Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 26, 2024

Customers now want to see what’s in their food and have the option to adjust meals to fit their dietary needs. Restaurants can meet this expectation with modern POS systems that show detailed menu information, including what allergens dishes may contain.

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SpotOn

MARCH 12, 2024

Gigi Cohen is the Director of Marketing for MDP Restaurant Group. In her role, Cohen sets the restaurant marketing strategy, develops social media ads, and tracks the success of their online advertising and email marketing. The rest of our restaurants are in food courts, requiring different marketing strategies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2023

To attract customers while accommodating tightened budgets, restaurants should consider employing marketing strategies that leverage data-driven insights to tailor messaging according to consumer needs. However, to best promote potential discounts, they’ll need high-quality insights into what customers want.

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Marketing Loyalty Program Email Marketing Coupons 197

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Native or first-party delivery doesn't rely on a separate service to take and send out orders. This comes with two huge advantages: high margins and owned customer data. Owning your customer and delivery data is invaluable. Owning your customer and delivery data is invaluable. Get Your Kitchen and Menu Ready to Go ??

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BNG Point of Sale

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

POS systems are devices used by waiters and managers to place orders at tables, online, and communicate them to the kitchen. Getting an order wrong damages your profit and customer retention. This new online ordering system allows waiters, managers, and customers to send orders directly to the kitchen.

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 24, 2022

Thinking about a POS system? Your customers will thank you. What your customers experience with your restaurant is as important as the food they eat. Yet, if they had a poor customer service experience, they’re likely to do the same sharing with friends and family, but they won’t return.

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BNG Point of Sale

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Types of Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems. Point-of Sale (POS) systems are increasingly powerful tools for improving sales and profits. Business owners have many POS systems from which to choose. Business owners have many POS systems from which to choose. Different Types of POS Systems. Features of a POS System.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2021

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restaurant shutdowns, online ordering has become the go-to method for many customers. By using loyalty programs as a way to encourage customers to order directly. Increasing customer retention rates by five percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent.

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Focus POS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Operating a restaurant requires a certain degree of understanding when it comes to customers. You need to be relevant, and to do that, you must be in touch with what customers want so that you can deliver on those expectations. Customers love loyalty programs. Believe it or not, this isn’t always easier said than done.

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Lavu

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If you’re looking for an affordable and simple way to process sales at your business, you can find everything you need in an iPad POS system. An iPad POS system allows you to run your business from a sleek and modern iPad tablet. iPad POS systems are convenient, portable, and fast.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Did you know that three in four customers will visit a restaurant's website before dining at that restaurant? The pros and cons of hiring a professional to make your restaurant's website Pros: When you work with a designer, you can get a custom website that doesn't look like a template or like anyone else's website.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Restaurant operators are now looking for solutions to retain customers as colder weather and economic conditions threaten their bottom line. Customers now expect more than a simple rewards program or general mailing list. Customers now expect more than a simple rewards program or general mailing list.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

With deep roots in the restaurant industry, we’ve worked with our clients to test a number of strategies to take on Restaurant Week as an opportunity to attract new customers. The best solutions always put the focus on providing a fulfilling end-to-end experience for both your your customers and your staff.

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Open for Business

MAY 9, 2024

Update your menu One of the best ways to attract guests during the summer and keep them coming back for more is to refresh your menu. In addition to updating your OpenTable profile, use social media, email marketing , and your restaurant's website to create buzz around your summer offerings.

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The Rail

MARCH 27, 2024

A thorough competitor analysis for restaurant businesses may include access to the following data: Operations Menu items and pricing Marketing methods Customer reviews In each area, data can help you to see what’s working for these other businesses that you can learn from. Menu optimization isn’t a once-off task.

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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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Ken Burgin

JULY 17, 2022

Finalise the Festive Menus – it may be months away, but customers want menu and price certainty. Think about how to deliver a great experience with fewer staff – that might mean more self-service and product outsourcing. Review the range of menu styles and pricing – small, medium, large still works for pricing and range.

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The Restaurant Times

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here is when Point of Sale or POS software comes into the picture. Harnessing the POS software, restaurateurs have enhanced their restaurant management systems to stay pro-active in the competition. . One of the most important reasons you will deploy a POS system in your restaurant is for efficient management of labor and food costs.

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From budgeting and licensing to crafting the perfect menu, here’s everything you need to know about how to open a restaurant. Market research Before you even think about the menu or location, you need to understand the guests who will walk through your doors. Doing so will give you a sense of the market gap that needs filling.

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Next Restaurants

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Your point-of-sale (POS) system should evolve as your customer base transitions into more of a “cashless society.” Otherwise, you’ll miss out on a huge market and wind up with disappointed guests. The quality of your restaurant’s POS system can make the difference between profit and loss. Let’s get started!

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SpotOn

MARCH 5, 2024

Kim Dieu knows marketing. Before she opened the modern Vietnamese concept Mi' N Tea , alongside her brother, Troy, and parents, Kim Tran and Dan Dieu, she worked in product marketing and graphic design, helping build brands.   When they first opened, third-party platforms helped Mi' N Tea find potential customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Meanwhile, operators get the opportunity to grow their customer databases and turn new customers into loyal regulars. For example, a handheld POS device will allow you to turn tables faster, improve order accuracy, and speed up service. Optimize Your Menu. You can even make it into a contest.

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Sling

JULY 24, 2023

Many restaurants operate on very narrow margins and fail because of mismanagement rather than anything wrong with the menu. There is an ever-growing market of specialized software for all of the outside-the-kitchen things restaurateurs have to think about. 9) Clover Another POS software solution serving restaurants is Clover.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Better yet, it can send email and text confirmations without restaurant staff ever picking up the phone. 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. Vegetarian menu.

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BNG Point of Sale

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

POS systems are devices used by waiters and managers to place orders at tables, online, and communicate them to the kitchen. Getting an order wrong damages your profit and customer retention. This new online ordering system allows waiters, managers, and customers to send orders directly to the kitchen.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 27, 2020

However, many states that are forcing restaurants to stop their dine-in services are allowing them to operate as takeout and delivery-only establishments. If your restaurant does decide to go the takeout and delivery route: Is your restaurant’s menu optimized for takeout? states are forcing non-essential businesses to stop operations.

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Ordyx

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whether it’s worrying about staffing, keeping up with inventory levels, ensuring customer satisfaction, or a host of other problems, restaurant owners are constantly on the move and constantly trying to increase their restaurant’s potential. Owning and managing a restaurant is HARD WORK , there’s no other way to look at it.

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Restaurant Business

DECEMBER 2, 2022

When consumers dine out, they choose where to go based on a number of factors—menu variety, value, the experience and service they get when they go to a certain place and more. Utilizing data to own the entire customer experience can help boost brand loyalty—and increase repeat visits—by enhancing the post-dining experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Customers don’t want to be bogged down with a massive library of food apps on their phone. The New Norm: Text to Order.

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Apicbase

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you look under the bonnet, you will see that struggling businesses often lack a clear restaurant marketing plan. Of course, marketing isn’t the only thing that makes or breaks a business, but it does give you an edge when you expand and open in new locations. You don’t need a fancy consultant to do your marketing. It doesn’t.

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SpotOn

APRIL 10, 2024

In between the 14-hour smoked brisket and full slab of ribs, there’s a smoked matador cauliflower on the menu at Chicago Culinary Kitchen. Parties and catering have their own logistical challenges and going whole hog on a counter-service restaurant is its own beast. 

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Focus POS

MARCH 31, 2021

Changing customer preferences have encouraged tech-savvy trends to soar in every industry, and restaurants are no exception. It’s important to note that this trend won’t be going away anytime soon; now more than ever, customers crave the convenience of online ordering. Improved Customer Convenience. Customers are busy.

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Focus POS

OCTOBER 18, 2021

According to data provided by OpenTable , 62% of customers prefer delivery, a 10% rise from the pre-pandemic rates, and this upward trend is expected to continue through 2023. Most restaurant sales come from repeat customers, so building these relationships is important, especially during a pandemic. The Value of Loyalty Program Data.

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Deliverect

JULY 24, 2020

POS (point of sale) systems. You probably already have a POS system in place. The biggest players in the POS world, the likes of Revel , Square , Micros , and NCR Aloha , turn the sales terminal into an all-purpose software hub for the restaurant, and some even provide ordering and payment hardware too. Delivery tech.

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Cheetah

JANUARY 13, 2022

From their humble, though ingenious, beginnings as copper tokens and stamps, through the era of credit card clubs, to today’s mobile apps, loyalty programs have become indispensable marketing tools. 3 rd party delivery apps, ghost kitchens and privately owned franchises are all fighting for the same market share.

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Open for Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It integrates with POS systems, banks, and outside vendors. This handy app integrates the likes of Grubhub, Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates with your POS. This restaurant ordering technology means no one needs to enter incoming delivery orders into your POS manually. Restaurant365. Agorapulse. InsightTimer.

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Food Safety Email Marketing Mobile Ordering Website Management 78

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Having an online presence that’s consistent, accessible, and engaging is one of the best ways for your restaurant to make a great first impression to prospective customers. That’s why digital marketing is so important. Read on to learn more about creative digital marketing ideas you can get started on today. Not convinced?

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