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Being Short Staffed Is No Excuse for Poor Customer Service

Modern Restaurant Management

But being short staffed, even though it’s a legitimate excuse, is not justification for poor customer service. Other than the quality of a meal, customer service is key to attracting customers and keeping them coming back. There are ways restaurants short on staff can still provide excellent service.

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Ambient Tech Is The Future of Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are moving away from bulky point-solutions toward cohesive platforms that seamlessly integrate various tools to streamline ordering and service, food preparation, and payment. The increased attention on customer service makes it easy to forget that critical behind-the-scenes tools have made this possible.

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Exploring the Factors Behind the Surge in Restaurant Automation

Modern Restaurant Management

Robots are now being deployed for various tasks, ranging from food preparation and delivery to customer service. The industry is embracing these technologies for their potential to enhance efficiency, reduce labor costs, and ensure consistency in food preparation and service.

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Beating the Labor Crunch: Outsourced Strategies Are Key

Modern Restaurant Management

First, the amount of time managers spend recruiting can have a distracting domino effect on food service operations. Managing existing labor, attention to customer service, marketing and promotion, vendor relationships – all can suffer when so much valuable time and attention is diverted to finding and keeping talent.

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Reskilling, Retention and Robotics: Creative Solutions to the Restaurant Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

These skills include digital literacy for managing online orders and reservations, exceptional customer service, and culinary expertise for more efficient and high-quality food preparation. Reskilling the Crew Restaurants are recognizing the need to enhance certain critical skills within their teams.

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Consumers Welcome Some Restaurant Automation, Reject Others

Modern Restaurant Management

Operators must weigh guest acceptance while making strategic decisions about integrating automation at many restaurant touch points, according to Software Advice’s 2024 Automated Customer Experience Survey. Take Chick-fil-a for example: a QSR that is renowned for its fast but attentive, personalized, human-delivered customer service.

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Food Preparation Systems

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When applied to traditional food service establishments, a system is typically seen as something that does not belong and is not conducive to food preparation and serving the customer. Essentially, food service systems can be categorized into three groups: computerized or automated, semi-automated, and manual.