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Restaurant Giants Declare War on Digital Chaos

Modern Restaurant Management

One location might offer seamless mobile ordering, while another struggles with glitchy payment systems, creating inconsistencies that can frustrate customers and impact revenue. Customers crave simplified steps at the beginning and end of their food service experiences, and it’s not hard to understand why.

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Restaurant Branding 101: Straightforward Strategies That Work

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Restaurant branding is not easy, but when done correctly, the reward is a packed dining room every night with a steady stream of to-go orders out the side door. Whether customers are ordering in-person or online, its important to keep your brand consistent. Creating a positive experience for your guests defines your brand.

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Teriyaki Madness Implements Technology to Combat Coronavirus Crisis Fallouts

Modern Restaurant Management

Although we are not having guests eat in our dining rooms, Teriyaki Madness is utilizing technology to combat the fallout through an emphasis on pickup and delivery, innovative curbside service and social media promotions across its website and mobile app. Because patrons are not able to dine out, call-ahead orders have increased.

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6 Steps To Build Your Restaurant’s Brand

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Your restaurant brand is the gut feeling a potential customer gets the first time they see your restaurant logo, scroll through your online ordering menu, or walk into your restaurant. Youre not just designing for yourselfyoure designing for the potential customers you want ordering from you day after day.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are already experimenting with using AI to handle drive through orders to allow human employees to focus on customer interactions in the restaurant. I think smart, AI-enabled platforms will turn data into intelligence around visit frequency, ordering, traffic patterns and more. As of 2024, over half of U.S.

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Hiring Quickly (But Safely) as Dining Demand Picks Up

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However, this uniformity begs the question: are restaurants overlooking alternative, more effective strategies that might help them truly stand out? For example, 25 percent of our survey respondents said they had integrated tools like mobile-friendly job postings and applications into their hiring strategy.

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Deals Over Disses: QSR Marketing Post-COVID

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88 percent of consumers are cooking more meals at home since stay-at-home orders went into effect in March. 88 percent of consumers are cooking more meals at home since stay-at-home orders went into effect in March. Mobile advance ordering will become normative, as well as alerting local customers to restaurant openings and any deals.

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