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AUGUST 5, 2020

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. Delivery and takeout will continue to be important revenue streams for restaurants. How do you market food delivery and takeout?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

Luckily, a commitment to more sustainable operations can coexist with healthy profits, and even growing margins. Below are five important areas of focus for restaurant and catering professionals who are re-imagining their operations for a newer, more sustainable normal. Using less delivery packaging is a great way to begin.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 9, 2020

Whether you have been offering delivery and takeout for years, or have had to make a recent pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to know which food travels best for delivery—and how to change up your menu to stay profitable while dine-in isn't an option. You just ordered a burger, a side of fries, and a drink.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Some full-service restaurants managed to pivot and find a way to offer their multi-course meals for delivery. Many quick-serve and fast-food restaurants thrived using delivery and drive-thru channels. Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm.

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EATER

APRIL 10, 2024

Tomekah George Wonder’s big idea for food delivery is to own every aspect of the process, from recipe development to the moment it ends up at your door A few weeks ago, chef JJ Johnson launched a new restaurant concept in downtown Brooklyn. Wonder has shown a savvy curatorial eye reminiscent of the early days of delivery app Caviar.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Some full-service restaurants managed to pivot and find a way to offer their multi-course meals for delivery. Many quick-serve and fast-food restaurants thrived using delivery and drive-thru channels. Technologies like digital menus, QR codes , contactless ordering, and payment at the table suddenly became the norm.

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Rocket Fuel

MARCH 19, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS– March 19, 2024 – Investments in mobile apps and in-store kiosks continue to drive demand among quick-service restaurants (QSRs), with growth in third-party delivery showing no signs of slowing down, according to Delaget ’s annual QSR Operational Index report. percent year over year. Mobile app sales are up 57.2

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 24, 2022

Diners are increasingly turning online to get their favorite dishes with same-store pickup orders in the U.S. remains the most popular time to order delivery and pickup, more diners are waking up to the smell of breakfast at their door with a three-times increase in breakfast orders between 5 a.m. While Friday at 6 p.m.

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Delaget

MAY 10, 2024

Did you know that Mother’s Day is one of the most popular holidays for food delivery – more than the Super Bowl? The National Restaurant Association says 43 percent of Americans plan to enjoy a restaurant meal with Mom this year, with 34 percent planning to dine out and 12 percent expecting to order takeout or delivery.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s not news that restaurant operators are dealing with labor challenges. From staffing shortages to increases in minimum wage, it’s never been more important to have a streamlined, efficient operation where every worker is focused on valuable tasks rather than menial ones. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 22 U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Integrating IoT devices and connectivity drives efficiency, enhances food safety, mitigates risks, increases transparency, reduces waste, and provides many other benefits for restaurants. The numerous, significant benefits of using IoT in the restaurant industry include: Enhancing food safety. Optimizing shelf life and reducing waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

By investing in a data-driven POS platform, restaurant operators can address labor challenges, fine-tune their stock management, design promotions based on current trends, reduce human error and more. Modern POS systems can mitigate costly human errors by streamlining order processes and updating any modifications instantly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 28, 2020

Q: Would delivery work for my concept? A: Delivery –of all things– is a hot topic. Consumers demand it and the market has responded by offering several delivery options, from independent delivery companies to national firms. consumers order delivery or takeout once a week. Projected U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As consumers expect more convenient ways to get their favorite meals – even more so than ever before amidst the pandemic – adding delivery has enabled restaurants to meet those demands and grow digital sales. In fact, delivery has become mission critical. Launching and scaling delivery involves a lot of moving parts.

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EATER

APRIL 2, 2024

Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, don’t forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. No one is happy about the delivery apps. But we should give credit where it’s due.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It’s essential to adopt sound marketing strategies for your in-house food delivery business. Here are some tips to best advertise that you offer delivery services. Mention In-House Delivery on Your Site. Excellent Customer Services : Your customer service rep and delivery employees reflect the image of the business.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to a recent study , 44 percent of Americans use food delivery services, and the entire country spends over $100 billion on food delivery in a year. Offering delivery can, without a doubt, lead to more sales for your restaurant. The food is then delivered by drivers hired by the service.

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EATER

JUNE 5, 2020

Food delivery might be necessary for some during the pandemic, but when there’s a curfew involved, think twice before you click “order” Last night, a Caviar deliverer was arrested on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, about a half hour after the city’s 8 p.m. Photo: Tricky_Shark /Shutterstock. curfew went into effect.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2020

Restaurants are scrambling to accommodate a new kind of market – the frenzied and fearful delivery customer. People are self-quarantining at home, on edge and ordering in. As a restaurant operator, it’s imperative to understand and adapt to this new type of customer or else risk significant losses.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

India’s love for their favorite food be it Mughlai, South Indian , Kashmiri , Rajasthani, or Gujarati thali has continued despite the pandemic. Food has always been something that our social fabric has been woven around. Delivery penetration was already gaining momentum before the pandemic.

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The Restaurant Times

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

India’s love for their favorite food be it Mughlai, South Indian , Kashmiri , Rajasthani, or Gujarati thali has continued despite the pandemic. Food has always been something that our social fabric has been woven around. Delivery penetration was already gaining momentum before the pandemic.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In August of this year, the cost for consumers of purchasing food away from home rose by 8.3 This inflation at the customer–facing end of the restaurant business has largely been fuelled by rapidly increasing operating costs – by as much as 11.7 percent compared to the same period in 2021. It's Time to Adapt.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

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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Restaurant Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Yet the restaurant industry has been mostly silent about its similar problem: off-premise orders that are lost due to customer pickup mistakes, delivery driver errors and the restaurant version of shoplifting. Lost orders increase food costs, since they require a complete remake in most cases.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Many have started offering their menus on third-party delivery websites. Some have white-labeled those same delivery services for integration within their organizations, and others have built out programs for pick up or delivery entirely in house. Looking at the data proves much of what we already know.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Nearly every restaurant in the United States relies on a Point of Sale (POS) system for the majority of its front-of-house operations. That system needs access to the internet in order to keep functioning. Not only can that become frustrating for your guests, but it can also make in-house operations much more difficult.

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The Restaurant Times

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Online food ordering has been booming for the past two years on the back of changing customer preferences. According to Statista , the revenue from online food ordering channels is expected to grow at a robust CAGR of 10.39% between 2021 and 2025. Advantages And Disadvantages Of Integrating With Food Aggregators .

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2021

But as reality of the pandemic sunk in and dining rooms remained closed, it became apparent that ordering delivery and takeout was the best way to help restaurants weather the storm — and there was a significant consumer appetite to do so. By August 2020, Americans reported ordering takeout 2.4

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

Many of you (even before CV-19) broadened your business model to include take-out and delivery. Delivery and takeout will be a permanent, expanded segment. There are many, many considerations for delivery (safety, preparation, logistics, POS, etc.). We are focusing here one essential piece: food costing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This marks the first time the restaurant industry and third-party delivery companies have come together to create guidelines and culminates a year-long effort by the Association to develop national policies based on the experiences of restaurant operators of all sizes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2020

Food delivery aggregators: You’re well past your expiration date. While there are a slew of challenges facing both diners and restaurants as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, one notable element often omitted from conversation are the delivery drivers who actually make these services work, but we’ll get to that in a moment.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 4, 2022

Many people use mobile apps to order and pay for products, including coffee, almost every day. They also both have their own respective food and beverage delivery services: Meituan (?? Covid-19 naturally accelerated the growth of the global food and beverage delivery market. in Chinese) and Ele.me (??? in Chinese).

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced thousands of traditional restaurants to transform themselves into order ahead restaurants; pre-pandemic, only 15 percent of restaurants offered curbside pickup; today, that’s up to 70 percent. Automating Order Ahead Logistics. But they lacked a piece of technology to manage it.

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Apicbase

APRIL 18, 2024

Reports give managers an overview of restaurant operations at a glance and also allow them to search and dig into the details to uncover granular insights about every part of the business. It provides the insights to make informed decisions, optimise operations, and drive the restaurant’s success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. Although mobile ordering isn’t the new kid on the block, it has certainly become the most popular because it’s one of the safest – and easiest – ways to order and pay for food. Dining/fast food/take out.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The internet and technological advancements are having a great impact on restaurant operations. In fact, the demand for online restaurant ordering continues to grow among restaurant consumers. Restaurant owners and managers consistently look for solutions that allow customers to place orders online and have food delivered fast.

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Cheetah

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2019, we published The Beginner’s Guide to Opening a Food Truck Business , where we covered the basics of buying a food truck, choosing the right location, working with suppliers, and more. Which brings us to the question: Is starting a food truck in 2021 still a good idea? Food Truck Industry Outlook after Covid-19.

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