7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

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. This rise in digital interactions has made it critical for restaurants to have well-designed websites. How to build your restaurant’s website.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Digital marketing is a key ingredient that can help restauranteurs connect with customers to achieve both. Digital marketing strategies can be a force multiplier for bringing back loyal restaurant customers, attracting new customers and increasing brand awareness. Some of these strategies include: Optimizing the Website.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 10, 2021

Invest in Technology Accounting and inventory management software are just a couple of the technologies that small business owners should invest in. Other efficiency benefits include POS software that tracks staff time and inventory, saving time in daily operations preparing payroll, bookkeeping, and inventory management.

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ChowNow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Effective restaurant marketing means reaching diners wherever they are. 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? In today’s world, that means their mobile devices.

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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. Basant Baruah, Senior Content Marketer, Beaconstac. Below are a few examples of small and big F&B chains applying unique marketing techniques. Here are their insights.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Once upon a time, most restaurants operated on a patchwork of paper systems involving notebooks and back-of-the-napkin calculations, not to mention information owners and managers kept in their heads, hunches, and habits. Manage your team and costs. Communicate with guests. Table management software. Quick links.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 27, 2020

How to communicate your COVID-19 restaurant closure. Whether you decide to close your restaurant partially or fully, it’s important to communicate your decision properly to staff and customers. Then share general updates with staff through your team communication tool. Manage expectations by creating a timeline for updates.

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Open for Business

MARCH 23, 2023

Restaurant marketing jobs are some of the most important roles in the hospitality industry. A solid marketing strategy will help you attract new guests and keep them coming back, but marketing duties often fall to the bottom of a busy restaurant owner or manager’s to-do list.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A vast, community-wide event like Restaurant Week can be the perfect push to start 2022 successfully. Undoubtedly, it has become a community favorite across the country. So if you have to deal with bigger crowds, your staff can easily manage the queues of orders, personalize staff alerts, and more. Go Digital.

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Open for Business

MARCH 21, 2023

Word-of-mouth marketing and evangelism marketing are valuable parts of a restaurant’s marketing strategy. Because word-of-mouth marketing is an unpaid form of advertising, you can use this important tool no matter your restaurant’s marketing budget. Word-of-mouth marketing is a form of organic advertising.

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Get Beyond

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consult last year’s sales information, website data, and social media metrics to see if there’s anything you can immediately improve on. Holding a successful event? Beta test the online customer experience It may have been a minute since you took a deep dive into your website. What can you learn from last year?

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Ken Burgin

JULY 5, 2022

Every week in the Hospo Reset Newsletter, we share a product or service that’s caught our eye – for kitchen & beverage management, staffing, facilities management, marketing and overall productivity. Food, Menus and Kitchen Management. Coffee and Beverage Management. Design and Facility Management.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The market has changed regarding what people spend their money on in recent years. To have a successful endeavor, however, you must heavily implement extreme and exceptional marketing efforts to start and end your pop-up with a splash. . How To Successfully Do Pop-up Marketing. Start Marketing at Least 7 Months in Advance.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their opinions on what we can expect in 2021. And three, above all, we see the need for digital marketing automation continuing and growing into 2021 and beyond. Change management needs to be a top priority. Here are their responses.

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Sling

JULY 4, 2021

Restaurant marketing has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. With the rise of the internet and the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, the vast majority of marketing efforts are concentrated online. But there are still effective marketing channels available offline too. Not sure how to get your website on page one?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 21, 2020

Take the Flights restaurant , for example: Partnering up with the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce, Flights started ‘Feed the Need Bay Area’ to leverage accounting support and marketing talent so that they could support the Bay Area community. Have a Marketing Plan for Reopening. Pick the Right Marketing Channels.

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Open for Business

JANUARY 28, 2024

On the flip side, many successful restaurant groups are now looking at food trucks as opportunities to more successfully service their internal catering needs and serve as a marketing vehicle for their restaurants. Then you can get quotes from builders outside your state to get a better understanding of what the competitive market might be.

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 2, 2019

What comes to mind when you hear there is an expected surge of over a million possible guests entering your city for a weekend event? But this was Super Bowl LIII – one of the biggest events in the country each year. Restaurant management took employee support roles to help all the new staff feel part of the team. Excitement?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? WSJ reported that more than half of ad spending is shifting to digital platforms as the pandemic caused shifts in marketing strategies.

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Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

I wrote a fairly lengthy article back in 2001 , with advice on how to manage the effects on small businesses – it still holds up well. We can see it coming – this is a slowly unfolding catastrophe, so we can do some planning, but speed is essential, and there will still be unexpected events and panics.

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Whether your restaurant is opening soon or has been open for some time, you’ll need to make some decisions on hiring an internal marketing team. Too many people applying for marketing jobs believe posting on instagram and snap chat qualifies them as a marketing director. Website blog posts and updates. Email Marketing.

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EATER

JULY 27, 2023

For now, it’s in a limited soft-open period that offers tickets (not reservations) through an email list, via the website. A planned Facebook event, The Great Wait in Line Event to Eat the First Night at Casa Bonita Opening Night, attracted more than 15,000 responses. Relatedly: Casa Bonita is back , sort of.

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BNG Point of Sale

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This easy add-on feature gives you the power to stay efficient while managing food orders, all the while providing a wealth of backend information to help you manage your restaurant teams for improved performance. This new online ordering system allows waiters, managers, and customers to send orders directly to the kitchen.

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The Food Corridor

MAY 7, 2020

Artisan producers, bakers, and caterers are also struggling with events and farmer’s markets not taking place, so many are looking to online channels and setting up ecommerce stores to sell their products. And keeping things in-house also allows you to keep control of your guest relationships and data for future use in marketing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A recent study found that 60 percent of consumers prefer to pick up the phone to get in touch with local businesses instead of emailing them or contacting them via social media. There are now phone solutions that allow owners and managers to see what their customers are calling about, the frequency at which they're calling and more.

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The Food Corridor

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Perhaps you have a kitchen full of wonderful clients, but you’re thinking about opening up a new revenue stream, like renting your space out for private events for example. How Essential is Commercial Kitchen Marketing? There are many approaches to marketing online. Marketing Jargon Explained. ROI – Return on investment.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 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. The National Restaurant Association-managed site also provides a direct connection to the industry’s grassroots engagement platform.

Online Ordering 212

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In a pandemic-affected world, a restaurant website is critical for your restaurant. A website is a tool for branding, expanding business opportunities, effectively engaging customers, and other stakeholders. Your restaurant website acts as an online storefront and defines your online identity. . Social Media Integration .

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Next Restaurants

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Otherwise, you’ll miss out on a huge market and wind up with disappointed guests. If it’s time to upgrade to a modern point-of-purchase system that improves your guests’ experiences, consider these key features: Mobility Streamlined ordering Refined business workflow Customer and management metrics. Restaurant Inventory Management.

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Sling

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this article, the management experts at Sling discuss everything you need to know to retain clientele longer and build a solid customer base for your business. With that information, then, you can send them messages, coupons, and general communications promoting their preferences and inviting them to try others.

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Next Restaurants

MAY 26, 2020

If you want to familiarize with the new restaurant marketing landscape post-COVID-19, PosterMyWall is hosting a webinar with Daniel Woodman , a senior marketer with a knack for helping small businesses flourish, to talk about what restaurants can do stay relevant on re-opening, and to tackle the many novel challenges they will face.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 7, 2021

There is no other visual that can communicate as effectively and quickly as video. Also, there is no other marketing medium that can reach your customers as best and as affordable as email marketing. In fact, 65 percent of small businesses use email to communicate with their clients.

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BNG Point of Sale

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This easy add-on feature gives you the power to stay efficient while managing food orders, all the while providing a wealth of backend information to help you manage your restaurant teams for improved performance. This new online ordering system allows waiters, managers, and customers to send orders directly to the kitchen.

POS 52

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Buzztime Business

MARCH 1, 2021

In such event, NTN stockholders will likely lose their entire investment in the company. NTN engaged Alliance Advisors to assist in the solicitation of proxies for the special meeting by telephone, email, personal interviews and other means and to provide related advice and informational support.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. Try 7shifts for free.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants turned to restaurant management apps to navigate this change, and it appears there’s no going back. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. 7shifts Most managers are familiar (and frustrated) with traditional paper scheduling techniques. Try 7shifts for free.

Operations 352

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

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. Limited-service restaurants continue to be the clear winners in the market share battle within the leisure category.

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