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What’s the Deal With Wonder, the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

EATER

Robert Sietsema/Eater NY Wonder wants to fix food delivery — so it just acquired Grubhub On November 13, Wonder, the company that describes itself as “a new kind of food hall,” announced its acquisition of the established food ordering and delivery platform Grubhub. A Wonder in New York City. How does Wonder work?

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Is Contactless Forever?

Modern Restaurant Management

Creating a contactless ordering experience for guests at your restaurant is important in order for your business to stay competitive and profitable. Restaurants have endless third-party ordering app options, but those do come with a price, approximately five-twenty percent of each sale. in the online food delivery sector.

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The Evolution of Restaurant Technology: What’s Next?

Modern Restaurant Management

We started doing to-go orders but that was still through your POS. So you’d get them back and then try to remember what happened six weeks ago that made your food costs high. I remember the early days of POS cloud systems (2010-2015), and a lot of them were pretty bad. We want to help automate nightly produce ordering.

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A Guide to Effective Instagram Marketing For Restaurants

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

Instagram has come a long way since its inception in 2010. The restaurant and food industry is one of the many to take advantage of the marketing opportunities Instagram offers. With 500 million active daily users, it’s no wonder Instagram rapidly became the go-to platform for the food industry. Plan Ahead. Under the Influence.

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The Stages of Gentrification, as Told by Restaurant Openings

EATER

Between 2000 and 2010, the Latinx population declined 26 percent. Gentrification is a process, one that today generally begins with investors seeking out affordable communities in order to transform them for profit. This could only speed up the changes happening across American cities.

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Why Are the World’s Greatest Mangoes Almost Impossible to Buy in the U.S.?

EATER

But the dealer had a strange system: You had to message him on WhatsApp, order in bulk a week ahead of time, and send someone to pick up the product from an airport cargo bay. It was 2018, and that order of mangoes was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. My father, honestly not a big food lover, was praising God upon eating them.

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Payment Security: Does the Hospitality Industry Need to Improve Customer Data Measures?

Modern Restaurant Management

ways of settling the bill: including ordering from the table via a QR code, or online. In the past, this typically consisted of a barcode reader, a receipt roll and machine, plus a screen (for ringing up the orders) – even a manual cash register. Card payments, then, aren’t just growing.