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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. consumers being new to ordering meal delivery services (up from 47 percent in March 2021). meal delivery consumer spending.

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Prepare Now for a More Profitable Christmas

Ken Burgin

Contact Previous Bookings. Upgrade your Booking System: is a book still adequate, or emailing PDF docs to be filled in and returned? At a minimum have click-and-pay invoices to collect booking payments. People expect to pay online, and get annoyed if it’s not available. An empty room gives you zero revenue.

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Five Reasons Why QR Code Menus Aren’t Going Away

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Try an Online Form Builder. Restaurant customers do everything from their phones.

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How to Manage Multiple Restaurants and Locations

7 Shifts

Switching from a fast-casual concept to fine dining can allow for a nice change of pace. One of the many benefits of multi-location restaurant management pertains to inventory and ordering. Better yet, using technology like 7shifts Manager Log Book can make this process even simpler. Online Employee Communication.

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The Changing Guest Service In Casual Dining | Restaurant Recovery Series

Foodable

Cooper’s Hawk has been able to garner consistent revenue throughout the pandemic via online orders and its wine club , which currently includes over 400,000 members. Barron and McEnery explore the potential changes coming to the casual dining sector, and consider the manner in which guest service may evolve to meet those new needs.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

7 Shifts

Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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Simple Restaurant Marketing Plan for 2020 [PDF Template]

7 Shifts

Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. What are they ordering? Your mission statement is the ‘why’ of your restaurant. What are they wearing?

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