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Five Digitally Disrupted Industries to Study as Restaurants Make the Shift

Modern Restaurant Management

Today we will take a look at how disintermediation of the guest has impacted hotels, airlines, real estate, movies, and consumer packaged goods. In the 1970s, Southwest Airlines sold tickets by phone, at airports, and at their offices to avoid commissions from travel agents and remain competitive with car travel routes.

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Restaurant Revenue Management: 3 Killer Strategies to Boost Sales

7 Shifts

Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— It was used in the airline and hotel industry to significant effect, with some companies reporting sales increasing of between 2 to 5%. What is Restaurant Revenue Management? A tense atmosphere.

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Decade of Disruption: Restaurant Insiders Dish What’s on the Plate

Modern Restaurant Management

The kiosk trend will be embraced like it is in the airline industry. Restaurant design footprint will fundamentally change with more BOH kitchen size needed and less FOH seats as more people gravitate toward digital and delivery. Consequently, restaurants can easily be staffed 24 hours a day with limited additional cost.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-September 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Rewards Network, together with American Airlines AAdvantage Dining and United Airlines MileagePlus Dining, surveyed their members to learn more about what they anticipate their dining habits will look like over the next few months. How Comfortable are Diners? The importance of making guests feel comfortable.

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Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind

EATER

The blind waitstaff helps the diners find their seats, and then serves them a series of mystery dishes, which the guests taste and guess at in total darkness. A website designed without accessibility in mind becomes incomprehensible to a blind person using a screen reader. image’ — your stomach sinks.” and Canada.

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A Safe Place to Fill Up

EATER

Airlines used special codes to keep Black people off of flights or to give their seats to white passengers. Naya-Cheyenne is a Miami-raised, Brooklyn-based multimedia illustrator and designer. For Black people, any means of travel through the South was an uncertain prospect. Fact-checked by Andrea López-Cruzado.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Kitchen of the Future, Restaurant Sherpas and Dunkin’ Hirin’

Modern Restaurant Management

Above all, we have prioritized our customers’ safety and well-being into the design and flow of the kitchen and dining areas. From food preparation to the seating and interaction with staff, Taffer’s Tavern will be a worry-free dining experience.” Wisely uses order data collected from Olo to populate the CRM.

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