Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The new colors and signage remain appealing to the eye, while also adding interactive elements such as the addition of a designated wall with a QR code for mobile access in-store. Another example would be that an end cap could have pickup windows and doors to make for more efficient and streamlined ordering.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Fatigued by cooking at home, consumers are anxious to dine at their favorite restaurants according to a new Oracle Food and Beverage study. Thirty-nine percent of those in the US and 36 percent in the UK ordered more frequently from their local restaurant than before the crisis. "Throughout COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Food Safety 493

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Additonally, ninety-six percent of operators experienced supply delays or shortages of key food or beverage items in 2021 – and these challenges will likely continue in 2022. This is validated by a large number of consumers preferring the use of technology where it doesn't diminish hospitality. Roughly half of U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 19, 2022

Widespread adoption of branded apps, online ordering and delivery, accelerated by the Covid crisis, has forced restaurants to deal with an issue that they’ve mostly avoided until now: chargebacks. The Impact of Online Ordering. The digital era has had a huge impact on the food and beverage space. Why is this?

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” Starbucks’ deal with Empower Delivery fits the acqui-hire framework. The coffee giant is licensing the company’s order fulfillment tech while also bringing aboard Empower’s six engineers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Where take-out and delivery orders previously made up 15% of their business, they have had to quickly morph their business model to accommodate 100 percent of business via take-out and delivery, in the midst of an economic downturn. Best practices for calculating cash flow.

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Mobile Ordering Webinar Loyalty Program Online Ordering 494

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2022

The food and beverage industry is no stranger to new technologies, especially in the past couple of years with the boom of online ordering apps and QR code technology. For example, the rise of ordering and delivery apps was due to consumers staying indoors to abide by social distancing rules.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 11, 2021

According to Tork research, 44 percent of people say they feel good knowing they are supporting local restaurants when they order takeout or delivery. Fifty percent of people who do not order takeout or delivery report meals being too costly as their primary reason. Offer a variety of ordering options for your diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2025

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features delivery data, tariff troubles, summer dining trends, and Beer Serves America. Additionally, consumers continue to favor delivery transactions, which are up by 383 percent since 2020. billion transactions and $67 billion in sales in 2024.

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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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This final edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup for 2024 features news of operator challenges and priorities, delivery trends, wages and hourly worker considerations. This is according to a survey conducted by TD Bank at the 2024 Restaurant Finance and Development Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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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. Digitize Your Ordering Function and Enhance Your Presence. Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size. Archaic and revenue draining.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We saw “homegating” become a trend in 2020 and have concluded that because of the innovations being introduced in the space, it will continue for years to come as consumers are now accustomed to enjoying direct-to-consumer food and beverage options. In fact, The Distilled Spirits Council reported that U.S. sales rose 7.7

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Visitors will be able to see, hear and learn about coffee’s extraordinary journey through intentional and unparalleled design, while enjoying a menu featuring exclusive coffee beverages exclusive to this location. Unique Food and Beverage Experiences. Coffee Bars.

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ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

Your cost of goods sold (ingredients, beverages, packaging, etc.) Business model: Delivery-heavy brands reliant on third-party apps may see lower returns due to commissions. Keep them too low, and youre losing your net profit margin every time someone orders. added up to $60,000.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

” Their answers touched on a variety of subjects including AI, virtual reality, virtual kitchens, staffing and retention, social media marketing, sustainability and third-party delivery. One great thing about the online delivery market is that it produces massive amounts of data. Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

While the company has products specifically designed for each vertical, such as appointments, eCommerce, online ordering and reservation management, its uniqueness lies in offering high-powered capabilities that every business needs. These include marketing, website development, omnichannel payments and point-of-sale (POS) solutions. "We're

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Grubhub launched its latest report, "State of the Plate", looking at trends across the more than half a million orders placed a day. Methodology: Grubhub took a look at order trends on its platform from January 1 – June 20, 2020, as compared to the same timeframe in 2019 to find the top items rising in popularity so far.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Point of Sale Food Supply 487

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

13 percent said it was because they now prefer takeout/delivery. Takeout and delivery: a fast-growing and critical component for restaurant success. More than half of survey respondents said they will order more than usual, with only one in 10 saying less than usual. 18 percent said it will be to save money.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery Customer Service 474

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. Now available through Grubhub, it is a delivery-only concept that specializes in antibiotic-free, oven-baked, boneless chicken bites. ” Tyga Bites Launches.

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Food Safety Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 527

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Restaurant foot traffic is down, and restaurant brands of all sizes have been forced to pivot and leverage digital tools, third-party delivery, and storefront partners to capture demand any way they can. DoorDash released a commission-free service that provides customers a way to order and pay at restaurants by scanning a QR code.

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2020 Mobile Ordering Customer Experience Customer Service 529

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Consumers are still very willing to get mobile and visit your stores for pick-up.

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2020 Point of Sale Fast Casual Online Ordering 491

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

With COVID, restaurants were shut down completely, only offering takeout and delivery. We continued to advertise and market our food, focusing specifically on takeout and delivery to drive business. “While working takeout, people drove by and said, ‘I saw the van, I called the number, I need a takeout order for tonight.’

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many dining establishments found ways to use AI to track and flag stock quantities, automate schedule-making for staff, implement customer service chatbots and process online orders. The increasing threat of fraud, especially through spoofing, is also anticipated to drive the widespread adoption of secure mobile payment methods in the future.

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2023 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Consumer Goods 492

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Manifest surveyed 501 people about their food delivery and restaurant habits during COVID-19 and found that two-thirds of people ate in-person at a restaurant in July 2020. Nearly two-thirds of people (65 percent) ordered food delivery in July 2020 as food options remain in-demand, but restaurant profit margins decrease with delivery.

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2020 2030 Hotels Food Safety 553

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 31, 2025

This reflects the positive impact loyalty programs have on driving revenue, with 83 percent of restaurant leaders saying their loyalty program successfully drives up order or basket size, as well as repeat visits (82 percent) and return on investment (78 percent). ” A Year of Challenges U.S. percent decrease in claims.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

With thousands of restaurants forced to close their dining rooms, and millions of Americans facing sudden unemployment, GroupRaise saw an opportunity to mobilize its 10,000+ restaurant partners along with their communities to offer those who are able a chance to support both local business and food distribution to at-risk families.

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Food Safety Kitchen Safety Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery 441

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Third-party delivery : Restaurants can generate cash flow but not profit; they’ll have to figure out how to make money using these services. Solution: be not just about food, food is a must and this is something that I can order from a dark kitchen, but be a place with experience – unique, atmosphere, and a local attraction.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

In early March at Oracle's Food & Beverage conference held prior to the COVID-19 outbreak shutdown, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine discussed the company's plans for products and services designed to help Mom and Pop restaurants with Chris Adams, VP of Strategy for Oracle F+B about their future plans in the above video.

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Technology Operations Loyalty Program Point of Sale 383

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2020

Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. The Court found that the complaint did not adequately establish that Subway was a legal agent of T-Mobile. Litigation.

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2020 Restaurant Law Employee Relations Mobile Ordering 305

Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

The food delivery company said Wednesday that it has acquired Symbiosys, an ad tech company, in a deal valued at $175 million. These ads will direct back to a restaurants’ DoorDash ordering page. In the future, they could also link to a restaurants’ own website if they use DoorDash’s Storefront online ordering system, Samolis said.

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Advertising Fast Casual Social Media Leadership 223

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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2023 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we have news on understanding customer loyalty, beverage insights, restaurant supply loyalty, the influence of discounts, the state of payments and the evolution of gift cards. " Beverage Insights. So, what could a better designed and delivered beverage program mean for the channel?

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2021 Coupons Loyalty Program Consumer Goods 490

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2021

According to founder Noah Glass of Olo , online orders on their platform doubled each year from 2017 to 2019 — before the pandemic. And in 2020, Upserve reported a 783% increase in online orders. More Accurate One of the benefits of online ordering and off-site dining is that ordering is more accurate.

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Front of House Online Ordering Back of House Customer Service 406

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This will enable brands to better manage off-premises orders and balance their hybrid operating models. The concept of self-service will continue to evolve as consumers become accustomed to placing orders with devices. – Chris Adams, VP of Strategy, Oracle Food and Beverage. "As

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2023 Loyalty Program Fast Casual Customer Experience 419

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Rally for Restaurants is a grassroots movement built to support local restaurants and stimulate cash flow by encouraging consumers to order takeout and delivery so the foodservice community can count on the income to keep their businesses running. Toast’s public directory of participating restaurants across the U.S. restaurants.

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Employee Relations Healthcare Online Ordering Customer Service 516

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Using DoorDash order data from January 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023, we bring you DoorDash’s Dash From the Past 2023 Trend Report. Holiday Hangovers : On the days after holidays like St.

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