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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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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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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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

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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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 29, 2022

Drives market share growth – The fast-food industry is made up of several large competitors and many smaller brands. No matter the size, a brand always wants to gain more market share in order to secure higher profits. Advertising that entertains audiences generates market-share growth over the long term.

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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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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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7 Shifts

JUNE 20, 2022

We chatted with some of those most experienced in the ghost kitchen game to find out some myths, best practices, and tips for success in this food service style. A ghost kitchen (also known as a delivery-only restaurant, cloud kitchen, or dark kitchen) is a restaurant that is solely focused on cooking to-go meals. Kitchen Pods.

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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

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. What does the delivery customer expect now? Delivery customers want restaurants to follow CDC guidelines (and be vocal about it!).

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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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Open for Business

MAY 4, 2023

We think the food going down our throats is the product,” says Ryan Giffen, assistant professor of hospitality management at California State University at Long Beach, in the Washington Post. Leveling up the dining experience and taking feedback seriously can turn guests into evangelists for your brand. But you’ve got to act quickly.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As such, operators are looking for ways to get the most out of their labor spend—and for many, that means turning to automation. Automating order handoff for off-premise orders isn’t new—many operations, both commercial and non-commercial, have been utilizing automated solutions to ensure order accuracy and to minimize waste and food cost.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Diners are second-guessing their holiday plans, according to the third installment of BentoBox’s Restaurant Delivery Consumer Trend Report. consumers’ delivery and takeout habits evolve through COVID-19 recovery. This could be sign that takeout and delivery ordering could rebound in Q4.

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The Restaurant Times

APRIL 7, 2021

Even prior to last year’s COVID-19 flux of delivery orders, individuals were increasingly replacing carryout orders with deliveries, 21% are making this switch to home drop-offs according to a survey done by Restaurant Business. Further, delivery drivers answer to the delivery company, not the restaurant.

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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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Focus POS

APRIL 16, 2020

Though your regular in-house dining may be closed down, you can leverage pickup and delivery services to stay in business while ensuring the safety of employees and customers alike. . Set up Designated Pickup and Delivery Space. This can also streamline your pickup and delivery operations. . Download our FocusON brochure.

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Focus POS

MAY 24, 2021

Delivery Apps: They Matter to Restaurateurs. If you’re a restaurant owner, you may find yourself wondering why you should expend time, energy, and expense on integrating with third-party delivery apps like DoorDash or Uber Eats. Before the pandemic began, many restaurants offering delivery directly employed their drivers.

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Cheetah

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

COVID-19, supply chain issues and rising food prices have placed the future of major broadliners at risk. Operators who are opting out of the traditional big supplier-small restaurant relationship have good reason to do so. Heck, it might even feel good to know you’re a small cog in the food supply machine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 4, 2023

Despite inflation taking its toll, many people are continuing to prioritize and enjoy the convenience of takeaway and food delivery with recent Deliverect data revealing that more people are purchasing delivery orders today than they were before the recent increase in the cost of living.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 23, 2023

For lengthy periods over the course of two years, businesses were forced to operate solely on a take-out and delivery basis, and it soon became evident that everybody would need to up their game. Consumers ordering deliveries still want to make sure it feels like they are treating themselves.

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Restaurant Clicks

JUNE 30, 2021

Chinese food is one of those amazing meals that’s perfect for going out to eat but is also just as enjoyable to order in when you just want to stay at home or just don’t feel like cooking anything, and trust us, we know that feeling. Best Chinese Food Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. Order Online.

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Deliverect

AUGUST 20, 2020

The US restaurant delivery market is projected to reach $32 billion by 2024 , growing at an annual rate of 5%. Since COVID-19 hit the industry this year, it’s become even more obvious how central food delivery is to restaurant operations. It’s become essential to optimize for delivery. Create an order packing area.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

.” You rapidly shifted operations and resources between different order modes, most likely approaching dine-in, delivery, takeout, or drive-thru differently. But since the rush to shift operations to off-premise channels, have you actually been able to step back and evaluate which order modes are the most profitable?

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hospitality operators are rapidly turning to contactless ordering and payment solutions to help navigate the long road back to normal from COVID-19’s impacts. " While contactless ordering and payment is here to stay, many operators remain concerned about how this new service model will impact their guest experience. ."

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The UAV industry is on the cusp of an historic decade with on-demand drone delivery solutions taking flight. Both tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet as well as startups are rolling out new models of aerial delivery in a bid to appeal to consumers’ appetite for quicker, cheaper, on-demand delivery.

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Open for Business

MAY 9, 2023

Third-party delivery is booming like never before. In 2020, third-party delivery exploded because it gave restaurants a vital revenue stream during the pandemic. But even now that guests have long since returned to on-premise dining, demand for delivery remains high and shows no signs of going anywhere. billion by 2027.

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Deliverect

JANUARY 18, 2021

For some that meant stepping up their already hot delivery game using the latest tech. Many had never thought about offering delivery as a channel before because it just wasn’t right for their brand of food and service. First, let’s look at why many restaurants didn’t think delivery would ever suit their style.

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Deliverect

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The Inception of Online Ordering. In 1994, a customer placed an online order for a pizza from Pizza Hut, marking the first ever online order recorded in the United States. And while online ordering methods have diversified and become more widely available since, the general premise remains the same. Online Ordering Today.

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Cheetah

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

On October 5 a new bill was approved by the governor of California requiring 3rd party delivery apps to be more transparent about charges and tips. Can restaurants reshape their relationships with 3rd-party delivery apps for the better, or will they be buried under incomprehensible charges and over-itemized bills?

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 22, 2020

Through this article we will look at a few interesting examples of how restaurants have transformed their take-out offerings to stay efficient during this period of reduced sales and satisfy customers through innovative technologies. How can I optimize take-out at my restaurant?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 25, 2021

One of the largest problems on the hands of restaurant and catering professionals through the unpredictable supply and demand of COVID-19 was food waste. Often, the resulting waste was not only the food but also the associated costs and energy spent on more waste management. Using less delivery packaging is a great way to begin.

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Cheetah

APRIL 12, 2021

In this article, we dive into the food delivery boom and how it could change how the industry does business for years to come. To say that ghost kitchens and third-party delivery services are experiencing a boom would be a gross understatement. Increased Demand for Food Delivery. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 7, 2022

Smart Ways to Integrate the Delivery App Experience into Your Food Service Model. When a food historian someday drafts a history of how the restaurant industry survived the pandemic, food delivery apps will arise as one of the heroes of that story. But why not? To me, that’s a stop gap measure.

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