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Top-Effective Tech Solutions to Improve Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

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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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 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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Will Handwritten Names on Cups and Free Refills Actually Make Starbucks Better?

EATER

According to CNN , Starbucks baristas will soon return to hand-writing customers names in Sharpie on their cups, a practice that in 2016 was replaced by stickers with the customers order and name printed on them. Also making a comeback is the self-service condiment bar, where customers can add cream and sugar themselves.

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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. In 2016, there was plenty of compelling robotics technology geared for the restaurant industry.

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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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AI Food Intelligence and Now Serving Democracy

Modern Restaurant Management

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. sweepstakes that gives restaurant operators the chance to win a state-of-the-art mobile ordering system.

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