ChowNow

MARCH 13, 2025

Managing delivery orders shouldnt feel like running an obstacle course, but for many restaurant operators, thats exactly what it is. Juggling multiple food delivery apps means switching between tablets, manually entering orders into the POS, and trying to keep track of ever-changing fees and commissions. Which apps are performing best?

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” noises chirping from veritable command centers of tablets in restaurants throughout the country have become a ubiquitous symphony thanks to the staying power of third-party delivery apps offering unparalleled convenience and accessibility to consumers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

– Salad House CEO Joey Cioffi In 2025, restaurant chains will increase their usage of connected equipment to be more responsive, resilient, and ready to meet evolving customer expectations in a data-first, efficiency-focused world. At the same time, technology is poised to play an even bigger role in the coming year.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Have you noticed how food delivery apps are becoming essential in attracting and retaining diners? In this article, we’ll show you exactly how to create a food delivery app tailored to your restaurant’s needs, while staying competitive in a booming industry. The global online food delivery market size was valued at USD 221.65

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2025, I expect automation to keep expanding beyond back-of-house applications into more guest-facing roles. Innovative service models, such as pop-up bars with unique themes or hyper-localized menus, will keep customers coming back. As we navigate these changes, one theme stands out: innovation.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 16, 2025

While this uncertainty may seem like a challenge, it also offers restaurateurs the opportunity to step back and look at the factors that may be eating away at their bottom line. Owners and operators need to focus on back-of-house spending to find ways to reduce expenses. One often-overlooked area is water consumption.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many have started offering their menus on third-party delivery websites. Some have white-labeled those same delivery services for integration within their organizations, and others have built out programs for pick up or delivery entirely in house. Looking at the data proves much of what we already know.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Nearly every restaurant in the United States relies on a Point of Sale (POS) system for the majority of its front-of-house operations. Not only can that become frustrating for your guests, but it can also make in-house operations much more difficult. Your delivery management and online ordering will also be impacted.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Delivery and curbside pick-up reduced on-site staffing. The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. In the near future, we’ll look at printed menus the way we look back at newspapers today. When the pandemic hit, many restaurants focused on expenses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2021

Adopting in-house technologies became necessary for restaurants to stay open throughout the pandemic, restart operations after temporary closures, and pivot services to maintain revenue while still following enhanced health and safety protocols. Too Much Tech Is Not a Solution. Want to be Tech-Savvy? Start with Your Staff.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 16, 2025

Internal communication, especially between front- and back-of-house staff, is one of the most overlooked drivers of operational efficiency and l asting loyalty. After all, when teams are aligned and able to provide quality service almost instantly, guests notice, appreciate the teamwork and keep coming back.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2020

With each delivery and/or pickup order it’s a good idea to include a coupon or gift card that can be used in the future only during a dine-in visit. This idea can be applied to dine-in, pickup, and delivery orders. If feasible, you can offer customers the option of placing bulk pickup and/ or delivery orders. Bulk Is Best.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 1, 2022

As brands scrambled to change their business models – whether through the adoption of touchless payments, delivery and curbside pickup, or the use of QR codes to access online menus – consumers were also forced to adapt their dining behaviors. And according to Technomic, Inc.,

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 2025, the US online food delivery market is expected to reach $424.9 Whether theyre grabbing takeout on the way home from work or scheduling a delivery for later that day, digital ordering has become the norm. Third-party delivery apps take a big cut of every salesometimes as much as 30%. billion in revenue.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Labor will not go back to pre-pandemic levels and controlling labor costs will be crucial to maintaining profitability. Operators will continue incentivizing in-house delivery and in-app purchases. Bringing delivery back in house as much as possible is also a priority for many brands.

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ChowNow

JUNE 12, 2025

The real wins come from small, smart shifts; things like improving your online ordering system, highlighting your most profitable dishes, and giving existing customers more reasons to come back. Use photos, item placement, and smart labeling (for example, “guest favorite or “house specialty”) to steer attention toward high-margin menu items.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s the perfect time to look back on a few things we learned in 2023 – based on recent survey data from our restaurant partners – as well as what we predict for the industry in 2024. 50 percent of survey respondents said that third-party delivery is a net positive because it increases restaurant sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

They then would haul those caddies through the back of the house and often through the parking lot to a dumpster, where they would pour the oil into a grease trap. “Being able to simplify operations for the back of house was the biggest reason I wanted to make the switch,” Neal said.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Additionally, we’re already seeing some states roll back certain re-opening measures in order to get more control over the recent uptick in cases – that could be damaging to the restaurant industry if some measures restrict indoor dining capacity or eliminate indoor dining completely. Are certain tables too close together?

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EATER

APRIL 10, 2024

Tomekah George Wonder’s big idea for food delivery is to own every aspect of the process, from recipe development to the moment it ends up at your door A few weeks ago, chef JJ Johnson launched a new restaurant concept in downtown Brooklyn. Wonder has shown a savvy curatorial eye reminiscent of the early days of delivery app Caviar.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With inflation continuing to reach near 40-year highs, tipping for takeout and delivery dropped to 14.5 But a recent Deliverect global survey of 7,000 consumers shows more people today are purchasing up to three takeout or delivery orders per week than they were before the recent increase in cost of living. Today  Today in the U.S.,

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Most of the restaurant technology tools operators use every day were first introduced years ago, but it wasnt until the 2020 Tech Boom, brought on by COVID-19, that widespread adoption became essential. What was once a gradual process turned into a rapid transformation, permanently reshaping how restaurants operate and interact with customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2022

The past two years have brought unprecedented changes across the restaurant industry, from new concerns related to social distancing and cleanliness to the acceleration of pre-pandemic trends such as the rise of mobile ordering and third-party delivery services. Set the Bar. Stay Connected. Strengthen Customer Retention.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With many restaurants closed for in-person dining on and off throughout the pandemic, the food service industry shifted to delivery and takeout as a business imperative. According to SEC filings, food delivery apps experienced tremendous growth in 2020 earning a combined $5.5 billion from the same period in 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2021

To have a successful restaurant, the owner or manager must be skilled at managing both front-of-house and back-of-house functions. To help increase these profit margins, restaurant owners sometimes focus more on changes they can make to front-of-house, such as increasing their prices or boosting liquor sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2020

This digitization of the edge will not only enhance the experience, but also create a natural method of collecting data about your guest – who they are, their preferences, how often they visit, how they pay and how you can bring them back to your restaurant more often. And this will take some time.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

From elevated takeout, optimizing their menu for delivery, repurposing parking lots and urban streets, kitchen upgrades with technology, to selling consumer packaged goods, setting up a grocery store section and pre-packaged meal kits, it has been remarkable to see the creative ways that chefs have changed their business to stay afloat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The quicker businesses can feed that information back into operations, the better, whether for personalized dining, staffing optimization, or advertising and marketing. So much data is generated at every point within a restaurant, whether fast casual or fine dining.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Front of house tables and chairs are often “borrowed” off-peak for these purposes today.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Miso Robotics provides intelligent automation solutions for foodservice that solve some critical back-of-house kitchen operations. Prior to the pandemic, restaurant jobs – especially those back-of house – have seen high turnover rates. fewer employees in the front-of-house and 6.2 Across the U.S.,

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EATER

AUGUST 31, 2023

That’s because I spent a month in postpartum confinement, and the only time I left the house in those first 30 days was for a pediatrician or OB-GYN appointment. In ancient times, this meant not leaving your house, not getting the body cold or wet, not receiving any visitors, and a strict diet of warming and nourishing foods.

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ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

Before you spend the money and roll out a dozen new tablets across your front of house and kitchen, its worth asking: Are these things actually built for the job? That means fewer errors, faster service, and no more wasted steps running back and forth to a POS terminal. Lets break down what to look for in a restaurant tablet.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 26, 2022

We'll look at what artificial intelligence is and how it's being used in three different areas of the restaurant industry: back of the house, front of the house, and marketing. Let's start with the back of the house.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. With COVID, restaurants were shut down completely, only offering takeout and delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

The Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury , released the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness Application and detailed instructions for the application. Step-by-step instructions on how to perform the calculations required by the CARES Act to confirm eligibility for loan forgiveness.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes. Let’s Start With the Why.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 23, 2023

For lengthy periods over the course of two years, businesses were forced to operate solely on a take-out and delivery basis, and it soon became evident that everybody would need to up their game. Consumers ordering deliveries still want to make sure it feels like they are treating themselves.

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