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Unique Ways Restaurants Can Use QR Codes to Drive Sales

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants across the country shelved their paper menus and turned to digital options to reduce touchpoints. To go contactless, customers scanned a small black and white square called a QR code on their mobile device to see a digital copy of the menu. Promotions. Having the offer on their phone will make redemption a breeze.

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When Robots Replace Restaurant Workers, We All Lose

EATER

Diners would sit down and immediately download an app to browse the menu, place their order, and pay with a credit card, all on their phones. As startups have “disrupted” the restaurant industry, they’ve replaced menus and hand-written orders with kitchen display systems (KDS), ordering tablets, and QR codes.

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MRM Research Roundup: 2022 Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

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Hospitality trends restaurants should know in 2023

Open for Business

Digital ordering has been a game changer, and the latest trends for 2023 could change how hospitality businesses operate even more. Digital kitchen display systems could make paper tickets obsolete. Instead, they show orders on a screen and can even help manage how meals are coursed out.

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The Great Birria Boom

EATER

And yet, the Mexican state with few traditions, better known for its seafood and innovative, pioneering chefs like Plascencia, Benito Molina, and Jair Téllez, was rigid about birria de res: All Tijuana stands served it the same way. And you’d better be done by 1 p.m says Ivan Gonzalez, one of Oscar Gonzalez’s brothers. “At

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies. When they do use them, more than a third (35 percent) say they will splurge and order more expensive items than usual.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-July 2021 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

COVID-19 triggered an increase in remote, app-based ordering in the US On Premise. More than two thirds (69 percent) of consumers say it is still their preferred method, compared to 9 percent who want to order through their phone. While many younger people have embraced digital order and pay, older ones haven’t.

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