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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

Lavu

For example, a casual restaurant usually has a higher turnover rate. Efficiently manage reservations: Ensure that the booking system is organized and avoids overbooking to prevent delays in table turnover. Use technology, such as a restaurant management software, to track who chose to reserve a table, and manage waitlists effectively.

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Five Tips for the Best Customer Experience During COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

Businesses have been forced to pivot away from on-premises dining to offer on-line ordering and take-out services. Whether fine-dining or fast casual, great service now revolves around the customer experience you bring to every interaction. The people that answer the phone for takeout orders are now your frontline for customers.

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10 Top Restaurant Technologies To Evolve Your Business

7 Shifts

Delivery, scheduling, inventory management, reservations, and guest management have seen technological advancements over the past few years, and it's just the beginning. Online and Mobile Ordering Systems. Online ordering and delivery are one of the fastest growing aspects of the restaurant industry, up 124% in 2020.

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5 Restaurant Types Perfectly Suited for Tableside Ordering Systems

Mad Mobile

Whatever the size of your operation, a tableside ordering system can help—it’s certainly not a tool for just large corporate restaurants. Implementing a tableside ordering system like CAKE from Mad Mobile can reshape how you run your business. Traffic flows improve too since your staff can enter orders anywhere.

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MRM at Five: What Issues Have Impacted Restaurants?

Modern Restaurant Management

In terms of technology, just like the rest of our lives, the trend has been toward mobility and flexibility and the last year has pushed this faster than we would have otherwise seen under “normal” conditions. environments and are now seen everywhere from fine dining to counter service and everywhere in between.

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2022: A Year of Transition for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Key figures on the restaurant workforce include: Roughly 50 percent of restaurant operators in the fullservice, quickservice, and fast-casual segments expect recruiting and retaining employees to be their top challenge in 2022. Roughly half of U.S. Streamlined Menus with More Plant-Based Options and Sustainable Packaging.

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Integrating Tech from Other Industries into Your Restaurant Business

Next Restaurants

Takeout orders and delivery have taken the lead in a world where it’s difficult to sit in a crowd. Here are some tech ideas that could help your restaurant become ready for a minimum contact experience: Digital Reservations. Shifting your reservations to a digital platform makes it easier for both you and your guests.