ChowNow

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The restaurant industry is going mobile, and restaurant apps are at the center of this transformation. Diners want the convenience of ordering, booking, and engaging with their favorite restaurants straight from their phones. Beyond mobile ordering, restaurant apps support operations in ways that were never available before.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Some of these strategies include: Optimizing the Website. Optimizing restaurant websites is an important part of driving sales in any business climate but is critical in the pandemic environment. Optimized websites have a clean, uncluttered, navigable design and, most importantly, are Google-friendly. Keep them updated.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

To do so, you must have an optimized website and engaging social media profiles. Build a mobile-friendly restaurant website In 2024, roughly around 63% of all web traffic came from mobile devices. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile, you could be losing out on potential customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2023

Automation tools also provide value through mobile ordering apps, AI solutions, digital reviews apps, and online reservation software. Mobile Order Applications Mobile smart order apps for waiters help to speed up the service and manage the orders right at the guest’s table.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But whether it’s mobile apps, kiosks, tablet-wielding employees, or AI and ML tools, they all rely on QSRs having a sound network infrastructure in place. Enabling Flexible Ordering. Flexible ordering has become an expectation for restaurant customers – from fine dining to quick service.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In this guide, youll learn how to use ChowNow tools along with a handful of other effective strategies to increase order volume, boost your current customer traffic, and grow your overall sales. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to stay top-of-mind with customers and remind them its time to order again from your restaurant.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The right marketing strategy helps you get the most out of every dollar by increasing customer retention , boosting order volume, and encouraging repeat visits. Between online reservations, third-party delivery apps, and direct ordering from your website, digital interactions often happen before a guest ever steps through your doors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2021

Customers want the ability to order online, set up delivery, view seating, and book tables through the convenience of a mobile phone. Not having strong online visibility and mobile-friendly options could likely mean that you are losing diners to the competitor across town who does. Can customers find you?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A good mobile experience. Creating a contactless ordering experience for guests at your restaurant is important in order for your business to stay competitive and profitable. Restaurants have endless third-party ordering app options, but those do come with a price, approximately five-twenty percent of each sale.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 15, 2023

Enhance Your Digital Presence Grubhub projects 40 percent of restaurant orders in 2023 will take place online. Create or enhance your website and make sure you offer an “order online” option that is easy to find. You can also consider creating your own mobile app.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2022

Increased Emphasis on Online Ordering. This combination of pressures has brands doubling down on digital ordering – effectively reducing the labor cost of this process. Appeal to Mobile Gamers. At the same time, the labor shortage means that associates need to be focused on high-value activities.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 3, 2024

A well-crafted website serves as the virtual storefront for your restaurant, providing potential diners with a glimpse into your establishment's unique offerings, ambiance, and culinary delights. Stunning visuals play a significant role in enticing visitors to explore your website further.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2020

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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2021

The impact of the global pandemic has fast-tracked the restaurant industry's need for digital ordering, particularly for off-premises dining options. Digital ordering channels are vital for your restaurant’s success in 2021. Digital ordering channels are vital for your restaurant’s success in 2021. and up to 53.9

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Suddenly, the ability to engage customers digitally – to take orders via apps and websites, to fulfill orders via delivery and curbside pickup, all occurring “outside the four walls” – became existential. In March of 2020, the world changed. The results are profound.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Even before the recent COVID surges, new vaccine mandates and other restrictions, the analysts at Revenue Management Solutions advised their restaurant clients that online ordering was here to stay. Early results revealed consistent consumer behavior that should drive online ordering improvements by operators.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

Online food delivery thrives as phones become one-stop shops for ordering and tracking meals. They must choose whether to use third-party online ordering platforms or handle delivery in-house. Plus, it explores how to efficiently implement ordering platforms and optimise delivery operations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

While we do live in a mobile world where smartphone pictures have become the norm, professional photography is still needed for restaurants. But, chances are you got into the restaurant business to manage or cook, not to market. Optimizing your website and social media pages. Managing SEO. Spearheading promotional events.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 1, 2024

Restaurant brands need to pay attention to evolving media consumptions in order to better engage with potential customers, according to results of a year-long study conducted by Digital Turbine in collaboration with Qrious Insight. Mobile gaming-first audiences were shown 61 percent fewer ads than social media-first audiences.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 29, 2020

While waiting for our table (which was on an outside patio setting fully following social distance rules), I noticed there was a distinct difference in how the two establishments were managing COVID-19. Restaurant owners and managers should be asking themselves: How do we use this challenge to enhance the customer experience?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By sharing your menu across all digital platforms including your website, review pages and social channels, customers have ample opportunities to see it and therefore decide to make a buying decision—whether that be making an in-person dining reservation or ordering food for delivery. Give Your Website All of the Love.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 25, 2022

Mobile ordering apps have been rapidly growing in popularity over recent years. Between 2016 and 2018, usage of food ordering apps grew by 140 percent. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of ordering technology, apps have become critical for restaurants. That’s a much easier order to get.”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2020

Digital engagements with customers are going to remain the norm long after the COVID-19 pandemic, as customers come to appreciate the convenience of curbside pickup and in physical locations, contactless payment options and online or mobile ordering. Even though digital can help with ordering, a courteous greeting can go a long way.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2021

Luckily that’s easier today with mobile advertising and restaurant owners should consider embracing this modern technology to market their business effectively. One of the most personal forms of mobile marketing, targeting based on location, has two main strategies every restaurant owner should be aware of.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2021

Search engines rank the most relevant results first and the average organic click-through rate (CTR) the very top Google mobile search result gets is 26.9 Claiming their GMB account can help restaurateurs manage how their business appears in Google search results and improve website rankings on Google Maps and local search results.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. Here are their responses. To read part one, click here.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As our world becomes increasingly digitized- with the rise of food delivery services, QR Code Menus and online orders- it's more important than ever for restaurant owners and employees to become familiar with the latest threats to their business. A QR code is really just a different way to distribute a website address.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2024

How do you manage your restaurant in a modern and efficient way? Using technology to facilitate contactless payments, online ordering, and quick table rotation can increase consumers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Implement efficient cooking methods, improve workforce scheduling, and use technology for order processing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

” The space earned that moniker because staff used it to handle delivery orders from a multitude of online platforms. He also added a POS system and created a mobile-friendly website. That meant that orders came into the deli on about nine different tablets and a fax machine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 14, 2020

With social distancing guidelines specifying six feet of distance between customers in essential businesses, and most states ordering stay-at-home and shelter-in-place mandates, many restaurants that previously focused only on exceptional dine-in experiences, or those that thrived on foot traffic, have been forced to shutter.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

Those pivots are also reflected in the digital world, in which websites that previously offered little more than a business’s name, address and phone number now have much higher consumer requirements. In 2020, too many restaurant websites are still little more than digital brochures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. To view all of the available resources or connect with a US Foods expert, visit the company’s website here.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Diners are turning to online ordering in increasing numbers because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on on-premise dining. According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. This approach is often expensive because these platforms charge a commission to fulfill the delivery for each order. Sellers pay a flat fee of $1.50

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2020

As consumers have come to rely on their cell phones in virtually every aspect of their lives, restaurants should consider letting guests order via mobile rather than at a counter. Contactless Ordering. It’s a unique time and space to own or manage a food service business. Contactless Payments.

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