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A Tight Labor Market: The New Normal

Modern Restaurant Management

The tightening labor market of 2024 presents a complex set of challenges for business owners, from a shrinking labor force to the increasing prevalence of counteroffers. The labor market landscape has shifted recently in ways that few could have predicted even a few years ago. percent in 2022 to 60.4 The bottom line?

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11 Restaurant Marketing Strategies That Work in 2021 & 2022

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In today's highly competitive environment, restaurant marketing requires precise, dependable, and complete consumer data. Data acquired about your actual consumers can be used in both online and offline marketing campaigns. Consider online marketing for restaurant engagement to be a long-term commitment. Email Marketing.

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Ordering Channels and Preferences Have Shifted: How Restaurants Can Win The Customer

Modern Restaurant Management

Surging prices have been top of mind for consumers for two years and counting, leaving restaurant leaders questioning how inflation might influence diners’ behavior and overall spending habits, including their usage of digital ordering and third-party delivery apps– both of which gained momentum during the pandemic.

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How to Set Up Online Ordering for Restaurants

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If you weren’t thinking that much about online ordering before, you definitely are now. But when it’s so dead simple to get listed on third-party delivery marketplaces and take orders, why do all the other work to create your own system when you are a time-strapped restaurateur? It will still cost you to run your own delivery.

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A Masterclass in Restaurant Digital Transformation

Speaker: Jay Coldren, Alex Barrow, and Greer Kimsey, Street Sense Team

At the center of these habits is the digital world: online ordering, advertising, booking, reviewing, etc. It will become essential for restaurants to create omni-channel experiences for customers, and to market them effectively. Online Ordering Optimization. Digital Marketing Tools. Maximizing Social Media.

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Simple Restaurant Marketing Plan for 2020 [PDF Template]

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So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. But as restaurants reopen and business starts to pick up again, it’s important you pick up your marketing plan too. Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book.

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Ways Restaurants Can Encourage Direct Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

. “Most restaurants can’t make the math work with delivery apps alone,” said Hayley Russman, VP marketing at BentoBox. ” With months of experience under their belt, many restaurants have established their own takeout ordering system. But how do you let customers know to bypass the delivery apps and order direct?

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Who’s Your Customer? How Understanding Your Customer Improves Brand Experience and Loyalty

Speaker: Hope Neiman, Chief Marketing Officer of Tillster

However, another under-the-radar resource can be utilized to create a similar degree of connection and drive the same kind of customer loyalty: Digital ordering platforms. Join Hope Neiman, Chief Marketing Officer of Tillster, to learn how restaurants can create customized and seamless brand experiences that consumers desire.