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Why Your Restaurant Needs Front-of-House Automation Workflows

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants are making use of workflow automation to increase efficiency in numerous ways inlcuding customer service automation and sales and marketing automation. Sales teams and marketers are deploying sales and marketing technology to automate the customers' journey and accelerate conversions. Improving customer service.

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Consumers Welcome Some Restaurant Automation, Reject Others

Modern Restaurant Management

Prices for real estate, inventory, and labor are rising. The results give the green light for certain restaurants to introduce more front-of-house automation. QSRs need to approach automation investments with a nuanced understanding of their position in the market as well as their existing perception among consumers.

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How Small but Mighty Restaurants Can Optimize Data to Muscle Up Growth

Modern Restaurant Management

In a restaurant world filled with heavy hitters armed with deep pockets and marketing power, it can seem difficult for smaller concepts to compete. Let’s say the price of beef goes up. Understand customer cravings and business needs through data. Another way to slice and dice data is to comb through food costs.

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How To Choose the Right Tech for Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Owners remain grounded in traditional ways of doing business – you have front-of-house staff taking care of the customer from service to payment, and you have back-of-house staff taking care of the food and management. With so many options on the market, determining which tech is the right fit can seem daunting.

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5 Things to Avoid With Menu Pricing Strategy

MBB Hospitality

Now that you’ve decided to open up your restaurant, you’ll have to determine pricing for all the delicious items you’ll sell to patrons. The right menu pricing strategy is essential for attracting customers and establishing a reliable client base. Pricing Based On Competition. Not Informing Staff About Marketing Efforts.

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Positioning Your Restaurant for Sale

Modern Restaurant Management

Having detailed financials for three years prior to the year you want to sell is very helpful in determining an opinion of value of your business and what a fair market price would be. Determining Sale Price. The right sales price will ensure that your restaurant gets sold a price and in a time frame that makes you happy.

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How to Strategically Plan Your Restaurant Renovation

Modern Restaurant Management

In between major changes it may help to implement some front-of-house upgrades using minimal capital and labor. Yes, there are certainly some marketing advantages to changing the look of your restaurant to make it more Instagrammable. Your back-of-house equipment may well be long overdue for upgrades.