Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

But as much of the story written during the month, it is really the last two weeks that require special attention. Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This reflects the positive impact loyalty programs have on driving revenue, with 83 percent of restaurant leaders saying their loyalty program successfully drives up order or basket size, as well as repeat visits (82 percent) and return on investment (78 percent). ” A Year of Challenges U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Also launching today, is a special edition of the company’s Food Fanatics magazine. You can view the special issue here. Training on best practices and templates for printed materials to promote employee and customer safety in accordance with City, County, State and Federal orders. Tips for pivoting to retail.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Holiday Hangovers : On the days after holidays like St.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

The program connects people who want to support healthcare workers with local restaurants who need orders, through contributions of any size. $10 “With orders down so much right now, feeding hospitals makes a huge difference to our business,” said Paul Barker, Owner of Pauli’s in Boston.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Pizza chains still getting orders via phone 70 percent of the time. People want to know about safety measures in order to know what rules they must follow. Up to date info and employee processes will make the research and dining/ordering experience all the more impressive. Make sure your online presence is locked in.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

The brand has two locations – Aspen and Parker– and specializes in Danish baby back ribs and our in-house smoked meats with homemade side dishes. “While working takeout, people drove by and said, ‘I saw the van, I called the number, I need a takeout order for tonight.’

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. Now available through Grubhub, it is a delivery-only concept that specializes in antibiotic-free, oven-baked, boneless chicken bites. ” Tyga Bites Launches.

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Food Safety Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 527

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

Spanish Diner in New York supersizes their specials on a wall-sized slide frieze above the bar, inviting your eye around the well-appointed space and up to the gloss black ceiling (also the underbelly of the neighborhood’s famous High Line). Leave a spot for feedback for customers to highlight why they ordered, not just what.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2023

Personalization Is the Key A successful loyalty program takes a holistic approach and engages with customers across a variety of channels beyond the POS, including mobile app, online (web-based), social media, and email marketing and emerging channels such as voice, chat, and web3/metaverse.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Suggestive selling is a sales tactic that encourages guests to order something that is different from what they had planned to order or usually order in an effort to increase the check size and make their experience better. Suggestive selling is just one way to make their experience more personal and special.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will enable brands to better manage off-premises orders and balance their hybrid operating models. The concept of self-service will continue to evolve as consumers become accustomed to placing orders with devices. – Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. "As

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

Let’s look at some of them: relaxing with a cup of coffee ordering food home strolling with a drink in the park holding a meeting hanging out with friends in the evening going to a concert taking photos for social media. For example, consider a post idea: “You can order your morning takeaway coffee in our cafe.”

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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

Variable costs Variable costs depend on your restaurant’s level of activity, including food and beverage costs, labor costs, and supplies. Avoid overordering and focus on essential items since you still need to determine which dishes and beverages are popular. Customers sit down, order from a menu, and are served by waitstaff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The new restaurants — as well as upgrades to existing locations — will adapt the company’s new, modern, and inviting “Fresh Forward” design and meet the needs of today’s consumer with comfortable guest indoor dining spaces as well as numerous delivery and order ahead options, with a strong digital first strategy.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery. One great thing about the online delivery market is that it produces massive amounts of data. Heloise Blaure, founder of HomeKitchenLand.com.

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SpotOn

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Whether you're adding fresh seasonal ingredients or selling it by the slice on paper plates, it's a simple food offering that encourages guests to stick around and order more drinks. A pizza menu also allows for daily or weekly specials, which help your kitchen minimize food waste and test out new items for your bar menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

Increasing self-order kiosks and touchless self-checkout terminals. Expanding mobile ordering and contactless pick-up or desk delivery. Zuppler launched Menu Anywhere On-Premise Contactless Ordering on the Zuppler “Menu Anywhere” Platform. Posting appropriate signage and floor decals to encourage social distancing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Grubhub launched its latest report, "State of the Plate", looking at trends across the more than half a million orders placed a day. Methodology: Grubhub took a look at order trends on its platform from January 1 – June 20, 2020, as compared to the same timeframe in 2019 to find the top items rising in popularity so far.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With an effective email marketing strategy, you can entice new customers, improve brand awareness and boost your online presence. Furthermore, email marketing allows you to connect your audience to your website which is your core online presence. Additionally, the average open rate for restaurant emails is 20.39 Targeted Promotions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

These features include tableside mobile ordering, NFC contactless payments, and direct online ordering. They also have the choice of using the MarketConnect app to order and pick up from a designated shelf onsite, avoiding interactions and maintaining necessary social distancing.

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7 Shifts

JULY 25, 2024

One of the best things to do is to find additional revenue streams to supplement your core food and beverage sales. Offering additional services, like delivery and takeout, meal kits and subscription boxes, and even catering and hosting special events can unlock new growth opportunities.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Design Team-Inspired Menus Add some fun to your menu by creating special dishes or drinks that represent each of the competing teams. Halftime Happy Hour As the game continues, traffic often slows down, but you can keep momentum going with a special happy hour during halftime.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In addition to allowing a safer, hands-free payment method, the system has been shown to make the ordering process quicker and more efficient. Rouxbe partnered with The French Pastry School to provide an online pastry course curriculum through the Rouxbe platform. Rouxbe Partners with French Pastry School. at The French Pastry School.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 3, 2020

ezCater announced the launch of Subway's new online catering platform as part of the sandwich chain's overall focus to create even greater digital convenience for guests. "ezCater's platform provides effortless online ordering and exceptional customer service." .” Subway on ezCater Platform.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2020

Butterfly Tea Martini is a blue cocktail that when ordered the bartender adds lemon juice to it and as the guest stirs the drink turns purple! Mosaic Picture Wall: Guests will create a physical mosaic wall at the event from live event photos or online hashtag photos in real-time. Cake Balloon Station.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2020

In Taiwan and South Korea, where restaurant dining rooms remained open during the pandemic, frequent users actually reported ordering more takeout and delivery. Providing fast and convenient food options is the name of the game, with casual, fast-casual and fast-food concepts making up 74 percent of third-party delivery orders in this study.

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2020 Food Safety Fast Casual Guest Recovery 479

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Customer retention is important because it measures how good your restaurant is at making your customers happy and bringing them back in the door (or ordering delivery). This applies to in-person asking as well as online forms. This can be for hot beverages like coffee, pastries, or other small items. You have to earn it!

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

QDOBA Mexican Eats® introduced new restaurant formats, top photo, that feature buildouts including mobile-order drive-thrus, walk-up windows, mobile-order pick-up lockers, dedicated curbside pick-up areas, ghost kitchens, and concepts with updated outdoor seating. QDOBA's New Concept. ” Delivering Jobs.

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The Rail

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Offering a special or a drink on the menu that benefits a particular charity is another excellent way to share the love. Try swapping coupons or providing special deals together for customers. Offer special events at your restaurant, like cooking classes, and share some of the secrets of your trade with the community.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. SevenRooms launched Contactless Order & Pay, streamlining the in-restaurant ordering and payments experience for guests.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

The brand’s commitment to each guest service experience is the focal point of upcoming menu innovation, value-based choices, and a portfolio of new organic food and beverage educational content. Upon entering flip’d, visitors can order from a digital kiosk or directly at the counter.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Visitors will be able to see, hear and learn about coffee’s extraordinary journey through intentional and unparalleled design, while enjoying a menu featuring exclusive coffee beverages exclusive to this location. Unique Food and Beverage Experiences. Coffee Bars.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On special appeal, the Board vacated the judge’s order, and remanded the case to the judge with instructions to approve the settlement agreements. Freshly-squeezed orange juice, Signature Coffee Brews, including Nitro and specialty espresso beverages. Grab-and-go salads and wraps, freshly-baked goods and more.

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Mobile Ordering Catering POS Customer Experience 251

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

” “With the positioning of the Quiznos brand as a ‘café-style’ destination concept, consumers in this region are embracing a robust breakfast platform, including compelling espresso-based beverage offerings,” said Master Franchisee Richard Eisenberg. Founded in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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