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Why Your Restaurant Needs Front-of-House Automation Workflows

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83 percent of marketing departments automate social media posting, 75 percent automate email marketing, 58 percent automate social media advertising, and 36 percent automate social media engagement. Automating customer service tasks helps to improve the customer experience. Benefits of Workflow Automation. Improving customer service.

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Wrapping Up a Restaurant Marketing Trend

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At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. We advertised in local papers, supporting youth sports and wrapping our vehicles.

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How to Diversify Your Brand by Adapting Plant-Based Food Trends

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Effectively educating those (bartenders, wait staff, back of the house, etc.) With today’s food trends moving toward the direction of fresh, healthy, local, and sustainable, the term “plant-based” continues to enter the conversation on every playing field. Don’t overlook what your chef is already capable of creating.

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Air Quality in Restaurants – An Economic and Environmental Necessity

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They can advertise to their customers that they are helping to protect the environment. Restaurants produce high concentrations of organic aerosols which are then ventilated and spread into the urban environment. The pollution from the kitchen coupled with the possible presence of COVID-19 particles is not a healthy concoction.

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Seven Top Restaurant Marketing Ideas And Trends

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Promotion and advertising are what we call a restaurant’s “secret sauce.” ” Let’s look at seven ingredients that you should include in advertising and promotional campaigns for your restaurants. If you pull a joker, the meal is on the house. Emphasize Best-Selling Items.

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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

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By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing. When the pandemic hit, many restaurants focused on expenses. Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size.

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Creating Vibrant Vintage Vibes

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Understanding the significance of the local landmark, which housed Rod’s Liquor for 71 years, we worked together with restauranteurs and co-owners John Reed and Leslie Nguyen to preserve the iconic liquor store’s aesthetics while also delivering on the restaurant’s notable brand experience for its second location.