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Why Your Restaurant Needs Front-of-House Automation Workflows

Modern Restaurant Management

It allows you to create a competitive advantage over manually-driven competitors, as you achieve the ROI of workflow automation by delivering better quality work and services at a lower price point while enjoying faster and better decision-making. Automating customer service tasks helps to improve the customer experience. Cost savings.

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EYES WIDE OPEN, EYES WIDE SHUT

Culinary Cues

Reactionary approaches involve increasing rates of pay, dumbing down menus, reducing hours of operation or levels of service to limit the number of employees needed, raising prices to compensate for higher rates of pay, reducing portion sizes while raising prices, or even looking at automation and technology to “right the ship.”

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Consumers Welcome Some Restaurant Automation, Reject Others

Modern Restaurant Management

Prices for real estate, inventory, and labor are rising. The results give the green light for certain restaurants to introduce more front-of-house automation. A majority (72 percent) of consumers are already loyal users of automated technologies such as self-checkout, curbside pickup, and contactless payment.

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Moves Modern Restaurants Are Making in 2024

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants know this, and it’s why they are focused on connecting the back and front of the house. In fact, 45 percent of restaurant operators expect competition to be more intense than last year. So, what’s the solution? Moving to Multichannel Dining Experiences Dining out is… back?

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s s Union Market District, sits the modern Mexican restaurant Destino. It’s awkward because people are often unsure of the ‘right’ amount to tip, so tip amounts vary from person to person. Restaurant workers, who rely on tips to supplement their income, are torn on the subject.

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CHEFS – MENUS FOR 2021 AND BEYOND

Culinary Cues

Prices of raw materials and labor, of course, have gone through the roof and there is no end in sight. Chefs may very well need to plan menus that change every week or two, or in some cases even daily based on availability and price. CHANGE #1: The days of the fixed menu for restaurants should come to a halt.

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Why 4 Restaurants Opt for a Service Charge Instead of Tips

7 Shifts

Twenty minutes east of the White House, in D.C.’s s Union Market District, sits the modern Mexican restaurant Destino. It’s awkward because people are often unsure of the ‘right’ amount to tip, so tip amounts vary from person to person. Restaurant workers, who rely on tips to supplement their income, are torn on the subject.

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