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7 Strategies To Increase Your Restaurant’s Average Order Volume (AOV)

ChowNow

Many restaurant operators have misconceptions about average order volume (AOV) and how it works, making statements like: I need more customers to make more money. For example, lets say you have 50 orders in a day that total $2,000 in revenueall you need to do is divide the total revenue by how many orders you have for the day.

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Taking the Risk Out of Restaurant Technology

Restaurant Business

Kiosks can also ease labor burdens if utilized as the primary tool for customer orders. But kiosk ordering goes beyond labor saving. There was a nearly 8% increase in average check at quick service and a whopping 15% increase at fast casual establishments when kiosks were used for orders rather than employees.

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2025 Cybersecurity Outlook for Restaurants 

Modern Restaurant Management

This attack, however, is not out of the ordinary. Leveraging deepfake technology, bad actors can mimic the voices and even physical appearances of real people with startling accuracy, enabling them to carry out more realistic and more effective social engineering attacks than ever before. Some may even share login credentials.

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Why Your Restaurant Should Prioritize Order Accuracy

Modern Restaurant Management

Here’s an important – but often overlooked – truth for the restaurant industry: To make your customers to feel valued and appreciated, you must get their orders right! Perhaps they’re understaffed and struggling to keep up with incoming orders. Why is order accuracy so important for a restaurant?

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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

More than ever, restaurants are taking advantage of modern platforms available for consumer engagement - most notably, social media. 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.

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How Do Restaurants Benefit From First-Party Ordering?

ChowNow

Instead of giving up control to outside platforms, some restaurants are shifting to a more direct approach: first-party ordering. This means customers place orders through your own website or appnot a third-party platform. First-Party vs. Third-Party Ordering: Whats the Difference? Lets take a closer look.

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How to Boost Diner Traffic and Increase Order Volume

ChowNow

In this guide, youll learn how to use ChowNow tools along with a handful of other effective strategies to increase order volume, boost your current customer traffic, and grow your overall sales. Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to stay top-of-mind with customers and remind them its time to order again from your restaurant.

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The Ultimate Guide to The Best Restaurant Reservation Systems

Every restaurant is unique, which means that you have to do a bit of research in order to find the best restaurant reservation system for your specific venue. The problem is, there are dozens of different reservation systems out there, so it can take a lot of time and effort to compare reservation systems head-to-head.