7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

Even as many restaurants around North America reopen for on-premise dining, many customers will continue to opt for off-premise dining options. It’s seen in the data how quickly restaurants are flocking to takeout and delivery options to rebuild their revenue, with 43% more delivery-related roles being scheduled since the pandemic began.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 15, 2023

Less than two decades ago, restaurant-quality meal delivery was largely limited to pizza and Chinese takeout. Today, the global food delivery app industry is predicted to reach $320 billion by 2029 — up from $140 billion in 2022. When it comes to delivery, you can take the process into your own hands.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Thanks to the labor shortage and increased profit pressure, savvy restaurants are going digital to provide the best customer experience and to keep up with the hefty competition. What’s new on the menu for today’s innovative restaurants? Today’s Special: Augmented Reality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 30, 2021

The simple reason is: technology. Now, with consumer behavior increasingly shifting toward intuitive and automated restaurant experiences, Canadian brands are faced with the need for the support, flexibility and efficiency of the right technology suite in order to confidently and successfully expand into the U.S. restaurant market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Modern payment solutions that provide the ultimate convenience and enable customers to order and pay how they prefer are on the rise this holiday season, empowering restaurants to deliver an improved experience without sacrificing the quality of service. remain eager to dine out. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2021

million jobs due to the pandemic-related closure of dine-in services — roughly two-thirds of restaurant employees in the U.S. Over the past year, a record number of restaurants have invested in technologies to create more efficient operations and facilitate online ordering and delivery.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2020

Now is the time when your restaurant can experiment with and implement new technologies to help reduce costs, improve margins, and stay safe during COVID-19. If you’re one of the one in four restaurateurs who only uses a POS system, you may want to consider expanding your tech stack.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 17, 2022

However, as the appreciation of the craft of coffee has grown, technology has also come to play a more important role. Now more than ever, baristas, roasters, producers, and consumers all rely on technology to understand more about the coffee they brew, roast, grow, and drink. How has technology changed over the past decade?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 8, 2020

People come here to get away from technology, not use it.” A restaurant operating at the intersection of hospitality and technology can experience significant impact from increasing margins to enhancing the dining experience to streamlining operations. Return customers tend to buy more from a company over time.”

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Focus POS

APRIL 16, 2020

Though your regular in-house dining may be closed down, you can leverage pickup and delivery services to stay in business while ensuring the safety of employees and customers alike. . Set up Designated Pickup and Delivery Space. This can also streamline your pickup and delivery operations. .

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Focus POS

JUNE 2, 2020

First and foremost is the strategic recalibration of quick service restaurant (QSR) and fine dining business models. According to the National Restaurant Association, the food service industry has encountered a shortfall of $80 billion and counting. Make sure that your restaurant technology stack includes functionalities like: .

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurant technology has changed everything about the way people do business today. There are digital tools that can help you create a customized floor plan and even preview it in 3D before moving all that furniture around. A successful service starts before the restaurant opens its doors. Pre-shift reporting. Digital waitlist.

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As we settle into 2024, the restaurant industry stands on the cusp of transformative changes, shaped by evolving consumer preferences, sustainability concerns, and a relentless pace of technological innovation. This agility is crucial for staying relevant in a market where culinary innovation is critical.

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Focus POS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Industry-Focused POS. Look for POS software made specifically to handle the industry challenges you face on a daily basis, and the data necessary to identify and solve those challenges. Cloud-based POS is especially important. Online ordering isn’t just important for customer safety and satisfaction, however.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus outbreak leads to state-mandated dining room closures, many food service franchisors are struggling to maintain business. In response to the influx of delivery and pickup orders at Teriyaki Madness, the brand has added drive-thrus in TMAD parking lots where they didn’t exist originally.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are the cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. Evolving Your Restaurant Technology Stack 1. But that was the 90s.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2020

In early March at Oracle's Food & Beverage conference held prior to the COVID-19 outbreak shutdown, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine discussed the company's plans for products and services designed to help Mom and Pop restaurants with Chris Adams, VP of Strategy for Oracle F+B about their future plans in the above video.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2020

The past few weeks have proven how quickly the way in which we dine is shifting and evolving and fast forwarded a number of technology trends. Here are some technologies that will continue to be part of any restaurant’s day-to-day operations. Table Tech : Pay-at-the-Table is the new Lazy Susan of the wait-staff world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 24, 2020

The modern restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system has grown beyond simply handling payments. Feature-rich mobile POS systems have evolved to processing orders, sending tickets to the kitchen, providing detailed reporting and offering thorough inventory and business management. The Evolution of POS.

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Lavu

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. This period could be a day, week, month, or any time frame you choose.

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Rocket Fuel

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ll just come out and say it: Restaurant operators are losing money to third-party delivery service providers. And with delivery channel growth up 1,343% since 2019, delivery doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Delivery loss 101 What is delivery loss? There are two common forms of delivery loss: 01.

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OneDine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As the restaurant industry evolves, delivery has become a staple in just about every US household. While third-party delivery applications are widely used, in-house delivery has become a crucial component of business operations. However, establishing a successful in-house delivery system can be challenging for many restaurants.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The easiest way to get your food out there is by partnering with a third-party delivery app. But when it’s so dead simple to get listed on third-party delivery marketplaces and take orders, why do all the other work to create your own system when you are a time-strapped restaurateur? It will still cost you to run your own delivery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2023

This is great news for restaurants, but they should also be prepared for an influx of customers coming with their most special guests, and expecting nothing but a prime customer experience that will pamper their mothers. One notable development is the prevalence of QR codes. A recent Paysafe study with 200 U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 11, 2020

It’s been well over a month since the spread of COVID-19 and government efforts to contain it forced restaurants across the country to shut their doors to dine-in customers. Making the most of your move to a curbside POS system means never missing a transaction. percent uptime.

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The Restaurant Times

JULY 9, 2021

Customer experience plays a crucial role in determining the success of a restaurant business. It is thus important to give your best in making customers happy by coming up with creative restaurant customer service ideas. A happy customer spreads the word about the restaurant and brings along more customers to your place.

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Goliath Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The restaurant industry has been slowly adopting new innovative technology and digital solutions as of recent. Since 2020, this has led to an increase of new technology systems for restaurants and helped them adapt to a new digital reality. Recently, restaurants have been using QR codes to innovate their ordering systems.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Delivering a good customer experience is another reason many restaurants are exploring new avenues by adopting new technologies. One way restaurateurs have been turning the tables is by deploying versatile POS (Point of Sale) software to automate their restaurant and cloud kitchen operations. . Kitchen Management.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2020

By now, many states and provinces have either mandated reductions in seating or the closure of dining areas, with most restaurants turning to takeout and delivery. Download all the data from your restaurant POS or back-office management platform to get a sense of how your restaurant is operating today.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Once upon a time, a frontline employee at a fast food restaurant did not necessarily need technological skills to apply for the job. Technology has permeated the quick serve restaurant industry and job functions – from point of sale (POS) to complying with food safety standards. Fast forward to 2022.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2022

As per a recently published report by Future Market insights, the Takeaway and Delivery Food market is going to witness accelerated demand in the coming years with online food platforms. As restaurants shuttered across the world due to the pandemic in 2020, deliveries and takeout orders soared.

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Next Restaurants

MARCH 25, 2020

Technology has played a huge part in changing how, where, and what guests eat at restaurants. Restaurant owners shouldn’t resent technology or be overwhelmed by it, instead they should utilize it to improve and grow their business. So which technologies can you invest in to improve your restaurant’s efficiency?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 10, 2022

The food service industry is scrambling to keep up with these new costs, pushing the price of a restaurant meal to a 40-year high. While increasing grocery costs could lead some consumers to eat out instead , it’s clear that restaurants need to do more to justify higher prices and improve the customer experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. Easing Customer and Employee Friction.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 1, 2020

While alcohol delivery services are nothing new, they're more important now than ever. In this article, we'll help you get alcohol delivery right with some tools and tips. We'll discuss licensing, technologies you can use, packaging essentials, and ideas to promote your alcoholic beverages. #1 Better safe than sorry!

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 1, 2020

While alcohol delivery services are nothing new, they're more important now than ever. In this article, we'll help you get alcohol delivery right with some tools and tips. We'll discuss licensing, technologies you can use, packaging essentials, and ideas to promote your alcoholic beverages. #1 Better safe than sorry!

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Technology will never be able to replace the personal touch of a seasoned server or the empathy of a veteran bartender, but it can be a huge help in increasing guest satisfaction and delivering a great guest experience. Restaurant technology can increase that level of customer satisfaction by making it easier to provide top-notch hospitality.

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