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6 Mobile Payment Solutions for Restaurants and Bars
When it comes to mobile payment processing, the restaurant industry is in a league of its own. Mobile platforms that are designed for a wide cross-section of businesses don’t always have the features...
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Street Fight Daily: Square Reportedly Postpones IPO, Apple Brings iOS to the Car
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology Square IPO Postponed Indefinitely (Fox Business) Square, the mobile payments startup created by Twitter...
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6 Tools to Add Menus to Mobile Apps
Online menus drive more traffic to restaurants than coupons and giveaways combined, with 33% of consumers in a 2014 JiWire survey saying they’re more influenced by seeing menu information in a mobile...
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6 Waitlist Management Tools for Restaurants
Eager to eliminate the organizational challenges and financial liabilities that go along with traditional reservation systems, restaurants are increasingly turning toward digital platforms that allow...
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Case Study: Tampa Restaurant Boosts Business With Mobile Waitlist
Merchant: Datz Location: Tampa, Florida Platform: QLess, OpenTable, Facebook Bottom Line: Mobile waitlist management systems increase the time that customers are willing to wait for tables during peak...
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6 Demand-Based Pricing Platforms for Restaurants
Airlines and hotels have done it for years, and now restaurants are getting in on the action with dynamic pricing structures of their own. With the goal of maximizing revenue and keeping their tables...
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Case Study: Restaurant Group Takes a Data-Driven Approach to Email Marketing
La Sandia Cantina, image courtesy of Richard Sandoval Restaurants Merchant: Richard Sandoval Restaurants Location: Worldwide Size: 35 locations Platforms: Venga, Constant Contact Bottom Line:...
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Zenchef CEO: The Restaurant Tech Sector Is Booming
French company Zenchef, which offers an all-in-one marketing solution for restaurants, has taken on the challenge of uniting thousands of European eateries on one platform. With 2,500 customers in...
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6 Tools Restaurants Can Use to Accept Mobile Orders
The mobile ordering landscape is quickly evolving, with increases in consumer demand fueling the growth. Quick-service giant Panera says online ordering was responsible for eight percent of its total...
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In Local Marketing, ‘Obsolete’ Is All Relative
There’s a hard truth that no small business owner wants to hear: The march of progress isn’t going to slow down anytime soon. In fact, the pace of innovation is such that many new technologies are...
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Retail, Restaurants, and Roofers: Where Does On-Demand Work (and Not)?
A year into the on-demand revolution, the question persists: Where’s it going next? So far, it’s gone into nearly every local vertical, sometimes comically. The common mistake: seeing attractive unit...
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Case Study: Restaurant Increases Visit Frequency with Mobile Ordering Option
Image courtesy of The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Merchant: The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Location: San Francisco, California Platforms: ChowNow, Facebook, Postmates, Yelp Bottom Line:...
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Feastly Co-founder: ‘We’re Looking to Become the Largest Dining Establishment...
When it comes to connecting restaurants and consumers, a lot of progress has been made in the past few years as local tech companies have built out online reviews, reservations, delivery, and loyalty...
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6 Customer Analytics Solutions for Restaurants
The restaurant industry may be better positioned to take advantage of big data than almost any other vertical. Online reservation platforms, connected POS systems, digital loyalty programs, and even...
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#SFSW16 VIDEO: Rethinking Restaurants — Local Tech Remakes an Industry
Restaurants are a particularly large and important vertical in local, and as such they’ve long been a testing ground for a variety of digital products. Now a new generation of companies is starting to...
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5 Predictive Ordering Platforms for Restaurants
Restaurants tend to rely more heavily on technology than businesses in other verticals, with many having already adopted cloud-based POS and digital tools for marketing and promotion. But one area...
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6 POS Systems Designed With Restaurants in Mind
Change is coming to the restaurant industry, where the majority of businesses are still using legacy point-of-sale systems that don’t integrate with many of the mobile marketing and operational...
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Report: Delivery Apps Don’t Cannibalize Restaurant Visits
Consumer tastes are changing, and the restaurant industry is feeling the heat. Although restaurant sales are expected to reach $799 billion this year, the rate of growth has remained tepid, and...
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TripAdvisor Study Shows Room for Growth in Restaurant Marketing
Tight margins and fierce competition have always been hallmarks of the restaurant industry, but changes in the way consumers decide where to dine are forcing restaurateurs to get even more strategic...
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TripAdvisor Pushes Further Into Restaurant Space with Local Ad Product
Having already tackled travel and hotels, TripAdvisor is continuing to go after the restaurant vertical, today launching a new product aimed at independent restaurants and restaurant groups....
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