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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

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This should include all tables available for seating customers. Optimize seating arrangements: Arrange tables in a way that maximizes the use of available space without compromising customer comfort. Also, ensure that the waiting staff is adequately trained to take orders quickly and accurately. casual dining vs. fine dining).

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The Top 25 Restaurant Management Apps for Owners and Operators

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The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. ChowNow ChowNow is a customized online ordering app for restaurants.

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The Top 25 Restaurant Management Apps for Owners and Operators

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The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic. ChowNow ChowNow is a customized online ordering app for restaurants.

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Restaurants Pivot to the new ‘Post-COVID’ Consumer Behavior Patterns

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Expect to see more self-ordering kiosks already present at Taco Bell, Panera and McDonalds. Consequently “more than 80 percent of Gen Z-owned businesses expect to get more than half of their revenue from digital (web, mobile, online delivery, social media) by 2022 versus only 33 percent of Baby Boomer-owned businesses.”

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Orchestrating Restaurant Operations to Increase CX

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Further Optimize Delivery, Takeout and Curbside Experiences Many QSRs already relieve congested drive-thrus with distinct lines or protocols for call-ahead orders and third-party pickups. One of our clients, a well-known QSR legacy brand, added an express drive-thru lane for customers ordering ahead on the brand’s app.

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Seven Traits of Successful Restaurant Owners and Managers

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The pandemic accelerated the rise of contactless solutions like mobile ordering and payment and self-ordering kiosks. Expand or Remodel Expanding your restaurant's outside seating area with a deck, patio or tent, could bring you real financial benefits. Get a pulse on your local customer base.

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Could the Automat Revival Solve Restaurant Staffing Issues?

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Japan is another nation that embraced restaurant automation early and still does through its conveyor belt sushi lines that deliver small plates of food around to seated customers. Present Staffing Issues at Restaurants. Order-Only Automats: Pros and Cons. What Are the Pitfalls of Order-Only Machines?