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Customer Experience in the Restaurant Industry: Reflections and Predictions through an AI Lens

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An AI-driven recommendation system can even suggest menu items based on individual tastes and nutritional needs, while chatbots can provide personalized customer service, answering queries and taking orders efficiently. Unifying and acting on digital customer data can also shape a more personalized customer experience.

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What’s on the Menu? — January 6, 2023

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In this column, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine looks at newly introduced menu items from top brands. SONIC® Drive-In is introducing a new Under $2 Craves menu. Available at SONIC locations nationwide, the new menu features classic SONIC favorites including the Jr. Golden Menu. Green January.

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Menu Prices Are Rising, But Loyalty Programs Can Help Restaurants Stay Ahead

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This menu price inflation has a number of causes, from higher raw-ingredient costs to an unprecedented labor shortage in the hospitality industry. In the survey cited above, 69 percent of respondents said loyalty programs incentivize them to frequent a restaurant more often.

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Elevate Your Restaurant Brand: Convert Value into Loyalty

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Neiman highlights the role of technology-powered tactics such as upselling menu add-ons and optimizing digital ordering in addition to using collected data to better meet the needs of the still-value conscious guest. The value menu trend has been a domino effect – the more restaurant brands introduce deals, the more others will follow.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Three Ways to Bring Your ‘A’ Game to Accessibility 

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Modernizing menus by digitizing them is a great place to start. This can help restaurants meet mandated accessibility requirements and guests’ safety concerns, while simultaneously reengineering the overall menu for a better, more modern experience. Here are three ways that digitizing menus can help improve accessibility.

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Tips for Keeping Restaurants Afloat as COVID Cases Spike

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Given that we are in a time where many restaurants are making changes to menus on a regular basis, it is important that the online menu is always accurate and connected to the restaurant POS. This will help restaurants avoid the possibility of customers placing orders and ending up with missing or non-existent menu items.

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Beyond Menus: Creative QR Code Uses for Restaurants

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The technology allowed patrons to bypass physical menus and access digital menus instead, lowering the risk of spreading the virus. But QR codes offer much more than a pathway to a menu on our phones. Businesses use the 2D barcode in new, exciting ways every day. Up the personalization ante by providing QR code ordering.