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From Fumbling to Flourishing: Fixing Common Restaurant Marketing Errors

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Lastly, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can handle customer service tasks like answering questions, taking reservations, and processing orders, ensuring faster and more efficient support. These restaurants can also focus on creating a sense of scarcity or urgency with limited reservations or special tasting events.

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Seven Restaurant Trends That Will Define 2022

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Diners simply don’t want the low food quality that often comes with long menus. These restaurant food trends can directly impact a restaurant’s profitability. A short menu can slim down the food costs through streamlined inventory management, as well as reduced food waste. Delivery Options.

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Six Strategies to Improve Restaurant Efficiency

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Staff training, therefore, needs to include teaching individuals to communicate swiftly, clearly, and confidently with other team members when orders go wrong, or other problems occur. Here are some key tips you should have on top of your mind: Factor in accurate food preparation and cooking timings to avoid letting down your diners.

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Expected Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Restaurants

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While daily specials delivered in family boxes might be quite affordable and frugal, food delivery itself often costs more than the meal for one which can hit monthly discretionary spending quite hard. Online Ordering Will Continue to Thrive. They became even more cost-efficient, food waste conscious and generally more responsible.

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Survey Says: Restaurateurs Are Making Expansion Plans

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Many operators are starting to realize that this omni-channel approach is increasingly essential to guest engagement in order to ensure they’re top of mind from the moment customers discover your restaurant (which often begins online) until well after their meal ends.

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Superfoods, Sanitation and Serene Spaces

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Additionally, plant-based and immunity-boosting foods, sanitation and outdoor dining has accelerated to an all time high. Nourishment will need to be more nutritious, and food consumption will need to be more functionally driven. Nourishment will need to be more nutritious, and food consumption will need to be more functionally driven.

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Best Practices for Outdoor Dining All Year Long

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Create an outdoor service station and contactless menus, ordering and payments available. Disinfecting areas of the restaurant far more frequently and definitely between the turnover of any tables / chairs. This information should be communicated when the guest makes their reservation. and BOH (including cooks, chefs, etc.).

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