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How to Set Up Online Ordering for Restaurants

7 Shifts

If you weren’t thinking that much about online ordering before, you definitely are now. The easiest way to get your food out there is by partnering with a third-party delivery app. Native or first-party delivery doesn't rely on a separate service to take and send out orders. Third-party platforms keep this data from you.

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Best Practices for Launching Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

Some of those challenges, particularly for smaller, local restaurants, include implementing online ordering, creating a digital presence, and offering delivery for the first time. Even before current events arose, online ordering capabilities and digital touchpoints were becoming nearly ubiquitous.

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10 Online Ordering System Tips to Boost Online Orders

Restaurant Engine

Online ordering is perfect for upselling customers. They want to be able to order it the minute they think about it. Your customers believe that your restaurant should be available with an online ordering system when they want to use it. Through online ordering. 2: Streamline Your Online Menu.

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Beyond Menus: Creative QR Code Uses for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Drive traffic to your restaurant’s social media page by adding QR codes to posters, food packaging, receipts and table tents. QR codes bridge the gap between online and offline customer experiences, offering valuable and necessary information that increases engagement. Up the personalization ante by providing QR code ordering.

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Ordering Channels and Preferences Have Shifted: How Restaurants Can Win The Customer

Modern Restaurant Management

Surging prices have been top of mind for consumers for two years and counting, leaving restaurant leaders questioning how inflation might influence diners’ behavior and overall spending habits, including their usage of digital ordering and third-party delivery apps– both of which gained momentum during the pandemic.

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The New Normal: Self-Signup for Online Ordering with MenuDrive

Lavu

Khatri, CEO of Lavu and MenuDrive, wrote that the National Restaurant Association 2019 State of the Industry report indicated that nearly half of adults were more likely to order food delivery online than just two years prior. While, on the other hand, restaurants adjust to curbside delivery and takeout orders.

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Online Ordering is the Lifeblood of Restaurants During Coronavirus Shutdowns

Lavu

It is on the top of everyone’s mind and unavoidable online – the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic. This is why having an online ordering system for takeout and delivery is more important now than ever. Unknowingly, they had an advantage, being frontrunners in online ordering and curbside delivery.