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Smarter, Faster, More Human: Why AI and Automation Are Transforming Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

AI-powered scheduling can predict peak hours, optimize labor costs, and help managers stay ahead of demand—without guesswork. For example, Taco Bell is using AI-driven labor and inventory management tools to fine-tune staffing and reduce food waste. For independent restaurants, the same AI-driven efficiency applies.

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Dynamic Pricing in Fast Food: Profit-Driver or Diner Turnoff?

Modern Restaurant Management

To illuminate the topic, Revenue Management Solutions leveraged its proprietary eye-tracking technology and decades of menu engineering expertise to understand consumer reactions. Notes RMS Managing Director of Europe Philipp Laqué, “Avoiding perceived unfair pricing can transform customer hesitation into loyalty and profit.”

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Restaurant Revenue Management: 3 Killer Strategies to Boost Sales

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Grow your restaurant's revenue with these three powerful restaurant revenue management strategies. Regardless of your reasons for being here, the solution to your problem remains the same: Better restaurant revenue management. What is Restaurant Revenue Management? Revenue management is not a new concept.

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Is the Customer Always Right?

Modern Restaurant Management

Now, I’m not sure we can do that anymore,” said Dr. Melissa Baker, associate professor and chair of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Some businesses have had a huge increase such as doctors offices and airlines.

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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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10 Inspirational Hospitality Industry Stories During COVID-19

Social Hospitality: Restaurants

JetBlue and United Airlines: Free Flights for Medical Volunteers. Long Island City-based JetBlue and United Airlines are offering free round-trip flights for medical volunteers traveling to New York City to join the frontline in the battle against COVID-19. “I Yum Brands CEO David Gibbs will forgo all salary for the balance of 2020.

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Where Is Surge Pricing Headed?

Modern Restaurant Management

"While third-party delivery companies were expected to commoditize food like airline tickets, the opposite happened: people became more attached to their favorite brands. Food is visceral in a way that airline seats aren't. After the Wendy’s dynamic pricing fiasco, where does the industry stand on dynamic/surge pricing?

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