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How Streaming Entertainment Can Help Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Beyond just ensuring consumer health and safety , restaurants now reopening to the public need to create new marketing, entertainment and advertising strategies for incoming customers—especially now that live music could be unsafe, and just playing songs on a speaker might not be enough. Engage Consumers Even After They Leave.

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How Herschend Family Entertainment Transformed Food Costs and Operations

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That was the reality for Herschend Family Entertainment, the worlds largest family-owned themed attraction company and home to Dollywood, until they teamed up with Crunchtime.

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Looking to Increase Traffic to Your Restaurant? Try Holograms

Modern Restaurant Management

Whether it’s providing in-store entertainment, activating social media promotions or implementing QR-code menu options, the digital initiative among restaurateurs is clearly present, but it’s not enough. In the digital age, restaurants must put some focus on digital media, too.

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Expanding the Definition of Value

Modern Restaurant Management

These preferences illustrate the growing importance of innovative, hospitality-driven dining, where restaurants are not just places to eat, but spaces for entertainment, education, and community-building. Consumers have pent-up demand for restaurant meals.

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How Your Restaurant Can Take Advantage of the Virtual Event Trend

Modern Restaurant Management

Here are a few tips your restaurant can use to take advantage of the virtual event trend: Live Entertainment. Does your venue host live entertainment such as bands, DJs, or comedy? You can still hold these shows at your venue with a virtual audience.

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2025: The Year of Contradictions in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Technology plays a key role in this, as smartphones serve as an endless stream of information, entertainment and social connection. Instant Gratification and Sustainability Consumers today are deeply immersed in a culture of instant gratification, where anything that disrupts immediacy can feel like an inconvenience.

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Vibe Check: Elevating Experience for Better Guest Engagement

Modern Restaurant Management

Members can entertain guests in an intimate setting and have preferred access to special tastings and other events. The whiskey lounge, currently limited to just 30 members, offers a selection of rare and small-batch Japanese whiskeys, shochus, and imported spirits — many unavailable elsewhere in the region.