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Is a Branded Mobile Ordering App the Right Choice for Your Restaurant?

ChowNow

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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Contactless Before Contactless Was Cool (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

They can order and pay through a server (old school), or directly from their mobile phones (contactless ordering and payment – new school), or blend the two experiences all on one tab, through its easy-to-use mobile point-of-sale (POS), contactless ordering and payment features, and kitchen management systems (KMS).

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Is a branded ordering app the right choice for your restaurant?

ChowNow

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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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

In terms of technology, just like the rest of our lives, the trend has been toward mobility and flexibility and the last year has pushed this faster than we would have otherwise seen under “normal” conditions. environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between.

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Why Now is the Best Time to Upgrade Your Restaurant POS (Sponsored)

Modern Restaurant Management

Aside from the traditional full-service or counter-service dine-in models, they aren’t set up to support the non-traditional service models such as ghost kitchens, drop-zones or first-party delivery that have become a necessity throughout the pandemic. QR-Based, Contactless Ordering and Payment. On-the-Fly Menu Management.

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Building a Better Restaurant Bathroom

EATER

Any fine dining restaurant should look at this bathroom as aspirational.”. That’s what we mean when we say ‘fine dining,’” read the restaurant’s Instagram post. . | Gerard + Belevender /Eater Detroit. Restaurant bathrooms matter more than ever. But amid the quest for vibes and a good selfie mirror, where does function fit in?

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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

7 Shifts

For fine dining, around 30 percent. For fine dining, around 30 percent. Numbers can give us insights into everything from profits and losses to average customer spend to how often employees cycle through. If it's not measured, it won't be managed. But what should be measured, and how? Table of Contents: Cost of Goods Sold. Health care.