Yelp Introduces Guest Manager, A Front-of-House Operations Tool for Restaurants
Yelp today introduced a new, comprehensive solution for restaurants to manage their front-of-house operations. With online searches for takeout remaining above pre-pandemic levels, the new Yelp Guest...
View ArticleText Marketing Delivers Massive Lift for Restaurants in 2021
Text marketing programs are ubiquitous in the restaurant industry, but are they profitable? New data from the customer relationship management platform Mobivity shows that text message marketing...
View ArticleCould Delivery Service Partners Offer Restaurants More Than a Lifeline?
Restaurants and delivery service partners (DSPs) have had a love–hate relationship since the onset of Covid. Companies like DoorDash and GrubHub initially offered a lifeline to food businesses...
View ArticleHow Restaurant Chains Are Using NFTs in 2022
As NFTs continue to move into the mainstream, more restaurant chains are finding ways to integrate non-fungible tokens into their marketing strategies. What was once an approach used primarily by...
View ArticleHow Local Human-Driven Outreach is Helping Multi-Location Restaurants Grow Sales
More than 1 million restaurant and hotel workers left their jobs last year, leaving those who remain in the industry scrambling to serve customers and fulfill to-go orders. Restaurants have been forced...
View ArticleLocation-Based Marketing Association: Meta Goes After Restaurant Sales
In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers BC Transit debuting NextRide real-time transit info, PayTile launching a geo-location payment app, Meta going after...
View Article6 AI-Based Voice Ordering Systems for Restaurants
The takeout craze that took off during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t let up. Across the country, restaurant chains are seeing an influx of orders placed through phones and mobile apps. Coupled with...
View ArticleHyperlocal Restaurant Advertising Hits CTV
Roku is bringing CTV advertising to restaurants. The company has partnered with DoorDash to combine CTV advertising and local restaurant promotions – to our knowledge, the first company to do so....
View ArticleCEO Adam Golomb on How Restaurant Chain Primanti Bros Is Evolving
Pittsburgh native Adam Golomb has fond memories of going to Primanti Bros., as a kid with his dad. Today, he’s the CEO of the fast-food chain that started out as a humble food cart in 1933, serving...
View ArticleHire Purpose: Five Creative Ways to Help Solve the Staff Shortage
Restaurants have nearly 2 million unfilled jobs, and retailers are down about 5.5 million workers. If you work in these industries, you probably know the many reasons behind the staff shortage. The...
View ArticleThe 3 Technologies MULO Restaurant Businesses Need Today: A Chat with Eric...
Eric Seymour is the VP of Channel Programs at me&u. The company provides tech-powered ordering to restaurants. He believes strongly that the right technologies, combined with the best possible...
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