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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2024. During peak seasons, considering outsourcing certain services becomes a practical solution to ensure seamless operations. Read the first part, here.

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Growth of Modern Contactless Payments: Increasing Restaurant Profitability and Efficiency

Modern Restaurant Management

Contactless payment solutions drive operators’ revenue and elevate customer experiences, but how can the technology set restaurants up for long-term success? In addition to deploying technology to address these shifting customer habits, arguably one of the biggest hurdles restaurant operators face is vendor fatigue.

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Three Steps to Improving Customer Loyalty During the Pandemic 

Modern Restaurant Management

And while the pressures of the pandemic continue, customer loyalty can play a role in whether or not restaurants will sink or swim. Below, we’ll explore three steps to building relationships and an effective customer loyalty program. First, consider adopting a touchless loyalty system. McKinsey & Co.

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Survey Says: Restaurateurs Are Making Expansion Plans

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Ninety-four percent of operators are planning some form of expansion and more than half of the 600 U.S Additionally, the report found that AI is already part of mainstream restaurant operations as 89 percent of operators surveyed are already using it in their restaurants in some way. What results did you find surprising and why?

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What Can Restaurants Do to Survive the Winter Season?

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Marketing Moves to Make Now. Beyond waiting for Congress or the states to act, what can restaurants do from a marketing perspective, to maximize the likelihood of survival during the final four to six months of COVID? Franchise brands have the benefit of higher levels of awareness and national brand marketing dollars behind them.

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How to Handle Temporary Restaurant Closure during COVID-19

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states are forcing non-essential businesses to stop operations. However, many states that are forcing restaurants to stop their dine-in services are allowing them to operate as takeout and delivery-only establishments. staff Telling employees that they won’t have any shifts for several weeks (or even months) is a difficult thing to do.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

And three, above all, we see the need for digital marketing automation continuing and growing into 2021 and beyond. Restaurant owners are as busy as they’ve ever been, so they will look for marketing platforms that allow them to efficiently and effectively set their marketing campaigns, to drive traffic and growth without added effort.

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