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How Restaurants Can Manage Food Costs During Disruptions

Modern Restaurant Management

Experts have deemed recovery from the pandemic “complete ,” but a new set of challenges has emerged for restaurants: labor shortages, disrupted supply chains, and extreme weather. Seasonal Shifts : They may be predictable, but they still add another layer of complexity to restaurant management.

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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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Seasonality Wins ‘Share of Stomach’

Modern Restaurant Management

As we progress through a pandemic that’s kept many inside for months, guests are looking to venture out and experience unique dining moments. By utilizing seasonal ingredients and creating specialty menu items, our product innovation efforts have kept us relevant in a competitive industry, earning guest loyalty and driving sales.

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Top Cocktail and Wine Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Batching for Speed and Service : Top bartenders continue to innovate around batching their cocktails, including both partial (batching only non-perishable items) and full batching, driven by the need for speed and to improve quality and consistency in cocktail preparation, which allows for more time to connect with guests.

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The Comfort of Pumpkin During the Pandemic

Modern Restaurant Management

shows Starbucks is wisely wielding the power of a popular seasonal weapon—The Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) to drive more customers into its stores as the summer winds down. While the PSL is a seasonal beverage reserved for the autumn months, Starbucks has offered it earlier and earlier every year.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features evolving guest relationships, views on restauarant tech, employee desires and wedding trends. 58 percent of consumers rate healthy options on menu as important, with families rating this the highest at 74 percent, followed by Millennials at 71 percent. Ordering preference is situational.

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THE MISUNDERSTOOD CHEF

Culinary Cues

As if that weren’t enough, the menu and each morsel of food presented represents the chef’s life of experiences, his or her family history, the cuisine of their forefathers, every chef who contributed to their training, and everything that they believe in – as it pertains to food. It is a juxtaposition that is nearly impossible to manage.