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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Special events have become a big reason for going out, making unique dining experiences more important than ever. Special events have become a big reason for going out, making unique dining experiences more important than ever. Making food travel well for delivery. Customer habits have also shifted after the pandemic.

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Where Safety Meets Satisfaction — Tips For COVID-Era Restaurateurs to Elevate Their Customer Offerings

Modern Restaurant Management

If possible, restaurants should consider expanding into casual and comfortable outdoor seating arrangements that can feature a more pre-pandemic feel. Other practices can be updated to enhance the feeling of personal service; for instance, table settings can be placed as guests are seated.

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26 Proven Ways to Market Your Restaurant Online and Increase Bookings

7 Shifts

Use it to share updates, special events, or new menu items. For example, you can promote your seasonal dishes or happy hour specials. When done right, it helps keep your restaurant at the top of customers' minds, encourages repeat visits, and promotes special events or menu items. It's an active marketing tool.

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Time Traveling Through History’s Weirdest Entertaining Advice

EATER

As such, you should seat your “very silent” friends between those who never shut up. She also suggests that you avoid seating two “brilliant people” together. “If She cautions against inviting too many “great talkers,” because “brilliant men and women who love to talk want hearers, not rivals.”

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How to Elevate Guest Experience in the Age of COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

Only include items on your delivery menus that you know are going to “travel” well. Entertainment is also an effective way to make any meal special – can you provide games for guests at their table? Make sure that every guest’s dining experience is the best it can be. Live music?

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BEFORE THE DINING EXPERIENCE TRY THE KITCHEN EXPERIENCE

Culinary Cues

Wow visuals on the plate and in the dining room, wow views from every seat, wow service, and of course – wow flavors on the plate. If you recognize the farmer, the rancher, and the fisherman, then they might be so inclined to set aside those extra special ingredients for your kitchen. This is your time – your personal experience too.

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Value Is the Restaurant Buzzword for the Summer

Modern Restaurant Management

" Seated surveyed 50 of their top partners based in New York, Dallas, Boston and Atlanta to get a deeper look at how inflation has impacted their businesses – and how they are responding to it. Increase in specials and promos. The most common methods used to increase foot traffic and sales: Create a loyalty program.