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Mobileordering apps have been rapidly growing in popularity over recent years. Between 2016 and 2018, usage of food ordering apps grew by 140 percent. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of ordering technology, apps have become critical for restaurants. That’s a much easier order to get.”.
Expect to see more self-ordering kiosks already present at Taco Bell, Panera and McDonalds. Consequently “more than 80 percent of Gen Z-owned businesses expect to get more than half of their revenue from digital (web, mobile, online delivery, social media) by 2022 versus only 33 percent of Baby Boomer-owned businesses.”
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We started doing to-go orders but that was still through your POS. BD : Another thing that has really sparked the evolution of restaurant technologies- and I’m certainly not the first person to say this- is the mobile device. Around 2017-2018 machine learning made breakthroughs that allowed it to be much more implementable.
Mobileordering apps have been rapidly growing in popularity over recent years. Between 2016 and 2018, usage of food ordering apps grew by 140 percent. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of ordering technology, apps have become critical for restaurants. That’s a much easier order to get.”.
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