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

Modern Restaurant Management

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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Tips for Keeping Restaurants Afloat as COVID Cases Spike

Modern Restaurant Management

In fact, as digital platforms have become more prominent during the pandemic for ordering takeout and delivery, restaurants can use the time their customers spend on their smart phones to their advantage. The Customer Online Journey Needs to be at the Forefront.

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Dinner, With a Side of Climate Preaching

EATER

The tool from the East Coast vegan chain — a digital take on a split-flap mechanical display that appears on its website and in the chain’s ordering app — estimates the amounts of water, land, CO2, and oil saved by eating vegan burgers. The “ PLNT Impact Tracker ” on PLNT Burger’s website wants you to think about what you’re eating.

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How To Use Restaurant Customer Data To Improve Your Business And Grow Sales

ChowNow

Every online order, email sign up, and reward program interaction generates valuable insightsbut if that data just sits there, youre missing a major opportunity. Think about it: What if you could automatically send a special offer to a customer who hasnt ordered in a while? Restaurants collect a ton of customer data.

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How Do Restaurants Benefit From First-Party Ordering?

ChowNow

For a long time, third-party delivery apps seemed like the easiest way to get your restaurant online and in front of new customers. Instead of giving up control to outside platforms, some restaurants are shifting to a more direct approach: first-party ordering. First-Party vs. Third-Party Ordering: Whats the Difference?

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Wrapping Up a Restaurant Marketing Trend

Modern Restaurant Management

We advertised in local papers, supporting youth sports and wrapping our vehicles. We continued to advertise and market our food, focusing specifically on takeout and delivery to drive business. We continued to advertise and market our food, focusing specifically on takeout and delivery to drive business.

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Restaurant’s Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

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As a restaurant owner, it's easy to pour money into advertising and promotions without knowing how much it’s really costing your business. Knowing how to calculate and optimize your customer acquisition cost (CAC) can help you make smarter decisions about your marketing and advertising strategies.