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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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QSRs Shift Focus from Slow-Paced Dining to Swift, Transactional Experiences Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) are reimagining their dining spaces to prioritize speed, convenience, and personalization over traditional, slow-paced dining experiences. Read the first part, here. For the second part, click here.

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How Restaurateurs Can Foster Employee Retention During COVID-Driven Labor Shortages

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Customer-centric. Customer experience management. In the wake of the pandemic, many restaurants have reshaped their entire approach to customer engagement prioritizing frictionless digital experiences, expanded delivery options, and increased health and safety precautions. Meanwhile, food service workers are in high demand.

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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

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While what consumers eat won’t change, post-COVID-19, how they will get it will. The ingrained customer behavior over the past year, delivery, mobile orders, curbside pick-up, will likely continue. The pandemic effectively accelerated trends in how restaurants interact with customers.

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part Two

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Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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Are Restaurants Ready for the Federal Minimum Wage Increase?

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Restaurants have traditionally addressed wage increases in two ways: by passing the cost on to the customer with increased menu prices; or by reducing cost and cutting operational hours and workforce. In the past, both options have resulted in dissatisfaction for employees and customers. As an example, a large U.S.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

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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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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

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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. Consumers still demand convenience when it comes to their meals, but they also want variety. The younger generations don’t just want great food, they expect memorable experiences.

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