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The Restaurant Operator’s Guide to Restaurant Apps in 2025

ChowNow

A packed dining room is great, but without the right system, long wait times and disorganized seating can lead to frustrated customers and lost business. These apps help restaurants accept reservations online, organize their waitlists, and even optimize seating arrangements to maximize table turnover.

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17 Restaurant Promotion Ideas To Boost Orders And Customer Loyalty

ChowNow

Promote Mobile App Downloads If you have a mobile app , you need to market it, not just let it sit in the background. The more people who download it, the easier it becomes to drive online ordering, send exclusive offers, and build real customer engagement. Make it feel like a VIP access pass, not just another tool.

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Download: Top 7 Features to Look for in a Cloud POS System for Hospitality

Squirrel Systems

Cloud POS systems should include visual floor plans, table statuses, and server assignments to optimize seating, reduce wait times, and improve the guest experience. Download our checklist now to keep it in the forefront of your decision making process. Look for: Real-time table status updates Integration with reservations 4.

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Order and Pay at the Table: A Guide for Your Restaurant

Lavu

Quick Service: Fast food and quick service restaurants can invite customers to take a seat while they order and wait for their food. Or, download our free ebook to learn more about the benefits of using tableside ordering and payment processing. Download our free guide Speeding Up Restaurant Service with a Tableside POS for free today.

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Restaurant POS Software Guide: Choose the Best System to Boost Profits in 2025

Lavu

Quicker payment and fewer errors mean that your customers can be seated, have their orders taken, and pay for their meal without all the headaches. Download our Beginner’s Guide to POS Systems to get the full details on how our POS can meet your needs and outshine your expectations. Lavu is here to help you make the right decision.

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Delivery Is the Hot Topic, but Curbside Is Driving the Sales 

Modern Restaurant Management

Secondarily, how to streamline those customers and the various channels they arrive from into an email subscription, a loyalty program addition or an app downloaded for future marketing purposes. Instead, the question is how to shift operations internally to deliver on guest expectations as a primary interest.

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2022: A Year of Transition for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

The past year has also continued to drive consumer demand for alcohol to-go and outdoor dining with nearly four in 10 consumers saying the availability of outdoor seating would make them more likely to choose one restaurant over another similar one. Roughly half of U.S.

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