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

Lavu

It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3. This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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How to Get Restaurant Patio Seating Right

Focus POS

Right now, restaurants are relying heavily on outdoor patio seating for a large part of their dine-in revenue. If you have the available space, patio seating is a great way to boost your sales and keep customers safe during the pandemic. However, it’s essential that restauranteurs get their outdoor seating right: .

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Self-Ordering Kiosks: One Solution to the Current Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

In order to meet this massive shortfall, restaurants have had to up the ante on their recruitment drives. Self-Ordering Kiosks to the Rescue. Self-ordering kiosks dispense with the need for humans to accept orders and process payments. Digitizing the order process brings speed to a restaurant’s operations.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

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Maybe it's how you cook or serve the food, like at Benihana. Since videos don't play on a user's feed by order of post date, you can share many videos about the same topic or using the same trend. Dozens of companies provide high-quality drag-and-drop templates with all the tools you need to take reservations and online orders.

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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

Culinary Cues

Past maintenance and the boiler room of massive furnaces providing heat and hot water for twenty some odd floors of guest rooms and eighteen banquet rooms ranging in size from twenty seat board rooms to two-thousand seat ballrooms, and the three restaurants that grace the main lobby.

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QR Code Ordering: Enhancing the Customer Experience and Generating Revenue

Modern Restaurant Management

Today, nearly 60 percent of adults expect to use their phones to access key restaurant features, including ordering food. And more quick-service and casual dining restaurants are adopting QR code ordering to improve operations. When you implement QR code ordering at your restaurant, here’s how you and your customers benefit.

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Fewer Seats, More Shelves: How Restaurants are Preparing for the Takeout Order Boom

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Since 2014, online ordering for pickup and delivery has grown 300% faster than dine-in traffic. In its early years, digital ordering provided an opportunity to access tech-savvy customers and boost sales. Now, it is crucial that quick-serve and fast-casual restaurants offer the ability to order online.

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