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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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This keeps information from getting lost in the text and email shuffle. It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. These kiosks not only created a positive customer service environment but also helped the chain navigate FOH labor shortages in recent years. This helps prevent expensive no-shows.

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9 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

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The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. A wide-ranging industry report from Toast included a section on restaurant technology trends, noting that 82% of restaurants were using a POS, followed by 56% using payroll software.

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Food Delivery Ideas: How to Deliver Food While Maximizing Your Restaurant’s

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How do you market food delivery and takeout? Will you hire in-house drivers, use third party drivers, or cross train your front-of-house (FOH) staff to double as drivers ? Via your restaurant’s website - Find a tech partner that offers favorable rates and an easy-to-use platform, and can automate orders to your POS or other tools.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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This keeps information from getting lost in the text and email shuffle. It also gets rid of those frustrating sticky notes all over your POS. These kiosks not only created a positive customer service environment but also helped the chain navigate FOH labor shortages in recent years. This helps prevent expensive no-shows.

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The Best Online Ordering Platforms to Keep Your Restaurant Running

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All third-party delivery apps offer: A tablet interface for your back of house with varying degrees of integration with your POS ?? COVID-19 update: GrubHub has offered greater marketing exposure on their app for struggling restaurants, but this also comes with a 3% rate increase. Commission fees: 10% - 20% ??

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Restaurant Marketing Has Evolved: Unlock the Preferences of the Modern Customer

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To attract customers while accommodating tightened budgets, restaurants should consider employing marketing strategies that leverage data-driven insights to tailor messaging according to consumer needs. Through cookies and pixels, marketers have collected consumer data as they navigated the rise of the Internet.

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Restaurant Cyber Security: How To Prevent Data Breaches

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This means access to things like: Unauthorized access to POS data. Given the nature of how restaurants operate —with complex systems in the FOH and BOH —ensuring that receive orders, collect payment, and pay teams—here are numerous areas of the business that could be breached. Unauthorized access to guest data. More on this below!).

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