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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part Two

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Expand Customer Loyalty : This year, many restaurants didn’t necessarily see a drop in topline sales, but instead suffered drops in visit frequency. In 2023, companies should lean into growing brand loyalty and engaging more deeply with existing customers even more as they look to offset drops in visit frequency in the category.

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3 Steps to Get Your Business Ready for the Restaurant Reopening

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In May, the fantastic news we’ve all been waiting for finally came: San Francisco officially moved into the yellow tier (minimal risk), allowing indoor restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries to reopen at 50% indoor capacity! Outdoor service distancing guidelines are still in place. Not everything you offer needs to cost you money.

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22 Restaurant Advertising Ideas Driving Guests To Tables In 2022

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Taking the prior idea one step further, use your immediate outdoor space and windows to promote specials. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the demand for merch is breweries. Selling pint glasses like Rebellion Brewing keeps your brewery top-of-mind whenever a past patron reaches for a glass in their own home.

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4th of July Specials for Restaurants: Promotions and Ideas for 2021

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If you have access to outdoor areas such as a garden or patio , make the most of it. Just be careful of overcrowding in your outdoor dining spaces, which can lead to breaking COVID-19 regulations, a deterioration of customer service, a tense atmosphere, and unhappy customers. Create a Signature Cocktail. Offer a Discount.

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MRM Research Roundup: End-of-January 2020 Super Bowl Edition

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points from 2018 as diners opt for less standard dining and drinking options, such as breweries (up 4.8 According to a report from Sift: 62 percent are concerned that their interactions with QSRs will lead to some type of fraud, whether it’s stolen payment information, account takeover, hijacked loyalty rewards points, or fake reviews.

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AI Flips into White Castle and Resetting America

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based participating restaurants of DoorDash’s program to support Black-owned businesses who Kiva approves for a loan* by seeding a revolving loan fund starting at $150,000 with potential to grow the investment in the coming months. Jon Taffer launched a new program on his Taffer Virtual Teaching platform, Resetting America.

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Tyga Bites and Sushi with an Attitude

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TouchBistro acquired Boston-based TableUp, a provider of loyalty and marketing solutions for the restaurant industry. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. TouchBistro Acquires TableUp.