Sensor technology is now a staple in parking lots, letting restaurants without a drive-through setup serve customers who order food and pay for it without leaving their car
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Wisely to Debut New Product Features to Support Improved Off-Premise Business for Restaurants
Restaurant staff can digitize orders that come in via phone by typing the order and guest information into the point-of-sale, then the order and guest record is automatically pushed
Contactless Gives Guests Control of Their Own Experience
Keep our staff safe and give our guests a safe, simple, and seamless experience, but still keeping the customer service experience in mind.
Bartaco’s Whole-Team Approach to COVID Survival
QR dining is, in essence, ordering from a card, just on a mobile device. And the cards themselves haven’t left. They remain for those who don’t want to use their phone.
5 Ways to Increase Your Restaurant’s Transparency with Customers
Food quality has grown in importance, and people are worried about their health and the effects food can have on their bodies, making transparency highly important in today’s restaurant industry. Customers like to be informed, especially if they have any allergies, are on a strict diet, or are very serious about the kinds of foods […]
How Are Restaurants Preparing For The Second Wave Of Covid?
With the anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival in the United States approaching, restaurants aren’t looking to a return to normal, but to a potential second wave, and all that comes with it. While each state will respond differently, no restaurant can rule out the possibility of lockdowns, new local and state restrictions, and enforced closures. Restaurant […]
On-premise Dining Trends: What’s On the Horizon Post-COVID?
Dining as we knew it hasn’t been the same since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Community tables, food truck rallies, packed food halls – these, at least for the past year, have been a thing of the past. But will that continue? What’s changed that consumers now believe is for the better when it comes to […]
Bartaco evolves service to thrive in COVID-19 pandemic
Bartaco has evolved its service model during the COVID-19 pandemic, adding such lifestyle offerings as “picnic on the patio” and layering on touchless ordering and menus via quick response or QR codes according to CEO and co-founder Scott Lawton.
6 Strategies To Make Your Front-of-House More Efficient
Operating a restaurant means constantly reassessing how to make things more efficient. Would changing the layout give servers more space to drop dishes faster? Would switch to counter service increase sales? Would adding online ordering improve take-out numbers? Restaurateurs agonize over these factors. But one space it’s easy to make changes for the better is […]
As Biden Prepares to Take Office, the Minimum Wage Battle Returns
Changes are happening in real-time, though. At 22-unit bartaco, one of the brand’s early pandemic tactics was to pivot to a QR-based dine-in model. The brand anchored its virtual host system with Wisely and supported the QR experience
