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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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With tip payouts, servers share portions of their tips with other staff members, such as bartenders, hosts, and food runners. Kiosk ordering Your busy customers don’t always have time to wait in line. Kiosk ordering tools speed up the ordering process, making it easier to keep up during a mealtime rush.

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The Top 25 Restaurant Management Apps for Owners and Operators

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The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. ChowNow ChowNow is a customized online ordering app for restaurants.

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The Top 25 Restaurant Management Apps for Owners and Operators

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The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. ChowNow ChowNow is a customized online ordering app for restaurants.

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Why restaurants should take reservations

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People fall into two categories when it comes to reservations: Love ‘em or hate ‘em. Guests on team reservations tend to be planners, the people who aren’t willing to wait for a table or roll the dice on where they’ll have dinner. Team no-reservations, on the other hand, prize spontaneity. Reservations bring order to this chaos.

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Building a Resilient Restaurant: A Guide to Scaling a Food Concept in 2024

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For example, AUV is a function of traffic (number of transactions) and average order value (“AOV”); what do the trends suggest about each of those components? rent) and (v) cash-on-cash return / payback – how long and at what rate will investment in a specific location be returned.

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Unlocking More Reservations with Budget-Friendly Email Marketing

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By Eric Tress, Contributor If you are looking for an excellent tool to increase your restaurant’s reservations, email marketing is an effective advertising tool you should consider. Restaurant Email Marketing Explained Restaurant email marketing is a powerful tool to connect with guests and drive reservations.

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What restaurant owners need to know about reservation management

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Reservations are nothing new. Fine-dining restaurants and their guests have long relied on the predictability that reservations bring. Restaurants at every level benefit from reservations systems. And thanks to restaurant technology , restaurateurs can now take reservation management to a whole new level.