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Revolutionizing Restaurants: Embracing Tech Solutions in a Challenging Labor Market

Modern Restaurant Management

Thanks to these technologies, tasks such as ordering food and paying bills can take place on a self-service basis. In quick-serve restaurants, staff can focus on preparing food rather than taking orders. This is important because signal loss interrupts digital services such as QR-based ordering and kiosks.

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Reduce costs and labor with automated tip distribution

Restaurant Business

Inaccuracies in wage distribution, particularly in regards to tips, can not only cause legal issues for restaurants, but they can also alienate workers if they aren’t being paid properly—which can exacerbate labor woes even further. Labor saving techniques, such as tip distribution automation, can help ease this issue for operators.

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10 Tips for Promoting Sustainability in the Food Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Even before the pandemic, there was a growing trend for the food distribution system to move from global to local. Here are 10 tips for promoting sustainability in the food industry. This means embracing sustainable food production, processing, distribution, consumption, and waste management. Now, we see that drive accelerating.

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Why Your Restaurant Needs Marketing and PR Now More Than Ever

Modern Restaurant Management

Pro tip: having a PR crisis plan in place is vital as a crisis situation can easily arise! When it comes to doing business in this crisis, here are just a few of the tips and innovations we’ve seen or suggest for our clients – most are relatively easy to adapt and deploy. Now is the time to do it.

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The Future of Restaurants is Forever Changed by COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

A group of senior staff members met on Thursday, March 12 to discuss how to set up home delivery of beer, and on March 16, one day after Ohio Governor Mike DeWine ordered the closure of restaurants, we launched this new arm of our business. Prior to the pandemic, tipped staff members were making significantly more than non-tipped staff.

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

ChowNow

Is online ordering inefficient? Experiencing over-ordering or last-minute shortages? With a modern cloud-based POS, restaurants can streamline order taking, reduce human error, and improve the overall speed of service. Are labor costs too high? Do you lose money due to food waste? The best tech investments solve real problems.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

This has led to many perks for consumers, such as reduced wait times, contactless ordering, and more personalized offers and rewards. Tech’s impact on tipping: 56 percent of all respondents would reportedly not tip an AI system, while 22 percent would either tip or at least consider tipping, depending on the service.