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Customer Experience in the Restaurant Industry: Reflections and Predictions through an AI Lens

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2024 was a year of experimentation with AI, with restaurants testing it on customer-facing interactions, like AI drive-thru ordering, with varying degrees of success. Restaurants succeed or fail based on loyalty, which is a direct result of customer experience. One answer to the brand loyalty challenge is to improve personalization.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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– Frenchie Audette, VP of Food Service at Divert In 2024, the restaurant industry continued to adjust to changes sparked by 2020. After a challenging 2024, it’s promising to see restaurant operators looking ahead to 2025 with optimism.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. An issue that may arise from this in 2024 is data privacy. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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Restaurant Giants Declare War on Digital Chaos

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Reliable experiences build brand loyalty, and systemic processes lead to reliable profit margins. The 2024 State of the Restaurant Industry report revealed that 22 percent of restaurant operators plan to invest in technology like POS software, back-of-house systems, and data analytics in the near future.

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Lessons from the Pandemic: What Restaurants Need to Know Now

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Loyalty programs and app-exclusive deals. According to RMS’s 2024 survey, Dining in the Digital Age , millennials rank app-only promotions as the most valuable app feature, while Gen X and Boomers favor loyalty-based incentives. Digital transactions now make up 18.6 What drives app usage?

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

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The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment.

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Loyalty Innovation Has Evolved to Focus More on the Customer

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Personalization is key to successful loyalty programs, according to the 2024 Paytronix Loyalty Trends Report. "Top "Loyalty innovation is not always true innovation," Lynch added. "It’s "Restaurants have a loyalty program but haven’t put in place many best practices (i.e.