Restaurant drive-thrus are a quick and convenient place for customers to grab their favorite foods along their daily commutes. Pre-pandemic, 60-70 percent of a quick-service restaurant’s business came from the drive-thru. As restaurants innovate to create additional profit avenues, drive-thru …
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August 2020: Restaurant Good News Roundup
Restaurants have suffered the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic, serving as the unexpected economic and socio-political frontlines of the year's travails. As of this writing, 53% of restaurants are permanently closed, with a running total of $120B lost so far. The industry is at an ever-shifting …
5 Ways Bloggers Can Benefit Your Restaurant
Nowadays, influencer marketing is the key to success for generating revenue as a business. Restaurants are no exception to this. In the hospitality industry, it’s essential for restaurants to get as many customers as possible through advertising or word-of-mouth. Restaurant bloggers and influencers …
Restaurants and Gaming: Playing to Win
In the best of times, restaurants operate between a 3-6% profit margin, with around 60% of them failing within the first year. On top of that, the competition in the market can cut into those already-tight figures. To combat this, restaurateurs have employed some extraordinary tactics to foster a …
Restaurant Staffing and COVID-19: Before Reopening, Think About Your Team
We all want to get back to "normal," whatever that means now. Honestly, "normal" wasn't very normal in the first place so, let's look at this as a reset. This time around, there's an your opportunity to do things better than you did before. As the bills pile up and the PPP money runs low, you'll …
Your Guests’ Greatest Fears about Restaurants Reopening
If you were tired of hearing the word "unprecedented" in the early stages of the pandemic, get used to it. As we trundle into a reopen and tentatively feel out the new landscape, "uncertain" might become the next COVID buzzword. Restaurant operators, staff, and guests feel it in full measure, a …
July 2020 Restaurant Industry News Roundup
Is it August already!? We're glancing at our rearview mirrors while July fades into the horizon as we work on this month's restaurant industry news roundup. It's been a rough year for restaurants. As states try to decrease virus numbers, restaurants who'd previously shuttered in-house traffic are …
7 Dine-In Restaurant Innovations for COVID
The U.S. grapples with the COVID-19 outbreak well into the year, and many states have (tentatively) begun reopening public spaces. Almost everyone is discovering that dining-in has become a much different experience than it was in early 2020! Fortunately, some smart maneuvering can help restaurants …