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From Empty Tables to Full House: Expert Advice on Avoiding Restaurant No Shows

Modern Restaurant Management

With limited seating capacity, even a couple of absent parties can transform a potentially profitable evening into a financial loss, pushing these already vulnerable businesses closer to the margins of financial health. For smaller establishments, the stakes are even higher.

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Table for One – Elevating the Solo Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Catering to solo diners is more just than seating them as restaurants would any other customer. Good operators understand that the party of four that spends $250 over three hours on a four top isn’t more “valuable” than the solo diner that spends $70 in sixty minutes on a two top, or a solo seating experience.

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Pandemic Reflections: What Lessons Has the Restaurant Industry Learned?, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

The focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput. Instead of simply trying to fit as many seats as possible into a space, the focus now is finding the minimum necessary seating capacity while maximizing kitchen efficiency and service throughput.

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Restaurant Patio Guide: How to Get More Profit With Outdoor Seating

SpotOn

However, getting more guests in seats through outdoor dining can also come at a cost, both in time and money. Add high tops to vary up seating. Put weatherproof seat cushions on chairs to make them more comfortable for guests.  A handheld POS can help. No more back and forth from tables to the POS.

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How Our New Concept Brought In 30 Percent More Guests

EATER

Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS. On updating the concept We had to take out a big portion of the seating to build the coffee counter. The inside space lost about 24 seats, but at the same time, we had a streetery that added back all of those seats and more.

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Patio Power: Strategies for Optimizing Outdoor Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

Discover how handheld POS devices and QR code ordering are transforming outdoor spaces into efficient revenue engines. A good patio setup isn’t just about adding seats, it’s about creating an extension of the guest experience that works just as hard as your dining room. The result?

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The Unlikely Perks of a Larger Restaurant Space

EATER

Organize all your orders dine-in, online, and third-party and fulfill them in a flash, right from your POS. Size of restaurant in 2020: 850 square feet, 24 seats (20 dining room, 4 bar) Size of restaurant now: 4,700 square feet, 56 seats (48 dining room, 6 bar, 2 ADA bar) On finding a space We didnt think we needed over 4,500 square feet.

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