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Mobile Ordering’s Role in Customer Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

The past two years have brought unprecedented changes across the restaurant industry, from new concerns related to social distancing and cleanliness to the acceleration of pre-pandemic trends such as the rise of mobile ordering and third-party delivery services.

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How To Enhance Customer Experience With A Table Ordering App

The Restaurant Times

The idea of allowing users to skip the queue as well as the enormous revenue opportunity available in table ordering mobile app category is driving restaurants and app development companies to innovate. Enhance Customer Experience With Table Ordering App.

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Covid-19 + Restaurants: How Mobile Chatbots Can Help

Social Hospitality

For most restaurants, the focus remains on delivery and pickup to serve customers. For example, queries for app development in Ireland was high because many restaurants and essential service providers wanted to build mobile apps to take on delivery business opportunities.

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Long Live Digital Dining: How Consumers’ Appetite for Mobile Apps and Online Ordering Will Continue

Modern Restaurant Management

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. Although mobile ordering isn’t the new kid on the block, it has certainly become the most popular because it’s one of the safest – and easiest – ways to order and pay for food.

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Win Back the Customer Relationship: Why Mobile Apps Are the Golden Ticket

Modern Restaurant Management

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.

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Four Reasons Why Mobile Order and Pay Can Ease Staffing Shortage Pressure

Modern Restaurant Management

With restrictions easing, customers are excitedly returning to their favorite restaurants. Mobile order and pay solutions are a cost-effective way to support the current skilled staff you have to deal with peak periods while also helping to maximize sales.

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Three Ways for Restaurants to Boost Digital Customer Experiences Now

Modern Restaurant Management

Ensuring a positive digital customer experience entails optimizing various channels and technological infrastructure to improve how customers navigate a restaurant’s online persona. Creating Digital Customer Experiences: Three Best Practices.

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Automation: The Secret To Great Customer Experiences

Restaurant Business

When people think about automation in foodservice, they often picture cold, indifferent efficiency—the last things any operator wants to provide in a great customer experience. A good example of this dual benefit is the use of digital ordering kiosks.

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Understanding the Customer to Enhance Brand Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

They speak to their core audience of current and future customers. With a suite of kiosks, online and mobile ordering capabilities, coupled with personalized offerings, restaurants can utilize their data for insights to further drive return visits. Creating a Seamless Experience.

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Get These IT Essentials Right to Protect Customers’ User Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

That said, the processes that became norms during the pandemic, such as online ordering and contactless pickup, are here to stay for the convenience of hungry customers. A fast resolution is absolutely critical to ensure your customers do not lose faith in your ability to serve them.

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Leveraging Back-office Restaurant Technology to Improve the Customer Experience

Restaurant365

Restaurants are devoting time, energy, and marketing resources to improve the customer experience. However, the benefits of improving the customer experience go beyond just getting better reviews. Leveraging QR Codes & Mobile Pay.

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Five Tips for the Best Customer Experience During COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

Businesses have been forced to pivot away from on-premises dining to offer on-line ordering and take-out services. Here are five tips for planning for the future to provide the best service: Understand Your Customers. This in turn helps the guest experience become a more pleasant one.

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Achieving Your Best Digital Customer Experience During COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the ways we live, work and dine, the restaurant industry has been experimenting with different ways to adapt and continue serving customers who cherish dining experiences. online ordering grew 3,868 percent from February to April.

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Restaurant Customer Experience 2020: What Customers Expect

Focus POS

Who is the next-generation customer and what are their expectations? Today’s diners are well-connected, tech savvy, and expect a high-quality restaurant customer experience—whether visiting a five-star restaurant, fast-casual, or the drive-through. Menu and order Customization.

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6 Restaurant POS Features that Improve the Customer Experience

Next Restaurants

Your point-of-sale (POS) system should evolve as your customer base transitions into more of a “cashless society.” A bulky or slow legacy system will prevent your business from creating a positive customer experience, so keep up with the business world as it changes. Personalized experience Enhanced outreach. As a restaurant owner, customer satisfaction should be your number one priority. Increase Your Restaurant’s Mobility. Staff Mobility.

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4 Ways a Restaurant Mobile App Elevates Your Digital Ordering Experience

ChowNow

Restaurant mobile apps are having a moment. Online ordering has steadily increased over the years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated adoption of digital tools and online ordering. . At ChowNow, we’ve long touted the effect of mobile apps on customer retention and loyalty.

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How Order Ahead Restaurants Can Stave Off a Lackluster Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced thousands of traditional restaurants to transform themselves into order ahead restaurants; pre-pandemic, only 15 percent of restaurants offered curbside pickup; today, that’s up to 70 percent. Automating Order Ahead Logistics.

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Connectivity Puts the ‘Connect’ in Customer ‘Connections’

Modern Restaurant Management

The last couple of years have proven that digital experiences will continue to play a central role for quick-service restaurant (QSR) operators. Luckily, QSRs have no shortage of technologies at their disposal to help them achieve the sort of customer personalization that drives profits.

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6 Ways Restaurants Can Reach Customers in 2021

Social Hospitality

How can you convince a customer to come to your business and spend money on your food? In addition to bringing customers to your restaurant, your 2021 marketing should focus on bringing your restaurant to them. Not sure how to best reach customers in their homes or on-the-move?

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Successful Restaurants Leverage Their Digital Ordering Channels

Modern Restaurant Management

The last year has had a profound impact on both restaurant operations and customer preferences, resulting in permanent changes. The impact of the global pandemic has fast-tracked the restaurant industry's need for digital ordering, particularly for off-premises dining options.

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Attract More Customers with These Simple Website Improvements

Modern Restaurant Management

A restaurant’s website is an important information tool for your customers. As a website developer, who has over 20 years of experience in the industry, here are a few ways I would suggest you update your website to attract business. Be Mobile. Ordering Online.

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5 Examples of Customer Service Innovation in Hospitality

Social Hospitality

Customer service is at the core of innovation and good business practices. After all, the future in the hospitality sector quite literally lies in the hands of guests and customers, so it’s imperative that you always perfect your customer service.

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What is a Mobile POS System For Retail?

BNG Point of Sale

Mobile POS For Retail. What Is A Mobile POS System For Retail? A mobile point of sale is a system in which POS software is installed on handheld, mobile devices, such as an iPad or Android tablet or smartphone. Benefits of a Mobile POS System for Retail Stores.

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Effective Use of Customer Data Can Increase Your Restaurant Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

We’re constantly being bombarded by messages about how important it is to own your customer data. Customer data is only one segment of the information you need for good sales insights, marketing information, and business analytics. What the customer orders.

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Self Ordering: The Future Of The Restaurant Industry

The Restaurant Times

Since the last few years, online ordering has evolved on so many levels. With technology getting more advanced each passing second and customers becoming increasingly tech-savvy, online ordering has become more prevalent around the world. Technology Uplifts Customer Experience .

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How Insurance Needs Differ for Traditional Restaurants v. Mobile Food Businesses 

Modern Restaurant Management

Traditional sit-down restaurants and mobile food businesses have uniquely different needs when it comes to insurance. Liquor liability insurance can protect your business in case a customer becomes intoxicated and causes an accident. Mobile Food Business Insurance Needs.

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Introducing Curbside Ordering with ChowNow

ChowNow

It only makes sense that curbside pickup—in which customers pick up their food straight from their cars—has skyrocketed in popularity. . Up until now, ChowNow restaurant partners have offered curbside ordering by listing it as an item on their menus. Online Ordering System

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Guest Blog: How a Mobile POS Can Increase Restaurant Revenue

Restaurant365

A mobile POS can help any restaurant looking to improve server productivity, increase revenue, and overall streamline their front of house operations. What is a Mobile POS? A mobile POS (or MPOS) is a handheld version of a standard cloud-based POS terminal.

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How ‘Phygital’ Marketing Improves Customer Engagement for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Customer engagement is guaranteed to increase as customers interact with your restaurant through a dedicated mobile app or QR code system. Phygital marketing is a hybrid channel delivering an immediate, immersive experience to make brands memorable and converts.

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Collecting the Right Customer Data Points to Drive Restaurant Profits

Modern Restaurant Management

Here are a few ways restaurants can use consumer insights to improve their overall business and profitability: Analyze Customer’s Day-to-Day Routines. Understand the Customer Journey Across New Ordering Platforms.

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Why Customers Love Smaller Menus

Restaurant Engine

You’ll find offering your customers a smaller menu, they’ll order more because it’s easier to decide. What’s more, in this article, we look at why your customers love smaller menus. Small Menus are Customer Friendly.

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Digitally Transforming the Restaurant Industry with No-Contact, Self-Ordering and Payment Technologies

Modern Restaurant Management

Just a few short years ago, customers paid for their meals in cash or credit cards, orders were totaled on analog cash registers, and customers called restaurants to place orders over the landline phone. The New Norm: Text to Order.

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Focus POS Releases FocusON Mobile Order and Payment Solution

Focus POS

San Antonio, TX — February 26, 2020 — Focus POS, a leading provider of restaurant point of sale software, has just released its innovative FocusON mobile order and mobile payment app. New App from Focus POS Provides Focus When and Where You Need It.

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10 Online Ordering System Tips to Boost Online Orders

Restaurant Engine

Online ordering is perfect for upselling customers. Today’s restaurant customer wants what they want when they want it. They want to be able to order it the minute they think about it. Through online ordering. 4: Promote Your Online Ordering.

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Contactless Gives Guests Control of Their Own Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant Group, which owns and operates 24 restaurants throughout California, Idaho, Nevada, Texas, and Washington, said it would be the first in the nation to introduce a completely contactless dining experience, while maintaining a guest-forward approach to hospitality.

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Boost Restaurant Customer Satisfaction With Online Ordering

ChowNow

So what else can you do to boost your restaurant customer satisfaction? One answer, surprisingly, lies in your to-go business: Implementing your own online ordering system will improve your customer experience and strengthen loyalty. While your diners undoubtedly enjoy coming in to your restaurant to eat, takeout is an easy option for occasions when customers are pressed for time or feel like staying in. Here’s why customers love online ordering so much.

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‘Bring the Dining Room Experience to the Windows’

Modern Restaurant Management

To get a pulse on QSR trends in 2022, Modern Restaurant Management magazine reached out to David Vance, Vice President of QSR at Mood Media, an on-premise media solutions company dedicated to elevating the customer experience. How can the drive-thru experience become more personalized?