Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 9, 2020

People love your food, and they want it outside your restaurant, too. You have a restaurant, and people already love your food. Some of your customers have even asked about catering options. But is a client base enough to start your catering business? In this article, we look at how to tell if you should start catering.

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24/7 Waiter

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Furthermore, by integrating your online ordering food system into social media you can create awareness and gain customers. Get Everyone Talking The first step to getting people to use your online ordering system for restaurants is to make it known you have an easy-to-use digital system in place.

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Deliverect

AUGUST 31, 2020

Knowing what is most popular, on each channel and at what time can make everything from staffing to food prepping far simpler. This is particularly true when you offer eat-in, takeaway, and multiple delivery options as it can be very difficult to know where to prioritize. Start off simple: streamline your menu.

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The Food Corridor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Chefs and caterers are always looking to reach more members of the public with their delicious food. With private events difficult to arrange and more consumers happy to order food for delivery, caterers and independent chefs have new opportunities; and therefore, need new ways to connect with customers.

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Rocket Fuel

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the ordering process has changed, and the delivery channel skyrocketed. To process the high volume of orders coming in from numerous channels, you need to have a very smart online ordering system. How To Pick an Appropriate Restaurant Online Ordering System?

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7 Shifts

JUNE 20, 2022

We chatted with some of those most experienced in the ghost kitchen game to find out some myths, best practices, and tips for success in this food service style. A ghost kitchen (also known as a delivery-only restaurant, cloud kitchen, or dark kitchen) is a restaurant that is solely focused on cooking to-go meals. Table of Contents.

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Cheetah

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2019, we published The Beginner’s Guide to Opening a Food Truck Business , where we covered the basics of buying a food truck, choosing the right location, working with suppliers, and more. Which brings us to the question: Is starting a food truck in 2021 still a good idea? Food Truck Industry Outlook after Covid-19.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. Here are a few ideas: Contactless is King While contactless cards, drop off delivery, app-based payments, and QR codes have been around, the pandemic has made them more popular than ever.

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Restaurant Engine

JUNE 23, 2021

The pandemic presented an opportunity for restaurant delivery services. Did you know that more than 60% of consumers in the United States say they order food for delivery once a week? For most of your restaurant customers, delivery is an expected service. Yet, offering delivery can be expensive for restaurants.

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Foodable

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Catering is Alive with Mo Asgari" on Spreaker. On this episode of the Takeout, Delivery, and Catering podcast series, hosts TJ Schier and Sam Stanovich sit down with Mo Asgari, the president at MonkeySoft Solutions , an ezCater Company, to explore the ins and outs of catering amidst the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Traditional strategies for driving additional revenue in your restaurant such as new menus items, events, catering, or pop-ups have been displaced by changed consumer habits, regulatory guidelines, and dine-in restrictions. Or, sign up for the 7shifts Food Runner ??? Interested in getting more restaurant industry insights?

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OneDine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As the restaurant industry evolves, delivery has become a staple in just about every US household. While third-party delivery applications are widely used, in-house delivery has become a crucial component of business operations. However, establishing a successful in-house delivery system can be challenging for many restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With customers opting for alternatives to dine-in, restaurants adapted to build solutions to offer takeout, delivery and curbside pickup options. The concept goes far beyond a simple online menu or QR code. Every dine-in experience starts with a menu, so having yours available online is the first step to going contactless.

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Goliath Consulting

JANUARY 6, 2022

The demand for food delivery services increased when COVID-19 emerged. These third-party delivery services provide independent delivery personnel to deliver food to customers through their apps with a delivery fee and tip for the delivery driver. The positive side of third-party delivery services.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

As per a recently published report by Future Market insights, the Takeaway and Delivery Food market is going to witness accelerated demand in the coming years with online food platforms. As restaurants shuttered across the world due to the pandemic in 2020, deliveries and takeout orders soared.

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Deliverect

APRIL 1, 2020

With the closure of restaurant dine-in services to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, online food ordering has become a crucial business model overnight. Restaurants today have only two options: they can stay open by offering online delivery and/or takeout, or close up shop and wait for the proverbial storm to pass.

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The Food Corridor

MAY 7, 2020

Two common themes are food businesses transitioning to online ordering for delivery or curbside pickup, and others turning to an ecommerce model. Transition to Food Delivery or Ecommerce. Create a Streamlined Delivery Menu. Your delivery menu needs to be focused and full of favorites.

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The Restaurant Times

JANUARY 23, 2022

If you have a flair for cooking and want to monetize your passion and skills, you can easily combine the two to start your very own catering business in the USA. . The catering industry includes companies that provide individual event-based food services. In 2019, catering companies in the US earned $11 billion in revenue 2019.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2024

We are seeing these healthy living trends impact both menu offerings, with a continued rising interest in plant-based offerings and functional beverages, as well as food packaging, with increased consumer concern around chemicals like PFAs. Personalized Branding: Creating Unique Experiences Personalization is a key theme in 2024.

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 12, 2020

With consumers shifting away from the dining-out trend towards home delivery services, technological growth has paced up in the sector. Food delivery services are currently leading the online marketplace. According to statistics, the online food ordering marketplace’s total revenue is expected to grow at 8.8%

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Restaurants will also explore delivery options beyond costly third-party partnerships, and hike delivery menu prices to make the channel more lucrative as off-premise demand holds steady. Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. Health-Conscious Food Will Dominate Menus.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2021

But, along the boulevard of online ordering, new locations are built with a handful of pixels, not a truckload of bricks. First, identify a gap in the market—often using a delivery system’s regional data to see which cravings went unsatisfied. New idea, online menu, real food. What’s not to love?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2021

The pandemic accelerated the shift from dine-in to pick-up and delivery; and while the dine-in option will resume post mass vaccination, there is certainly a new segment of users that will remain loyal to food delivery. An increase in orders necessitates an increased focus on fast delivery and accuracy.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

.” You rapidly shifted operations and resources between different order modes, most likely approaching dine-in, delivery, takeout, or drive-thru differently. But since the rush to shift operations to off-premise channels, have you actually been able to step back and evaluate which order modes are the most profitable?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What’s keeping restaurants humming: mobile point-of-sale (POS) units, ordering terminals, tabletop tablets, and tablets for the waitstaff. This includes integrating point-of-sale terminals, fixed and mobile POS devices, and tabletop tablets for easy ordering and paying. Today’s Special: Augmented Reality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

households eating out or ordering food more frequently, according to a TransUnion report that details consumer attitudes and behaviors when engaging with QSRs. For more than half of consumers (58 percent), that amounts to dining out or ordering once or twice per week and spending less than $150 per week.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 22, 2021

While daily specials delivered in family boxes might be quite affordable and frugal, food delivery itself often costs more than the meal for one which can hit monthly discretionary spending quite hard. Online Ordering Will Continue to Thrive.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 4, 2020

With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, doorstep food delivery has picked up the pace. Despite restrictions being eased, customers are still preferring online food delivery over dine-in services. However, it has become more crucial than ever to ensure that doorstep delivery is safe and hygienic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus outbreak leads to state-mandated dining room closures, many food service franchisors are struggling to maintain business. In response to the influx of delivery and pickup orders at Teriyaki Madness, the brand has added drive-thrus in TMAD parking lots where they didn’t exist originally.

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Deliverect

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

With 2019 coming to an end, a few of the restaurant and food industry’s figureheads are already looking ahead to next year’s upcoming trends and fads. The delivery service reported a 330-percent increase in vegan orders over the past two years, as well as a rapidly growing number of eateries offering vegan food.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The online delivery market continues to grow at a breakneck pace, with over 16 million USD in European revenue in 2019. Cities are more diverse and multicultural than ever before, so it’s important to cater to your cosmopolitan clientele by making sure your menu has enough variety - something you can do by segmenting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Cheetah

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New menus, new interior designs, and even new cuisine concepts, are flourishing after nearly 2 years of deliveries. To compete, restaurants are reinventing themselves by incorporating emerging food trends into their menus – most notably by showcasing local food products and unique ingredients.

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Cheetah

MARCH 26, 2021

It is easy to conclude that, with the growing demand for online food delivery, high real-estate costs, and thinning margins, the small restaurant model will become unviable in a post-Covid-19 world. Amid social lockdowns throughout 2020 and a soaring food delivery market, a new kind of restaurant was thriving: Ghost Kitchens.

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SpotOn

APRIL 8, 2024

Independent restaurants have the opportunity to join in celebrating mothers and brunch items by creating a special mother's day brunch menu, dinner service, or promotions that cater to families. 💡 4 in 10 consumers will eat out or order online on Mother's Day. Check it out, then call your mother.

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SpotOn

APRIL 10, 2024

They realized catering could be a fruitful side hustle. CCK has been featured on the cooking channel, Food Network, and Chicago’s Best. Parties and catering have their own logistical challenges and going whole hog on a counter-service restaurant is its own beast. The restaurant began in the Gaardbo’s backyard.

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