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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

Modern Restaurant Management

These features include tableside mobile ordering, NFC contactless payments, and direct online ordering. They also have the choice of using the MarketConnect app to order and pick up from a designated shelf onsite, avoiding interactions and maintaining necessary social distancing.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (52%, up from 31% in 2018) and payroll software (50%, up from 28% in 2018), according to a study from Toast. Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Use order information with inventory management software for smarter purchasing.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-February 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Although mandated dine-in restrictions have held back all restaurant segments, particularly full service, consumer demand for restaurant meals and the ability to serve the demand with a host of off-premises services, like digital ordering, delivery, drive-thru, and carry-out, are the silver linings that enable the industry to persevere.

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MRM Research Roundup: Catering, Kiosks, Tipping and Dry January

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature news about an influx of catering orders, the topic of tipping, the rise of kiosks and affordable Michelin restaurants. Of that increase, 30 percent came through Catering Online Ordering, which launched in Q3 2023. On average, catering orders ticket sizes in Q4 2023 were $160.

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The Most Challenging Restaurant Industry Technology Trends of 2018

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Things are no different in the restaurant industry, and 2018 has seen some notable—and in many instances, challenging—tech trends that are changing facets of the business. Placing Mobile Orders in Advance. Some of the biggest coffee shop and restaurant chains now offer advance ordering for pickup and takeout via mobile apps.

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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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Four Industry Trends to Boost Your Restaurant Business

Modern Restaurant Management

This might mean weaving elements of fast-casual dining into your design. On top of that, retail sales of plant-based foods that directly replace animal products grew by 17% from August 2017 through August 2018. Approximately 38 percent of dining trips somehow involve the use of a mobile device, a Windstream Enterprise study found.