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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 capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits.

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Three Steps to Improving Customer Loyalty During the Pandemic 

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And while the pressures of the pandemic continue, customer loyalty can play a role in whether or not restaurants will sink or swim. Below, we’ll explore three steps to building relationships and an effective customer loyalty program. First, consider adopting a touchless loyalty system. McKinsey & Co.

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Consumer Habits Are Changing — What’s Next for Restaurant Tech?

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Many food and beverage establishments have seen success with technology — such as contactless options, automation to support changing workforces and innovative customer loyalty strategies — in their endeavors to meet the demand for safer and more convenient dining experiences. Gone are the days of cash-only transactions.

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Build Staff Loyalty by Leveraging Payments Technology

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Until now, restaurants have primarily focused on customer experience when considering payments technology, but the emergence of new and developing worker payment programs can impact and improve the restaurant worker experience. In turn, more engaged employees can help deliver a better customer experience , too. Less administrative hassle.

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The State of Full Service Restaurants

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Seventy-four percent of full service restaurants (FSRs) managed to maintain or increase their sales during the pandemic; however, profit margins in 2021 declined to 10 percent, compared to 12 percent in 2019, according to third annual State of Full Service Restaurants Report released by TouchBistro.

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How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan [with Sample]

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The management team. This section gives a high-level overview of the business you're looking to start: tell investors what your restaurant is all about, who your team is, and how you're going to serve the market. Some mission statements are short and to the point, like Ninety Nine's (“A Passion to Serve”). Management team.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Increasing Role of AI in Restaurants

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AI is a program developed by humans to respond to a set of instructions under specific environments. AI programs factor in various variables like human response patterns, scenarios, locations, languages, and more to deliver what is expected of them. But they have tons of cash to burn on such gimmicks, right?