This is Slowing Down Your Restaurant Growth — And How to Fix It | Modern Restaurant Management | The Business of Eating & Restaurant Management News

Growing a restaurant or catering business is no small feat. The challenges can be overwhelming, from managing multiple orders to coordinating staff and ensuring timely deliveries. If your catering business isn’t growing as fast as you’d like, you might be facing some common roadblocks.

Below are three key factors that could be hindering your growth and offer practical solutions to overcome them. By addressing these issues, you can pave the way for sustainable success and expansion.

1. Inefficient Operations and WorkflowOne major hurdle that can slow down the growth of your catering business is inefficient operations and workflow. If you’re a catering business owner juggling multiple orders in a single day. You’re handling inventory, coordinating staff, and managing delivery routes, but everything seems to take twice as long as it should. This inefficiency doesn’t just create headaches—it can also impact your bottom line. For example, let’s say you run out of a key…

Chris Heffernan

Chris Heffernan is the Founder and CEO of dlivrd, a white-label, AI technology-forward food delivery management service using proprietary technology to match strategically placed restaurant, catering, meal kit, e-commerce and other on-demand food orders with an extensive network of independently-contracted drivers across the U.S. and Canada who meet each brand’s specific requirements. With Heffernan having more than 10 years of experience in the rapidly growing gig economy and under his leadership, dlivrd has become one of the fastest growing delivery services in America boasting over $50M in revenue for 2025—and with over 10,000 drivers across 168 markets in the U.S. and Canada.

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