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Five Casual Dining Design Trends Worth Replicating

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If you happen to own a casual dining establishment, it’s even better: The global fast casual restaurants market is expected to grow by $186.27 Looking for some ideas to help your casual dining establishment thrive? Room for Technology. According to recent data from Morning Consult , 75 percent of U.S.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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If the past few years have taught us anything, it's that restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. With modern technology platforms, there's no need for physical cards or receipts.

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How To Unite Technology and Staff  For Restaurant Success

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Three ways to ease the adversarial relationship between your staff and your technology. Interestingly enough, the very source of a lot of this tension — technology — can also be the solution. The key lies in uniting staff with technology. There’s even technology that can help automate the training process.

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QSR and Fast Casual Concepts Forego Expensive Commercial Real Estate Buildouts

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For the quick-serve (QSR) and Fast Casual industry, a re-examining of all operational processes is taking place at a rapid, yet reactive rate. At Aloha Poke, we discovered these nuances well before the global pandemic and were already shifting away from the typical Fast Casual model. COVID-19 global pandemic changed nearly everything.

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Maximizing Restaurant Profits by Routing Out Hidden Financial Risks: A Technology-Based Approach

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This migration could be a goldmine for casual/fast food brands if only they had the people to support them. It’s not unusual for a fast-casual restaurant with over 1,000 locations to manually save the recipes on these drives and then send them to the field teams, and hope they’re properly uploaded.

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How Fast-Casual Marketers Can Prepare for 2022 Dine-in Traffic

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Smart QSR and fast casual chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack reconfigured their strategies to lean heavily into delivery apps, digital ordering, and loyalty programs. So, what can marketers of fast casuals do to bring people back to their brick-and-mortar locations? But the platform is where the real winners shook out.

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Investing In Digital Technology Is Investing in Food Safety

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Accurate, reliable tracking requires digital technology. It could mean the closure of your business as evidenced by Chi Chi’s, which was once ranked the number one fast-casual Mexican restaurant in the US. They also invested in digital technology.