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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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With so many people leaving the industry, restaurants stepped up—raising wages, creating new opportunities, and doubling down on the employee experience. Much of that confidence comes from focusing on stronger employee benefits—like mental health support—and rising wages.

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Three Steps to Improving Customer Loyalty During the Pandemic 

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And while the pressures of the pandemic continue, customer loyalty can play a role in whether or not restaurants will sink or swim. Below, we’ll explore three steps to building relationships and an effective customer loyalty program. First, consider adopting a touchless loyalty system. McKinsey & Co.

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Growth of Modern Contactless Payments: Increasing Restaurant Profitability and Efficiency

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On the other side of the coin, restaurant employees would only need to manage one consolidated ordering and payment process and would have more bandwidth to deliver the experience each customer desires. This would allow owners to cultivate more personal relationships to increase customer loyalty and better market to each individual.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences.

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Why Cybercriminals Target Restaurants and How to Protect Yours

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Some challenges, like crowded and highly competitive markets and shifting consumer demands, have always been relevant to restaurant owners. Thanks to mobile ordering apps or loyalty programs, you may also have customers’ names, addresses, and other sensitive data. Educate Employees. million class-action lawsuit.

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COVID-19 Resources for Restaurants

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This new site is a one-stop hub of critical information for restaurants, employees, customers and industry partners. In addition to the latest resources on COVID-19 restaurant and employee recovery programs, RestaurantsAct.com offers a brand new, industry-first interactive map of each state, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

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What’s Next?: MRM Restaurant Survival Guide Updates

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The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation has launched the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund to support U.S. restaurant employees financially impacted by the coronavirus crisis. Clic here to d onate to the Foundation’s Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. This fund is designed to help those struggling employees.”