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5 Ways to Get Your Restaurant Summer Ready

SpotOn

  From crafting a summer menu that celebrates seasonal ingredients to offering cool beverages can enhance customer loyalty, adapting to the busy season with innovative menu ideas and online ordering can set your restaurant apart. Optimize your tech Set up an online reservation system to handle more customers smoothly.

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Reskilling, Retention and Robotics: Creative Solutions to the Restaurant Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Establishments are grappling with a complex crisis characterized by empty seats in dining areas and behind the scenes, where a shortage of skilled workers is keenly felt. To revitalize the workforce and enhance operational efficiency, it is imperative that we boldly explore innovative solutions across reskilling, retention, and robotics.

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Resurrect Your Dead Times and Fill Seats with Marketing Innovations

Modern Restaurant Management

Dead times are a hit to your wallet as a business owner as empty seats represent wasted capital investment. Now, you can resurrect your dead times and build a new stream of revenue through innovative technology providing messaging that appeals directly to each consumer on a personal level.

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Revolutionizing Restaurant Operations with Advanced Networking Solutions

Modern Restaurant Management

The need for innovation and efficiency has never been greater in this evolving scenario. For instance, knowing a regular customer's favorite dish or seating preference can transform a routine meal into a customized experience. They can lead to more efficient operations, higher customer satisfaction, and increased profitability.

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The ultimate guide to restaurant technology for restaurant owners

Open for Business

Online reservation system. Make the pen-powered reservation book a thing of the past by moving the reservation-making process online. A system like OpenTable takes reservations day and night, running the book even when you’re away from the restaurant. These tech-powered tools can make everyone’s job a little bit easier.

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How Having A Long-Term Plan Can Help Restaurants Handle the Short-Term Crisis

Modern Restaurant Management

In a typical month, we used to help restaurants seat over four million diners. Instead of seeing the crisis as an obstacle, Erik saw it as an opportunity to innovate. They knew Yelp could do more than just help them seat diners. As the general manager of Yelp for Restaurants , my job is to help restaurants succeed.

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Now serving: a new way on iPhone to manage the floor plan on the go

Open for Business

OpenTable innovates to help restaurants do what they do best—better. This series spotlights recent innovations from OpenTable that help restaurants thrive. It’s been very valuable to be able to place reservations on the go,” says Layla Binafif, host at Trattoria Dario Italian Family Restaurant in Vero Beach, Florida. “I

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