The Rail

JANUARY 24, 2025

By Heather Langley, Contributor A restaurant point of sale (POS) system is home to a vast amount of personal information, including customer data and payment information. Restaurant owners need to take measures to keep their POS systems safe and secure to protect both business and customer data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

While there is plenty of technology out there to optimize your establishment, one food service trend is becoming a mainstay: Internet of Things. There are different IoT-based solutions on the market designed to decrease downtime, increase energy and operational efficiency and improve overall customer experience.

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Goliath Consulting

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Core Elements of a Restaurant Tech Stack: Point of Sale (POS) Systems: “The POS is the heart of the restaurant’s tech stack, as it needs to talk to every other system,” says Deliverect. This helps create personalized marketing campaigns and promotions, encouraging repeat business and enhancing the customer experience.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have: it’s an absolute necessity for building a modern, resilient restaurant that can become and stay competitive. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Investing in technology can be a key driver of success during these challenging times. New Marketing Tactics Can Help Reach Target Customers. It is no secret that marketing is a way for restaurants to keep up with loyal customers and engage with new ones. The Customer Online Journey Needs to be at the Forefront.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2023

As the restaurant industry becomes more reliant on technology, the risk of cyber attacks is rising. This data is highly valuable on the black market and can be used for identity theft, fraud, and other criminal activities. For example, POS systems have proven to be particularly vulnerable.

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ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2025

How POS integrations can help Most mistakes happen because staff are manually re-entering online orders. Using POS integration eliminates this risk by sending orders directly to the kitchen, reducing human errors, and ensuring customers receive exactly what they ordered. What Impacts Order Volume?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2022

As technology has evolved, however, the number of potential channels has increased, giving rise to first multichannel and then omnichannel marketing. When lockdowns and indoor-dining restrictions hit early in the pandemic, technology enabled many restaurants to respond and move much of their footprint from on-premise to off-premise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2023

5 Use social media and email marketing to promote Super Bowl specials and gift card promotions to attract customers. Between social media, loyalty programs, apps and email/text, restaurants have a built-in database of loyal customers. This can help increase sales and also encourage repeat business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Restaurants and food joints, once reliable venues for human interaction, will be important for the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Some of the biggest disruptors will result from the increase in information technology, autonomous vehicles, automation and robotics in the kitchen, and AI chefs. Voice Ordering.

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ChowNow

MARCH 20, 2025

Many of these issues come down to outdated processes, disconnected technology, and a lack of real-time insights. Sales numbers come from the POS, online orders live across third-party platforms, and labor costs are locked in scheduling software. Is your latest promotion bringing in more customers?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

Reach guests choosing to order-in by creating a Restaurant Week takeout menu—all you need is online ordering technology that enables you to pace and fulfill to-go orders while also serving a full dining room (providing you with two revenue streams). Be In Charge of Your Own Marketing. Do More with Less with Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 3, 2024

Statista’s market insights forecast the global cost of cybercrime will increase from $9.22T in 2024 to $13.82T in 2028. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as another advantage for attackers, enabling them to personalize phishing emails for highly effective business email compromise scams to introduce ransomware packages at scale.

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The Rail

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Luckily, modern technology has introduced several innovations that streamline the restaurant relocation process, making it more efficient, cost-effective, and manageable. From cloud-based tools to smart IoT sensors, technology is revolutionizing how restaurants relocate. Virtual reality (VR) technology makes this transition easier.

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ChowNow

MARCH 14, 2025

Marketing and Customer Engagement Even the best-run restaurant wont thrive if no one knows about it. A strong marketing strategywhether through social media, email campaigns , or loyalty programs helps bring in new customers and keep existing ones coming back.

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ChowNow

MARCH 28, 2025

Its powering voice assistants, helping people write emails faster, and even suggesting what to watch or where to eat next. AI for Enhancing Marketing and Customer Engagement AI can also help you build stronger, more meaningful relationships with your customers. Once it feels like part of the flow, you can add the next AI technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

To delve more into the results, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Matt Zibell, VP Technology at TouchBistro. The website is one part of it, but it’s also about maintaining an active social media presence, offering a loyalty program, and investing in ongoing marketing campaigns.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Thankfully, using the right technology the right way can help you do more with less to elevate your guest experience and improve profit margins. Take Advantage of Technology. For example, a handheld POS device will allow you to turn tables faster, improve order accuracy, and speed up service. Reward Your Loyal Customers.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This keeps information from getting lost in the text and email shuffle. It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. It integrates with your POS system and other restaurant tools to keep track of your stock and let you know when you’re running low. Management log books also cut down on confusion.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

They help with reservations and table management, staff scheduling and time management, inventory tracking, rewards programs, automated marketing, and more. Some even integrate with point-of-sale (POS) systems to update inventory levels in real-time as orders are placed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes. Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

At Ansa, we’re at the forefront of this dramatic shift to contactless payments, providing restaurants with a leading white-labeled digital wallet solution to simplify POS-agnostic contactless payments and meet the next generation of guests where they are. Technology continues to transform restaurant operations.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

How do you market food delivery and takeout? Here are tips for managing food and packaging inventory: Food inventory Use your POS or an inventory management tool to keep track of what you have and what you use over any given week. Use 7shifts’ POS integration to better understand your sales numbers and trends.

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7 Shifts

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Clever marketing and strong branding from a restaurant’s corporate offices can boost sales for franchised restaurants. These are either percentage-based or fixed dollar costs that go to marketing and operations for the entire business. A strong franchisor-franchisee relationship can be a thing of beauty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2020

By performing an honest assessment and diving deep into point-of-sale (POS) reporting, payroll data, online customer reviews, and various other analytics, even the most successful restaurant operators can identify areas that can be streamlined to cut costs, save time, and boost revenue in the new year. Deploying marketing campaigns.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The global online food delivery market size was valued at USD 221.65 This growth is fueled by increasing internet penetration, smartphone proliferation, technological advancements, the COVID pandemic, and the emergence of cloud kitchens. The graph below illustrates how these models interact within the market: 1.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When Jessie originally joined the Main Squeeze team in 2017, they used old-school Excel spreadsheets and emails to coordinate schedules with their staff. This meant a lot of time wasted through email threads discussing time off or vacation, finding shift replacements, and updating clunky spreadsheets to share out with their team.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

When paired with other products like Square Marketing and Square Loyalty, sellers can strengthen customer relationships, create open lines of communication, and incentivize patrons to keep coming back. Across European markets, Visa is investing to increase the number of digital payment acceptance devices within shops by more than 50 percent.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

Since the COVID-19 crisis began, the Association has coordinated more than 400,000 emails to Congress from restaurants, employees, consumers and industry supporters—all speaking out about the need for swift and strong federal relief and recovery programs. "Cox Media has been very supportive to us during this difficult time. .”

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants of today are infused with technology in many new ways, and it’s making a difference. Apple | Android Team Communication The Team Communication tool from 7shifts fixes the chaos of disconnected conversations, text threads, and email chains that seem to go nowhere. Try 7shifts for free. Get a Demo 6. Apple | Android 12.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2020

and Canada through free delivery and marketing efforts.” OneDine® , the touchless restaurant technology platform used by merchants and guests, is providing their Touchless System of Tap & Order and Tap & Pay for FREE to all restaurants in response to the pandemic. “These are challenging times for restaurants.

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Lavu

APRIL 4, 2025

Personalized marketing helps restaurants connect with customers by tailoring offers and experiences to individual preferences. With 62% of consumers leaving brands that fail to personalize experiences , personalized restaurant marketing can increase revenue by 10-30%. favorite dishes, dining frequency).

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2021

Invest in Technology Accounting and inventory management software are just a couple of the technologies that small business owners should invest in. Also, consider investing in a new POS system. Today your POS system can process credit cards, track sales, simplify bookkeeping, and much more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With today’s technology, bar and lounge operators can have the best of both worlds. Operators often rely on separate software tools for kitchen management, point of sale (POS), marketing efforts like email and SMS, and other operational functions. ” But these questions don't require an either-or answer.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants of today are infused with technology in many new ways, and it’s making a difference. Apple | Android Team Communication The Team Communication tool from 7shifts fixes the chaos of disconnected conversations, text threads, and email chains that seem to go nowhere. Try 7shifts for free. Get a Demo 6. Apple | Android 12.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By embracing new and emerging technologies, and going all-in on smartphone storytelling, we found a way to become much more than a single-unit barbecue restaurant on the outskirts of San Diego. One thing we’ve learned in our restaurant journey is that when you combine technology and passion, anything is possible. It comes down to fear.

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