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What Can Growing Businesses Learn from Enterprise Restaurant Loyalty Programs?

Modern Restaurant Management

Loyalty programs are the secret sauce for keeping customers hooked, whether you're a cozy corner café or a massive restaurant chain. Restaurants are going digital, with innovations like contactless ordering, reservation apps, and personalized marketing driven by data. But it’s not just about convenience.

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How Loyalty Programs Give Customers the Biggest Bang for Their Buck

Modern Restaurant Management

Digital loyalty programs surged 124 percent during the height of the pandemic, helping restaurants drive more frequent visits and higher check averages from devoted customers, according to market researcher NPD Group. Having a loyalty program today is table stakes. Loyalty Lessons Learned.

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From Fumbling to Flourishing: Fixing Common Restaurant Marketing Errors

Modern Restaurant Management

First, AI can help personalize the customer experience by analyzing data to send tailored marketing messages, recommend menu items, and create dynamic loyalty programs that keep customers coming back. Restaurants should tap into AI for marketing in a few key ways.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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Expanding the Definition of Value

Modern Restaurant Management

Rising labor and food costs, along with the ongoing struggle to recruit and retain employees, remain among the top concerns for both fullservice and limited-service operators. "The Loyalty programs and promotions drive traffic – 70 percent of operators say loyalty programs increased customer visits in 2024.

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Twenty Years of Change: How Hospitality Tech Evolved and What’s Next

Modern Restaurant Management

Over the last two decades, I’ve worked alongside operators in just about every hospitality setting—independent cafés, high-end dining rooms, food halls, and regional chains. We saw widespread adoption of mobile payments, digital ordering, and contactless dining almost overnight. Operators had to shift—fast.

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5 Essential Restaurant Customer Retention Strategies Every Operator Needs In 2025

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Its significantly more cost-effective to keep your regulars walking through the door than it is to get a new customer every time you take an order. Think about it: your regulars already know what you offer, love your food, and trust your service. All you have to do is keep them happy. And when you do?

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