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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes.

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Four Simple Ways to Integrate Contactless Solutions in Your Restaurant Reopening Strategy

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There are four touch-free methods restaurants can deploy now to ensure they are reopening in a way that promotes health and safety for their staff and guests as they work together to slow the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, 51 percent of Americans are using cash less often and are using some form of contactless payment already.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Use order information with inventory management software for smarter purchasing. Restaurant Task Management. Restaurant Inventory Management Software.

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How Restaurants Can Remain Competitive in 2021

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For both safety and ease, there isn’t a better option. With mobile ordering, there are no menus to pass out and back around, no germed-up credit cards to swipe, and no cash to handle. For fast-casual and quick-service restaurants—no more lines. Our #1 thing is that we don’t want to discriminate how people get our food.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-August 2020 Edition

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This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. Quick service and fast casual segments continue outperforming full-service restaurants by a very wide margin.

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Reinventing a Safer, Personalized Restaurant Experience through Facial Recognition

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Luckily, biometric technology like facial recognition, offer benefits that go way beyond helping us enhance dine-in safety. One of the many repercussions of the current pandemic is that people are reconsidering the way they handle cash and credit cards and the options available for making payments when eating out or shopping.

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5 Reasons Why Restaurants Are Going Cashless

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Others tout the benefits of increased safety and cleanliness (more on that below). Not accepting cash eliminates the risk of thefts and reduces crime rates in general. The fifth time the Park Café & Coffee Bar in Baltimore, Maryland, was held up at gunpoint, the owner decided to remove the cause: cash.