7 Shifts

JANUARY 26, 2021

Ordering online, paying with mobile phones, scanning QR codes for a menu, and a ton of takeout, are just a part of dining out now. diners prefer to view menus, order, and pay for their meal using their phones rather than interacting with servers during the pandemic. Embrace Digital Hospitality ??

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Indeed, we’ve entered a new era of customer habits –– much of it catalyzed by the pandemic, but some of which was already beginning to take shape even prior. Most notably is the shift to mobile and the way in which consumers patronize their favorite restaurants. Owning the End-to-End Experience.

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For example, a casual restaurant usually has a higher turnover rate. You can’t fix your table turnover rate without understanding the two key components: the total number of tables and the total number of customers served over a specific period. This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

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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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 3, 2021

Data findings in the series have offered insight into customer expectations to support restaurant brands as they navigate through the health crisis and continue to move forward through the recovery. “The data strongly signals long wait times are a vulnerability for fast food restaurants as they compete for customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As consumer options and demand shifted, businesses were forced to adapt and prioritize new technologies and alternate ordering experiences that would allow them to deliver on customer expectations. Adopting a digital-first environment quickly became a priority and mobile technology is playing an integral role.

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Mad Mobile

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Whatever the size of your operation, a tableside ordering system can help—it’s certainly not a tool for just large corporate restaurants. In fact, surveys show that 56% of people dine out at least twice a week! Implementing a tableside ordering system like CAKE from Mad Mobile can reshape how you run your business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Offering discounts to incentivize customers to enroll and engage with loyalty programs has been a common practice in the restaurant industry for years. With the continued uncertainty of the current macroeconomic climate, brands must find ways to reduce marketing spend while driving more value from their customer base.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The new report captures a steady rise in mobile ordering, reinforcing the critical importance of mobile initiatives for restaurant brands. According to the data, consumers deleted restaurant apps if menu items were missing or if there was limited ability to customize orders. Mobile orders are on the rise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In terms of trends, it is clear that in 2023 technology will continue to shape and enhance the restaurant industry and we will see operators adopting new technologies to create an even more seamless and frictionless experience for guests, while still maintaining unique and engaging dining experiences. For part one, click here.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020. Customers are demanding online and mobile ordering, and modern restaurant tech makes it more accessible for every restaurateur. Third-party delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2020

As restaurants adjust their protocol to safely reopen, contactless experiences will be important in preventing the spread of this infectious disease. As restaurants adjust their protocol to safely reopen, contactless experiences will be important in preventing the spread of this infectious disease. Contactless Ordering.

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RGU

DECEMBER 15, 2019

​ by Cherryh Cansler EVOS worked with ShopAdviser on a six-week mobile marketing campaign across four locations in Florida. Earlier this year, the marketing solutions company polled dozens of QSR and fast casual restaurant owner/operators to uncover what was missing in their marketing strategies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Contactless ordering at the table, virtual host stands, and online staff wellness checks have all become standard operating procedures for us now. I think that guests will be choosy with where they go out in the future, and concepts that provide an authentic and safe experience will definitely have the edge. Here are their responses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

In the year ahead, we will continue to offer our customers the true and authentic service our brand is known for, making sure they feel taken care of when visiting any of our more than 500 restaurants across the country. Read the first part, here. Looking ahead, we’re focused on strategic, measured expansion and growing profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Consumers visit a fast food or quick serve restaurant (QSR) with a goal in mind: secure a tasty meal incredibly quickly. Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Fast forward to 2022. Who makes the magic happen?

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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. COVID-19 Consumer Dining Trends. Mixed take-out bag.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Quick-service restaurants are also feeling the pressure – large chains like Chick-fil-A and McDonald’s have had to close dining rooms due to insufficient staffing. Chick-fil-A even reported disabling curbside ordering in some locations to reduce strain on their workers. Rely on Technology to Increase Operational Efficiency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2023

As restaurants work overtime to deal with soaring costs, ongoing labor shortages and growing economic uncertainty, many are pushing the limits of what used to be their competitive space to extend their brand and get in front of new potential customers. The following trends show how brands are taking advantage of this growing movement.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2021

According to Upserve’s 2020 State of the Restaurant Industry Report, the industry will collectively lose $240 billion, with casual dining sales volume down by 60 percent and fast casual down 50 percent. When establishments put the customer first, every business decision revolves around that priority.

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EATER

MAY 5, 2023

A growing number of fast food chains are experimenting with seatless locations with only takeout or drive-thru options. Getty Images/iStockphoto As diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all. People just aren’t hanging out at fast food joints the way they used to.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

People love to eat out and return when the experience is special. What’s on our collective horizon for the future of dining? Customer-led Ordering and Payment. Complete Customer Journey Mapping. Some things never change. Here’s a look at the top predictions for the coming decade.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite some gains, seven in ten operators across all major segments say their restaurant currently does not have enough employees to support customer demand and most operators expect their labor challenges to continue through next year. Off-Premises Dining Enhanced by Improved Technology. million by the end of 2022.

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MadMobile

AUGUST 11, 2022

From cafes to fine dining, your restaurant concept is the roadmap to the details of your new business. Fast Casual Fast Food Casual Dining Fine Dining Contemporary Casual Full Service Cafe or Bistro Bars & Pubs Food Trucks What are the different types of restaurants?

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2021

While we all know in-person dining will return in force (I personally can’t wait to get back to my favorite spots), the tectonic shifts we saw in the industry aren’t going to magically reverse themselves. I’m not alone in arguing COVID-19 has merely served as a great accelerator of changes that were already underway.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2022

The entire industry was forced to adopt a decade’s worth of delivery and curbside technology in a matter of months just to stay functional as consumers first battled lockdowns and later their own hesitancy to return to dining-in. The so-called Great Resignation has also taken a heavy tol l on the food service industry.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 16, 2021

In terms of technology, just like the rest of our lives, the trend has been toward mobility and flexibility and the last year has pushed this faster than we would have otherwise seen under “normal” conditions. environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, we delve into practical strategies that retail precincts and F&B operators can employ, considering the specific needs of different customer segments, to maximize visitation frequency and spending in a time of escalating cost of living. decline in the F&B business survival rate, 2nd highest of all sectors.

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Future Food

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this article, we delve into practical strategies that shopping centres and F&B operators can employ, considering the specific needs of different customer segments, to maximize visitation frequency and spending in a time of escalating cost of living. decline in the F&B business survival rate, 2nd highest of all sectors.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

Now that consumers have become more particular with dining, service standards have skyrocketed, and expectations are higher than ever before. When people decide to dine in your establishment, they don’t just want to eat good food; they want to have a pleasant experience, as well. Online Ordering and Mobile Apps.

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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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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The back of the house supports the front of the house (FOH), enabling the customer-facing team to focus on serving a memorable experience. A restaurant’s back of house includes any area of operations the customer doesn’t usually see. Fast and friendly service. What Is Back of House in a Restaurant? Cost control.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 20, 2021

The ability for restaurants, particularly full service restaurants, to operate at total capacity, consumer comfort with dining in, and more business and recreational travel will aid recovery at the dinner daypart. The key to the industry's recovery will be the strength of each daypart. foodservice industry. Visits at P.M. ” 2.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2021

But as reality of the pandemic sunk in and dining rooms remained closed, it became apparent that ordering delivery and takeout was the best way to help restaurants weather the storm — and there was a significant consumer appetite to do so. By August 2020, Americans reported ordering takeout 2.4 So what’s next? .”

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The Restaurant Times

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this article, we explore the fascinating insights derived from this episode of Restrocast by Ashish Tulsian featuring Karl Goodhew, offering a glimpse into the captivating transformation of a retail tech leader into a visionary figure in the world of fast-casual dining. From leading software engineering at Macy’s Inc.,

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Black Box Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2021

That’s not to say that the shift toward off-premise dining is entirely attributed to the coronavirus. Even so, the list is growing of brands that have unveiled new, futuristic designs that prioritize off-premise consumption over dine-in. Photo courtesy of Chipotle. Design Updates Not Limited to Limited-Service Restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 15, 2020

Pace of recovery for fast casual brands has slowed down considerably, although results continue to be much better than for full-service restaurants. Grubhub launched its latest report, "State of the Plate", looking at trends across the more than half a million orders placed a day. Top Foods of 2020.

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