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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences.

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Restaurant Cyber Security: How To Prevent Data Breaches

7 Shifts

Most restaurants will file this information away in the back office or in a cloud-based HR platform, but it's critical you audit who has access to this information and for what purposes. Some programs are designed to intercept the data flowing to and from a POS system, as was that case with a breach at Wendy's locations. Guest Data.

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Five Steps for Improving Restaurant Efficiency in 2020

Modern Restaurant Management

Some common areas where creating a sound process can lead to improved efficiency include: Menu audits. Deploying marketing campaigns. Customer email capture via a digital loyalty or marketing program. Deployment of marketing campaigns. Employee scheduling. Employee time-off requests.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Chris Prociv, VP Marketing & Innovation at La Brea Bakery. We’ve also noticed the increased importance of loyalty programs at times like this. During the start of the pandemic, data show that sales from loyalty program customers dropped off more slowly and ultimately recovered faster than anonymous ones.

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Choosing The Best POS System For Restaurants In The UK

The Restaurant Times

Some of the detailed reports that a good POS system should provide are item wise sales reports, attendance and performance reports of the staff, audit reports for discounts and offers generated, cash management reports, amongst others. Supports Marketing Activities Via CRM . Furthermore, email and SMS marketing also rely on CRM tools.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

Shifts in the real estate market can raise rent. Spend Less Money on Food Restaurateurs who are serious about increasing their profits must conduct a complete supply-chain audit. The former is usually handled outside of the restaurant, in the form of marketing and promotions. Trends can change.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

Shifts in the real estate market can raise rent. Spend Less Money on Food Restaurateurs who are serious about increasing their profits must conduct a complete supply-chain audit. The former is usually handled outside of the restaurant, in the form of marketing and promotions. Trends can change.