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Best Practices for Launching Online Ordering

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Some of those challenges, particularly for smaller, local restaurants, include implementing online ordering, creating a digital presence, and offering delivery for the first time. Even before current events arose, online ordering capabilities and digital touchpoints were becoming nearly ubiquitous.

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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. The 700+-store chain had a challenge with the amount of time it took to schedule an interview for a new applicant once the candidate had submitted their application online.

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How to Set Up Online Ordering for Restaurants

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If you weren’t thinking that much about online ordering before, you definitely are now. But when it’s so dead simple to get listed on third-party delivery marketplaces and take orders, why do all the other work to create your own system when you are a time-strapped restaurateur? It will still cost you to run your own delivery.

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Making Your Food Delivery Business More Sustainable

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The results demonstrated that online consumers seek delivery services from providers committed to carbon-neutral processes. From ordering on DoorDash to getting a massive delivery of fresh produce, we can all do our part to help. Fuel and e-commerce order management systems help streamline delivery routes.

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Tips for Keeping Restaurants Afloat as COVID Cases Spike

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In fact, as digital platforms have become more prominent during the pandemic for ordering takeout and delivery, restaurants can use the time their customers spend on their smart phones to their advantage. The Customer Online Journey Needs to be at the Forefront.

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Maximize Takeout Profitability With These Six Steps

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According to Morgan Stanley estimates, online delivery is set to grow from $260 billion in 2017 to $325 billion in 2020 – and possibly $470 billion by 2025. With takeout, that might mean including the unexpected in their bags: a free appetizer, a sample of a new dessert, a coupon for their next meal, or a fun kid’s activity.

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Six Reasons Promo and Gift Cards Will Be Driving Restaurant Trends in 2022

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Online Ordering: How Gift Cards are an Essential Piece of the Process. As the public has gotten used to the prevalence of curbside pickup and delivery, restaurants who do not offer online ordering may find they are struggling more to generate business. Meet your customers where they are this year: online.

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