National Restaurant Association Sees Continued Growth & Success by Future-proofing What Makes the Restaurant Experience Unforgettable

The recent episode of BC Food News, hosted by Jennifer English, turns the spotlight on Michelle Korsmo, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association, who recently delivered a keynote address stressing the need for investment in people and technology to future-proof the restaurant industry. Korsmo emphasized that empowering a future-ready workforce is key, highlighting the role of programs like ProStart to groom students to be industry leaders in the future. On the technology front, she underlined that restaurant owners and operators need to embrace technological advancement in areas like inventory control, purchasing decisions, supply chain management, labor cost management, and automation. Korsmo concluded that this blend of efficient human and technological resources could leverage restaurant sales, projected at a staggering 1.5 trillion dollars this year, while keeping businesses profitable amid rising labor and food costs. POST dataPOST datahttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=1386447766&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalrestaurantshow.com%2Fhome%2F&a=National+Restaurant+Association+Showhttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=3906198426&u=https%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.org%2Fresearch-and-media%2Fresearch%2Fresearch-reports%2Fstate-of-the-industry%2F&a=State+of+the+Restaurant+Industryhttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=1428758904&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalrestaurantshow.com%2F&a=National+Restaurant+Association+Showhttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=1719938730&u=https%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.org%2Fgetmedia%2F294a9a8b-15b1-4e4e-a56e-203378f0573e%2FShow-2025-Michelle-Korsmo-Keynote-Speech-05_18_25.pdf&a=herehttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=754217027&u=https%3A%2F%2Fchooserestaurants.org%2F&a=the+NRAEF%27s+ProStarthttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=1628715547&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.servsafe.com%2F&a=ServSafehttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=4112360320&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWeRRestaurants&a=Twitterhttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=2931753605&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.restaurant.org%2F&a=Restaurant.orghttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=3426444797&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Frestaurantdotorg&a=YouTubehttps://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4430330-1&h=4287758428&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FWeRRestaurants%2F&[email protected]