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The Delta Variant: How to Leverage Tech to Sustain Restaurant Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

With delta variant cases surging and a second pandemic winter looming, restaurants are desperately trying to sustain and fuel their recoveries. Restaurants need all the help they can get today to entice guests, make them feel safe and comfortable, create a memorable experience and earn their repeat business.

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How to Make Your Guests Feel Safe and Get them Back in the Door

Modern Restaurant Management

While many find hope for the industry as the country re-opens, the road to recovery is a very long and uncertain one. While the operational and financial impact of social distancing must be top of mind, nearly as important as what you do will be how you communicate these changes to your guests. Anticipation. Setting the Scene.

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THE MISUNDERSTOOD CHEF

Culinary Cues

When the menu is not their own then they are left with all the responsibility for the guest and employee experience and very little authority to set the stage for success. It is a juxtaposition that is nearly impossible to manage. To the owner/operator there are two things that define success: customer satisfaction and profit.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

The importance of making guests feel comfortable. Incentivize guests to choose your restaurant. Restaurant operators should also focus on remarketing to guests through email or other means, as well as offering return visit incentives to keep customers coming back. Small Business Recovery.

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Takeout For Good and Menus Go Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature the Takeout For Good Effort on June 2 and a host of products designed to help restaurants keep guests and staff safer as they reopen. Altering seating arrangements to improve spacing between guests. Takeout For Good. Redesigning workflows to ensure safe distancing between employees.

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Responding to COVID-19’s Impact on the Restaurant Supply Chain

Goliath Consulting

The reality is everyone has to adjust in some capacity but everyone is very focused on the guest’s experience still and that will get them far” (5). As such, communication and transparency is a necessary component of recovery. References: (1) [link]. (2) 2) [link]. (3) 3) [link]. (4) 4) [link]. (5) 5) Yerkes, Meredith.

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The 5 Biggest Restaurant Food Trends to Watch in 2021

Goliath Consulting

With the industry’s recovery expected to be sluggish, some even estimating that the full recovery could take years (1), there’s little doubt that this trend of off-premise dining will continue to grow in 2021. Consumer behavior has also shifted, many preferring contactless options and off-premise dining than dining in.

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