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Adapting Post-COVID: What’s Changing For Restaurants?

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We will also see a rise in use of virtual waitlist and reservation platforms across restaurants. With 71 percent of operators saying they had profit margins under 10 percent in 2019 alone, a focus on dollars and cents will be more crucial than ever post-pandemic. Revisiting Tech Stacks to Connect Data.

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A Summer of More: Leveraging Tech Solutions to Impress Enthusiastic Diners

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As more Americans become vaccinated, a rapid resurgence of diners are clamoring for reservations at restaurants across the country. Restaurant bookings in May were up 48 percent compared to May 2019, and revenues are increasing as on-premise dining picks up heading into a busy summer season.

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When Robots Replace Restaurant Workers, We All Lose

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As QR codes, app-based service, and robotic servers become more and more common, that makes the job tougher for the humans working alongside them This story was originally published on Civil Eats. For servers, baristas, and other food industry employees, it can already feel like we’re competing with customers’ phones for their basic respect.

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Four Tactics Restaurant Managers Can Implement Now to Improve Employee Engagement

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It is crucial the chef, sommelier, and servers are given the tools and knowledge they need during the onboarding process to perform their job well. . #2: Improve the Onboarding Experience for New Employees Onboarding is the process by which new hires are integrated and brought up to speed.

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How to Boost Your Restaurant Website’s SEO

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Take steps such as compressing large files, reducing redirects, and improving server times to optimize your site’s performance. Your website’s content can recreate that experience online, enticing online visitors to become patrons with a standing reservation. Mobile-friendly. What does this mean for restaurant owners?

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Supporting Financial Flexibility amid Restaurant Reopenings

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Creative adaptations such as online reservations, third party delivery options, robot servers, paperless menus, digital wallets and on-demand pay for employees are just a few of the digital transformations that restaurants have adopted in the past couple months. In 2019, the overall turnover rate in the restaurant sector was about 78.6

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Restaurant Math Isn’t Working

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Margins are tighter than ever as restaurants try to balance higher costs of rent and ingredients, reservation site fees and insurance premiums , and paying fair wages, all while trying to keep prices at a level customers will actually pay. We probably have fewer people working at the restaurant than we did in 2019.

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