Web Diner

JANUARY 30, 2019

But, when it comes to customers and seating arrangements, that couldn’t really be further from the truth. The way clients are seated is a huge part of it. First of all, identify the different areas where it would be possible to seat customers – while obviously taking into account the areas that are needed for other purposes.

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LevelUp

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Previously, most locations were about 2,000 square feet with 50 seats, as required by company policy. Future stores will be as small as 1,400 square feet and seat as few as 26 people. Their executive team has altered the design for future locations to accommodate the anticipated influx in takeout orders.

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Seating Ordering Mobile Ordering Loyalty Program 66

Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 8, 2022

We had seating for 150 and there wasn’t an empty chair. A line of people was waiting for seats, so we knew that service was now on fire. We offered two seatings that filled our dining room and set two buffet lines serviced by a carver at each and three food runners to keep everything stocked. By 8:15 the dining room was full.

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Front of House Back of House Seating Food Truck 397

Indoor Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

more…) The post 3 Restaurant Coupon Examples That Fill Seats appeared first on IndoorMedia. Nothing is more satisfying for a restaurant owner than a bustling, busy Friday night. The contrary is quite true, as well. Nothing is more debilitating and desolate than an empty dining room.

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Coupons Seating Book Reservations 88

7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Set a goal for your restaurant’s grand opening—whether it’s seating capacity, an order volume, or revenue for your first day back in business. Adjust floor plans to fit local seating capacity and social distancing regulations Demarcate floor with markers for any areas where a line up may occur (restrooms, pick up areas, etc.)

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Events Social Media Kitchen Safety Seating 351

7 Shifts

MAY 3, 2021

It’s also important to note that using outdoor space and adding more seating to your restaurant can increase your revenue by 30%. The addition of patio seating—be it in a garden behind the restaurant or in the street out in front—means more tables to touch. Staff up with unlimited users, roles, and departments.

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Outdoor Point of Sale Seating Dine-in 370

The Eat Restaurant

APRIL 24, 2024

Attracting new customers and keeping regulars in your restaurant while managing full seating capacity can be challenging. A great solution is to offer pre-made tasting menus through unique dining experiences. This approach draws guests in and delights them with unusual dishes and fresh ingredients.

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Menu Marketing Seating Customer Experience 78

SpotOn

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2023, SpotOn debuted both Seat & Send , a first-of-its-kind waitlist feature, and a suite of new, maximally flexible hardware to help keep its clients competitive in an industry facing rising food and labor costs with already razor-thin margins.

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2024 Innovation Email Marketing Point of Sale 98

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 6, 2023

Dead times are a hit to your wallet as a business owner as empty seats represent wasted capital investment. Seeing empty seats in your restaurant is disheartening, but the impact goes beyond just losing money. The key to filling seats and tackling declining revenue lies in changing customer behavior.

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Seating Innovation Marketing Loyalty Program 178

7 Shifts

AUGUST 26, 2019

Restaurant revenue management is defined as selling the right seat to the right customer at the right price and for the right dura­tion."— Sure, you may have a certain number of seats, but service duration is variable. If you're under capacity, demand is low with lots of available seating. What is Restaurant Revenue Management?

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Management Management Airlines Customer Service 408

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. Push aside the doom and gloom, stop blaming on-line shopping and meal delivery for empty stores and restaurant seats. Who is going to stand on a soap box and lead the effort? Why not you? Business was off yesterday”.

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Customer Experience Customer Service Food Safety Retail 362

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s not necessarily a bad thing—when you have enough staff to handle the crowd and an efficient plan to get those waiting customers seated and served in a reasonable amount of time, you can call it a successful day. Managing a crowded lobby of customers waiting to be seated requires plenty of effort from your staff.

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Seating Customer Experience Customer Service Take-out 199

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 18, 2023

Each table has its own wench, which allows them to be raised and lowered to any desired height –– seated, cocktail, or all the way up to the ceiling –– using a network of cables and an electric power source. Two 26-foot farm-style tables are suspended from the ceiling with cables and can be set to any height.

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Back of House Seating Seasonal Menu Design 167

SpotOn

MARCH 19, 2024

Listed as number 9 in the dining category by Fast Company , SpotOn was recognized for its continuous innovation with products like Seat & Send and Marketing Assist. Seat & Send is one of those practical innovations. Ha, you know, Seat & Send is for restaurant owners. It's for their staff.

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Innovation Seating Customer Experience Point of Sale 111

Indoor Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

The post 8 Restaurant Advertising Tips for Filling Seats in the Fall Season appeared first on IndoorMedia. Linking digital and print puts some extra power into your restaurant advertising—and in the fall, you need all the help you can get. What fall restaurant advertising tips have been successful for you?

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Advertising Seating Coupons Seasonal Menu 78

7 Shifts

JULY 16, 2021

Do they have indoor seating or are they takeout-only? Seating capacity. Coffee shop with seating: $80,000 to $300,000. Coffee shop with both seating and a drive-thru: $80,000 to $300,000. Are there high-top, bar-style tables, regular seating, or a mix of both? But, don't limit your research to just that!

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2022

Often with more available seating comes an influx of guests. They should be organized and create schedules in advance to prevent staffing shortages on busy nights, and they also need to thoroughly train new staff members and make sure every employee is up to speed on seating charts. Considering Layout for Practicality.

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Outdoor Seating Restaurant Law Customer Experience 167

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 10, 2020

” No one knows for sure, but we are seeing glimpses of a trend that may be the answer for restaurant owners and operators: expanded outdoor seating. ” An (ROI) Argument for Expanding Outdoor Seating. Creating or expanding outdoor seating is nowhere near as expensive as a building expansion. Inside Out.

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Outdoor Seating Customer Service Small Business 219

7 Shifts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Winterize Your Patio Seating ?? Our traffic-heavy streets are now home to ad-hoc patio seating. If your restaurant applies, make sure you’re on lists like this one, which has all NYC restaurants with heated patio seating. Accept and Approve time-off requests for sick employees, and make sure you give ample time off for recovery.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 18, 2021

Breweries and Taprooms were close to pre-pandemic levels by the end of summer—dude to to-go cans and outdoor seating. Some had to get creative with their outdoor seating and greenhouses, yurts, and igloos became the way to dine out. Quick service restaurants recovered to a higher rate — between 7% and 10% over full service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 18, 2023

There’s no worse experience for a guest than to stand awkwardly at the host stand waiting for someone to take their name, check their reservation and seat them. The Server’s Greeting Many restaurants train their servers to greet a new table within one minute of their being seated.

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Customer Service Seating Consumer Goods Customer Experience 167

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 5, 2022

I don’t have one client who has all the servers necessary to run their operations, which results in a lot of complaints about long waiting times once the guest is seated. For a few minutes, the guest feels better because they are in a seat, but the big problem is on the horizon. Improve Service Through the Menu.

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Seating Training Customer Service Point of Sale 184

Restaurant Business

MARCH 6, 2023

The ads highlight how "generosity is in the details," like comfy seats. The campaign also features refreshed packaging and a big focus on new toasted baguettes.

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Seating Marketing 98

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2021

A future forward restaurant model will be characterized by contactless delivery, curbside pick-up, and outdoor seating and will be more able to respond to heightened anxieties about business hygienic practices. If you currently lack outdoor seating, you may want to consider renovations or look for a new location that can accommodate.

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Food Truck Retail Mobile Ordering Food Safety 212

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There is, in human nature, a desire to make a difference, to do something meaningful, or as Steve Jobs once said: “To make a dent in the universe.” Not everyone struggles with this need, but for those who are born with this deep-seated knowing desire – they understand that it is always present.

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The Eat Restaurant

APRIL 10, 2024

is an essential tool designed to coordinate the allocation of dining tables, optimize seating, manage reservations, and track the status of each table in real-time. A restaurant table management system, often asked as “What is a restaurant table management system?”,

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Squirrel Systems

APRIL 11, 2024

It surely helps to drive attention and maybe even gather a long line of hungry diners outside your door, but to make patio dining business profitable—requires focusing on ways to maximize your restaurant’s capacity, both from a front-of-house service and seating perspective.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2024

Establishments are grappling with a complex crisis characterized by empty seats in dining areas and behind the scenes, where a shortage of skilled workers is keenly felt. The restaurant industry has always been dynamic and challenging, but the labor shortage has pushed it to a critical juncture.

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Loyalty Program Customer Service Customer Experience 2024 192

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2020

Therefore, maximizing the ability to utilize outdoor space to increase seating capacity will be critical for restaurants during this period. That said, it can be expected that consumers will likely feel more comfortable if the restaurant has socially distanced outdoor seating option available.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Now, this is just the beginning of the list, we haven’t even reached any part of. the product experience, but you begin to see what it takes.

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Website Management Reservations Seating Take-out 374

Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Owners can also review sales trends from previous years to determine which items attracted the most attention per season and then create an exclusive menu with specials that specifically attracts customers to the outdoor seating area.

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Outdoor POS Front of House Seasonal Menu 193

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Some trending concepts over the past several years have included more open seating, high ceilings, and exposed structure concepts. As restaurant owners in Florida, patio seating can be seen as a less than desired component to our space specifically in the spring and summer months. With the current climate of the U.S.,

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Sling

AUGUST 9, 2021

We don’t know the exact dimensions of the entryway above, but the restaurant layout does one thing particularly well: it separates the guests just walking in from the guests already seated. They wonder what’s going on around the corners and can’t wait to be seated. It also provides ample seating for those waiting for their table.

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Seating Small Business Dine-in Sourcing 148

EATER

OCTOBER 11, 2023

First executed by Friedeberg in the early 1960s, the seats have endured enough cycles in and out of vogue to be a match for the venue’s off-kilter yet vaguely familiar retro aesthetic. On a psychological level, there’s something deeply comforting about the childlike feeling of being dwarfed by one’s seat.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 19, 2020

New design solutions we’re considering include temporary enclosures around existing seating groups, devising clever touchless delivery systems inside existing and new restaurants, rethinking the curbside pickup landscape for our mixed-use projects as a starting point. How would this affect the design of the adjacent retail storefront?

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Front of House Back of House Seating Design 149

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 19, 2021

There is plenty of room to spare here at Ella’s on their massive outdoor deck area complete with wooden booths and a high-seat bar encircling a massive oak tree that lights up beautifully at night. They have some of the best outdoor seating in Tampa here at Jackson’s, in our opinion. Make a Reservation. Make a Reservation.

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Outdoor Seating Reservations Dine-in 78