Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

Managing orders from multiple delivery apps can quickly overwhelm restaurant staff and disrupt service flow. Starting today, Lavu merchants will be able to see and auto-accept all orders, as well as analyze data across all locations and platforms using a single tablet. Khatri, CEO of Lavu. “By No problem!

POS

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 27, 2025

A spokesperson said that Starbucks, however, has not yet decided whether to sell a controlling or minority stake in its China business. Starbucks’ struggles in China and the US, both key global markets, reflect the challenges that many coffee brands, big and small, are currently facing. claims on MAHA menu alignment. After Robert F.

2025

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

As we move through 2025, this integrated system enables restaurants to manage every transaction—from online orders to in-store purchases—through a single, seamless platform. Get a Free POS Demo About Lavu Lavu is the world’s leading restaurant management platform for small and medium-sized restaurants.

POS

The Restaurant Group

JANUARY 26, 2025

Loyalty programs offer dining rewards, creating a bond between customers and your business. Subscription-Based Programs: Customers pay a small fee for perks like monthly dining discounts or personalized dining experiences. Over time, this increases your average order value. Customer retention becomes vital for success.

Loyalty Program

The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Introduce Small Plates : Offer smaller portions to reduce leftovers. Experiment with Flexibility : Allow chefs to innovate with surplus ingredients. Educating Customers on Waste Reduction Add Notes to Menus : Encourage mindful ordering with simple messages. Test Before Launch : Conduct a soft launch to gauge customer interest.

Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"The pandemic forced the restaurant industry to reinvent itself overnight, moving from a primarily in-store dining experience to an omnichannel, digital-first business. " As we mark the fifth anniversary, MRM magazine surveyed restaurant insiders about the pandemic’s lasting impact on their businesses and the industry.

Loyalty Program

The Restaurant Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Enhance Your Online Presence Create a User-Friendly Website In today’s digital age, your website is your storefront. Collaborate with Local Businesses Partner for Cross-Promotions Offer joint deals with nearby shops or services. Leverage Online Reviews Monitor platforms like Google and Yelp for honest customer feedback.

Loyalty Program

SpotOn

JULY 29, 2025

San Francisco , July 29, 2025 — SpotOn, a leading software and payments partner for restaurants and small businesses, enters Q3 of 2025 with strong momentum driven by product innovation, new client growth, and a continued focus on helping restaurants succeed.

Innovation

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

If you think the business cashless trend is crazy, you’re not alone. Of course, it’s essential for most businesses to accept cash payments in some situations. This fosters customer loyalty and allows restaurants to gather valuable data and insights to inform their business strategies. You read that right.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

MAY 23, 2025

An agreement to remove trade red tape and develop a temporary EU work visa scheme could alleviate labour shortages in UK coffee shops and cafés, industry groups UKHospitality and the Federation of Small Businesses say. She will drive the Danish chain’s digital sales strategy after online orders reached 33% of its DKK 2.8

2025

Restaurant Business

JUNE 17, 2025

Photo: Shutterstock Once upon a time, DoorDash was a spoke on a big wheel of restaurant ordering channels. It will allow DoorDash to help restaurants grow their on-premise business by turning reservations data into targeted marketing opportunities. It’s not clear just how large that business is today. By Joe Guszkowski on Jun.

Leadership

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 6, 2025

It also means that coffee can be transported in Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBCs, also known as “super sacks”), allowing for more streamlined bulk ordering. The petition asserts that tariffs reaching up to 46% will compromise coffee quality and put small businesses at risk. Available online and at select retailers.

2025

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 18, 2025

The value-focused chain, founded in 2017, reached 6,000 outlets as of 1 July, with over 61% of its stores located in medium-sized and small cities. Held online from 14 to 16 July, the auction achieved a record price of US $1,604/kg for a Sidama Keramo Super Natural lot. plans to sell 28 million Class A shares at US $1.25

Café

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Off-Premises Dining Is Essential Nearly 75 percent of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises—meaning that almost three out of four restaurant orders are taken to go. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Restaurants Order Up Tech, AI, and Dynamic Pricing As far as technology goes, 26 percent of respondents said they’d like to start using new tech to help run their business, which is up seven percentage points from last year. Consumer searches for malls on Yelp decreased 13 percent year over year.

Point of Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While features like ordering and paying via QR codes have become the norm, Back-of-House systems have lagged in sophistication. From inventory management to predictive labor scheduling, AI tools will help restaurants cut costs and adapt in real-time, while providing operators valuable data to help inform business decisions.

2025

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

Far more than just tools for processing payments, today’s POS platforms are intelligent, cloud-connected hubs that streamline everything from order management to real-time analytics. Digital innovations remain the leading factor in changing the way people make and receive payments.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2021

Throughout her career, Ellen Linardi has been driven by the passion to build products that help small businesses hold their own against big companies.That desire fueled the Global Head of Product for Clover and her team to help restaurant owners struggling during the pandemic pivot operations and compete in the now digital-first world.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 18, 2020

The Small Business Administration (SBA), in consultation with the Department of the Treasury , released the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Forgiveness Application and detailed instructions for the application. launched its COVID-19 online operator resource, the US Foods Restaurant Reopening Blueprint.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

” The space earned that moniker because staff used it to handle delivery orders from a multitude of online platforms. At just 17, he was named director of business development and the role suited him, as he was interested in looking for new ways to do things. For them, it had become a logistical nightmare.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When restaurants find their perfect blend of tools, they can transform challenges into opportunities for growth and innovation. By focusing on key technologies like point-of-sale (POS) systems, local dining businesses can maximize their investments and position themselves for success in a digital-driven industry.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 19, 2021

But, along the boulevard of online ordering, new locations are built with a handful of pixels, not a truckload of bricks. Finally, find a place to cook and start filling orders, often alongside tickets from a traditional front-of-house. New idea, online menu, real food. Welcome to the age of virtual restaurants.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2020

From elevated takeout, optimizing their menu for delivery, repurposing parking lots and urban streets, kitchen upgrades with technology, to selling consumer packaged goods, setting up a grocery store section and pre-packaged meal kits, it has been remarkable to see the creative ways that chefs have changed their business to stay afloat.

Back of House

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Across the United States, businesses are suffering from unprecedented staffing shortages in the aftermath of COVID. 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.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 9, 2022

Understand customer cravings and business needs through data. Your chef might have his or her own secret sauce, but data is the key ingredient behind business growth. So, you could offset increased beef costs by having customers who order a chicken dish foot the bill. Gather information to help you innovate processes.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2021

QSRs entered 2021 looking much different than they did a year ago, after having made significant and creative changes to their business models in the wake of the pandemic. Operations were changed to support delivery, mobile ordering, drive-thru, and self-service. The same can be said for running seamless mobile and online deliveries.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

In this edition of MRM News Bites, we feature help for small business owners and products for the 'new normal' for restaurants as they reopen. On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store. This approach is often expensive because these platforms charge a commission to fulfill the delivery for each order.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza and U.S. million small businesses and protected over 30 million jobs for hardworking Americans," they said. "With Additional funding has been allocated for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP ). For more information, visit: sba.gov/paycheckprotection.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2020

At the beginning of the pandemic, Paul Dioguardi, owner of Colorado-based Hickory House Ribs, realized there was only so much he could do with the amount of available restaurant tables so he decided to focus on growing the catering side of the business. His updated marketing strategy included new wrapping for their catering van.

Marketing

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 28, 2022

In order to deal with these uncertainties, the top players had to work on bringing in technological advancements to survive and recover from the losses caused by the pandemic. Robots are able to improve the guest experience by analysing the online reviews from hotels and restaurants.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 20, 2022

Employees value knowing where they can improve, and how their contributions are helping the business. Consider investing in online courses, mentoring, or letting employees take on new responsibilities. Dealing with a faulty POS, a glitchy computer, or a slow ordering kiosk can be exasperating. Small Gifts of Gratitude.

Small Business

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 17, 2020

When COVID-19 erupted earlier this year, scores of restaurants relied on online delivery marketplaces to deliver meals to their customers. The role these marketplaces have played during the pandemic, delivering restaurant orders right to people’s front doors, has become invaluable to many consumers.

Delivery

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Smart QSR and fast casual chains like Chipotle and Shake Shack reconfigured their strategies to lean heavily into delivery apps, digital ordering, and loyalty programs. For Small Eateries, It’s About Focusing on Fundamentals. Claim your free Google Business Profile page and create that Yelp profile. ” decisions.

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2021

According to the latest Yelp Economic Average (YEA) report, there were more new businesses openings than at any other period over the last 12 months and business reopenings are at the highest level since the second quarter of 2020. Customers can order and pay without speaking to a human and a runner delivers the food. .”

Fast Casual

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza and U.S. million small businesses and protected over 30 million jobs for hardworking Americans," they said. "With Additional funding has been allocated for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP ). For more information, visit: sba.gov/paycheckprotection.

Webinar

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Focused on the retail, services and restaurant industries, the SpotOn ecosystem offers powerful technology to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) at a price they can afford. Business owners have had to adjust quickly under these new circumstances, and SpotOn's solutions are filling that need. online recipes.

Serving

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 17, 2020

Thirty-nine percent of those in the US and 36 percent in the UK ordered more frequently from their local restaurant than before the crisis. "Throughout Ninety-five percent of Americans and 87 percent of those in the UK noted they often ordered take-out before stay-at-home orders began. Mixed take-out bag.

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