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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

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If your customers expect you to offer a fine dining experience, they won’t be pleased to know that you’ve upturned your entire restaurant. For their safety and convenience, enable delivery and payment services that allow customers to pay without cash, as well as choose when and how their order should be delivered.

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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. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

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How Can Restaurants Harness Technology to Combat COVID-19?

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Sixty-two percent of respondents said both masks and gloves are important restaurant health measures for them to consider returning to indoor dining. Consumers of all ages will increasingly use them to avoid handling credit cards or cash – and combat coronavirus as well as other germs. Automation Is Becoming More Pervasive.

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Seven Restaurant Trends That Will Define 2022

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This instability will push operators to trim costs by shortening menus and investing in labor-saving technology to free up cash for wage increases. Menu variety plays a substantial role in every dining experience. A short menu can slim down the food costs through streamlined inventory management, as well as reduced food waste.

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Consumer Habits Are Changing — What’s Next for Restaurant Tech?

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Many food and beverage establishments have seen success with technology — such as contactless options, automation to support changing workforces and innovative customer loyalty strategies — in their endeavors to meet the demand for safer and more convenient dining experiences. Gone are the days of cash-only transactions.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2021 Edition

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The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. Another growth area could be packaged cocktails, said Andrew Hummel, CGA’s client solutions manager.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

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43 percent plan to add an outdoor on-site dining space. "What More than half (55 percent) said they were fed up after five minutes of waiting for food in a drive-thru, and 54 percent were annoyed waiting more than 10 minutes for food while dining at a restaurant. 55 percent plan to add more space for pick-up.

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