EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As part of creating that good environment, she’s taken multiple steps to cut Rifrullo’s carbon footprint, including composting all food scraps, one of the most important steps restaurants can take to combat climate change. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas.

Compost

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A well-crafted email can remind a past guest to stop by again, encourage reservations for a new seasonal menu, or even boost online orders with a limited-time discount. A well-timed email with a special offer, new menu item, or exclusive promotion can be the nudge they need to place another order.

Email Marketing

ChowNow

MAY 16, 2025

If your site is clunky, hard to navigate, or missing basic features like a prominent online ordering button, your potential customer will bounce because diners have little to no tolerance for friction or confusion when theyre looking for food. 77% of diners visit a restaurants website before they dine in or order takeout or delivery.

Mobile Ordering

ChowNow

MARCH 19, 2025

With 52% of diners saying that ordering takeout is essential to their lifestyle, its no longer just an optionits an opportunity. But getting customers to order once isnt enough. When diners order through these platforms, they often associate their experience with the app, not your restaurant.

Loyalty Program

Crunchtime

MARCH 27, 2025

Managing food costs is one of the biggest challenges in the restaurant industry. Our new ebook, 10 Strategies to Take Control of Food Costs , highlights proven tactics operators can implement to control food costs and streamline operations. Establish clear guidelines for staff to log waste accurately.

Food

The Restaurant Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Prioritizing it leads to: Lower food costs by minimizing spoilage and overordering. Benefits of Proper Inventory Management A foolproof Restaurant Inventory Management system leads to: Reducing Food Waste and Controlling Costs Tracking expiration dates prevents spoilage. Use color-coded tags for different food groups.

Inventory

Qu

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive restaurant industry, staying ahead means more than just offering great food; it requires delivering delightful guest experiences every time! Enhance order accuracy Sixty-four percent of brands surveyed say that order accuracy is mediocre or weak, which has a direct impact on guest satisfaction.

Food Order

Lavu

MAY 30, 2025

Order and pay at the table technology is emerging as a game-changer, allowing guests to browse the menu, place their order, and complete paymentall from their smartphone or a tablet, without waiting for staff. Then, you might want to consider offering order and pay at the table technology.

Ordering

Lavu

JULY 3, 2025

Unlike traditional setups, these systems provide real-time access to data, seamless updates, and remote management—making them ideal for today’s fast-paced food service environment. This includes ringing up sales, tracking, and ordering. Fixing technical SEO issues can help customers discover and order them online more easily.

POS

SpotOn

AUGUST 11, 2025

San Francisco, CA – August 11, 2025 — SpotOn, the leading restaurant management system, today delivered on its mission to help independent restaurants boost profitability with the next evolution of SpotOn Order. The result: a 6% average lift in online orders, without additional labor or tech setup.

Online Ordering

Qu

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive restaurant industry, staying ahead means more than just offering great food; it requires delivering delightful guest experiences, every time. Enhance order accuracy Sixty-four percent of brands surveyed say that order accuracy is mediocre or weak, which has a direct impact on guest satisfaction.

Food Order

Lavu

AUGUST 8, 2025

Whether you run a quick-service café or a full-service restaurant, switching to an iPad POS system in 2025 can streamline everything from order-taking to inventory management. Here’s why they’re worth considering: Faster service : Tableside ordering and payments cut order time in half and reduce errors.

POS

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

With technology playing a bigger role in dining, your POS system needs to handle payments, manage orders, track inventory, and even help with staff scheduling. Mobile POS : Perfect for food trucks, pop-ups, or tableside service. Self-Service Kiosks : Best for quick-service restaurants looking to cut labor costs and speed up orders.

POS

EATER

APRIL 15, 2025

Like a chair that didnt finish downloading? Im familiar with the frenzied ritual of ordering and drinking your espresso al banco, but this chunky shard just looks like its having an identity crisis. When I tried an image search of the jumbo Tootsie Roll-esque stool, Google said, This might be a padded handrail.

Back of House

The Rail

JUNE 17, 2025

Or, does it do an excellent job of exciting, or even informing, the guest about your food? Consider what it would be like to show your guests exactly what their dish will look like in the real world before they order it. (To The guest sees the food as a rich 3D rendering that is so realistic, they’ll want to reach out and touch it!

Menu

Chef's Resources

APRIL 29, 2025

Today’s Chef and Kitchen Manager has a lot on their plate from ordering food, writing recipes, managing inventory and food cost, training the staff, and so much more. Having the proper management tools helps organize your fob and keep things a little simpler.

Management

Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Whether you run an ice cream shop , a food truck , a bar , or a pizza place , your restaurant can benefit from switching to an updated POS system. Great point-of-sale systems can integrate with accounting tools, online ordering platforms, customer management software, kitchen ticket management software, and much more.

POS

Lavu

JULY 18, 2025

There are no downloads, no installations, and no extra hardware required. To achieve that, tracking every aspect of operations is important, from facilities management to supplies ordering downs to employees’ schedules; this enables you to keep track of all incurable and fixed costs. They’re also easy to implement.

2025

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Of course, delivery also spiked, but the underlying thread between each of these dining preferences is the use of mobile for ordering and pick-up. In fact, according to a report by Bluedot , 86 percent of respondents surveyed said they have ordered directly from a restaurant app since the start of the pandemic. million new downloads.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Delivery, digital ordering and the digital tools associated are at the heart of many discussions in the industry. For all of the discussion about delivery, curbside and pick up orders represent an-at-least equally sizeable percentage of restaurant business in 2020, if not far larger.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2024

Drive traffic to your restaurant’s social media page by adding QR codes to posters, food packaging, receipts and table tents. From there, customers can learn more about your business’s history, download recipes or read about upcoming events or menu changes. Up the personalization ante by providing QR code ordering.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 30, 2023

Frequent users (ordering from restaurants more than five times a week) were far more digitally engaged with brands. Just 20 percent of non-frequent users downloaded at least two restaurant apps. Unsurprisingly, Gen Zers were the most likely to download in 2023 – 45 percent have more apps now than in 2022.

Loyalty Program

ChowNow

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now that you’ve invested in your own restaurant app for online ordering , your next question is likely, “How do I encourage my customers to use it?”. Incentivizing app downloads is important because it gives you a boost in visibility and customer loyalty. You could try offering a free item with your customers’ first app order.

Email Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While many diners understand the tough times restaurants are going through, they are also feeling their dollars stretch and want to see the value of their money reflected in the food and service they receive. By using a POS system, customers, waiters and cashiers reduce their chances of errors when entering orders.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 23, 2020

Download the full guide, "Coronavirus Era: 13 Restaurant Marketing Ideas" here. You can capitalize on peoples’ cabin fever during this time of self quarantine by promoting your order pickup services. This idea can be applied to dine-in, pickup, and delivery orders. Among the highlights: Pickup Incentives.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2022

The food and grocery delivery space is booming – and it shows no signs of slowing down. Even as the pandemic shifts into endemic territory and people don’t fear being in public as much, there are certain conveniences we have all learned to love, including having food delivered. And of course, everyone also wants a deal.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Texting cuts through all the noise, is universal, and doesn’t require anyone to download yet another app. Our customer, the Barn Bowl and Bistro , use the online ordering platform Toast Takeout. After someone places an order, they receive an email confirmation and receipt. When the order is ready. Your address.

Email Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the right digital tools in place, restaurants can acquire and utilize better data to sell more food and transition the perception of marketing from a cost center to a profit center. Is our social media presence a cost center or an action driver? Does the cost of a SaaS-based recommendation engine outweigh its benefits?

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

For this reason, both the National Restaurant Association and the US Foods Holding Corp have issued recommended reopening guidelines for the restaurant industry. ServeSafe and food handler certification. As a bonus, some operational management platforms can even be downloaded from the app store completely free of charge.

FOH

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Although mandated dine-in restrictions have held back all restaurant segments, particularly full service, consumer demand for restaurant meals and the ability to serve the demand with a host of off-premises services, like digital ordering, delivery, drive-thru, and carry-out, are the silver linings that enable the industry to persevere.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The food and restaurant industry has been steadily moving toward greater visualization of menus options. Plain text evolved into beautiful food photography and video boards. The next phase in the advancement of food imagery will be in the application of 3D and Augmented Reality (AR) menus. The success wasn’t a surprise.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2020

Recent surveys show that Americans are less likely now to visit restaurant locations, order takeout or get food delivered to them. These trends have only accelerated since the country began shelter-in-place orders. The only downside here is that they require investment in order to reach a wide audience.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Here are a few examples of tech-centered solutions to ease the ongoing labor crisis in restaurants by putting more functionality directly in the hands of customers: Digital Tableside Ordering to Support Service Staff. Enter digital tableside ordering. For fast-casual or QSR brands, digital tableside ordering is equally beneficial.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

More than half of restaurant operators said it would be a year or more before businesses conditions return to normal with food, labor, and occupancy costs are expected to remain elevated, and continue to impact restaurant profit margins in 2022, according to the National Restaurant Association's 2022 State of the Restaurant Industry report.

2022

ChowNow

JANUARY 6, 2021

Invest in the right online ordering platform. Online ordering became a vital lifeline for restaurants at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even long after the pandemic has ended, consumers will continue to use online ordering to patronize their favorite restaurant. Download: The 4 Step Checklist for Profitable Delivery .

2021

ChowNow

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today, amidst varying local regulations around social distancing, and a restaurant industry trying to stay afloat, diners remain unsure of which restaurants in their area are open and accepting orders. Bring in new diners with these strategies, including using multiple restaurant ordering channels. Create a digital menu.

Social Media

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 5, 2020

Numerous United States restaurant and fast food chains, including Applebee’s, Wendy’s, Chili’s, Huddle House, and Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen have suffered cyberattacks in recent years and months.

Restaurant Law