What Is Digital Restaurant Ordering?
Digital restaurant ordering explained: how POS-native ordering connects web, mobile, text, and marketplaces to the restaurant POS for accuracy and control.
Phone Automation Is a Restaurant Labor Lifesaver: “Helping Our Retention Rates by Lowering the Stress in Stores”
Imagine running a QSR chain with 400+ locations across 20 states, and never having to worry about staffing issues. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, that’s exactly what…
Manual Order Re-Entry Into Your POS Is A Profit-Killer
What if we told you manually re-entering orders from all your delivery apps into your POS is more than just tedious — it can damage your restaurant business in the…
HungerRush Wins In Pizza: Customer Service and HungerRush 360
Too many POS systems have lackluster customer support and don’t integrate at all with third-party ordering apps. HungerRush has a proven track record of providing restaurant management solutions—and excellent customer service—to pizza shop owners.
The Pizza POS System Built for Real Pizza Operations
Generic POS systems make pizza complicated. Half-and-half pricing, multi-step coupons, delivery zones — they build workarounds, not solutions. Here’s what a POS actually built for pizza looks like.
The Wall Street Journal Predicts A Bright Future For AI-Powered Phone Orders
Authored by: Matthew Dieden (Product Marketing Director) Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash It won’t be long until your restaurant’s are answered by AI-powered phone orders. They’ll know your…
A Native DoorDash Marketplace Integration Comes to HungerRush: Here’s What It Means
Managing DoorDash orders used to mean juggling a second tablet or paying for extra middleware. With HungerRush's native DoorDash integration, orders flow directly into your POS, menus stay in sync, and your team spends more time running great shifts — less time re-entering data.
Why In-House Marketing Automation Isn’t As Hard As You Think
Authored by: Orly Reitkop (9fold by HungerRush) Source: Shutterstock The restaurant industry is booming. As of 2022, it was worth 80 billion U.S. dollars. But between the labor crisis and…
How Profitable Are Pizza Restaurants? (+ How to Calculate and Raise Profits)
Source: MBrothers The U.S. pizza industry is worth nearly $46 billion. About 60% of that goes to enterprise-level chains, leaving almost $18.4 billion for smaller operators. This begs the question...how…
The Inevitability of Contactless Payments
Authored by: Dan Wallin (Vice President of Product Management) The world is learning to live with the coronavirus illness, but while many consumers are returning to pre-pandemic behaviors and preferences,…
Believe It or Not: Marketing Can Help Grow Your Business Even During a Labor Shortage!
Authored by: Matthew Volpe (Product Management) I know what you’re thinking. How can marketing help when your restaurant is struggling with limited resources? It just depends on your perspective and…
Short On Labor? How Restaurant Technology Can Reduce Labor By 21%
Pandemic shortages are still hurting the restaurant industry—this time it’s not paper plates or potatoes. It’s people. The labor shortage is hitting restaurants hard, but there are powerful ways to…
Text Ordering is the Rising Restaurant Trend of 2021
The explosion of digital ordering for food in the last year has been highly profitable—for third-party delivery apps. For restaurant chains, the story’s been a little different. The big apps…
Pizza Marketing: How to Master Google My Business for Local SEO
An age-old saying is getting an update for 2021 and our increasingly digital restaurant industry: “location, location, location—in the Google search results”. Local search engine optimization (SEO) has never been…
3 Restaurant Tech Solutions to Consider for Spring
Operating a restaurant requires you to manage many moving parts expertly. It can often feel challenging to keep up with continuous change, especially when it comes to restaurant tech solutions.…
Navigating the Future of Off-Site Operations in 2021
Last year, many restaurant owners had to adapt to changing circumstances with lightning speed. Customer convenience has never been more critical for the success of your restaurant. You’ve already had…
3 Ways Text Ordering Will Transform the Restaurant Industry
While the restaurant industry as a whole faced a lot of growing pains this past year, one silver lining that came out of the struggle was the rise of digital…
Restaurants Must Control Their Digital Ordering Experience
The impact of the last year has fast-tracked the restaurant industry's need for digital ordering, particularly for off-premises dining options. Restaurants have navigated through unique challenges to meet ever-changing customer…
Restaurant Solutions Spring Cleaning Checklist
Around this time last year, your spring-cleaning checklist probably included standard tasks like deep-cleaning your freezer and scrubbing down your appliances. But in less than a year, restaurant operations shifted…
3 Tips to Increase Pizza Sales in 2021
2020 brought challenges for most business owners. Restaurants faced immense struggles trying to navigate the confines of a pandemic. And while the business model for pizzerias lends itself fairly well…
The One Technology Solution Your Restaurant Needs for 2021
The impact of the pandemic has forced many restaurant owners to reevaluate their operations to survive and grow past the crisis. With dips in revenue this past year, it’s essential…
A Year in Review of The Restaurant Industry and a Look Into 2021
2020 was a year unlike any other for restaurant owners. What began as a short shutdown turned into nine months (and counting) of navigating a global pandemic. Here’s a look…
Restaurant Delivery Services Will Be Vital to Get Through Winter: Here’s How to Prepare
Winter has officially arrived, and with it brings new challenges for restaurant owners. It was already challenging for restaurant owners to navigate the holiday season and the poor weather that…
Restaurant Menu Ideas That Maximize Your Profit Margin
As a restaurant owner, cutting costs and increasing profits are always top-of-mind, especially in this day and age, where the restaurant industry has been hit with challenge after challenge. Reducing…
How to Soar Past the Competition with Effective Restaurant Advertising
The majority of restaurants have now reopened under new guidelines. While this is great news for restauranteurs, it comes with a new challenge: a surge in competition. Because of this,…
Implementing a Retail-Restaurant Hybrid Strategy to Drive Additional Revenue
While the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in new opportunities for the restaurant industry, food service providers still face many challenges. The importance of driving revenue is higher now more than…
How to Adapt Your Restaurant During COVID-19
These are trying times. The pandemic has disrupted restaurants financially and operationally. Restaurant owners are now forced to rethink their operations past the short term and in the long term. …
Goodbye, POS: HungerRush 360 is the Future
When McDonalds became the first restaurant in the world to adopt the digital point of sale (POS) system in 1973, it was a game-changing moment. In the fifty years since,…
How to Get Customers Back to Your Restaurant After COVID-19
At a time when nearly everything seems abnormal thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, many consumers are eagerly searching for activities and places that make them feel some semblance of normalcy.…
Why HungerRush 360 is Key to Profitable Pizzerias
COVID-19 has thrown the pizza industry for a loop. Many dine-in operations have slowed down or shuttered altogether, but the industry as a whole continues to survive. Pizzerias, more than most,…
How to Increase Delivery Sales with Integrated Delivery Management Technology
Because of state-mandated closures and social distancing guidelines from the (CDC) in the wake of COVID-19. 92% of restaurant business has taken place off-premises. For the consumer, even a pandemic was not…
Build-Your-Own Meal Kit: How Restaurants Can Modify Their Traditional Business Model to Thrive
With the massive changes that the hospitality industry has recently undergone because of COVID-19, restaurant owners are looking for ways to modify their business models to adapt and overcome new challenges as they…
Demystifying the Cloudiness in Cloud-Based POS Systems
A recent article from Reforming Retail discussed the reasoning behind a recent acquisition of Cloud POS provider. The reasoning was to make the provider more competitive and address market needs. …
How Restaurants Can Diversify to Account for Unexpected Consumer Behavior
In the restaurant business, sometimes unpredictable events can occur that disrupt everyday life. Things like pandemics, natural disasters, and other types of crises can turn everything on its head and…
How 2020 Restaurant Trends are Transforming the Way Pizzerias Operate
Ever since the first U.S. pizzeria opened in Manhattan in 1905, customer preferences—both in the pizzas themselves and how they’re obtained—have continually evolved. By the 1940s, pizzerias were opening all…
5 Tips for Training and Maintaining High-Performing Restaurant Employees
Keep these 5 “Rs” in mind to help reduce staff turnover I was leaving a restaurant recently and noticed a reserved parking spot right in front with a sign that…
Restaurant Sustainability: 3 Ways Your Pizzeria Can Go Green
Sustainability Sells Sustainability—avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance—has acquired increasing attention since the modern environmental movement started in the 1970s. Sustainability isn’t…
Four Ways to Make the Most of Your Online Ordering Pizza App
Does Your Pizzeria Really Need an App for Online Ordering? Pizzeria owners have a lot to manage, from inventory and labor scheduling to menu decisions and delivery services. Do you…
Relationship Between Restaurant Customer Experience and Profitability
Customers Expect Superior Restaurant Experiences A restaurant’s brand is no longer just about the food. Now, the restaurant customer experience (CX) plays a vital role in which restaurants customers choose.…
How to Get the Most Out of Your Pizzeria Loyalty Program
Cropped image of three male friends in bar are drinking beer and eating pizza with smartphone on the table. Maintaining and growing a loyal customer base is essential for the…
Ways to Maximize the Profitability of Your Pizzeria Delivery Services
Ways to Maximize the Profitability of Your Pizzeria Delivery Services Today’s consumers are all about convenience when it comes to food. We’ve already passed the point where restaurant spending has exceeded…
Restaurant KPIs: What Pizzeria Owners Should Analyze from 2019 to Grow in 2020
It’s a new year (and a new decade!), which means it’s time for pizzeria owners to assess how well you hit your 2019 goals and where you might have fallen…
5 Super Bowl Pizza Marketing Tips to Score More Sales
The big game is less than three weeks away. On February 2nd, people from all over the US will gather together to root for their favorite team to become Super…
2020 Restaurant Industry Trends: What Owners or Managers Need to Know
2020 trend concept. Hand flip wood cube change year 2019 to 2020 The coming year looks to be another healthy one for the restaurant industry. People are spending more and…
Three Ways to Reduce Pizzeria Restaurant Wait Times
The pizza restaurant industry continues to be a healthy one: according to the 2020 Pizza Power Report from PMQ1, the U.S. pizza market generates $46.34 billion in sales—and that figure…
Considering a New Pizza POS System? Don’t Forget About Overlooked Features
Pizzerias are a unique vertical of the hospitality industry. Even a skilled full service restaurant owner or bar manager would need to learn the nuances of the pizza industry to…
3 Signs Your Pizzeria Menu Management System Needs a Major Makeover
Your menu is important. It’s what draws customers in and what keeps them coming back. But what the most successful pizzeria owners understand is managing your menu is just as…
3 Ways to Leverage Restaurant Digital Signage to Increase Revenue
If you’re looking for a way to increase the visual appeal of your restaurant and create greater engagement with your customers, it might be time to explore restaurant digital signage. This…
5 Ways a Tablet POS Can Help Grow Your Restaurant
Did you know that integrating tablet POS into your day-to-day processes will increase operational efficiencies, boost sales, and optimize the customer experience? Leveraging tablet POS technology offers several benefits to your…
A Guide to Understanding Merchant Services and Payment Processing Fees
If you’re opening a new restaurant, one of the startup essentials is setting up an account with a merchant services provider (a.k.a. credit card processor) so that you can accept…