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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

respondents distributed evenly across gender, age, and geographic area. The Splintered Path to Purchase The path to purchase has splintered, and Gen Z is in the driver’s seat. respondents distributed evenly across gender, age, and geographic area. 70 percent of workers are worried about inflation and rising costs.

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The Best Restaurant Technology Of 2025

ChowNow

Staffing automation, such as 7Shifts , can also take care of payroll, tracking overtime, managing tip distribution, and calculating wages accurately, ensuring employees are paid correctly and laws are followed. Accurate payroll processing : Automated calculations prevent errors and ensure fair tip distribution.

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Leverage Technology that Streamlines Your Back-Office Work

Modern Restaurant Management

Behind the scenes, managers spend countless hours dealing with tip distributions, creating weekly schedules in spreadsheets, and doing the dreaded payroll twice a month. My entire staff transitioned to being 80-percent paper free, so we didn't spend all that time putting tips in at the end of the night.

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Patio Season is Here. Make it Your Best Summer Ever with 7shifts Tools Built for Restaurants

7 Shifts

It’s also important to note that using outdoor space and adding more seating to your restaurant can increase your revenue by 30%. Tip Pooling overview. With more customers dining inside and out on the patio this season, you need the ability to create custom tip pools that fit your restaurant’s needs. Staffing for summer.

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

7 Shifts

Tip: Your competitor analysis needs to include the digital space too. How we consume food, how menus are engineered , and even how restaurants are designed all owe a hat tip to IG. Here are some restaurant food photography tips and tricks. Opportunities: What can you do better than your competition?

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

Modern Restaurant Management

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. Nearly 135,000 distribution jobs help keep 950,000 retail jobs thriving with freshly packaged beers from the brewers' tanks.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

Across all six major segments, more than 9 in 10 operators plan to continue offering outdoor seating and the same number of operators are also likely to continue offering alcohol-to-go, if their jurisdiction allows it. The average Valentine’s Day dinner with food, drinks, and tip cost diners $121 in 2023.

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