7 Shifts

MARCH 16, 2020

The COVID-19 situation has developed rapidly over the last week, with the number of cases in the US skyrocketing, and many states taking drastic measures to slow the spread of the virus. Focus on other channels like third-party delivery. Offer discounts on delivery/takeout. Encourage guests to order take-out or delivery.

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 22, 2020

Through this article we will look at a few interesting examples of how restaurants have transformed their take-out offerings to stay efficient during this period of reduced sales and satisfy customers through innovative technologies. How can I optimize take-out at my restaurant?

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Take-out Innovation Food Safety Kitchen Safety 52

7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2020

They include: Labor management software Order management software Inventory management software Guest engagement software Contactless, mobile payment processors 5 Tools to Use to Increase Operational Efficiency in Restaurants Did you know that 48% of restaurants use three or more tech vendors?

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Diners are turning to online ordering in increasing numbers because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on on-premise dining. According to a survey conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, 40% of Americans are ordering more food for takeout and delivery now than they were before the pandemic. Online ordering - Ditto.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2023

As customers continue to feel more comfortable dining out, restaurants should have health and safety measures down pat. More than 90 percent of Americans say that it’s vital for a restaurant to be visibly clean while dining indoors, outdoors or when ordering takeout.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 12, 2021

Restaurants have made great strides in the digital realm—from contactless payments to online ordering—but 32 percent of them feel like they could add to their technology stack to optimize operations. Whether they’re waitstaff, sous chefs, or delivery drivers, frontline workers are the backbone of the restaurant industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Delivery and curbside pick-up reduced on-site staffing. The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. Digitize Your Ordering Function and Enhance Your Presence. Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size. Archaic and revenue draining.

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Technology Loyalty Program Front of House Online Ordering 195

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Delivery and take-out will continue to be the most popular way consumers will get their restaurant meals in a COVID and post-COVID world. One, the new normal will become the old normal, and a takeout- and delivery-first model will become the standard in the restaurant industry. Here are their responses. Lavu CEO Saleem S.

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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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Social Hospitality

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Check out these six different channels that will define your restaurant’s marketing moving forward. Mobile Menus Your online menu is the crux of your restaurant’s digital marketing efforts. Everything you do should funnel customers towards your mobile menu to encourage takeout orders.

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2021 Social Media Mobile Ordering Online Ordering 195

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In today’s world, that means their mobile devices. To gain more diners and drive more orders, restaurants need to optimize their mobile marketing and make it easier to order. What’s mobile marketing? Why mobile marketing for restaurants? Here are some tips and tools to help you get started.

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Marketing Mobile Ordering Email Marketing Online Ordering 78

Cheetah

MAY 1, 2020

In an effort to help San Francisco restaurants stay afloat in this unstable economic reality, Mayor London Breed has recently capped the fees food delivery apps can charge restaurants at 15%. “In The time has come to drop the apps and set up your own delivery system that will be profitable now and in the future.

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ChowNow

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The restaurant delivery business has grown enormously in recent years, and it shows no signs of fading. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly half of all consumers have ordered delivery from a restaurant, and delivery sales have increased by 120 percent. That said, it can be difficult to get delivery right.

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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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Lavu

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In addition, it helps bartenders speed up their services and have customers spend less time while checking out. Order Customization: Lavu vs. Lightspeed Restaurant POS Systems Not all bars offer the same drinks. In addition, your bar POS system should be able to handle any volume of orders without any delays.

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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. What are AI and ML?

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Front of House Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Back of House 191

Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Today’s tools are high-tech, user-friendly, and mobile so you don’t have to be physically in the restaurant to stay on top of the business. Communicate with guests. A system like OpenTable takes reservations day and night, running the book even when you’re away from the restaurant. Here’s an overview of what’s available.

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Technology Front of House Back of House Online Ordering 147

Restaurant365

APRIL 14, 2020

Much of the typical food and beverage inventory in restaurants tends to have a relatively short shelf life, making accurate inventory numbers essential to run a functioning kitchen, make economical orders, and adapt to long-term trends. Keep a lower stock inventory for delivery only.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2021

Over the past year, many restaurants have reduced the stress of the system by having consumers order online, by phone or mobile app, while additionally offering curbside delivery at the nearest point of retail. Throughout 2021 and beyond, that answer will largely depend on how restaurants adjust their loyalty programs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 8, 2020

We were greeted by the manager of the restaurant and shared with him the concept of contactless dining, an experience where dine-in guests can view menus, order, and pay directly from their mobile phones. contactless payment, mobile ordering, text on arrival for seating).”

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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. Optimize Order Taking .

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Delivery Online Ordering Kitchen Safety Food Safety 72

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

Most of our customers don’t start out wanting to take on a full restaurant POS upgrade. In fact, they generally cringe at the thought of taking on such a significant operational change. Two-Way Text Communication with Guests. QR-Based, Contactless Ordering and Payment. On-the-Fly Menu Management.

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Deliverect

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In an era of convenience, online ordering systems, self-service kiosks and mobile platforms have become key to give the customers what they crave the most: a fast, personalized and convenient food experience through delivery and/or takeaway. Third-party delivery pros and cons. Let’s compare your options.

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Deliverect

JANUARY 7, 2020

The business was created to elevate the customer’s food delivery experience - a mission which Food Haven takes very seriously. The dark kitchen currently has 4 virtual brands, which answer local consumer needs, and has figured out a way to package their products in the best way for both the environment and the customer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Valentine’s Day is often a busy time for restaurants, but many are now dealing with various challenges amid the pandemic, like no indoor dining or limited capacity as well as more customers opting for carry out. With the Marketing Rule of 7 , it takes an average of seven interactions with a brand before a purchase takes place.

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Marketing Email Marketing Website Management Social Media 219

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2022

There were a couple restaurant management software companies out there, but it was just inventory and budgets. We started doing to-go orders but that was still through your POS. We would take all our invoices, mail them to the accountants and they would process all the invoices for us in financial reports. Where are we now?

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Technology 2005 Mobile Ordering Point of Sale 190

Next Restaurants

JUNE 30, 2020

Share photos of your delivery team picking up orders, happy customers ordering takeout, and your staff making sure your restaurant is extra clean. Takeout & Delivery is Paramount. Takeout & Delivery is Paramount. Eggslut informs customers that you can order their egg sandwiches on UberEats.

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Social Media Email Marketing Online Ordering Food Safety 160

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

To get a pulse on QSR trends in 2022, Modern Restaurant Management magazine reached out to David Vance, Vice President of QSR at Mood Media, an on-premise media solutions company dedicated to elevating the customer experience. Touchscreens, kiosk ordering, facial recognition, and AI technology will become the norm. David Vance.

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Employee Relations Back of House Front of House Customer Experience 184

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine surveyed marketing experts to find out the best ways restaurants can market themselves now. Extra side, desert, take-home dressing, etc. Pizza chains still getting orders via phone 70 percent of the time. Here are their insights. Customers are going to be hesitant to dine indoors.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Diners would sit down and immediately download an app to browse the menu, place their order, and pay with a credit card, all on their phones. As startups have “disrupted” the restaurant industry, they’ve replaced menus and hand-written orders with kitchen display systems (KDS), ordering tablets, and QR codes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2020

Joey Coiffi, top photo, CEO of The Salad House , a growing New Jersey-based fast casual franchise, discusses how their restaurants were able to quickly ramp up to help out, the impact of social media sharing as well as restaurant technology's role in giving back. We implemented curbside take-out and other options for our customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

The survey found that 59 percent of US and 47 percent of UK consumers plan to dine-out as soon as they are able. But while limited dining options are available, people have shown an increased desire to help out independent restaurants. Mixed take-out bag. Can't touch this.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

To add resources to these guides, reach out to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com with news. How to ramp up takeout and delivery operations. Support for no-contact doorstep delivery and minimal-exposure pickup options.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Take Advantage of Technology. For example, a handheld POS device will allow you to turn tables faster, improve order accuracy, and speed up service. A kitchen display system (KDS) can significantly improve your operations by digitally routing orders to the kitchen and then tracking them. Go Digital. Don't forget QR codes.

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Loyalty Program Online Ordering Social Media Mobile Ordering 183

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 28, 2020

From the expansion of drive-through operations, delivery services and curbside pick-up, to on-lot pop-up restaurants and even satellite locations, restaurants are using technology to survive and, in some cases, thrive in these challenging times. Restaurants Doubling Down on Drive-Thru, Curbside and Delivery.

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Everyday more and more people are using their phones and other devices to order food for delivery or pick-up. Their setup, layout and location [lean, focussed and near the target audience] make them better suited to handle online orders. Delivery-only kitchens have to be hyper-efficient and super-agile.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Given the increase in off-premise, we expect to see more drive-thru’s similar in format to Checkers & Rally’s iconic double drive-thru model, which dedicates one lane to traditional consumer drive-thru service and one to e-commerce only, including pre-paid digital orders for pickup and third party-delivery orders.

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