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How To Get Started With Your Restaurant’s First Loyalty Program

The Restaurant Times

Building brand loyalty when starting a new restaurant can save you money and increase your total profitability. A loyalty program can take a variety of shapes, but at its most basic level, it’s a restaurant marketing strategy that encourages consumers to come back. Offer Loyalty Points . Make It Exclusive .

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The State of Full Service Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Seventy-four percent of full service restaurants (FSRs) managed to maintain or increase their sales during the pandemic; however, profit margins in 2021 declined to 10 percent, compared to 12 percent in 2019, according to third annual State of Full Service Restaurants Report released by TouchBistro.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

We look forward to another year of serving up fresh dishes and brighter mornings to every customer with care, openness and intention. The fusion of technology with a focus on genuine connections ensures a dining landscape that not only meets consumer needs but leaves a lasting, positive impact on both patrons and the communities they serve."

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2023 Reflections: The Year That Was in Restaurants, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

It's also a time for increased flexibility as restaurants are forced to do more, meet more needs, serve more audiences and create more compelling content. Co-founder, Carbonate Looking back at 2023, I witnessed a significant shift in how restaurants approach loyalty programs. Their commentary, however, was telling.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. Second, the shift of Thanksgiving into December of 2019 converts from tailwind to headwind this month. percent from 2018 to 2019, sales for the whole weekend only increased about four percent. First, at 2.1

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Consumer spending at restaurants was up +32 percent in the April-May-June 2021 quarter compared to the same quarter last year, and for a pre-pandemic view, flat compared to the same quarter in 2019. Despite the gains, FSR dine-in visits are down -37 percent from the second quarter of 2019. foodservice industry. “The U.S.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Intriguingly, it appears fast casual restaurants have started taking back the customers they lost to quick serve restaurants since the pandemic, with consumers visiting fast casual restaurants more often, up to 24 percent from 21 percent in May. Consumers ranked local chains as their second most desired type of apps and loyalty programs.

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