Can your restaurant survive without an app? More and more each day,  apps are part of our phones. In the same way, more and more companies are using apps to make their business more easy and optimal.

How can you as a business owner take advantage of today's World digitalization?

Some points where having an app for a restaurant is very beneficial:

Delivery

The pandemic changed the situation of the restaurant business and made it more difficult for them. Even after, people still want to have their favorite food delivered to their homes. So restaurants had to adapt to this situation. 

Although that is normally used by a 3rd party app, a company that makes food delivery has an app that the restaurant owner uses to their advantage.

Of course, some restaurants have their delivery and in those cases, an app is mandatory and allows the restaurant to deliver to more people and make special menus for delivery, where the chef can use products that might not be used in the restaurant when people dine in.

Some examples can be Uber Eats, Doordash and Wolt

Schedulling

Long goes the days when One had a paper to write down the time their shift started and ended.

These tools can help you schedule the employee's workdays to even each employee checking their schedule and logging in and logging out.

Some examples can be Homebase, 7Shifts, and When I work

Daily Tasks

Cleaning schedules, stocking, and inventory control can be done with the help of an app that not only saves time but also allows for more accurate control.

Some examples are Market Man, Crunchtime, and Toast

Food prep and Analytics

A dish always has to have the same ingredients and amounts. Also, do you know how much waste you are getting per dish?

Having a tool or app in these subjects, not only saves time but can save headaches and even money.

Having a detailed recipe card can be a great help to many of the business. I saw in many restaurants where the seasonal workers arrive or someone who is covering a shift comes for the first day and has no idea how to make a dish, because well it’s his/her first day. 

That means that someone needs to explain all the processes and ends up also losing their time, while a clear and digitalized recipe card that is easy to follow is a "simple" way to run your business with fewer bumps on the road

Some examples can be Market Man, Eat and Touch Bistro

Customer Engagement

You want your customers to download your app right? But more importantly, you want them to come back and become a recurrent customer. 

Creating a reward program can be a great way to engage your customer base no matter what time of restaurant you have.

That can happen as a competition, as a draft, ordering a special product, etc.

Some examples can be Loyalty Plant, Belly, and Movylo

Your business doesn’t need all these, maybe it might not need any of them,

Your website if well done can have all the info necessary but indeed there are tools and apps that can help you bring your business to the next level.

What do you use in your business?

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