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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

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For example, a casual restaurant usually has a higher turnover rate. You can’t fix your table turnover rate without understanding the two key components: the total number of tables and the total number of customers served over a specific period. This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

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They're people leaders, customer service providers, line cooks, inventory managers, occasional bartenders, public relations reps, number crunchers, and even marketers. It is your roadmap to attracting and retaining customers. Identify Target Customers. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. Table of Contents.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Lessons Learned From Two Years of Socially Distanced Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Reports show that 81 percent of fine dining establishments, 78 percent of family restaurants, and 77 percent of fast-casual spots added curbside pickup, pivoting away from dine-in services after March 2020. When online reservations first arrived, plenty of restaurants scoffed at the idea of axing customer interaction. Lessons Learned.

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3 Mistakes in Advertising Your Fast Casual Restaurant

Indoor Media

Besides the obvious daily concerns, like cooking, hiring and firing, managing the books, and ordering food, is advertising. You know you need restaurant promotions to bring in new customers, but when you’re a fast-casual restaurant owner, this is often at the bottom of a very long to-do list, especially if you’re just starting out.

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Five Reasons Why QR Code Menus Aren’t Going Away

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant customers do everything from their phones. They may have discovered you from an Eater article, booked their reservation through OpenTable, or located you via Google Maps, and they will surely review their experience on Yelp — whether positive or negative — when their meal is complete.

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Simple Customer Retention Strategy for Restaurants

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The ideal customer for your business is the one who comes back time and time again. When it comes to getting people in the door, it’s always easier to get someone back then to find brand-new customers. Retaining an existing customer is five times cheaper than acquiring a fresh face. How to measure customer retention.

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You may never eat inside a fast food restaurant again

EATER

A growing number of fast food chains are experimenting with seatless locations with only takeout or drive-thru options. For McDonald’s, Sweetgreen, and others, reducing seating means chains can open smaller stores, saving on expensive real estate, especially in urban areas.