SpotOn

JUNE 17, 2025

An online ordering system is table stakes for every restaurant these days. But if you're still on the fence about implementing online food ordering software at your establishment, take a look at some of the latest stats from the National Restaurant's Association's 2025 State of the Restaurant Industry Report.

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Online Ordering Ordering Website Management Point of Sale 86

ChowNow

APRIL 11, 2025

From managing reservations at the host stand or firing orders straight to the kitchen from table side, tablets are changing the way restaurants run. To really get the most out of your tablets, you need to be strategic about how you choose them, use them, and train your staff. Also, look for a tablet that has a strong battery life.

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Front of House Allergens Online Ordering Back of House 195

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

Some operators are willing to have you work today, get paid tomorrow in order to get people in place to handle their minimum requirements. Fast casual will continue to push out full-service brands because they can assemble food in front of you and get food to the customer more quickly. Two-thirds of new hires signing up for DailyPay.

Fast Casual 553

Fast Casual Hiring Online Ordering Front of House 553

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Growth for most, after all, isn’t walking through the front door, it’s coming in online. It might not be.

Front of House 508

Front of House Kitchen Safety Food Back of House 508

ChowNow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Each system has its own tablet, order flow, and set of requirements, making it difficult to keep up with operations smoothly. Each platformUber Eats, GrubHub, DoorDashrequires its own tablet, login, and order management system. Order management issues. Staff training and inconsistent efficiency.

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Delivery Online Ordering Customer Service POS 195

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

Front of House 528

Front of House Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program Back of House 528

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 26, 2024

Online food delivery thrives as phones become one-stop shops for ordering and tracking meals. This convenience has made the online food delivery market massive, with global revenues of over $1 trillion in 2023 alone. They must choose whether to use third-party online ordering platforms or handle delivery in-house.

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Delivery Online Ordering Mobile Ordering Customer Service 448

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

So, you could offset increased beef costs by having customers who order a chicken dish foot the bill. You might discover your biggest sales come from online orders through your website, so perhaps it’s time to create an app to make ordering and cashing in on rewards even easier for customers.

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Front of House Point of Sale POS Online Ordering 490

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Front-of-House. Henry is ready to order some dinner. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He visits your restaurant’s app and orders his favorite dish on the menu. He receives an estimated wait time for his order of 45 minutes. Contactless Technology.

Technology 508

Technology Front of House Back of House Point of Sale 508

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are many platforms in the marketplace designed to help owners with restaurant operations like table management service (TMS), online reservations, scheduling, and payroll to marketing. Automated solutions like call-in waiting, online bookings, etc., They can allocate lesser staff during off-peak hours.

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Fine Dining Technology Front of House Sustainability 493

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

Adaptability became non-negotiable as takeout, delivery, and digital ordering shifted from secondary revenue streams to essential lifelines." " As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry.

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Front of House Loyalty Program Recruiting Customer Experience 221

ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. 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. Thats huge! And when you do?

2025 195

2025 Loyalty Program Operations Email Marketing 195

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2021

According to founder Noah Glass of Olo , online orders on their platform doubled each year from 2017 to 2019 — before the pandemic. And in 2020, Upserve reported a 783% increase in online orders. More Accurate One of the benefits of online ordering and off-site dining is that ordering is more accurate.

Front of House 406

Front of House Online Ordering Back of House Customer Service 406

ChowNow

MAY 23, 2025

Start by gathering two key data points for each menu item: Items Popularity: How often guests order it Contribution Margin: How much profit it brings in To do this, youll need to access your sales data and your food cost for each dish. What Is Menu Engineering and Why Should You Care? Its subtle, strategic, and rooted in numbers.

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Menu Seasonal Menu Point of Sale Online Ordering 195

EATER

OCTOBER 15, 2024

“Community, environment. It’s part of my DNA. As a chef, I have a responsibility to do my best to create good environments for people, customers, and the community,” says Marnell-Suhanosky. When food waste goes to landfills, it creates methane , a powerful greenhouse gas. produces the equivalent annual emissions of 42 coal-fired power plants.

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Compost Food Equipment Waste 284

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With a critically shrunken talent pool, restaurants are racing to fill positions in every part of the business — front of house, back of house, and corporate teams. Enter digital tableside ordering. For fast-casual or QSR brands, digital tableside ordering is equally beneficial.

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Technology Loyalty Program Fast Casual Email Marketing 563

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

WiFi connectivity is also crucial for operational management and enhancing the customer experience, allowing patrons to interact digitally with the restaurant for orders, payments, and feedback. At the core, these solutions include high-speed internet, ensuring all digital operations run smoothly and without interruption.

Operations 472

Operations Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 472

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The best restaurants are those that keep back-of-house processes running smoothly to ensure a great front-of-house experience for guests. A 2021 OpenTable survey of more than 21,000 diners revealed that 52 percent of diners find the latest information about restaurants online and 42 percent learn from word of mouth.

Kitchen Safety 508

Kitchen Safety Front of House Food Safety Equipment 508

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 23, 2022

Taking orders at the counter and preparing quick meals were not necessarily perceived as stepping stones to better-paid careers with expanded responsibilities. The front of the house features POS tablets as well as tablets loaded with digital checklists that chronicle everything from opening and closing tasks to basic store hygiene functions.

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Food Food Safety Front of House Fast Casual 474

7 Shifts

AUGUST 21, 2024

Watch the video version of these 5 restaurant communication tips In order to build an effective work culture and a productive team, restaurant leaders need to communicate successfully and at scale with their teams at all times. Concepts can be further reinforced through online learning. Furthermore, everyone learns in different ways.

Communication 370

Communication Front of House Back of House Mobile Ordering 370

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guests will expect to know every aspect of sourcing and meal preparation, which will disrupt traditional back-of-house systems with technology that connects the farm to the food. We’re seeing massive disruption to front-of-house systems, too, delivering personalized guest experiences from order to payment to final delivery.

Mobile Ordering 539

Mobile Ordering Front of House Customer Service Customer Experience 539

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Restaurant employees can apply online to receive a one-time, $500 check to use toward bills, including housing, transportation, utilities, childcare, groceries, medical bills and/or student loans. To receive funds, the applicants must complete their grant requests online. Live in the U.S., an overseas U.S. state or territory.

Employee Relations 516

Employee Relations Healthcare Online Ordering Customer Service 516

ChowNow

MARCH 19, 2025

With 52% of diners saying that ordering takeout is essential to their lifestyle, its no longer just an optionits an opportunity. But getting customers to order once isnt enough. When diners order through these platforms, they often associate their experience with the app, not your restaurant.

Loyalty Program 195

Loyalty Program Email Marketing Back of House Food Order 195

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 2, 2021

The growing popularity and adoption of online shopping has created a new mental model in which consumers have become accustomed to controlling how and when they make their purchases. But not in the way you might think. So what exactly does this future look like? The Shift to Co-Pilot Mode.

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Back of House Customer Experience Front of House Customer Service 493

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Key restaurant customer experience aspects From the moment potential diners find your restaurant online to the quality of service they receive, every touchpoint matters. Online presence A restaurant customer experience begins before diners step through the doors of your establishment. “That saves me a lot of time.”

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Customer Experience 2024 Online Ordering Customer Service 397

7 Shifts

AUGUST 5, 2020

Food delivery ideas: How to manage staff to boost off-site dining revenue It’s important to have a protocol in place for managing delivery and takeout orders. The order fulfillment process gets slowed down if your staff don’t know who is responsible for what. Decide who will be in charge of managing takeout and delivery orders.

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Delivery Food Email Marketing Front of House 341

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

Balancing operational and guest needs involves adopting technology that makes back-end processes more efficient and improves the front-end customer experience. For example, implementing a seamless online reservation system optimizes the restaurant's scheduling while offering convenience to customers.

Loyalty Program 473

Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Dietary Restrictions Customer Experience 473

Goliath Consulting

APRIL 5, 2025

Efficient Seating and Ordering Process Minimize wait times and ensure smooth transitions from arrival to seating. Attentive and Personalized Service Train your team to read guest cuessome diners appreciate detailed menu descriptions, while others prefer a straightforward, efficient experience.

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Email Marketing Customer Service Mobile Ordering 195

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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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Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 367

7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Health, Allergen, and Food Safety Training and Certifications. Cooks and back-of-house employees tend to work with inventory management software and kitchen display technology. Cooks and back-of-house employees tend to work with inventory management software and kitchen display technology. Table of Contents. Cross-contamination.

Front of House 370

Front of House Back of House Kitchen Safety Food Safety 370

QSR Automations

JANUARY 16, 2025

They provide guests a first impression of your restaurant; it’s where hosts greet guests, check-in reservations, provide quotes for the waitlist, rotate sections to avoid overworking serv ers , pace seating to avoid overwhelming the kitchen, and direct off – premise s guests and delivery drivers to pick up their orders.

Front of House 52

Front of House Operations Back of House Reservations 52

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 11, 2024

For front of house workers set goals on the number of turnovers of tables or good reviews. For back of house set goals on the time it takes to get food to the pass and out to customers. A customer will complain, the expo line will get backed up, a server may fall and drop an order. Set goals for your staff.

Management 417

Management Management Back of House Customer Service 417

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

in-restaurant dining and online ordering for pickup or delivery), which can be leveraged to drive highly customized campaigns using a built-in marketing solution. In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature a lot of tech news, a celebrity-owned virtual dining concept, and the annual Neighborhood to Nation Restaurant Recipe Contest.

Food Safety 527

Food Safety Mobile Ordering Online Ordering Kitchen Safety 527

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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.

Management 352

Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 352

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience. Restaurants will continue to embrace digital on-premise, including mobile ordering and payment at the table, to streamline operations and improve the guest experience.

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2023 Loyalty Program Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 493

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We have historically and continue to offer competitive pay, thorough training programs, flexible hours and a fun work environment so that we can continue to staff our locations as we grow. The challenges our teams have faced over the last two years specifically has made us value our employees now more than ever.

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2022 Food Supply Mobile Ordering Customer Experience 474

MBB Hospitality

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Restaurant online ordering has emerged as a crucial aspect of the food service industry, reshaping restaurant operation strategies and fostering growth in restaurant delivery services. This article explores how online ordering is advancing and highlights the key concerns for businesses aiming to stay competitive.

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Online Ordering Ordering Front of House Customer Service 52