Restaurant Industry Trends

SEO For Restaurants

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 [...]

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Creating Restaurant Coupons

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 [...]

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Increasing Mobile Payments

What is the best way to be connected with customers all the time? Well that is easy: mobile devices.  While it is easy to connect with customers over mobile devices, it is much harder to get them to purchase products through it. 25% of smartphone owners say that they have purchased something on their mobile [...]

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Promotional Tools for Restaurants

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 [...]

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Restaurants Can Use HTML 5 For Mobile

Restaurants have heard the buzz about mobile devices. In 2011, 31.8 percent of handsets that were sold were smartphones and there were 234 million people age 13 and up who owned a mobile device in the United States. But what is new is not the devices themselves, but how people are viewing online webpages with [...]

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Integrating Credit Cards With Online Ordering Systems

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 [...]

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Receiving Online Orders from MenuDrive

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 [...]

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Choosing a POS System for Restaurants

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 [...]

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Group Ordering Helps Restaurants Satisfy Customers

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 [...]

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Loyalty Programs Drive Repeat Customers

“It costs more to attract new customers than it does to keep old ones.”  Almost every business owner has heard this phrase at some point.  But keeping those customers can be challenging and time consuming.  One tool that restaurants can use to their advantage is loyalty programs.  These are the best way to make a [...]

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