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How Restaurants Can Increase Repeat Customers

As a restaurant owner, you want to increase your sales. To Increase your sales, you need to sell more. A great way to sell more is to have repeat customers. A=B=C. According to Food Service Warehouse, frequent guests only account for about 15% of your customer base, but that 15% provides about one-third of your [...]

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Creating Video Advertisements for Restaurants

Advertising is the backbone of every successful restaurant. Owners are constantly searching for new and innovative strategies that will creatively advertise their restaurant. Print and in-house advertising is great and effective, but with the surge in internet traffic, restaurants need to advertise online in order to stay in the game and reach out to more [...]

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Securing Your Restaurant’s Website

Security is at the forefront of both customers’ and restaurants’ minds.  With the amount of hackers and viruses that are present on the internet, it is no surprise that they are concerned.  But there are ways to protect against hacking.  Restaurants can take specific measures to ensure their sites are secure and give their customers [...]

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Top POS Systems

When it comes to deciding which POS system to use for your restaurant the choices can seem a bit overwhelming.  If you do a little research you will see that there are well over a hundred different systems that you can choose from. There are also different features that come along with some but not others and [...]

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Online Ordering Payment Options

You have your online ordering system set up, but before you can actually receive orders you have to decide how you are going to accept payment for your sales. So what is the best way? How are you going to make sure that the payments are secured from the customers to your account?  Do you [...]

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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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Creating A Mobile Ordering App

It’s a safe bet to assume you have seen the Domino’s commercials and heard about Starbucks adding mobile ordering apps to their businesses to try and increase sales. They have taken notice that about 72-83% of “early adopters” order from restaurant apps weekly. While Domino’s and Starbucks have made this process seem easy, choosing to [...]

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The Art of Making a Menu

When a customer walks into a restaurant, the first thing they see is the environment. Picture a skilled Hibachi chef tossing seasoned steak in his enormous wok or a Pizza baker kneading powdered dough in front of the counter. As the guests make their way to their table, the next thing they should notice is [...]

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Companies Try to Expand Facebook Fans

Many companies now know that Facebook can be a great marketing tool to attract people to order visit their store. The only obstacle is gaining a solid fan base on Facebook to advertise to. You can have the best marketing ideas for Facebook, but they will not work if you do not have a base [...]

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Wendy’s Gains Advantage in Hiring Workers

Businesses are now hiring again, which is great news to all those unemployed people out there. This may be great for the unemployed, but for hiring managers within companies, this means more competition for workers. Wendy’s has recently had trouble with finding workers to staff all of their stores across the country, until recently. Wendy’s [...]

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