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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

ChowNow

Staffing automation, such as 7Shifts , can also take care of payroll, tracking overtime, managing tip distribution, and calculating wages accurately, ensuring employees are paid correctly and laws are followed. Accurate payroll processing : Automated calculations prevent errors and ensure fair tip distribution.

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Leverage Technology that Streamlines Your Back-Office Work

Modern Restaurant Management

Behind the scenes, managers spend countless hours dealing with tip distributions, creating weekly schedules in spreadsheets, and doing the dreaded payroll twice a month. My entire staff transitioned to being 80-percent paper free, so we didn't spend all that time putting tips in at the end of the night.

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Patio Season is Here. Make it Your Best Summer Ever with 7shifts Tools Built for Restaurants

7 Shifts

It’s also important to note that using outdoor space and adding more seating to your restaurant can increase your revenue by 30%. Tip Pooling overview. With more customers dining inside and out on the patio this season, you need the ability to create custom tip pools that fit your restaurant’s needs. Staffing for summer.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

7 Shifts

Tip: Your competitor analysis needs to include the digital space too. How we consume food, how menus are engineered , and even how restaurants are designed all owe a hat tip to IG. Here are some restaurant food photography tips and tricks. Opportunities: What can you do better than your competition?

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

Across all six major segments, more than 9 in 10 operators plan to continue offering outdoor seating and the same number of operators are also likely to continue offering alcohol-to-go, if their jurisdiction allows it. The average Valentine’s Day dinner with food, drinks, and tip cost diners $121 in 2023.

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Growing Delivery & Takeout Channels at Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

To counter that cost, revisit our second tip on how to re-engineer your menu for the time being. You can charge a delivery fee on each order to go to the restaurant, plus deliverers can benefit directly from tips. Pro Tip: If you jump right into delivery, make a note to organize deliveries by the service they came in through.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice Group are coming together to strengthen their OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts distribution capabilities. By coming together, we can create one of the truly great technology-enabled distribution businesses found in any industry. Parts Town and Heritage Combine. Plant-Based Learning.