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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant.

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How to Create a Successful Visual Brand for Your Restaurant in 2020

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A restaurant’s brand identity is the cumulative effect of what your guests see, taste, smell, feel and hear at your restaurant, online, and in the world at large. A restaurant’s brand identity is the cumulative effect of what your guests see, taste, smell, feel and hear at your restaurant, online, and in the world at large.

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Maintaining Humanized Interactions in Digital-First Business Environment

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Nevertheless, while self-service POS systems or AI-enabled customer service chatbots can definitely help in achieving better operational efficiency, these solutions can often feel cold or disconnected. But mass-merchant online retailers like Amazon can pull this off because that’s the type of market they’re in.

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Is ‘Menu Scraping’ Legal for Third-Party Delivery Services?

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The advent of on-demand food delivery can be traced back to the early 2000s when the use of GrubHub, Seamless and numerous other online and mobile food-ordering systems became commonplace among college students and young professionals throughout the United States. So, is menu scraping legal? But it also added an extra step.

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‘Being Adaptable and Responsive to Changes in the Industry Landscape Is Key’

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It's important to guide them in adjusting to specific parameters in order to achieve a successful partnership. For example, Pancheros now implements pick-up windows where needed, as our online business has grown rapidly due to the pandemic shifting people’s buying habits.

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MRM Research Roundup: Holiday Spending, Franchise Optimism, and Pickle Energy

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However, the industry has renewed optimism, driven by the adoption of digital and mobile ordering, menu creativity and heightened expectations around AI. Similarly, 59 percent of respondents believe mobile apps that offer easy online ordering will have the greatest impact on operations over that same time period.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part One

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Customers shifted their purchases to off-premise dining suddenly, leaving many operators flat footed and ill prepared for seamless online ordering, contactless payment and curbside pickup. The unfortunate reality is that customers aren’t comparing the curbside or app ordering process of Denny’s to McDonalds.

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