Hospitality News and Updates
Provided by Hospitality Technology News
- How one QSR worked with its vendor to find big savings.
- MAC authentication via captive portal has serious security shortcomings and makes onboarding IoT guest devices cumbersome at best; MAC randomization can disrupt the user experience and hamper revenue opportunities for the hotel.
- The initiative with TerraCycle will give new life to the currently single-use hot sauce packets as Taco Bell works to fulfill global packaging commitments.
- TableSafe customer transaction revenue in Q1 rebounds to pre-COVID levels.
- Doora is making food deliveries to a test group of customers.
Provided by Modern Restaurant Management
- The last year has been devastating for the restaurant industry. Every brand has had to react quickly to stay in business while trying to keep guests and customers safe. Online sales, curbside pickup, and delivery skyrocketed as restaurants scrambled to adapt. These tools were critical to surviving the worst of…
- Attracting customers to your business – and then bringing them back through your doors, again and again – is the secret sauce of any successful restaurant. There’s no single way to perfect that recipe, but one ingredient that has consistently worked across segments and locations is youth sports sponsorships. For…
- On this episode of The Main Course, host Barbara Castiglia learns how data can help restaurant operators build better relationships with their customers from Joel Montaniel CEO of SevenRooms. The idea for SevenRooms came when he noticed that if you didn’t attend a restaurant enough, they wouldn’t know anything about the customer. “They were…
- A comparison of year-over-year foot traffic rates across different dining subcategories reveals they are all experiencing a slow but steady recovery, according to the latest data from foot traffic analytics platform Placer.ai. “Unsurprisingly, the hardest-hit dining segment was sit-down dining, which saw a dramatic drop of around 40 percent in year-over-year visits…
- In 2019, the hospitality industry found it exceedingly difficult to staff our properties. We blamed the extraordinarily low unemployment rate of 3.6 percent. Employees could pick and choose because there were far more jobs available than people to fill them. COVID-19 hit and then, because we had to close our…