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

Modern Restaurant Management

Stealth Health and More New research reveals the top trends set to shake up American menus in 2025, with caraflex cabbage and functional plants stealing the spotlight, condiments like hot honey making waves, and food tourism content fueling a craving for authentic global flavors. All is revealed after voting is finished, very interactive.”

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7 Tips for Hospitality Marketing During COVID-19

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

How did SARs or H1N1 affect tourism and what was the response? It’s also wise to implement a strong reservation abandonment strategy that allows you to recover most of the direct bookings. . This is one way to promote perks and encourage future reservations. . Focus on Direct Perks. Consider Your Employees.

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An Eater’s Guide to Visiting (and Drinking) Champagne 

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Champagne may have been slow to embrace wine tourism but if these new experiences are any indication, there is a firm commitment to making up for lost time. This has become a popular choice for food travelers, chefs, and local Champagne producers, so reserving is crucial. So far the collective efforts seem to be working.

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An Eater’s Guide to Whistler, British Columbia

EATER

Tourism Whistler/Justa Jeskova. Whistler experienced a boom in Japanese tourism in the ’80s, and though the groups in matching neon outfits headed back to Japan in the early ’90s after the decline of the yen, they left behind a standard of excellence in the town’s sushi restaurants, which have only multiplied since. Il Caminetto.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

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A final piece of advice for restaurants is to invest in a user-friendly reservation system. This further highlights the need for restaurants to pay close attention to details in the end-to-end dining experience: from the reservation, to the meal, to the service. ” Holiday Traffic.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-Year 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero. According to new research from faculty members in Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) and the school’s U.S.-Asia

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A Steakhouse Divided

EATER

Cheng also cites the effect of Japanese tourism, especially following the restaurant’s 2011 acquisition. Growing up, you could just walk in without a reservation. The Japanese are also good at preserving nostalgia,” says Cheng. For Japanese tourists, Hawai‘i isn’t just a ‘beach paradise.’