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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s not enough just to recover, retail and specifically restaurants and the food industry are compelled to pivot, adapt and create a model that will endure. Conventions and meeting spaces, theme parks and hotels, and restaurants are finding it better to reduce indoor seating as it requires too much maintenance and risk.

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5 Ways to Get Your Restaurant Summer Ready

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With the help of targeted summer-themed marketing campaigns that feature your restaurant’s summer menu, atmosphere, outdoor seating areas, seasonal events, hours, and/or location, you will be able to attract both loyal guests and new clients. Just log in to your SpotOn Dashboard to access free email and social media templates.

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12 Restaurant Lunch Specials: Make Lunch the Most Important Meal of the Day ???

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Hootsuite’s top three benefits of implementing a UGC strategy include: Promoting authenticity; Building trust; and Driving purchasing decisions Put UGC to work for your restaurant by inviting diners to post a photo of their lunch on social media (tagging your business, of course) for a chance to win a meal on the house.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Cold Weather Lull

Modern Restaurant Management

With some outdoor dining pilot programs coming to an end as we head into the winter months, tens of thousands of restaurants across the country will be forced to operate at a fraction of typical capacity without added outdoor seating to supplement the loss. Should you consider entering the food truck business?

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

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Mobile Coffee Shops (Carts and Trucks). Do they serve just coffee or small foods as well? Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee Shop Concepts.

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Your Playbook to a Successful COVID-19 Restaurant Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Design Your Floor Plan with Social Distancing in Mind. The floor plan of a seating area should not only make it easy for employees and patrons to observe social distancing guidelines, but the foot traffic flow should also make sense. Remove buffet and other communal food areas. — to reduce touchpoints.

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The Ultimate Taproom Checklist: 7 Ways to Boost Sales at Your Brewery

Buzztime Business

Taproom Tip #2) Up Your Game and Create a Social Scene Besides big shiny beer tanks, what else draws customers into taprooms? A lively social scene. It’s a less formal, more social take on live trivia that perfectly fits the relaxed brewery vibe. In fact, studies show that outdoor seating can increase revenue up to 30%.

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