The Rail

MARCH 21, 2023

They help with everything from always have an updated menu, to faster service, to direct in-house marketing, and even less stressful staff! By scanning the code, customers can access the restaurant's digital menu and place orders without physical contact or interaction with staff. This reduces the risk of spreading germs and viruses.

Social Media 111

Social Media Email Marketing Front of House Customer Experience 111

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Having a retail management tool with a mobile application, for instance, reduces the need for wait staff to move around when communicating with each other. Last year, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants went through some unwanted but necessary changes. Innovation is needed in several areas, including: Staff management.

Technology 182

Technology Operations Food Safety Kitchen Safety 182

Social Hospitality

MAY 6, 2020

Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros. The luxury hotel, where rooms typically top $1,000 a night, closed at the end of March and is not taking new bookings. “We are fully mobilized and doing all we can to support as many people as possible during this difficult time.” Thank you @FourSeasons.

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Hospitality Airlines Healthcare Hotels 388

Deliverect

JULY 24, 2020

The lockdown accelerated the adoption of online ordering and delivery tech as dining rooms closed and people were stuck at home. It has also brought contactless ordering and payment to the fore, especially as restaurants prepare to reopen with new sanitation and distancing measures in place. POS (point of sale) systems.

Technology 110

Technology Mobile Ordering Front of House Online Ordering 110

Transact

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The more advanced inventory tools even link to your POS and update your inventory as orders come in, and restock items for you once they hit a threshold. . Tapping the order on a tablet sends it straight to the kitchen, which gives the back of the house a great head start if that’s the first order of a ten-person table. .

Front of House 92

Front of House Inventory Back of House Mobile Ordering 92

Restaurant365

MAY 15, 2020

How much food should I order? Some of your inventory ordering questions are answered in a recent blog post. As your restaurant reopens with social distancing requirements and capacity restrictions, it’s wise to consider handling delivery in-house to avoid third-party delivery fees and create work for existing employees.

Restaurant Law 148

Restaurant Law Front of House Mobile Ordering Fine Dining 148

Social Hospitality

MAY 6, 2020

Four Seasons New York: Housing Healthcare Pros The Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan is providing free rooms to doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. The luxury hotel, where rooms typically top $1,000 a night, closed at the end of March and is not taking new bookings. Thank you @FourSeasons.

Hospitality 195

Hospitality Airlines Healthcare Hotels 195

Lavu

JANUARY 31, 2020

Diners benefit from a streamlined booking process that displays available times and provides instant confirmation of bookings, coupled with the ability to communicate specific wants and needs. Resy includes table management, ticketing, web booking, CRM, mobile app, POS integration, and more. Loyalty Program .

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Reservations Loyalty Program Front of House Social Media 78

Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To make it a good one, ensure your website and especially your menu are easy to read and navigate on mobile devices. As of August 2022, 59% of web traffic was mobile.) That’s just one reason to give guests the ability to book online through a reservation platform. Restaurants are judged based on how they make guests feel.

Technology 78

Technology Online Ordering Website Management Mobile Ordering 78

The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 26, 2022

These apps enable you to centralize different facets of your restaurant’s day-to-day activities, such as accepting online orders, ringing up customers, managing payroll, and tracking performance. It should have all the programs required for front-of-house and back-of-house calculations, such as financial tracking, inventory reports, etc.

2022 69

2022 Management Management Loyalty Program 69

Touch Bistro

JUNE 2, 2021

In fact, TouchBistro’s 2020 State of Restaurants Report (based on a study conducted prior to the pandemic) revealed that while one-third of operators had plans to adopt restaurant reservation software in the future, 57% were still relying on phone calls and walk-ins to make bookings. That means a big shift has to happen soon. Let’s dive in.

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Reservations 2021 Online Ordering Book 98

Ken Burgin

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ask people from one department to suggest a solution for another department eg front of house suggests the solution for a kitchen problem. Ask people from one department to suggest a solution for another department eg front of house suggests the solution for a kitchen problem.

Training 60

Training Management Management Kitchen Safety 60

Deliverect

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Pick the right one and you can streamline all your restaurant operations, from orders and payments to staff and inventory management. Key features include floor management, customer and inventory tracking, table-side ordering and an offline mode. But with so many providers out there, how do you decide? Lightspeed (for restaurants).

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POS Delivery Cash Management Point of Sale 60

The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Train your employees on how to properly handle curbside orders and take payment. You can also set expectations with your drive-thru personnel regarding how long orders should take to finish. Online Ordering. Guests were already flocking to internet ordering even before COVID-19 struck. Source: Unsplash.

Loyalty Program 52

Loyalty Program Online Ordering Social Media Point of Sale 52

Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Next, visit the restaurant itself, even book a table or sit at the bar. Also jot down important technical details, like the seating capacity, the number of diners at different times, customers’ demographics, their dwell-time and order size, even if just approximate. Interact with the guests to get their point of view.

Kitchen Safety 87

Kitchen Safety Front of House Advertising Website Management 87

Apicbase

AUGUST 19, 2022

Guests are so used to the convenience of digital tools and mobile technology in their daily lives that they expect the same smooth digital experience as soon as they step foot in a hotel lobby. Every article about technology for the hospitality industry seems to start with a similar statement. We disagree. And that is a good thing.

Hotels 52

Hotels Technology Hospitality Back of House 52

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

After that, the most popular back-office technologies were accounting software (55%), mobile payments (52%), and third-party food delivery services (51%). With dedicated (mobile-friendly) software, all communication gets centralized.

Technology 312

Technology Mobile Ordering Social Media Online Ordering 312

The Food Corridor

MARCH 27, 2023

And more and more often, whether we realize it or not, it’s also where we’re ordering our food. The Food Corridor powers cloud kitchens with booking and management tools How does a cloud kitchen work? Customers order online on food delivery apps (such as Grubhub, Doordash, etc.) Food delivery is nothing new, of course.

Kitchen Safety 59

Kitchen Safety Delivery Online Ordering Food Order 59

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. Try 7shifts for free.

Operations 367

Operations Management Management Mobile Ordering 367

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. Try 7shifts for free.

Operations 352

Operations Management Management Mobile Ordering 352

Marketman

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Restaurant management systems help automate a multitude of processes including recipe and menu pricing, mobile orders and tip management, customer management and promotions, wastage reports, inventory management, accounting, sales, billing and so much more. Staff management. Marketing.

Management 52

Management Management Cash Management Inventory 52

7 Shifts

APRIL 13, 2021

Canyons has also seen success in breaking down labor percentages into the back and front of the house to better understand where they may be overstaffed. This is usually 9% for the back of the house and 4% for the front, totally a target of 13%. They also opened a sister restaurant, Gameday Fresh Grill, also in Woodstock.

Front of House 370

Front of House Point of Sale Back of House Franchise 370

7 Shifts

APRIL 26, 2023

And fortunately, where I'm at, I do want to position myself to be in front of that growing change versus being reactive," For 7 Leaves, being in front of that growing change means a foray into mobile, which currently makes up 45% of their business. And so that's been the natural evolution.

Leadership 195

Leadership Employee Relations Customer Experience Front of House 195

7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2022

7shifts provides a cloud-based team management and scheduling solution, allowing owners and managers to schedule restaurant employees , approve shift trades, and communicate with staff from one easy-to-use mobile app. Top Restaurant Management Apps. Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques.

Management 195

Management Management Operations Point of Sale 195

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2024

And while automation and robotics can help streamline some elements of operations, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a newfound appreciation for human connection and dining experiences. We've reached a point where we're recognizing the value and limits of these technologies.

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2024 Fast Casual Insurance Food Safety 187

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Take a look for yourself: View this post on Instagram Did y’all ever get a chance to watch our house rules that @heymisszarah, @kaileemykels and @jessicalwhor helped out together for us? The coffee shop has two brick and mortar locations and a mobile cart called Teeny the Trolley.

Airlines 370

Airlines Food Safety Mobile Ordering Website Management 370

Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

The restaurant industry has been evolving consistently over the years. From the introduction of point of sale (POS) systems to accounting systems, technology is changing the ways restaurants operate today. Some of the practices that used to be acceptable a few years ago are no longer the norm. . You may also be unsure where to start.

Management 78

Management Management Cash Management Mobile Ordering 78

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features NLRB, Condado Tacos, JBF, General Mills Convenience & Foodservice, Yelp, WorkJam and Forge, HungryPanda, QikServe and FreedomPay, Tablelist, xtraCHEF, Perk Labs and blixr. NLRB Issues Joint-Employer Ruling. As a result, the final rule provides clear guidance in this significant area of the law.

Mobile Ordering 111

Mobile Ordering Front of House Customer Experience Back of House 111

Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

User-friendly order management. While some restaurant management systems may have many features, if order management isn’t intuitive for staff and management, you may have brought an extra headache into your operations. Check out our list of the top 16 features of restaurant management software that are must-haves in 2020.

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2020 Management Management Mobile Ordering 117

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This edition of MRM News Bites features tech companies winning funding, AI in the kitchen, DoorDash invests in brick and mortar and the gamification of food ordering. The funding will be used to help more restaurants transition to online ordering during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Ordermark Raises $120M in Series C Funding.

Online Ordering 124

Online Ordering Customer Service Seasonal Menu Food Order 124

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a webinar that looks into the future of restaurants, face pay, delivery robots, drone delivery and a new venture for MRM. The Main Course. "We always viewed a podcast as a natural extension of the MRM brand," said Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia. "When Restaurant of the Future Panel.

Kitchen Safety 181

Kitchen Safety Loyalty Program Delivery Customer Service 181

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

As consumers ramp up their event planning, operators should continue to leverage connected technology solutions to ensure the event booking and management process is streamlined and as user-friendly as possible. Event Planning Is Back. consumers to better understand their feelings about planning events in 2021.

2021 178

2021 Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Guest Recovery 178

Restaurant365

DECEMBER 12, 2019

From the front counter to the kitchen, technology is everywhere in restaurants. From changing the way restaurants order inventory all the way to determining how customers first place their order, technology in restaurants is continuously evolving. Technology impacts nearly every aspect of our lives.

2019 88

2019 Technology Front of House Mobile Ordering 88

Touch Bistro

JULY 15, 2021

In order to make sure customers remember your restaurant long after they’ve dined with you, it’s important to define your brand identity. and adding a reservation or online ordering widget. The challenge is, restaurant marketing and promotions can take many forms, and not every strategy will resonate with every diner.

Marketing 77

Marketing 2021 Email Marketing Social Media 77

Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Upserve basically handles everything, from the reception in the front to the back office. Reading Time: 5 minutes. A Point-Of-Sell system (POS) is the main hub of any restaurant. It basically governs any and all transactions made at your restaurant. Table of Contents Square Upserve Revel Toast SpotOn Product features.

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POS Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Cash Management 78

EATER

JUNE 27, 2023

The charming thing about the book is that while Maynard and Scheller are conscious of the ridiculousness of their enterprise, they are entirely sincere about teaching their fellow Americans how to prepare delicious meals as they go zooming down the highway. There is call-of-duty cooking to feed families who never appreciate the effort.

Back of House 81

Back of House Front of House Book 2007 81

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. In this edition of MRM News Bites, read about efforts to help the restaurant industry and heroes as well as "new normal" restaurant technology and products.

Mobile Ordering 114

Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Food Order Recycling 114