Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Here are five tips for planning for the future to provide the best service: Understand Your Customers. Whether fine-dining or fast casual, great service now revolves around the customer experience you bring to every interaction.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How Wait Time Expectations Enhance the Customer Experience Using truthful, historical data regarding customer flow to set wait expectations works to elevate the customer experience in several ways. This effort transforms previously wasted downtime into productive interactions with your brand.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2020

Statistics show that 96 percent of consumers from across the globe say that customer service plays a critical factor in choosing a brand they’ll be loyal to. As a service-oriented industry, knowing what makes your customers tick and capitalizing on their preferences will allow you to provide top-of-the-line service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 12, 2023

With these shortages, friction points are increasing in the dining experience with longer wait times to receive food (33 percent), diminished customer experience due to overstressed staff (32 percent), and longer wait times just to place an order (17 percent) being among the top three pain points.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

AI phone agents are revolutionizing customer experience in the restaurant industry, transforming how businesses handle customer engagement over the phone and reducing the interruptions in operations. What Are AI Agents and What are They Used For?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Use your POS data to predict the busiest times and ensure you are ready to maintain fast and friendly customer service. Scheduling in extra members of staff to help accommodate the large bookings and packed-out restaurant will ensure your service remains efficient without overworking your employees.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 20, 2025

Inconsistent Customer Experience Customer experience is the lifeblood of any catering business. If your service is inconsistent, it can damage your reputation and hinder growth. Consider a scenario where two different clients have vastly different experiences with your service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. Similarly, AI-driven thermostats will optimize indoor climates, enhancing the comfort of both staff and customers while balancing energy usage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2019

It simply isn’t feasible to have a dedicated employee whose sole responsibility is to answer incoming calls, as hosts and cashiers are typically tasked with both answering the phone and providing in-person customer service. Improve Touchpoints Between Employees and Customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 28, 2024

Recent reports of possible portion-size discrepancies at Chipotle are a cautionary tale for brands, highlighting a few critical issues in the restaurant industry: consistently meeting customer expectations and the swift power of social media. What are some things brands can do to improve guest satisfaction?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2021

Executives in the food industry understand that knowing their clients’ preferences will help them to create better promotions, increase sales, and improve their operational efficiency, leading to a better customer experience. The data from these tools can help restaurants streamline systems and improve customer service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 5, 2023

When people think of the way AI is currently used in quick service restaurants – such as fast-food chains – they might think of AI-powered voice bots utilized at drive-thrus or AI tools to forecast inventory needs based on demand. Restaurant owners agree, as nearly half of hospitality operators in the U.S.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What’s new on the menu for today’s innovative restaurants? Thanks to the labor shortage and increased profit pressure, savvy restaurants are going digital to provide the best customer experience and to keep up with the hefty competition. Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 6, 2024

To answer that and more, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to an expert–Daniel Hawes, Vice President of Product Design at Givex, whose work marries the worlds of technology, design, and academic research. What do you anticipate the restaurant of the future will look like with respect to AI?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 27, 2021

As owners strategize how to spend their budgets, it is imperative they consider the importance of quality over quantity, curating a tech toolbelt capable of driving revenue and improving the customer experience while helping restaurants remain profitable. The Future of Restaurants Is in Ambient Technology.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2025

Scalable solutions like self-service kiosks and predictive analytics are transforming the way small businesses operate. Technology doesn’t just level the playing field; it allows mom-and-pop shops to improve efficiency, reduce wait times, and enhance the customer experience in ways that were once out of reach.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As these restaurants (and others) have discovered, technology has become instrumental in improving their safety and quality programs, increasing compliance, keeping up with ever-changing regulations, improving the customer experience, and differentiating themselves from the competition. Improve the customer experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 24, 2022

Customer Service. Co-sourcing Customer Service employees is extremely popular in the restaurant industry. These team members act as a virtual front desk for restaurants, taking reservations, takeout orders, etc. This, in turn, will increase restaurant operations, employee morale, and customer experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2022

Restaurants are making use of workflow automation to increase efficiency in numerous ways inlcuding customer service automation and sales and marketing automation. Automating customer service tasks helps to improve the customer experience. Improving customer service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 2, 2025

Pizza restaurants are poised to continue their evolution this year and incremental changes, especially in the areas of artificial intelligence, operational efficiency and customer preferences, will create both challenges and opportunities for pizzeria owners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 31, 2022

For example, basic point of sale (POS) systems or integrated restaurant management systems are useful digital tools that enable data reporting. Reporting is an essential part of business operations because it helps visualize the restaurant's financial health. Leverage Reports to Improve Customer Experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 12, 2024

The report, which surveyed 127 restaurant executives across the U.S. and Canada, found that technology such as interactive digital menus, in-restaurant mobile apps, and augmented reality experiences are playing a vital role in empowering restaurants to stay relevant and meet the evolving needs and expectations of diners.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Now more than ever, restaurant leaders need to find new ways to create truly one-of-a-kind dining experiences that give people a reason to leave the comfort of their home and ditch the ease of ordering with the click of a button. If equipment isn’t working properly, you run the risk of disappointed customers and a loss of sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Advanced networking solutions have emerged as a critical player in this revolution, offering the potential to enhance restaurant operations dramatically. These technologies promise to streamline processes, improve customer service, and provide a competitive edge in an increasingly digital world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 9, 2024

To gain more insights, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Sambvani. How are restaurants using AI now? Currently, restaurants are leveraging AI in various aspects of their operations, including customer service, marketing, operations management, and data analysis.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 4, 2020

The hospitality industry faces a unique challenge, where they have to enforce these new health and safety measures while keeping the customer experience elevated. Practice Even Better Customer Service. Encourage your employees to practice excellent customer service.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Ask any restaurant owner for their main pain point and the likely response will be: staffing. Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked hiring expert Sid Upadhyay, co-founder and CEO of Wizehire for his advice on best practices for hiring and retention. What do you see as key challenges of restaurant hiring right now?

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 22, 2024

Previously, he co-founded CAKE, which was acquired by Sysco and helped create Sysco Labs, a platform for food service distributors. "People "People tend to go to fast-food restaurants for the speed and lower price point. ."

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They can also decrease operating costs by streamlining efficiency and reducing the dependency on labor and improve the customer experience by expediting average transaction time, eliminating order inaccuracies, and implementing loyalty integrations.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 26, 2020

Restaurants’ technology infrastructure has become more complex and the network even more vital to the customer experience. Sadly, the technology support models most restaurants employ aren’t conducive to capturing data about systems and failures. Downtime is no recipe for success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of fast food, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a topic of heated discussion, especially with giant brands adopting (…or, ahem, dropping) this new technology to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Customer-centric. Customer experience management. If you’ve worked in the restaurant industry over the past decade, chances are you’ve heard these buzzwords championed as top business priorities and guiding principles for success. More often than not happier workers usually lead to happier customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

Third-party delivery threatens the brand’s relationship with its customers due to the loss of first-party data and control of the customer experience end-to-end, most critically food quality and customer service. Managing down third-party fees will improve margins as labor costs continue to rise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 25, 2022

While QR codes are a great tool for contactless service, they have a wide variety of uses, particularly when it comes to marketing. Restaurants can capitalize on the growing familiarity of QR codes to help drive sales. Here are a few easy ways you can provide better customer service and increase profits by using QR codes.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

An added benefit: restaurants can also capture and analyze valuable customer data. Using cutting-edge technology positions restaurants to unlock a wealth of prospects to enhance the customer experience. Enhanced accuracy through minimized human errors in order processing and inventory tracking. Ordering screens.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 3, 2022

Because of automation and IoT connectivity, these systems require no human intervention to make the adjustments and lifts the burden of energy management from staff to focus on the customer experience. If temperatures fluctuate away from optimal levels, the monitoring system alerts a manager to take quick corrective action.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

However, trained chefs don’t need to worry about losing their jobs to a restaurant AI yet, but we cannot dismiss this scenario entirely either. For now, restaurants are using AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) to streamline operations and improve customer service in a much less tech-savvy environment.

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