Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To further reinforce the importance of search, Google recently shared that one in two restaurant visits is digitally influenced during their presentation at MUFSO 2019. In a way, brands need to think of themselves as media companies. Beyond unique creative, social media advertising can help your brand engage with new audiences.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to Kenneth Research (September 2019), the Acai berry market was valued at $712 million in 2017, and it is expected to grow at a steady rate of 12.71% between 2018-2025. The Acai berry market ‘s fast growth has a lot to do with social media. billion people use social media daily. Currently, over 2.5

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

Restaurants can benefit from reaching out to diners on social media or via email to let them know their support is appreciated. For example, in 2019, a Cincinnati-based restaurant, Buffalo Wings & Rings, a franchise with 60 locations across the U.S,

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

According to research done in July 2019 by the Pew Research Center, 26 percent of adults spend the entire day online and 43 percent are online several times during the day. Even before current events arose, online ordering capabilities and digital touchpoints were becoming nearly ubiquitous.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 27, 2025

Consumers now move fluidly between AI tools, social media, and review platforms to validate claims, check brand reputation, and watch videos from real customers before making decisions. Loyalty traffic doubled from 2019 to 2024, and loyalty members now represent 39 percent of total restaurant visits.

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Sante

DECEMBER 30, 2019

2019 was a stellar year for Santé as we continued to give you industry-relevant content through an expanded syndication network. In 2019 Santé reached over 1.5 We are on every social media platform. We are on every social media platform. In 2019 Santé reached over 1.5

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

JUNE 22, 2020

The image-based social network now has a revenue of approximately $6.84 billion, which, in 2019, included $20 billion in ad revenue. . To start out with any kind of social media for business, planning is key. This includes your logo, your restaurant’s decor, and your social media content. . Plan Ahead.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2019

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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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is no small sum for most operators and based on the lack of support the industry has received in the wake of pandemic-driven closures and limitations, it highlights the real need to implement new strategies and cost-cutting to stay in business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

New restaurant and food businesses are opening at pre-pandemic levels, with the number of new openings increasingly more in line with 2018 and 2019 volumes, according to third quarter data for the Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report. There were only 100 fewer new restaurant openings in September of this year, compared to September 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In 2019, The Insight Partners, a research firm, estimated that the global RTD alcoholic beverage market would reach $40 million in 2027 from $26 million in 2018. percent in 2019, and 8.5 As consumers show off their cocktail literacy on social media, brands will keep pace by ramping up their visual game as well.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 8, 2020

Paid Digital Marketing : Further promoting organic efforts via targeted Google Ads or individual social platforms is a relatively low-cost way to get a local QSR location in front of more consumers that otherwise may never think to go. Timeout from Fighting : Let’s call it half-time for the great fast-food social media wars.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 9, 2020

percent of the 2019 numbers. Take advantage of online channels like email and social media posts to effectively get your message out during this timeframe. With many competitors cutting back on ad spending, the cost of online media has become quite inexpensive. percent of the previous year’s figures.

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ChowNow

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today, amidst varying local regulations around social distancing, and a restaurant industry trying to stay afloat, diners remain unsure of which restaurants in their area are open and accepting orders. Promote your restaurant on social media. This provides you with social proof that people enjoy eating at your restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

According to Statista , statistics show that between the years of 2015 and 2019, 95 percent of households in the UK owned and used a mobile phone for internet access. You can guess what they are searching for too; social media platforms, communication accounts, leisure and entertainment options (and that includes restaurants!).

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2020

percent above 2019 levels for the equivalent Tuesday. Yet, compared to National Coffee Day 2019, which took place on a Sunday last year, visits were down 10.0 percent year over year that Tuesday compared to the same day in 2019, and down 37.9 2 preferred social media platform behind Snapchat, is fuelling brands like e.l.f. &

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EATER

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Scott Eisen/Getty Images He’s in his “virtual events” era, apparently After a nearly six-year social media hiatus, disgraced chef Mario Batali is officially back on Instagram. But this isn’t the first time that Batali has seemingly tried to stage a comeback.

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Social Hospitality: Restaurants

MAY 18, 2020

In a world driven by social media and online search, sales tactics are essential to generate revenue. According to the data from the 2019 Travel and Hospitality Industry Outlook by Deloitte , industry growth is consistent throughout the past decade. They have beautiful websites , blogs , and a well-planned social media presence.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2020

restaurants hit the jackpot over the last few years with multiple opportunities to drive traffic thanks to big, national news events happening in the city — including the James Comey hearing in 2017, Stanley Cup playoffs in 2018, and the World Series in 2019. Washington, D.C.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

The study found before engaging with a business or service, nearly all consumers (97 percent) conduct a local online search, with 78 percent of purchase decisions influenced by social content. Just be careful, some things can be taken as insensitive. peasants FEAST in Solvang, California will open on April 1. as originally scheduled.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2020

Whether your brand has embraced social media or not, your plates and glasses will be popping up in someone’s Story feed — if it’s aesthetic enough, of course. Learning from 2019. 2019 saw the health kick well and truly, well, kick in! But what other drinks trends are sent to take 2020 by storm?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

Social media is a critical driver, with 58 percent of SMBs now on TikTok, while 38 percent are actively integrating AI into their operations. More than a quarter (28 percent) are using AI for marketing and social media, while 24 percent are using the technology for written communications. AI adoption spreads in new ways.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2020

You should also link to all of your various social media channels so that people can stay connected. According to one recent study, a massive 40 percent of all households in the United States had kids under the age of 18 as of 2019. Don't give someone an opportunity to run straight into the arms of one of your competitors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The biggest thing that all Canadians miss about table-service dining is socializing and connecting with friends and family (72 percent). Word of mouth continues to be the most important factor for Canadians to try a restaurant for the first time, but the power of social media shouldn’t be overlooked. California.

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Goliath Consulting

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Metaverse is the next evolution of social media, virtual reality, and the virtual world. Meta’s (Facebook) founder, Mark Zuckerberg intends for metaverse to be a 3D, virtual space in which people can socialize, learn, and collab with one another. These virtual reality worlds have been a thing since 2014-2019.

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EATER

JULY 30, 2020

There’s this idea in food media that it’s somehow easier to cook the food of your culture because you grew up with it or that it’s a part of you,” Martinez tells me. “It Yet the simultaneous compartmentalizing and marginalization of BIPOC in food media goes far beyond one organization or one editor-in-chief. I am not your maman!)”.

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

In the Food Service industry, 2019 is bringing in its own wave of fresh trends! According to researchers from Restaurant Business, natural food enhancements will continue to grow in popularity among restaurateurs in 2019. Use of local foods and flavors is also a Food Service trend that you can expect in 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. Operators are finding social media to be an invaluable tool to attract and retain customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2019

There are more than one million restaurants in the United States and the industry projects $863 billion in sales in 2019. Customers should experience your brand consistently whether they’re on social media, a mobile delivery app, your website or in your restaurant. Create strong social media relationships with customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the old days (pre-2019), it was common to require that staff request a smoke break from management. The cherry on top: a terrible social media review. What’s even worse than the cell phone snub is when the staff is socializing together, backs to the guests. Spontaneous Smoking Breaks. Ignoring the Floor.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

When households have extra income, they will eat out more often and the National Restaurant Association found that 2019 should see continued sales growth. And restaurants have a chance to capitalize on the trend through design choices aimed at social media users. Dining out is becoming a shareable experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. The restaurants of the future will disrupt the industry with: specialization, availability, exclusivity and speed and, media engagement.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 19, 2022

Consumers adjusted; between 2019 and 2020, online ordering for food/beverage rose by a record 93 percent. Also, as of 2019, up to 35 percent of in-person restaurant purchases were paid for in cash. Every establishment should have someone regularly monitoring review sites and social media. Then came Covid.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In fact, they added 150,000 non-partnered restaurants to their platform in Q4 2019. Write posts on social media about Grubhub’s partner growth strategy and how it affects your restaurant. They signed up just 15,000 partners in the same period.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 27, 2025

Jeff had nailed bagel making by then, and started selling his bagels online, using social media. “The And it turned out to be Justin Wetherill, the founder of the uBreakiFix tech repair chain, who had built that company to more than 500 units before selling it in 2019. The first few were terrible,” he said. We’d sell out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In a previous article on brand development [link to 2019-09 REDCAP Refine your restaurant's brand with these 3 questions], I challenged you to identify what your brand delivers beyond a perfectly prepared meal. Consider sharing a Google My Business short URL on your website, in your email signature, or on your social media profiles.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

In 2019 we were introduced to the chicken sandwich war, and in 2020 it raged on as chain and independent restaurants added the sandwich to their menus for diners to enjoy. Similar to Grubhub's 2019 Year in Food Report , diners are continuing to eat vegan and vegetarian dishes. Top Foods of 2020. chili: 228 percent more popular.

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