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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? Join the Marketplace ??

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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

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If you're standing in line waiting to order the special of the night, the seasonal Panzanella Salad, you don't want to hear “86 the special”. No one likes finally deciding on what to order, and then being told that item is not available. Simply put, when a customer cannot order what they want, this will result in lost sales.

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No Drive-Thru? Here’s How to Offer Contactless Curbside Pickup

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Foot traffic has dropped for the majority of restaurants in North America, with revenue switching to online ordering and pickups instead. Find a dedicated pickup spot If you don’t have drive thru, it’s definitely difficult to serve the customers outside the restaurant. Here are some tips on how it can be done.

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Effective Communication For Restaurant Teams & Employees

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Watch the video version of these 5 restaurant communication tips In order to build an effective work culture and a productive team, restaurant leaders need to communicate successfully and at scale with their teams at all times. The definitive guide to restaurant staff scheduling. Menus and operating hours can change often.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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Tech-ing it up for 2021: Three Ways Technology Will Help Restaurants in the New Year 

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In order to survive, restaurants needed to rethink the way they do business with many turning to technology to keep them afloat. While the year is now nearly over, with more new cases of Covid-19 continuing to surface each day, the current challenges are most definitely going to spill over into 2021. Go All Out with Online Ordering.

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For Restaurant Owners, Cybersecurity is a People Problem 

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If you’re like me, chances are you’ve probably ordered food online or through an app at least once in the last couple of weeks. We’re not alone — market research company Frost & Sullivan projects that online/mobile ordering will be a $200 billion dollar industry by 2025.