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Restaurant Loyalty Program Ideas: How to Start

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Restaurants have been pressured to make the move online to stay afloat amid the global pandemic and city-wide lockdowns. Leveraging F&B technologies solutions can entice online customers and attract traffic to your website and social media pages. Why get a loyalty program?

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Guide on Providing Excellent Customer Service: Before, During and After The Meal

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You may serve the best food on the block, but if your restaurant doesn't match its dishes with plausible customer service, your customers may never come back. That's why it's important to provide an outstanding dining experience from the second your customer's enter your restaurant, till the moment they leave.

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Restaurant Loyalty Programs to Boost Revenues

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Restaurants, retailers and airlines have been using loyalty programs to drive revenue for nearly three centuries. 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.

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Why Restaurants Should Lean Into Loyalty Programs As a Way to Increase Direct Sales

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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. What’s more, loyal customers spend more.

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Best Practices for Launching Online Ordering

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Some of those challenges, particularly for smaller, local restaurants, include implementing online ordering, creating a digital presence, and offering delivery for the first time. Even before current events arose, online ordering capabilities and digital touchpoints were becoming nearly ubiquitous.

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Staying In Is Here to Stay. What Does that Mean for Restaurant Loyalty Programs? 

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As the world quickly came to a screeching halt in the early months of 2020, restaurants quickly accelerated an already existing shift towards digitalization to adapt to customers' new safety and priorities. Throughout 2021 and beyond, that answer will largely depend on how restaurants adjust their loyalty programs.

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What is a loyalty program, and how can it work for your restaurant?

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Loyalty programs gain popularity every year, but there’s nothing new about the practice of rewarding customers for their business. Loyalty programs have come a very long way since then, thanks in part to technology. Quick Links What is a brand loyalty program? What is the purpose of a loyalty program?