Social Media Ideas for Foodservice Traffic Crisis

Traffic counts show signs of recovery post Cyclospora

Restaurant traffic rebounds post Cyclospora

Taking a Strategic Approach to Crisis Communication

With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigating a multi-state cyclosporiasis outbreak, restaurant operators and guests are questioning how to stay safe while dining...

Lightspeed Data Reveals Feedback Crisis

MONTREAL — New Lightspeed Commerce data surveying more than 1,000 Canadian adults reveals a feedback crisis playing out on restaurant floors across the country right now. Canada ra...

Why Every Meal Feels Like a Real-Time Auction

Consumers are no longer deciding between a traditional set of restaurant options: they're considering a wider range of meal solutions including grocery and c-store, and evaluating...

Technomic: Restaurants continue to struggle with traffic amid consumer cautiousness

The research company’s consumer research chief, Robert Byrne, provides a mid-year check-in for attendees of CREATE: The Event for Emerging Restaurateurs

The hidden food safety cost of fast delivery

A ten minute delivery promise compresses everything that used to happen slowly into a window where almost nothing can be checked twice The order is placed the kitchen fires the rid...

Why Exceptional Hospitality Matters More Than Ever

In Canada, full-service restaurants now represent a significant share of the hospitality landscape. In May 2025 alone, full-service restaurant sales reached $8.5 billion, reinforci...

3 ways restaurants can reduce employee burnout during peak demand

The FIFA World Cup drove record traffic for many restaurants, but it also exposed the hidden costs of burnout. Here's what operators can learn before the next surge.

MRM Research Roundup: Resale Dynamics, Meal Program Benefits, and Private Chef Demand

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumer traffic patterns, resale market dynamics, menu pricing, insights on workplace meal...

Rising Costs Outpace Sales Growth

TORONTO — Canada’s restaurant industry is seeing stronger-than-expected sales growth in 2026, but rising operating costs continue to outpace revenue growth and erode profitability,...

Reducing Food Waste Through Operational Discipline

Across institutional and commercial dining, challenges in forecasting, overproduction, and plate waste translate into lost food, labor, energy, and capital. Food waste is one of th...

Spuddies Food Truck intros menu item for those in danger

Fix The Problem, Not The Blame: Hospitality Industry's Message To Regulatory Raiders

Recent food safety raids have prompted the hospitality industry to call for fairer enforcement, clearer rules and stronger compliance systems.

Dealing with the Customer Aggression Crisis

Customer aggression is a growing operational challenge as nearly 40 percent of frontline workers believe it has increased over the past year with 42 percent reporting incidents in...

Portillo’s cuts corporate workforce, field staff by 18%

The reduction in force was necessary to support long-term growth, said CEO Brett Patterson, after reporting traffic down 3.4% in the second quarter.

Restaurant operators choosing growth over retrenchment in 2026

Arepa Zone asks community for help amid financial struggles

For more than a decade, Arepa Zone has been a gathering place for the Venezuelan community in the DMV — and a business that has stepped up when people needed help most. But now,...

Iconic Fireman Hospitality files for bankruptcy — spurring NYC’s biggest restaurant-empire crisis since 2020

The COVID pandemic’s long shadow threatens the future of Fireman Hospitality Group, which runs some of Manhattan’s most iconic and venerable Italian restaurants.

Food Outbreak Preparedness Should Be an Executive Priority

A contaminated ingredient can shut down a plant. It can also drag down sales across an entire category, even for companies that had nothing to do with it. Dan Spatz of Oliver Wight...

Ormond-by-the-Sea restaurant says FDOT road project is driving away customers

A state road project has taken away much-needed parking in front of a bar and restaurant in Ormond-by-the-Sea, and the staff says it's costing them business.

What the data says about restaurant catering today

As corporate catering transforms into a critical growth engine for the restaurant industry, top brands will share their battle-tested, data-driven playbooks for scaling high-volume...

Scaling an Off Premise Catering Company without Losing Operational Control

As catering companies grow, complexity grows with them. What begins as a small local catering operation can quickly evolve into managing multiple weddings, corporate events, staffi...

The unlicensed food truck invasion of the National Mall reveals deeper issues

Recently, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. gained unwanted attention from a wave of unlicensed food trucks. Here's why unlicensed food trucks are such a problem for the indust...