Restaurant Industry Trends
Monday, October 1st, 2012
As much as Americans hate to admit the fact, popularity is a fundamental building block to success- especially in the restaurant business. Google, Yahoo, Bing, and countless other online search engines provide consumers with infinite pages after pages of results for any phrase or keyword they search for. When using an online search engine, people [...]
Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engines, SEO
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Monday, September 17th, 2012
With the current state of the economy, coupons have become a staple in the wallets of America’s consumers. A study conducted by Valassis found that roughly 80 percent of consumers use coupons regularly and, as of 2011, marketers circulated around 305 billion coupons. Coupons are an effective way to attract new or returning diners and [...]
Tags: Coupons
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Today there are tons of different promotional tools that restaurants can use to increase their business. It can be difficult however to tell which ones are best for them. There are a few key tools that can be especially useful for promotions and spreading the word about their restaurants. Foursquare This is a tool that [...]
Tags: foursquare, opentable, pintrest, yelp
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
In today’s fast paced and technology based society, credit cards are becoming more frequently used than cash. Over 200 million people have at least one credit card with the average of people owning about 3.5 cards. Restaurants have evolved and taken advantage of this type of payment, but the process of using online ordering and [...]
Tags: credit card, online ordering system, restaurant
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
You have your online menu set up, but how are you going to get those orders sent to your restaurant so you can actually make them? MenuDrive gives its customers a variety of different options when it comes to receiving orders. There are four ways by which a restaurant can have orders delivered to them [...]
Tags: POS integration, POS system
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Deciding on a POS system for a restaurant is a big commitment. There are hundreds of different systems out on the market that restaurants can use and this can make it difficult to decide which one is best for their business. Certain steps should be taken to ensure that a restaurant will be getting the [...]
Tags: POS system
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
As a previous employee of the foodservice industry, I know the dread of seeing a huge group of customers ready to come in and order all at once. Mistakes are always made and it is very stressful for the employees to try and make all the customers happy. Online ordering has resolved some of these [...]
Tags: group ordering
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