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The Food Service Industry’s Digital Transformation Journey Heading into 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

The food service industry is forecast to reach $1 trillion in sales this year. We’re seeing younger buyers investing in dining experiences that blend food, convenience, and atmosphere with their values as shoppers. Macroeconomic conditions cycle quicker and quicker. And yet, the modern restaurant is thriving.

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CDC: Food Service Workers are a low, but not a no risk of Hepatitis A infection

Bill Marler

The risk for secondary infection from hepatitis A–infected food handlers to food establishment patrons in these person-to-person hepatitis A outbreaks was <1% ( 173 ). However, as a lawyer, I have seen first-hand the impacts on consumers exposed to HAV positive food service workers.

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How the Meat Supply Chain Can Meet the Demands of a Food Service Industry in Turmoil

Modern Restaurant Management

There is a lot of work to do, but the meat industry is in a good position to support food service operators. There has been a structural shift in the labor market as workers have found more stable, more interesting and/or less taxing jobs in other industries. Some of these changes are here to stay.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

Schooner Capital led the round with follow-on investments from all major and strategic investors to-date, including Osage Venture Partners, Gordon Food Service’s innovation arm Relish Works and Nigel Morris. MarginEdge closed an oversubscribed, $18 million Series B investment to expand their exponential growth.

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Sustainability in Food Service

Culinary Services Group

But what about the other, more nuanced factors that are quietly shaping the future of healthcare – like sustainability? Sustainability in long-term care food service goes beyond figuring out how to “go green.” If this is the average, there are undoubtedly communal living spaces that produce more food waste, too.

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How Predictive Analytics Can Help Suppliers Overcome Fluctuations in Demand

Modern Restaurant Management

Food service suppliers have been scrambling to keep pace with fluctuating demand in a supply chain that has been anything but predictable since 2020. How Innovative Supply Chain Technology Can Empower Purchase Decisions. The first involves the ability to make purchase decisions in advance.

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Sowing Success: Our New White Paper Highlights Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Purchasing Local Food

Bon Appetit Management Company

In honor of the 25th anniversary of Farm to Fork, our groundbreaking local sourcing program, we’ve synthesized our many lessons learned into a white paper, Sowing Success: Local Food Purchasing Insights from 25 Years of the Farm to Fork Program. Read the full white paper here.