7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2021

As restaurants reopen and business starts to pick up again, it’s important you pick up your marketing plan, too. To help, we’ve created the ultimate restaurant marketing guide, covering strategy, creative, branding, marketing channels, paid and unpaid advertising, and so much more. So, where do you start?

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Apicbase

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

85% of operators use POS data to engage with customers via text or email, while 60% use it for their loyalty programs. 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. by 2032, reaching $4,046.1

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Marketing a menu. Whether you’re looking to hire a designer or want a budget friendly alternative, there are plenty of options to get you started. You can use a QR code to connect guests to every menu and drive traffic to your website for future reservations. Selecting menu items. Choosing the menu size. Organizing the menu.

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Touch Bistro

MAY 26, 2021

You can expect more reservations, more takeout and delivery orders, and larger check sizes. . Just follow our Father’s Day preparation and marketing tips, and dad will have no eggscuse not to take advantage of your Father’s Day specials. Reservations will help you forecast your labor needs. . Spread the word! .

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Touch Bistro

APRIL 27, 2021

Email Sign-Up Forms: Even if you don’t have a loyalty program, collecting customer emails is a great way to stay in touch with your guests. Begin growing your email list by including an email subscriber form on your website. Elements of Great Restaurant Websites.

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Touch Bistro

JULY 15, 2021

The restaurant industry is a competitive space, and you need unique restaurant marketing ideas if you want your venue to stand out. The challenge is, restaurant marketing and promotions can take many forms, and not every strategy will resonate with every diner. The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Marketing. Download Now.

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Open for Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whoever you hire must have extensive experience in working with the specific type of restaurant you’re planning to open. All liability with respect to actions taken or not taken based on the contents of this article is hereby expressly disclaimed. Most restaurants need funding, especially during the initial stages when they’re setting up.

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Touch Bistro

APRIL 18, 2021

For restaurants, this means that now’s the time to start making plans for the return of outdoor dining, including purchasing restaurant patio furniture, hiring staff, developing safety protocols, and more. If your area has given the green light for patio dining, you should strongly consider reopening your restaurant patio for dine-in service.

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Black Box Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The need for convenience and seamlessness was already driving rapid adoption of restaurant technology, and the pandemic accelerated it. Contactless payments and ordering, tap and pay and QR codes are now commonplace in restaurants. And it’s an important aspect of the company’s strategy to address staffing challenges. Get weekly updates.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the right tech tools, managers can ease their workloads, employees enjoy a much smoother scheduling process, and guests benefit in countless ways — from mobile ordering to digital menus to better ways of making and managing reservations. A full 55% of consumers consider takeout and delivery essential to their restaurant experience.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With the right tech tools, managers can ease their workloads, employees enjoy a much smoother scheduling process, and guests benefit in countless ways — from mobile ordering to digital menus to better ways of making and managing reservations. A full 55% of consumers consider takeout and delivery essential to their restaurant experience.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 16, 2022

In the restaurant industry, it can be difficult to maintain front- and back-of-house staff, as many will eventually move on to pursue new ventures such as school, travel, or alternate employment. Worse yet, some may leave simply because they do not feel valued or that there is no meaning attached to the work they do. Be Flexible.

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. According to a recent Forbes article , sit-down restaurants make a profit of about 6%. So, why do it?

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Better team communication: Say goodbye to endless text threads, email chains, and whatever other inefficient methods your team uses to negotiate schedules.

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Notch

JANUARY 23, 2019

As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. Unfortunately, if your restaurant is typical, your profit margins are exceedingly narrow. According to a recent Forbes article , sit-down restaurants make a profit of about 6%. So, why do it?

Email Marketing 52

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Food shows are the only way we can really get our product in front of our customers and get new accounts,” he says. “We New business are most vulnerable to disruptions caused by COVID-19 This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Bhalla has no backup plan and no clear path forward. That’s all we think about,” says Bhalla.

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Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

The restaurant industry has been evolving consistently over the years. From the introduction of point of sale (POS) systems to accounting systems, technology is changing the ways restaurants operate today. Some of the practices that used to be acceptable a few years ago are no longer the norm. . You may also be unsure where to start.

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EATER

MAY 29, 2020

Meanwhile Tock, a reservations platform that should be in deep trouble as bookings for dine-in experiences go to zero, just raised $10 million. I saw their reservations go from 96% occupancy to zero. I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

She moved to information technology in 1994 where she was instrumental in putting in the first network and email system for SBCI. New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. Cynthia (Cyndi) Barnes: Director of Accounting | 35 years.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, read about efforts to help the restaurant industry and heroes as well as "new normal" restaurant technology and products. Dining Bond Goes Global. The Dining Bond Initiative, a campaign that helps get funds to restaurants impacted by the coronavirus COVID-19, has gone global.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Flippy ROAR hits the market with advanced cooking capabilities to quickly learn menu items, allowing operators to appeal to new customers and retain eaters with consistently cooked options. This edition of MRM News Bites features a lot of technology and robotic news, virtual food halls and healthy kid menus. Flippy ROAR for Sale.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Substantial advantages in marketing, reduced labor costs, shared management costs, lower occupancy cost can be had in this model. A chicken sandwich and the impact it has had on how to market a product – see Popeye’s vs. Chick-fil-A. Food Halls – the numbers for current and future growth are substantial.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Now, its mission is linked more than ever to fine dining destination Blue Hill at Stone Barns and a famous chef’s vision for trickle-down change. On the morning of February 7, 2020, office employees at the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture filed one by one into meetings with management. Some came out crying. It was not a gentle pivot.

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