soup’d Up is not like other restaurants. Moving more product means more sales, and by optimizing her menu Gordon has increased daily sales by up to 35%. 

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The Complete Guide to Online Ordering Systems for Restaurants

ChowNow

Customers expect to browse menus, place orders, and pay for their meals with just a few taps of their phones. Since 2014, online ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in and now accounts for roughly 40% of restaurant sales. In 2025, the US online food delivery market is expected to reach $424.9 billion in revenue.