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Restaurant Automation: The Key to Back of House Efficiency 

Apicbase

When thinking about restaurant automation, imagining a future where AI-powered androids shake cocktails and drones drop food deliveries through your skylight is fun. But automation in food service is much more than that. What Back-of-House Processes Can Restaurants Automate? What Is Restaurant Automation?

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Food Chain Crisis Explained: Supply Disruptions & Rising Prices

Cheetah

Supply chain disruptions and shortages like these are hitting every part of the food service industry hard. Learn how this affects your business, from restaurant suppliers struggling to keep up, to rising food prices led by labor shortages and increased consumer demand for quick, cheap food. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Reaching and Keeping the New Generation of Diners with Effective Customer Loyalty

Modern Restaurant Management

Time is money, and consumers representing the youngest two adult generations are in short supply of both. Restaurants seeking to capture more Gen Z and millennial diners should support this fast-paced lifestyle with meaningful loyalty programs that save time and encourage return visits.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences.

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Beyond the Plate: Evolution and Exploration in the 2024 Restaurant Scene

Modern Restaurant Management

The year 2024 promises a journey of adaptation and fierce competition for the restaurant industry as it manages stronger-than-expected economic data and slowing inflation while dealing with the headwinds of short labor supply, more demanding customers and an uncertain political environment. The key lesson both establishments teach?

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Food Chain Crisis Explained: Rising Food Prices & Supply Disruptions

Cheetah

But the root cause of the current food chain crisis and rising food prices runs deeper than that. Supply chain disruptions and shortages like these are hitting every part of the food service industry hard. Labor Issues Exacerbate Food Chain Crisis. Summer Heat Wave Inflames Food Shortage.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Increasing Role of AI in Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

AI-based robots cook your food and deliver meals on time without missing a beat. AI is a program developed by humans to respond to a set of instructions under specific environments. AI programs factor in various variables like human response patterns, scenarios, locations, languages, and more to deliver what is expected of them.