Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Let’s look at low-budget restaurant marketing ideas to succeed in inflationary times. Three Tips to Promote a Restaurant on a Low Budget. Users should easily access the menu, book a table, and click on the phone number or other links without pinching. What you need is to have positive outcomes for every dollar spent.

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Revenue Hub

JUNE 13, 2023

If you decide to have your hotel on Tiktok, below are some next steps you can take to market your hotel brand: Create a business account with new and different content compared with what you have on other channels. As we mentioned earlier, this will help bring traffic to your hotel website, and can possibly lead to more direct reservations.

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7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Stay tuned for a few special tips from Melissa Bensky, one of Toronto’s most prolific foodgrammers with her account, @tastethesix. Set a budget ?? With your goal set, work backwards to determine your budget. When it comes to planning your schedule, you’ll want to work within your labor budget limits set above.

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Blue Magnet Interactive

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Your property may even have an account on Instagram and Twitter. Social listening, when done effectively, can improve your social media account performance and enhance your entire marketing strategy as a whole. Active social listening can help your marketing team make educated decisions and allocate your budget more effectively.

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Hotel Business

MARCH 13, 2024

One such way to do this is via short-term microstays, which allow guests to reserve a room for two to 12 hours in the daytime and access all the amenities of an overnight stay. Microstays also provide hotels with an opportunity to connect with budget-conscious travelers who may be priced out of their rooms otherwise.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2021

Customers want the ability to order online, set up delivery, view seating, and book tables through the convenience of a mobile phone. The great news is that an effective digital marketing strategy can be designed and implemented to fit just about any marketing budget.

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7 Shifts

MAY 3, 2021

Department-based budgeting When you integrate 7shifts with one of our many industry-leading restaurant-specific POS partners , you can use your sales data to make more accurate projections for the staff you’ll need. Events can be anything from holidays to “Bottomless Brunch” to a big reservation.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reservations agent. Taking reservations or bookings over the phone. Assisting guests with changes to their bookings. Making restaurant reservations and booking taxis on behalf of guests. Accounts and finance department. The accounting department in a hotel oversees all incoming and outgoing payments.

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Revenue Hub

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In addition, it generates additional revenue, allowing the hotel to capture a larger portion of the guest’s travel expense budget. When a customer reserves a room, the room is recorded in the PMS, and the information is transmitted to the CRM (or GRC, customer relationship management tool). How to do ? Segmentation.

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7 Shifts

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mobile ads also allow you to create an exceptional experience for the customer by providing directions to your location, allowing them to make immediate reservations, and featuring relevant reviews. GMB also provides a number of functional benefits, like enabling table reservations right from the listing. Google My Business.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 26, 2022

Restaurant Reservation System. Restaurants are slowly transitioning from the traditional pen and paper booking method to the restaurant reservation system. Things to consider when choosing a restaurant reservation system. It must have the provision to integrate with a POS system or accounting software.

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Hotel Business

MARCH 16, 2023

Booking source In 2019, OTA-sourced bookings made up 57% of all reservations, while non-OTA bookings made up the remaining 43%. During the pandemic, there was a significant shift toward direct bookings due to decreased advertising budgets for OTAs. The next most popular length of stay was three-four nights.

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Xotels

APRIL 3, 2024

Revenue Strategies & Tactics Market Segmentation Hotel Pricing Strategies Forecasting & Budgeting Properly How to Distribute Effectively? Channel Management: Effectively manage online and offline distribution channels to reach the right audience and convert the right (high-value) reservations.

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Blue Magnet Interactive

DECEMBER 20, 2023

These roles encompass Account Managers, SEO specialists, social media experts, designers/developers, email marketers, and a director. Bookings That Count: Direct Bookings, Direct Success Effective digital marketing is not just about creating awareness; it’s about converting that awareness into direct bookings.

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7 Shifts

JULY 30, 2021

From stand-out social media accounts, to good old-fashioned mail marketing, we'll walk you through 12 unique customer-driving ideas! From managing your budget to accounting and bookkeeping for national holidays and events, this document will be your year-long guide to tracking your restaurant's promotional strategy.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Taking supply and demand into account, dynamic pricing allows for prices to fluctuate regularly so the hotel can maximise revenue. Dynamic rates, on the other hand, take all that information into account to give hoteliers the information they need to maximise revenue at all times. However, dynamic pricing isn’t always perfect.

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OpenTable

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From budgeting and licensing to crafting the perfect menu, here’s everything you need to know about how to open a restaurant. Budgeting and costs You have done the research and built a watertight business plan, but what about the actual costs involved with opening a restaurant?

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SiteMinder

JANUARY 8, 2024

This can involve the management of anything related to the hotel industry and requires knowledge of distribution strategy, finance and accounts, customer service, staff management, marketing, catering management, hotel administration and more. This can include business people, long-stay travellers, budget travellers and backpackers.

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SiteMinder

JANUARY 8, 2024

This can involve the management of anything related to the hotel industry and requires knowledge of distribution strategy, finance and accounts, customer service, staff management, marketing, catering management, hotel administration and more. This can include business people, long-stay travellers, budget travellers and backpackers.

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eZee Absolute

AUGUST 10, 2023

Hyper-personalization, just like personalized marketing , takes into account a wide range of customer data, such as demographics, past purchase behavior, browsing history, social media interactions, and other relevant information. Then figure out the services that fall under both budgets.

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eZee Absolute

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The way people book hotel rooms, what they expect during their stay, and even how they want to be treated is evolving. Let’s explore some of the key impacts these shifts are having on hotels: The Rise of Online Booking: Remember the time when you had to call hotels to book a room? So, what’s the deal, you ask?

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Xotels Hotel Revenue Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

With reservation lead time changing in key markets we operate in, it is becoming more challenging to forecast accurately. There are various types of tools available for your hotel to carry out a thorough, accurate forecast, which differ depending on your needs and budget. On-the-book (OTB) data. Accurate future data.

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Les Roches

JANUARY 25, 2024

In the fast-paced world of hospitality, every customer interaction, online review, or booking generates data. This ensure­s accurate accounting practices and helps pre­vent fraud. Monitoring booking patterns, demographics and interests helps venues refine their promotional activity, increasing marketing impact.

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SiteMinder

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

What is a hotel booking plugin? Direct booking plugins are apps that will further reduce your reliance on OTAs by bringing more features and greater functionality to your existing booking engine. Table of contents Why are booking plugins so powerful? Many hotel booking plugins help with: Easy mobile bookings.

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Hotelogix

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

  Reservation management: This feature allows you to manage all your reservations from a single dashboard. You can see which rooms are available, which are booked, and which guests are checking in and out. You can also cancel or modify reservations based on guests' requirements here. 

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Les Roches

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As well as being used for registrations, facial recognition can be used to link accounts to personal profiles, which helps validate spending at the event. Costs and budgeting Evaluate costs against your budget. When selecting the right tech, several key aspects require attention to make sure you make the right choices.

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SiteMinder

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It is a complex role involving day-to-day administration, staff management, general operations, accounting and budgeting, fielding customer complaints and enquiries, menu engineering, and ensuring health and safety compliance. Creating a reservation system is the best way to ensure guests can dine at your restaurant seamlessly.

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Les Roches

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hotel operations Operating a hotel involves meticulous coordination, starting from managing room reservations to supervising staff members. Distribution channels principally include online travel agencies or direct bookings through your website or booking call centers. They must be practical, cost-effective, and streamlined.

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Revenue Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This necessitates a shift to technology infrastructure that supports keyless room entry, virtual check-ins, guest notifications, mobile tipping, and bookings. Automation technologies make a difference in hotel operations and efficiency to streamline back-office tasks such as inventory management, accounting, and payroll processing.

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Revenue Hub

OCTOBER 6, 2023

NB: This is an article from Revinate Ever since the introduction of online travel agencies (OTAs) in the ‘90s, hoteliers have struggled to achieve the optimal distribution mix between OTAs and hotel direct bookings. The state of OTAs and direct bookings The pandemic transformed the booking behavior of today’s travelers.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

So far, 2020 has thrown marketing plans, advertising budgets, and restaurant growth out of the window. Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. Whatever plans and forecasts you had for your restaurant are yesterday’s bread now. Where are they going?

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Xotels

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Increase bookings? If it’s true that social media rarely play any role during the final step of guests’ reservations, they do in the first micro-moments of the booking journey. So, make sure to claim your hotel listing on as many booking, maps, and review sites as possible, and always keep them up-to-date.

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Revenue Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

It was the very yearly days where revenue managers were very much viewed as executive reservation managers and expected to perform reservation manager duties. Not completely accurate at the time, but it did help people understand that I didn’t work in accounting, and it certainly is a more accurate statement today.

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Xotels Hotel Revenue Management

APRIL 3, 2024

In our article about What is Revenue Management and in our Free Revenue Management Book for Hotels we have explained everything in detail about what the concept of revenue management is all about. Encourage Direct Hotel Bookings Encouraging customers to book directly should be a main priority included in your revenue management strategy.

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SiteMinder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We now use more tools besides the channel manager feature, such as the booking engine, Insights, and website builder, allowing us to optimise our budget and save time.” SiteMinder Insights has allowed us to see how many bookings per OTAs our customers make. We can say that more than half of all bookings come from OTAs.

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Hotelogix

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Efficient Service Management: POS systems enable seamless management of different hotel services, such as room service, restaurant orders, spa bookings, and more. Real-Time Updates: POS systems provide real-time updates on reservations, room availability, and transactions.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 7, 2021

Their business is built on the power of word of mouth—one of, if not the most useful marketing tools in the book. There are dozens of companies that provide high-quality drag-and-drop templates with all the tools you need to take reservations and online orders. Just like anything in life, fail to prepare and prepare to fail.

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