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Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

The return of high-value customers with large business orders is a big opportunity for restaurants. Reinvent Your Catering Menu. Many offices are requiring individual packaging for catered food and even office snacks. The majority of ezCater orders now contain individually packaged items. Rethink your catering menu.

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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Review your inventory and spot areas where there’s over-ordering and spoilage, especially for perishable items like food and garnishes. For example, if a customer orders a standard cocktail, train your staff to offer a premium spirit upgrade, which can boost the profit margin for that order.

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The American Restaurant 2022 (Post Pandemic)

Culinary Cues

Rent kitchen space, develop multiple concepts around a core of ingredients, develop a separate branding campaign including “order friendly” websites, contract with a third party delivery service and go to town. Here are a few to chew on: GHOST KITCHENS are making people scratch their heads and wonder if this is the next “big” thing.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

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Diners are turning to online ordering in increasing numbers because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on on-premise dining. According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. Online ordering - Ditto.

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The Recipe for Rebranding Success: Transforming Your Restaurant’s Image

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s important to start with understanding why you want to rebrand in order to drive the right kind of change. Your ideal audience is the people you want to order your food. They know that their average order value is around $13 so they want to increase it to about $20.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. Using LPR, restaurant staff can link an order to a customer's car and use it as an identification to deliver their order once ready.

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7 key restaurant revenue streams to prioritize in 2024

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Offering additional services, like delivery and takeout, meal kits and subscription boxes, and even catering and hosting special events can unlock new growth opportunities. Delivery and takeout 60% of American consumers reported ordering delivery or takeout once a week.

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