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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. Move over “swicy.” ” “Swalty” has entered the chat.

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

Modern Restaurant Management

Delivery/Takeout : COVID created a shift from in-person dining to takeout and delivery options, increasing reliance on third party delivery services, and on attractive takeout options. And outdoor dining, once more of an afterthought or a novelty, has become a more permanent and intentional part of restaurant design.

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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. Although there are no desks and chairs, students that take this course are learning real, hands-on experience within the dining room and kitchen.

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Eight Ways Restaurants Can Prepare for a New Normal 

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant management software company Upserve and restaurant-architect William Duff speak here about evolving trends they are seeing and discussed some ways the dining experience might look and feel different as the new normal unfolds. Partnering a Fine Dining Experience with a Take-Out Option.

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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

Since 2014, online ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in and now accounts for roughly 40% of restaurant sales. Theres little room for branding, and menu presentation, pricing, and promotions are often influenced by the platforms rules rather than the restaurants preferences.

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A Different Kind of Room Service

EATER

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Why not briefly fill rooms by offering an exclusive evening of private pandemic dining?

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