As on-demand culture and digitally driven services grow, so do innovative and diversifying delivery options. To meet accelerating demand, off-premises channels need to deliver an ever-expanding range of services.
New Roads to Revenue: Delivery Innovations Fueled by Fast-Changing Market
Topics: Technology, Trends, Delivery, Sustainability, Packaging, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Off-Premises, Third-Party Delivery (3PD)
Restaurant Rebound: From Eating Losses to Platefuls of Profits
What a difference a few years can make. It’s been over two years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, and while the light at the end of the tunnel has flickered and faded at times, bright spots have emerged and expanded to illuminate a feast of opportunities and recharge our sense of optimism.
Topics: Technology, Trends, Mobile, Delivery, Sales & Profitability, Operations, Drive-Thru, Curbside Pickup, Off-Premises, Digital/Online Ordering
Flexible Feast: Restaurant Prototypes Step Up to the Plate to Optimize the Customer Experience
The pandemic gave us all a crash course in the importance of flexibility at a critical juncture for the foodservice industry. To overcome unimaginable business challenges, foodservice providers across segments, independent operators and major restaurant chains all quickly learned they had to be extraordinarily nimble and adaptable or risk eating catastrophic losses.
Topics: Technology, Trends, Sales & Profitability, Operations, Drive-Thru, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Off-Premises, Digital/Online Ordering
Big APPetite: Restaurant Apps Feed Need for Customer Experiences
The pandemic has made consumers particularly picky. Safety, speed, convenience and great-tasting, travel-friendly food that combines value and quality are all essential ingredients for success. And even as dining rooms reopened, the new norm persisted, and tricky challenges emerged including supply-chain breaks, labor shortages and virus variants.
Topics: Trends, Loyalty, Foodservice Industry, Sales & Profitability, Operations, Off-Premises, Digital/Online Ordering
Everything Bold Is New Again: Key Foodservice Trends Expected to Continue in 2022
Given the sweeping, pandemic-propelled changes that permeated the foodservice industry in 2021, it’s a safe bet that this will be a bold year of next-level transformational trends. And technology is sure to be at the forefront of the seismic shifts across the competitive landscape.
Topics: Trends, Foodservice Industry, Sales & Profitability, Operations, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Fast-Casual Restaurant, Off-Premises