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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits. To capture their attention and loyalty, businesses, including restaurants, must prioritise easy access and convenience. Nothing is fraud proof.

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Three Ways Technology Can Help Restaurants Navigate the Challenges of Inflation

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Just as restaurants were on the path toward recovery after COVID-19 closures and safety restrictions, the current economic conditions continue to present challenges for the industry. Put Loyalty Rewards Into Customers’ Hands with a Branded Mobile App.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Think behind-the-scenes kitchen tours or insights into who the people are that work at the restaurant, offering patrons a chance to immerse themselves in the brand. In 2024, brands will continue to overcome the challenge of accessing and aggregating this valuable owned data to cultivate this level of hospitality and long-term brand loyalty.

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Restaurant Experts’ 2021 Outlook, Part Two

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When others have pulled back, we kept innovating by adding new menu items (a new Porterhouse steak, Wagyu New York Strip), half priced bottles of South American wine, To-Go experience packages and more. Chipotle recently announced its first digital-only restaurant called the Chipotle Digital Kitchen.

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4 Ways Software is Transforming the Restaurant Industry

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Restaurants of all sizes embrace software technology to improve the customer experience and streamline operations, from ordering systems to kitchen automation. This could include introducing loyalty programs, special offers, or custom menus based on customers’ past purchases. Introducing kitchen automation.

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What Trends Are You Seeing and What Can We Expect to See More of in 2022?

Modern Restaurant Management

Our restaurant of the future is designed to benefit guests, employees and franchisees, with a new external design and a reimagined kitchen that will make it easier for us to serve hot, delicious food quickly for frictionless guest experiences, and we expect to see a lot more of that next year. Clinton Anderson, CEO, Fourth Enterprises.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

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The bakery, which distributes to grocery stores nationwide, is now built to better accommodate both customer and consumer needs while continuing to put the safety of employees and customers first. We’ve also noticed the increased importance of loyalty programs at times like this. Shyam Rao, CEO and Cofounder, Punchh.

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