Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

17, 2025 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Greenlanes have no dine-in seating. Premium Technology DoorDash wants to be everywhere Tech Check: The delivery company is gobbling up more of the restaurant tech ecosystem. By Lisa Jennings on Jun. Just drive-thru and pickup windows. Photo courtesy of Greenlane. Is that a good thing for restaurants?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2020

Of restaurants that have stayed open, many shifted their focus to takeout and delivery. Yelp’s diners seated data shows significantly more people are dining-in at restaurants. During the peak of the pandemic, the number of diners seated across Yelp Reservations and Waitlist dropped essentially to zero.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

You can send special offers to repeat diners, while promoting delivery options to those who have used your online ordering system. For example, if you want to fill more seats on slow nights, run an ad that promotes a special offer like a "2-for-1 Tuesday" or a "Weekend Dinner Special." or "Do you have outdoor seating?"

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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. One great thing about the online delivery market is that it produces massive amounts of data. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Delivery and takeout options are endlessly accessible for most. Many local restaurants have never touched advertising or social media; they've been the neighborhood's go-to spot for decades. This could be as simple as paid social advertising, great signage, an ad in the local paper, or a television appearance.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

New concepts, ghost kitchens, and delivery-only brands are popping up constantly, making it harder for any single restaurant to stand out. Between online reservations, third-party delivery apps, and direct ordering from your website, digital interactions often happen before a guest ever steps through your doors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We quickly pivoted to offer Family Meals To Go and have continued to expand our third-party delivery partnerships in key markets, which has contributed to our continued growth, even during one of the most difficult years on record for so many restaurants. Dennis Becker, CEO, Mobivity. Ranbir Bhatia, GM, Benares NJ in Wyckoff, New Jersey.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Americans preferred to pick-up their food (38 percent US vs. 22 percent UK), while the UK preferred home-delivery (57 percent UK vs. 33 percent US). Restaurants vs. delivery services. Despite the popularity of third-party delivery apps, many consumers prefer to interact directly with the restaurant itself. percent and 11.3

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We had a lot of people, while we were at Kitchen United, would say things like, 'Oh, this delivery, thing's just a fad. Um, I had people say to me during the pandemic, like, oh, sure deliveries up because of COVID-19. As part of his research for the book, co-author Carl Orsbourn took the driver's seat—of a DoorDash vehicle.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This guarantees that you’ll fill seats and can plan accordingly for a busy day. Since Super Bowl Sunday is one of the busiest delivery days, customers will appreciate the option to order in advance. Use social media, email, and SMS to advertise your menu, watch parties, and pre-order options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

13 percent said it was because they now prefer takeout/delivery. 32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. 32 percent of survey takers chose outdoor seating availability as a factor in their dining-out comfort level. 18 percent said it will be to save money.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2020

To shine the spotlight on the immediate opportunities that exist for all Americans to find employment at franchised restaurants of an iconic brand that holds a unique place in people’s daily lives, Dunkin’ is launching its first-ever national advertising campaign aimed at recruitment.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sticking with the above example of a coffee shop, you may want to talk about your restaurant advertising ideas for millennials, like using TikTok marketing to promote your menu items and an app-based loyalty program. Talk about what marketing channels you plan to use to get butts in seats. Marketing plan and channels.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A full 55% of consumers consider takeout and delivery essential to their restaurant experience. OpenTable seats around 1.6 Otter Delivery and online orders have seen massive growth in the past few years and even as eaters return to dine in person, delivery continues to grow. Apple | Android 4. Apple | Android 5.

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ChowNow

JULY 10, 2024

Additional details: Share information on your operating hours, and the capacity of your restaurant, sharing information about how many tables you’ll have and how many people you’ll be able to seat. This is also a good place to mention any additional outdoor seating you might have.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A full 55% of consumers consider takeout and delivery essential to their restaurant experience. OpenTable seats around 1.6 Otter Delivery and online orders have seen massive growth in the past few years and even as eaters return to dine in person, delivery continues to grow. Apple | Android 4. Apple | Android 5.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Marketing & advertising It's your job to ensure the restaurant's seats are full, especially if you're not part of a massive franchise that benefits from corporate advertising. Deliveries, payroll, paying vendor invoices, and so on all happen on their own cadence. Oversee incoming deliveries.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Top Ordered Food Nationwide Fries Chicken Quesadilla Mozzarella Sticks Garlic Naan Spicy Chicken Sandwich Pepperoni Pizza Chips & Queso Traditional Wings Cobb Salad Fried Rice Holiday Hosting, Delivered : This year, we saw more consumers ordering delivery for their guests while hosting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2019

With DoorDash Kitchens, this is the first time popular locally-founded and national restaurants including Nation’s Giant Hamburgers, Rooster & Rice, Humphry Slocombe, and The Halal Guys will offer delivery, pickup, and group order options to local residents across the California Peninsula area. through the end of the year.

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Indoor Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

A key to overcoming the fall slowdown is to get creative with advertising and marketing. Here are eight restaurant advertising tips for filling your tables this autumn: 1. This can come in the form of three fall-specific restaurant advertising tips: Boost the value of your coupons—maybe 30 percent off a meal instead of 20 percent.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 4, 2021

Knowing how many seatings you're getting out of the tables you have gives you insights into everything from your operating hours, staff, and efficiency in the kitchen. In the restaurant industry, it can be applied to social media ads, local print advertising, coupons or deals, and more. Why is table turnover rate important?

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Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Use Outdoor Seating in Good Weather to Reduce Restaurant Utility Costs Nice weather can really help restaurants save money. When it’s nice outside, restaurants can open up outdoor seating, cutting their energy and maintenance costs. Using outdoor seating during good weather helps them save on energy and utility bills.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 18, 2020

If your state allows dine-in, or perhaps delivery only, you are working to make critical decisions about staying open, changing your dining options (for instance, only seating customers 6 ft. Marketing and advertising costs. apart), modifying your menu to serve takeout, or closing temporarily. Phone and internet.

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Ken Burgin

MARCH 1, 2020

Trays should be standard for clearing and delivery – this will also make it faster. Review cleaning practices: do staff wipe down a seat then use the same cloth to wipe the the table? No more clearing glasses with fingers through the rim! Or use the same cloth to wipe the drinks bench and the steam wand on the espresso machine?

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The new restaurants — as well as upgrades to existing locations — will adapt the company’s new, modern, and inviting “Fresh Forward” design and meet the needs of today’s consumer with comfortable guest indoor dining spaces as well as numerous delivery and order ahead options, with a strong digital first strategy.

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

These strategies can combine traditional restaurant advertising techniques like pamphlets, billboards, and radio promotions with modern ideas like running paid ads, advertising on social media, and collaborating with influencers. This makes food delivery services a great way to promote your restaurant.

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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. Increased demand for food delivery had already boosted the growth of ghost kitchens, and the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated both the popularity and profitability of the model.

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Next Restaurants

JUNE 30, 2021

Also, the chef will help you to draw up a list of equipment, calculate the food cost, choose the right suppliers and draw up a delivery schedule. This not only includes the look and design of your booths, tables, and seats, but also your restaurant’s lighting, ambient noise/music, spaciousness, and artwork.

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Sante

APRIL 19, 2020

Within a few months, the amaro distillery, 50-seat cocktail bar and pour-over coffee bar was humming with customers. Ron Barcelo produced 75 percent alcohol packed for delivery. Joe Cannella has produced Cannella Cinnamon Cordial for several years. Then the stay-at-home mandate arrived. Photo credit: Ron Barcelo. ?Silent

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EATER

AUGUST 12, 2021

It was almost midnight when I pulled up to the drop site in a borrowed car, the rear seats pushed down to make room for the product. Since the advent of WhatsApp, he said, he’d started advertising them there. “I Pakistani mangoes began arriving in the U.S. On that night in 2018, I knew I had stumbled on something unique.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Marketing & advertising It's your job to ensure the restaurant's seats are full, especially if you're not part of a massive franchise that benefits from corporate advertising. Deliveries, payroll, paying vendor invoices, and so on all happen on their own cadence. Oversee incoming deliveries.

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Indoor Media

MAY 20, 2021

This could include billboard advertising, it could include taking out advertisement space in a local newspaper, it could mean paying to promote your eatery on Yelp. Is there outdoor seating? They also might want to make a reservation or inquire about delivery. Delivery Information Not every restaurant does delivery.

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The Rail

APRIL 11, 2024

By Eric Tress, Contributor If you are looking for an excellent tool to increase your restaurant’s reservations, email marketing is an effective advertising tool you should consider. Showcase amenities: Remind guests about unique features like a gaming systems or patio seating.

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Indoor Media

JUNE 14, 2021

There are other restaurant business models, such as expensive, limited-seating tasting menu operations, but most restaurants do rely on high customer volume. Marketing Costs Another cost, often forgotten, is advertising. Different kinds of restaurants require different approaches to advertising.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 13, 2022

Brian Duncan: On the retail side, we saw the delivery revenue jump, exponentially. I also, we've had this discussion and nationally about how third party delivery is not as profitable and as helpful for us, certainly restaurants. You don't get that with a third party delivery service. We talked about delivery.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Will you offer delivery or only take out? How much seating do you need? Related: Optimize Your Pizza Delivery Service Today Market Analysis Once you describe your restaurant, add a section to your pizza business plan that compares your concept to your competition. Will your restaurant be fast casual or sit down?

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Touch Bistro

MAY 26, 2021

Delivery is big business for restaurants right now. In contrast, using a direct online ordering system like TouchBistro Online Ordering lets you process all those 4th of July takeout and delivery orders directly from your website while keeping 100% of the profits. The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing. Create Holiday Meal Kits.

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