Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers. Super app “A mobile or web application that combines multiple services into one platform.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2025

In today's digital landscape, restaurants have become prime targets for cybercriminals who take advantage of potential entry points from point-of-sale systems, online ordering platforms, customer databases, loyalty programs and third-party delivery services. Consider the alarming pattern over the past three years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This reflects the positive impact loyalty programs have on driving revenue, with 83 percent of restaurant leaders saying their loyalty program successfully drives up order or basket size, as well as repeat visits (82 percent) and return on investment (78 percent). titled Chili’s and Texas Roadhouse: Full-Service Success in 2024.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s critical to provide a seamless eating experience, which includes simple payment choices and online reservations. Using technology to facilitate contactless payments, online ordering, and quick table rotation can increase consumers’ satisfaction and loyalty. How Can Businesses Fulfill the Evolving Consumer Expectations?

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

These ads will direct back to a restaurants’ DoorDash ordering page. In the future, they could also link to a restaurants’ own website if they use DoorDash’s Storefront online ordering system, Samolis said. But some have bristled at the idea that they must now offer discounts in order to compete. Have consumers moved on?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2024

You can use feedback forms, check your monthly sales report, analyze the reservations made, and even work on the order history. Try to integrate a digital platform or mobile app that can allow customers to track their rewards, receive personalized offers, and make reservations or orders.

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7 Shifts

MAY 31, 2024

But the revenue restaurants get from digital channels like their mobile apps and websites surpasses the 32% of revenue they generate onsite and 26% over the phone. Mobile phone users spend an average of 6 hours and 58 minutes on their phones daily, with Gen Z averaging over 9 hours of screen time daily. With over 5.07

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

Best restaurant marketing ideas for 2024 Here are some of the proven and tested restaurant marketing ideas you can try in 2024: Offer your customers rewards using loyalty programs 47% of diners in loyalty programs say they use their memberships a couple of times monthly, and 32% use them several times weekly. billion by 2026.

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Lavu

MAY 9, 2025

From real-time inventory tracking to mobile ordering and multi-location management, the right POS helps restaurants grow faster and operate more efficiently. Toast : Designed for restaurants, offering tableside ordering, inventory management, and a free starter plan with 3% payment processing. Thats where Lavu leads the way.

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Bingage

APRIL 14, 2021

Previously, a traditional POS system was only limited to a restaurant billing software that includes took orders and generated a receipt. Whether you need to keep track or manage stock, orders, inventory, restaurant billing, you need a Point of sale system. Chefs :- To keep track of inventory, etc.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As we settle into 2024, the restaurant industry stands on the cusp of transformative changes, shaped by evolving consumer preferences, sustainability concerns, and a relentless pace of technological innovation. Restaurants that spotlight these offerings emphasize their commitment to reducing carbon footprints and supporting local economies.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders.

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Mad Mobile

MAY 29, 2024

At our booth, we proudly showcased our latest innovations, including the all-new CAKE POS, our new mobile POS device, and other essential restaurant technologies. Recently, many restaurants adopted new technologies to support modern ordering and delivery channels, increasing vendor complexity. Until next year, Chicago!

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

To give you the full picture of the positives and negatives of what lies ahead for 2024, we combed through dozens of recent industry reports and compiled a list of 93 restaurant industry statistics. Restaurant Industry Stats 2024 – Our Top 10 10 restaurant industry stats for 2024 to keep in mind. Let’s dig in. billion by 2030.

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Restaurant Engine

MARCH 13, 2024

In this article, we take a broad look at food service trends to know in 2024. So, you can bet that one of the 2024 trends to look out for is sustainability practices. Trend: Add in Some Sour McCormick has designated tamarind as the flavor of the year for 2024. Here are some ideas: Compost leftover food scraps and paper products.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Online Ordering : Avoid third-party fees and improve efficiency with direct online ordering tools. Order Management : Eliminate kitchen errors and cut prep times by 25% with automated workflows. For instance, if you notice waste in fresh herbs, you can adjust order sizes or use them in specials to reduce costs.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 8, 2022

Employees at the New York City Reserve Roastery voted 46-36 in favour of forming a union. Mobile ordering app Orda partners with DoorDash. The app allows customers to order and pay at coffee shops, as well as receiving rewards from their purchases. Starbucks’ flagship New York store votes to unionise. Take a look.

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Focus POS

MARCH 18, 2022

5 Restaurant Online Ordering Facts All Restaurateurs Should Know. It’s essential to look at past facts, previous diner ordering habits, and the ebb and flow of trends. Suppose you are considering adding restaurant online ordering or third-party delivery integration. The Key to Success is Knowing the Facts.

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Online Ordering Ordering Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering 78

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. Whether it’s speeding up order times, improving inventory management, or boosting loyalty programs, every tool should serve a purpose. In 2024, we launched Mad Dash, which totally changed curbside pickup.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." The pandemic made speed, accuracy, and seamless ordering non-negotiable.

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Mad Mobile

MARCH 8, 2024

Restaurant industry experts have seen a massive shift in 2024 toward iPad-based POS systems. In the Mobile POS Payments market, the number of users is expected to amount to 101.10m users by 2028. Giving your servers access to iPad-based ordering systems is one of the most effective ways to streamline workflows on the floor.

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Lavu

MAY 9, 2025

From real-time inventory tracking to mobile ordering and multi-location management, the right POS helps restaurants grow faster and operate more efficiently. Toast : Designed for restaurants, offering tableside ordering, inventory management, and a free starter plan with 3% payment processing. Thats where Lavu leads the way.

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POS Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Food Truck 78

The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 27, 2022

From online ordering, self-checkouts, and touchless payments to delivery and pick-up, the food and beverage sector can no longer afford to ignore the latest tech in order to remain relevant and competitive in the marketplace. Contactless technology is becoming more widely accepted, and not just for placing orders online.

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SpotOn

MAY 14, 2024

SpotOn’s integrated product set for restaurants includes point-of-sale , online ordering , labor management , QR order & pay , waitlist & reservations , marketing , loyalty , and comprehensive reporting.

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POS Point of Sale Customer Service Online Ordering 52

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The F&B director works with the order forms, the COO analyses the profit and loss statements, the inventory manager checks the stock counts, the executive chef works in the recipes database and so on. Keep track of internal orders by digitally managing stock transfers between units.

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Management Management Point of Sale Kitchen Safety 52

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Each Station is powered by Sharebite’s enterprise-ready technology platform, enabling companies to centrally manage employee food ordering and facilitate contactless deliveries at designated drop-off points inside office buildings. Toast unveiled the next generation of its mobile handheld point of sale: Toast Go® 2.

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Mobile Ordering Kitchen Safety Online Ordering Coaching 367

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 2, 2024

Restaurant leaders representing nearly 3,700 QSR, fast casual, casual dining, and fine dining locations shared 2024’s top challenges and opportunities alongside plans for investment in back-of-house technology, increased sales, and team training, benefits, and support. percent more visits than the year-to-date Tuesday average.”

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2020

The weakest business categories varied by type and price point, and included stores selling mobile phones, shoes, and appliances. Delivery and To-Go orders are up 14 percent. Reservations increase 72 percent. Shopping categories declined in 2019 by 2.1 points year-over-year, driven down by a weak holiday shopping period.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

percent by 2024, and 2020 will be a catalyst year that could drive that number up. At Yelp, we're seeing restaurants move away from a strictly reservations planning model. Online ordering will continue to have a profound effect on the industry in 2020, but the power dynamics will change. ChowNow CEO Chris Webb.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Off-Premises Dining Is Essential Nearly 75 percent of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises—meaning that almost three out of four restaurant orders are taken to go. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

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