ChowNow

JUNE 7, 2021

Online ordering has opened up a new world of restaurant upselling and optimization possibilities that reach far beyond the capabilities of the paper menu format we all know and love. Physical, in-house restaurant menus generally thrive on simplicity and easy design. How to Optimize Your Online Menu for Restaurant Upselling.

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ChowNow

MARCH 27, 2024

Seamless menu syncing Easily make menu updates across all online platforms with just a few clicks. No more tedious updates or menu errors. To learn more about how you can take advantage of these new capabilities, schedule a demo with us. This means time savings for your team, fewer ordering mistakes, and happier diners.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Book a demo today. For me, it's freed up more time to focus on specials for the menu, marketing, customer outreach, All these different things to have more time and energy to focus on because tip pool is [taken care of].”. Book a demo today. Better yet, it will instill confidence in your team that they're being paid accurately.

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Maybe, you’ve come up with some unique concoctions for your menu that no one else in town serves, so you need a bar POS fully customized to your unique business needs. Easy Menu Management Integration With a Cloud-Based Point of Sale Built For Bars Happy hours! You may need to change your menu now and then. Relaxing Saturday!

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7 Shifts

MARCH 23, 2022

In 1965, Greek immigrant James Giftos opened a stall at Macomb Mall in Roseville, Michigan, with a small menu including the Coney Island-style hot dog topped with chili, mustard, and freshly diced onions. Request Demo. National Coney Island is a Detroit-area staple. What can 7shifts do for you? No more games of telephone.

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Every customer who orders from your restaurant takes a look at your menu, making it one of the most important pieces of your restaurant marketing. With this visibility, restaurant menu engineering provides a huge opportunity to grow your profits and ensure a great customer experience. Getting started with menu engineering.

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Smart Systems Pro

MAY 15, 2019

Menu costing software is critical to planning a restaurant menu. You have to know exactly what everything costs to make sure you charge enough for every item on your menu. That is why you need menu costing software to plan your menu. That is why you need menu costing software to plan your menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2022

Review and Revise Your Menu Offerings. Before Restaurant Week kicks off, craft a menu that is friendly to both your bottom line and your customers. This way, you can encourage guests to return when your menu isn’t discounted while also encouraging employee retention by showcasing your kitchen team’s talents and creativity.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Yet, there remains one area ripe for innovative change: engaging communication for all stakeholders (and no, I’m not talking about customer-facing menu boards, point-of-purchase advertisements, drive-through displays, or slick commercials).

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Buzztime Business

JUNE 2, 2023

2) Afternoon Grill Fest (grilling demo) Dad will get fired up over these Father’s Day promotions. Team up with a local BBQ pro who can lead a grilling demo outdoors. Then bring everyone back inside to enjoy a special menu full of grilled items from meat to veggies. So, build a bacon-themed menu for your Father’s Day promotions.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Lack of publicity doesn’t just hurt consumers, who must often rely on word of mouth or do their own personal research to find gluten-free restaurants, it also costs restaurants valuable opportunities to promote gluten-free menu items. In most cases, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to effectively market your gluten-free menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Data-driven analytics tools are allowing restaurants to optimize pricing and personalize menu options. Can you give me a live demo right now? It might be your menu or your floor plan, but to be truly tailored to your business (as it should be), an automated system needs to go through an initial period of data gathering.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 27, 2023

Teaching your service staff how to engage in conversation around the “common denominator(food)” will help; a quote or two on the menu about the joy of human interaction will help; and having the chef visit the table during service may just start the process of breaking connections with the phone and enjoying who is across the table.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Optimize Your Menu. Creating a menu that is attractive to both customers and your bottom line will allow you to stand out from other restaurants. Allow them to display their talents and creativity and let them contribute a dish to the menu. You can even make it into a contest. Finally, don't forget your bottom line.

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Sante

MARCH 2, 2020

Admission price includes: Access to a full day of Panels & Talks / Chef Demos (9am – 5pm). Guests will enjoy informative panel discussions, cooking demos and talks featuring a stellar lineup of chefs, restaurateurs, food media. General admission tickets cost $190. Morning Pastries & Coffee. Chef Driven Pop Up Lunch.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You can easily set up automations to send tickets to stations around your restaurant, whether you want drink orders to go to the bar or specific menu items to go to designated stations in your kitchen. Menu items may run out, or you may offer unique specials that change daily. Schedule your demo today.

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Transact

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Easily manage and distribute menu and pricing updates from the BOHA! Schedule a demo with one of our experts today! Includes a user-friendly label designer to design and modify retail details. Control Center web portal. Compatible with additional BOHA! apps to further manage your fresh food program. The post BOHA!

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The Restaurant Expert

MAY 15, 2019

Menu costing software is critical to planning a restaurant menu. You have to know exactly what everything costs to make sure you charge enough for every item on your menu. That is why you need menu costing software to plan your menu. That is why you need menu costing software to plan your menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Just because they can order on their own, it doesn’t mean they don’t need your support navigating the menu or finding something new to experience. Make sure that your contactless order and payment provider offers a demo environment for this purpose. Feel free to provide disposable menus.

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ChowNow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Here on the ChowNow blog, we’ve been talking a lot about the importance of digital menus and tactics for menu optimization lately. A well-designed digital menu makes a huge difference when it comes to bringing customers in the door , and it’s absolutely critical for your restaurant’s online ordering system.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, if a dish on the menu is being portioned inconsistently, the team sends out an announcement with a photo to all staff. To learn about how 7shifts can help your multi-unit restaurant brand, book a demo with one of our pros today. This makes sure the Pita Way experience is the same at every location. Want to learn more?

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ChowNow

MARCH 8, 2022

Don’t devalue your menu. You want to save money by giving away something that doesn’t cost you much, but let’s face it – by offering promotions that aren’t attractive, you’re not only devaluing your menu items but you’re wasting your resources by offering something that customers won’t care about. We understand!

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Restaurant365

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As Eli’s worked on new menus, Mr. Steinbach spoke about the questions they needed to consider, but didn’t have data for. Can I afford to put this item on the menu? The time savings have been especially impactful in areas like menu planning, said Mr. Steinbach. Schedule a Demo Schedule My R365 Demo.

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ChowNow

AUGUST 17, 2020

We set a restaurant up with a QR code that links to their menu. First, the ChowNow team builds an online version of a restaurant’s menu and associates it with a unique QR code. Customers use their phones to view the menu, place an order, and pay. Schedule a demo with one of our Online Ordering Specialists!

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While your restaurant may feature a diverse menu, delicious food, a great ambiance, and excellent customer service, you will still struggle to build a customer base without promoting it. Others tend to emphasize their cheaper menu options. A quick look at your POS data will identify the top three selling items on your menu.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2022

Or perhaps experimenting with using QR codes, which are a great option for customers to view the menu, order, and pay from their cell phone. Create a winter menu. Schedule a free demo of Restaurant365 today. During the colder months, people tend to crave comfort food that will warm them from the inside out.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 29, 2021

With QR codes, guests needn’t touch a menu or even a paper receipt. QR codes can be used to streamline how guests reserve a spot in line, as well as how a customer views a menu and places an order. Tight inventory control ensures menu item availability. Schedule a free demo of Restaurant365 today.

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ChowNow

JULY 28, 2020

You may be familiar with the Curbside menu item. Up until now, ChowNow restaurant partners have offered curbside ordering by listing it as an item on their menus. Customers would describe their vehicles in the “Special Instructions” box on the menu item, and then would add the item to their carts for checkout.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you are leery about diving into a specialized mocktail menu, Dry January is an ideal time to test your market. While takeout and delivery options helped to recoup some lost sales, most restaurants were still missing out on alcohol sales, which generally are the highest margin items on the menu. Support of the local food movement.

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7 Shifts

JULY 29, 2020

Book a demo of 7shifts’ new Hiring feature, and start finding new team members today. Update your job descriptions, restaurant interviews process, and training process to reflect COVID-19 safety measures to find new staff who are as serious about the health and safety or your team and guests as you are.

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Mad Mobile

JANUARY 30, 2024

Self-service kiosks include descriptions of menu items so customers can customize their order how they would like. Once scanned, the restaurant’s online menu populates and enables customers to order and pay on their device. Learn more about tableside ordering and schedule a demo today! That alone could save almost 10 minutes.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 18, 2022

You can also offer flexible portion sizes, sides, and à la carte menu options to reduce wasted food. Change up your menu. Consider using menu engineering tools to change up your menu for optimal food usage. Also consider leveraging imperfect fruits and vegetables to modify existing menu items.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2020

Now, the building is the home of The 1894 Lodge, a bar and restaurant with a unique, chef-driven menu loaded with comfort food. Our menu is very chef-driven, so trying to get a medium rare steak in a to-go box when you’re 30 or 45 minutes away is not gonna happen. Our sandwiches turned into some pretty badass sandwiches.”

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Hot Schedules

MARCH 4, 2021

Offsetting Rising Labor Costs Through Effective Menu Engineering. Get a demo, learn more, or just ask some questions. On top of the decreased sales resulting from the pandemic, the hospitality industry is facing an ongoing rise in labor costs and uncertainty regarding supply chain reliability and product availability.

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ChowNow

JANUARY 27, 2021

Have you updated your menu recently with a seasonal treat? Create a secret menu item. Make your email subscribers feel special by giving them exclusive access to a secret menu item. Go a step further and sell the ingredients on your online ordering menu , so customers can buy from you and follow along at home.

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Xtra Chef

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Recipe Management offers a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows for menu experimentation. Say a certain menu item uses an ingredient that is becoming hard to get in your area. It allows for much more flexibility to build a menu that’s as profitable as possible. Request a demo to see how quickly you get started!

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 15, 2021

If so, what are students learning about cost effectiveness, efficiency, speed, and effective menu execution? If you teach in a live restaurant environment on your campus is it operated with five times as many cooks in training as would be possible in a real restaurant? How will they be able to function when faced with that first job?

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