Restaurant365

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

You’re tracking deliveries, making the most of your food budget, and ensuring your staff is prepared to serve customers. However, in between all these tasks, it is critical to devote time and energy into accurate and consistent inventory management. How can you best approach restaurant inventory management?

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The Rail

MAY 15, 2024

Peer into counter service restaurants, from fast food chains to trendy eateries, which play an active role in the restaurant industry. They provide a hands-on experience that lets customers place their orders and enjoy quality eats at lower costs. The order point is the counter or a self-ordering kiosk.

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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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Mad Mobile

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Are you keeping a close eye on your beer, wine, & liquor inventory costs? It also has one of the most complex stock lists. Because liquor, wine, and beer have such wildly varying prices, it pays to keep tight controls on ordering and inventory. Take these lessons to heart. Think again! Out of maraschino cherries?

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Restaurant365

MAY 17, 2022

Food inventory management goes way beyond counting the items on the shelves. The most important part of inventory management is understanding how the amount of product relates to your profit margin. Why a POS system is not suitable for inventory management. Best practices for effective food inventory management.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 9, 2023

From the humble QR code, which quickly became a mainstay during the pandemic, to recent reports of “digital-only” restaurants, tech is starting to define service for restaurants and customers alike. Using customer data, AI systems can make inferences about what items may suit their tastes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 23, 2023

Loyalty programs are made to cater to customers' ever-changing needs and expectations. Brands are now seeking creative ways to engage customers in more personalized and unique ways. Brands now leverage data analytics and AI to better understand customer preferences and deliver tailored rewards and offers.

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Restaurant365

JULY 21, 2021

When it comes to restaurant inventory, there are a lot of moving pieces. How do you keep track of all these different shipments and ingredients to minimize food waste, ensure you are prepared for service, and optimize what you’re spending on your ingredients? Are you interested in improving how your restaurant runs inventory?

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 8, 2021

During a “normal” year, restaurant owners and operators face issues such as cash flow and capital, inventory management, hiring and training and providing excellent customer service. As far as restaurant challenges go, inventory mistakes can be some of the costliest. It’s Challenging.

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Hot Schedules

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You have lots of choices on which companies supply your restaurant inventory, but how do you spot and manage great food suppliers? Your restaurant looks for partnerships based on specific needs: inventory, timeliness, reliability. Responsiveness – Sometimes orders need to change on the fly. Keep Prices Competitive.

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Food Supply Food Mobile Ordering Inventory 137

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

As a part of this process, many operators have once again turned to outdoor dining as a lifeline to help recover lost revenue and make customers feel at ease. Additionally, POS insights can help restaurant owners identify their top-selling seasonal items based on customer data and adjust the menu accordingly.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

This creates a domino of challenges – labor dependance, the inability to pay reasonable wages, selling price ceilings that do not yield sufficient profit, etc. Our menus are too large: The days when the way to customer satisfaction was through extensive variety are probably gone. Technology can provide ways to fill in the gaps.

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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. Moreover, in the coming year, early access to novel menu additions is set to become a sought-after offering.

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7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Mobile Coffee Shops (Carts and Trucks). Get to know your future customers, before they even step foot in your door. You may discover that your target customers enjoy an afternoon pick-me-up and are sensitive to price. This research will dictate your hours of operation and pricing plans! Expected menu prices.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Food cost is heavily influenced by your inventory management. With the restaurant industry’s notoriously razor-thin margins, controlling food costs — and managing your inventory — are essential for a healthy bottom line. There are many opportunities within the inventory lifecycle to apply efficient food cost controls.

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Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

These include food production and inventory management. 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.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 28, 2021

Restaurants have traditionally addressed wage increases in two ways: by passing the cost on to the customer with increased menu prices; or by reducing cost and cutting operational hours and workforce. In the past, both options have resulted in dissatisfaction for employees and customers. As an example, a large U.S.

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Culinary Digital

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Streamlining Foodservice Operations From order management to inventory control, digital solutions have streamlined foodservice processes to reduce errors and wait times. Moreover, data analytics and digital point-of-sale systems have empowered foodservice providers to make informed decisions about menu offerings and pricing.

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Focus POS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This increased demand for online ordering and delivery, paired with various social distancing regulations, caused a massive shift in the restaurant industry. Restaurateurs struggling to stay afloat without patrons in the dining room turned to online ordering to keep revenue trickling in. Is it ultra-easy and intuitive for customer use?

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Squirrel Systems

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Technology-Driven Convenience The demand for convenience continues to shape the restaurant industry, with an increasing reliance on technology for ordering, delivery, and payment. They can also manage reservations and special requests, ensuring personalized service that meets the expectations of diners seeking unique experiences.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 3, 2022

There are so many things to think about — from inventory management to restaurant payment and billing and more — it can be difficult to keep track of it all. We’ll explore software for inventory management, restaurant payment and billing, food delivery, dashboards, restaurant onboarding, reservation management, and ERP systems.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Savvy food and beverage professionals are recognizing the craft beverage category as a gateway to loyal, higher-value customers. Creators entering more fully into the on-premise business model are becoming better partners for their B2B customers.

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Future Food

JUNE 16, 2021

We used to get cash sales only, now the expectation is predominantly EFTPOS based physical transactions that are bolstered by a range of sales opportunities, including order/click & collect, vending, mobile concessions, elevated dining and beverage choices, a range of environments plus pre & post-game entertainment.

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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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Mad Mobile

JANUARY 30, 2024

In today’s fast-paced world where convenience is king and customer experience reigns supreme, restaurants are switching up their service game. Welcome the simplicity and efficiency of tableside ordering services. What is tableside ordering? All orders go from a digital device and directly to the kitchen.

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Mad Mobile

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A good POS system can help you keep your customers and employees happy with speedy, accurate service. While legacy POS systems are clunky and expensive to maintain, new cloud-based systems are flexible and easy to customize. In the cloud-based POS space, systems are designed for every type of restaurant and bar.

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Restaurant365

JULY 24, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Sometimes called a virtual restaurant, virtual kitchen or cloud kitchen, a ghost kitchen is a food-service business that serves customers exclusively through online orders.

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Front of House Online Ordering Kitchen Safety Customer Service 147

BNG Point of Sale

JUNE 19, 2020

Our 2020 merchant systems work with most payment methods, including credit cards, debit cards, making it easy for customers to pay in a way that’s best for them, increasing your chance for a sale. This makes this POS software well worth the price, but it brings other benefits too. Mobile payment processing.

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ChefMod

MARCH 10, 2024

Running a restaurant comes with its unique set of challenges, and managing procurement and accounts payable can often feel like navigating a maze of paperwork, negotiations, and inventory management. How does ChefMod’s Order Management System work? Is there a mobile app available? Can I use my own suppliers?

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ChefMod

MARCH 16, 2024

Purchase Order (PO) : Keep track of all your orders, aligning your purchasing with your budget and culinary needs. This includes sophisticated 2-way or 3-way matching systems that align your Purchase Orders with receiving documents or e-invoices issued through integrated suppliers, providing unmatched accuracy and transparency.

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Sling

JULY 24, 2023

Kudos helps you do that and also allows employees to recognize each other, with the ability to set up custom rewards, like gift cards. Toast offers both front desk and tableside hardware for taking orders, processing payments, and allowing guests to track the status of their orders. It covers local health codes from the U.S.

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BNG Point of Sale

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Mobile POS For Retail: How Retail Businesses Boost Sales with Mobile Devices. A similar tool not only rings up merchandise, it improves sales, service, and the way your business functions. It’s called Mobile POS. This article examines how Mobile POS improves business operations. What is Mobile POS?

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MadMobile

AUGUST 5, 2022

In early 2022, gas prices skyrocketed. Example of a bad food costs goal: Cut inventory costs. Example of a good food costs goal: Reduce the inventory costs of our top three selling items by 10% in Quarter one by being more thoughtful about our purchase orders and prep. When one headache goes away, another one starts.

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The Rail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Dmytro Spilka, Contributor Embracing digital transformation and utilizing a digital ordering system can provide greater levels of convenience for your restaurant with better efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Taking the next step in readying your restaurant or food delivery service for digital ordering can come with many benefits.

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Open for Business

MAY 19, 2023

Digital ordering has been a game changer, and the latest trends for 2023 could change how hospitality businesses operate even more. Instead, they show orders on a screen and can even help manage how meals are coursed out. Inventory management software updates stock levels based on POS data on what guests order.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Employees determine the customer service experience in a restaurant. Tools like cloud-based scheduling and centralized mobile apps for employees can help make labor scheduling more efficient. Managing complex, rotating inventory. Here are the top 10 operational challenges restauranteurs should expect in 2020: 1.

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