Off-Premise Dining: A Data-Powered Approach

Off-premise dining and delivery are only becoming more popular options in today's restaurant climate. To stay viable (and profitable), restaurants need to establish an off-premise dining strategy for their operation.  To most efficiently enact an off-premise dining strategy in your restaurant (and believe us, you can!), it helps to have an understanding of the various streams of data it generates, and how these relate to off-premise dining in the first place. You needn't be a data expert at all. We're going to look at three areas: front-of-house data; back-of-house data; and your operations data as well as how you can put them to work in your strategy.

Front-of-House Data - Managing Traffic (and Guest Expectations)Front-of-House data relates directly to your guest management efforts, stats like the number of guests served, their average wait times and table turn times. The device you use at your front-of-house should store this data, and from it, you can get a real read on your…