Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

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Food

Restaurant Business

JUNE 23, 2025

They are popping up more often in conversations this year, and they point toward deeper trends in the restaurant tech market. Acqui-hire “To acquire a company in order to use its employees skills or knowledge, rather than for its products or services.” Add these six terms to your vocabulary.

Hiring

The Rail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

By Kateryna Reshetilo, Contributor Are you a restaurant owner looking for ways to keep up with the fast-changing demands of your customers? As customers increasingly turn to online ordering for convenience and safety, restaurants must adapt to stay competitive. The global online food delivery market size was valued at USD 221.65

Delivery

Restaurant Business

JULY 25, 2025

The report also found that there’s a slight shift away from takeout toward dine-in visits, but when consumers opt for breakfast off-premise, online ordering and mobile payment rules. Meanwhile, dine-in visits have increased in fast-casual and fast-food restaurants, while takeout and drive-in orders are down.

Mobile Ordering

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

In a market full of point-of-sale providers, it can be hard to decide which option is best suited to grow your business. Be sure the orders are easy to read and understand. From traditional computer displays to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the display is the beginning.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

These changes have become permanent shifts in how they target customers, market themselves, and design their offerings." While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. This trend has held on in the last five years. These core elements never go out of style.

Loyalty Program

Restaurant Business

JUNE 11, 2025

These ads will direct back to a restaurants’ DoorDash ordering page. In the future, they could also link to a restaurants’ own website if they use DoorDash’s Storefront online ordering system, Samolis said. But some have bristled at the idea that they must now offer discounts in order to compete. Sign up here.

Advertising

SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Quick-service restaurants—like cafes, fast food, and fast casual—are estimated to have decent profit margins with lower food and labor costs. There's a basic version for fast calculations and and advanced one if you really want to get into the weeds. More on that below.

Operations

ChowNow

JUNE 20, 2025

Marketing shouldn’t feel like throwing money onto a bonfire and hoping someone sees the smoke. Most restaurant marketing ideas sound good in theory, but fall flat in the day-to-day of running a busy restaurant. So ask yourself: Is your place casual and playful? These are strategies that drive real, consistent results.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

But while some may predict a future with burger-flipping robots, it’s hard to imagine tech taking the place of a skilled line cook, experienced server, or seasoned marketer. Enter digital tableside ordering. For fast-casual or QSR brands, digital tableside ordering is equally beneficial.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features consumers' dining desires, the power of personalization and the untapped opportunity in localized marketing. Ninety-five percent of Americans and 87 percent of those in the UK noted they often ordered take-out before stay-at-home orders began.

2020

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As consumer options and demand shifted, businesses were forced to adapt and prioritize new technologies and alternate ordering experiences that would allow them to deliver on customer expectations. Adopting a digital-first environment quickly became a priority and mobile technology is playing an integral role.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2021

Casual Dining velocity has grown by 158 percent over the same period, suggesting many of the Casual Dining business models were able to maintain sales to some degree through pandemic restrictions. All markets within Texas experience negative trends in the week to April 17, following a week of positive trends to April 10.

2021

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 8, 2024

This trend reflects the growing popularity of drive-thru and fast-casual dining, coupled with the demand for digital technologies such as QSR digital signage and QR codes. For example, there will be fewer human interactions when ordering takeaways during busy lunch hours, quick customer seating, or bill payments.

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature robots in fast food, virtual education and chef-inspired, plant-based ice cream. Customers will see Black-owned carousels on DoorDash in select markets including Washington D.C, Openness Moving Forward : Market from weaknesses and allow them to become your strength.

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This keeps information from getting lost in the text and email shuffle. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush. They receive a number, and the order is sent directly to the kitchen.

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

Founded in 2006, Just Salad is the fast-casual restaurant industry’s leading proponent of zero-waste practices. In 2022, Just Salad will expand its award-winning Reusable Bowl Program to digital orders and offer participating customers loyalty rewards in its mobile app, further encouraging sustainable eating on the go.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 27, 2020

With thousands of restaurants forced to close their dining rooms, and millions of Americans facing sudden unemployment, GroupRaise saw an opportunity to mobilize its 10,000+ restaurant partners along with their communities to offer those who are able a chance to support both local business and food distribution to at-risk families.

Food Safety

7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2024

Semi-variable costs Semi-variable costs have both fixed and variable components, such as maintenance, repairs, and marketing expenses. As for marketing, focus on cost-effective strategies such as social media and email marketing. Customers sit down, order from a menu, and are served by waitstaff.

Food Truck

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2024

“Both full-service and fast food restaurant customers are skewing a bit more toward higher income levels and college graduates,” says Forrest Morgeson, Associate Professor of Marketing at Michigan State University and Director of Research Emeritus at the ACSI. Chains affected include McDonald’s (visits down ~2.5

2024

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. SevenRooms launched Contactless Order & Pay, streamlining the in-restaurant ordering and payments experience for guests.

Mobile Ordering

7 Shifts

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This keeps information from getting lost in the text and email shuffle. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush. They receive a number, and the order is sent directly to the kitchen.

Management

EATER

MAY 5, 2023

A growing number of fast food chains are experimenting with seatless locations with only takeout or drive-thru options. Getty Images/iStockphoto As diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all. People just aren’t hanging out at fast food joints the way they used to.

Fast Casual

Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

1: Enhance Contactless Ordering and Payments. This includes ordering and payment options. One tip for restaurant success is to harness the power of your website ordering or even online ordering on your mobile app. Make sure your online website is set up for online ordering and payments. tweet this). #2:

2021

Touch Bistro

MAY 26, 2021

Conversely, if your restaurant is more casual, diners may be more willing to go completely red, white, and blue for the day. With orders expected to surge on July 4th, make sure you have the right equipment and restaurant technology to safely accommodate big groups or process more online orders. Equipment and Technology.

Specials

Lavu

MARCH 6, 2020

At the heart of restaurant technology for marketing is customer analytics. The three important aspects of improving customer service include customer engagement, digital marketing channels, and customer relationship management (CRM) integration. . Email marketing or reaching out to customers via email.

Technology

Sling

JULY 24, 2023

There is an ever-growing market of specialized software for all of the outside-the-kitchen things restaurateurs have to think about. Toast offers both front desk and tableside hardware for taking orders, processing payments, and allowing guests to track the status of their orders. It covers local health codes from the U.S.

2023

BNG Point of Sale

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They streamline processes to record stock, manage your menu and staff, deliver detailed sales readings, and effectively take orders while ensuring you achieve profit goals. The following are some of the key benefits restaurants experience with a POS system in place: Improved Ordering for More Sales.

Point of Sale

Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

71% of restaurant customers prefer to order food delivery directly from the restaurant rather than using third-party apps. 85% of operators use POS data to engage with customers via text or email, while 60% use it for their loyalty programs. The global foodservice market size reached $2,989.5 Let’s dig in. billion by 2030.

2024

Restaurant Engine

AUGUST 9, 2023

Upgrade your marketing strategy and tactics to next level your restaurant. If you are a fast casual restaurant, provide recycling bins. Tip #4: Unleash Your Website Your website is your most powerful marketing feature. Those who love your restaurant will tell everyone they know, and this is free, invaluable marketing.

Compost

Mad Mobile

MARCH 8, 2024

In the Mobile POS Payments market, the number of users is expected to amount to 101.10m users by 2028. Giving your servers access to iPad-based ordering systems is one of the most effective ways to streamline workflows on the floor. They’re durable and flexible enough to go from fast casual to fine dining.

POS

Apicbase

MARCH 28, 2024

The F&B director works with the order forms, the COO analyses the profit and loss statements, the inventory manager checks the stock counts, the executive chef works in the recipes database and so on. Keep track of internal orders by digitally managing stock transfers between units.

Management

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The new report captures a steady rise in mobile ordering, reinforcing the critical importance of mobile initiatives for restaurant brands. According to the data, consumers deleted restaurant apps if menu items were missing or if there was limited ability to customize orders. Mobile orders are on the rise.

2021

Mad Mobile

JUNE 26, 2024

Customer retention Since the restaurant industry includes tons of variation–fine dining, fast-casual, quick-service, and so on–it’s hard to pin down average customer retention rates. Implementation tips In order to continually boost customer retention, a successful restaurant loyalty program should always be evolving.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

“This new model will allow our franchisees to go-to-market quicker than ever before, while reducing the overall development and operational costs,” said Jim Stevens, president of Golden Chick. INAA will develop 10 restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth market, with the first location scheduled to open this year.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2020

“Cities such as San Francisco and Honolulu, which have had some of the nation’s strictest stay-at-home orders, are now seeing the highest numbers of closures relative to the number of businesses in their respective cities.” ” Increased Consumer Activity in May Correlates with Increased COVID-19 Cases in June.

Franchising

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We have also learned that our guests are willing to try new things and have really embraced our touchless ordering system as well as our new takeout offerings. We realized how important transparency and communication were this year, both with our staff and our customers, in order to make everyone feel comfortable and feel safe.

2020