THE DAILY PREP

GROWTH HACKS FOR CAFES AND RESTAURANTS

November 18, 2024

10 Ways to Run a Successful National Espresso Day Campaign for Your Café

November 15, 2024

2025 Growth Hacks: 3 Ways to Get More Coffee Shop App Users

Customer Experience

How Coffee Shops in the Suburbs Are Adopting Curbside Pickup

Anticipating A TikTok Ban in the US: How Restaurants Can Adapt Their Social Strategy

Vegan Baby! Add These 5 Dishes to Your Restaurant's Menu Now

Little Saigon: Orange County and The Origins of Vietnamese Cuisine in America

From Coffee to Cocktails: Get Creative With Mixed Use Retail Spaces

Menu Engineering

Drink Ideas to Make Your Coffee Shop Pop This Spring

The Matcha Boom: How to Incorporate Matcha Into Your Coffee Shop

Unlock Your Online Store's Potential With DoorDash Drive

Avoiding Financial Disaster: What Restaurants Need to Know About the FDIC and Insured Deposits

Comparing Square, Toast, and Clover: The Best POS for Independent Coffee Chains

Unlocking Profits Through Your Link in Bio: Strategies for Restaurants

How to Promote Your Mobile App on Your Website With a Smart Banner

Examining the ROI of the Starbucks and DoorDash Delivery Deal

Customer Experience

Are Self-Serve Kiosks the Answer to Staffing Issues in the Restaurant Industry?

Starting a Wine Club at Your Restaurant: A Step-by-Step Guide

A Healthy Dish Taking America By Storm: Understanding the Poké Bowl Craze

The Win-Win of Too Good to Go: Reducing Waste and Growing Revenue for Breads Bakery & Blue Bottle Coffee

From Brooklyn to Manhattan: A Look at the Rapidly Growing Blank Street Coffee Chain

Let's Get Technical: A Guide to the Costs of Building an App Like Sweetgreen

Beyond Revenue – An Insight Into the Essential Metrics Restaurants Should Track

The Power of Data: Leveraging Cost Control to Improve Performance at Your Restaurant

Taking the Leap Into Healthier Eating: Restaurant Trends That Will Guide Us In 2023

Unpacking the History of Coca Cola's 1888 Coupon Campaign and Its Impact On Mobile App Strategies Today

Dominating the Niche: Trader Joe's Strategy to Win Over Affluent Customers

Unlocking the Secret of Unreasonable Hospitality: What QSR's Can Learn From 11 Madison Park's Will Guidara

Mixing the Old and New: Finding the Best Music for Your Coffee Shop

The Economic Impact of Google and Meta's Ad Spending Decline on Hospitality Businesses

Cash App's Social Media Strategies: What Restaurants Can Learn to Increase App Downloads

Make Customer Loyalty Your Priority: The Year Ahead for Coffee Shops and Bakeries

The Impact of Gen Z on the Growing Popularity of Boba Tea in the US

Crafting the Perfect Ordering System: What American Restaurants Can Learn From Japan's Kura Sushi and Other Restaurants

How McDonald's Leverages Mobile Exclusivity to Boost App Downloads

How Restaurants Can Use ChatGPT, According to ChatGPT

Customer Experience

Staff Friendliness & Speed of Service Contribute to Chick-Fil-A's High Restaurant Ratings

Network Effects for Restaurant Growth: What Andrew Chen's Cold Start Problem Can Teach Us

Exploring the Benefits of White Label Ordering With DoorDash Storefront and Bbot

Going Green: How Mobile Apps Can Help Reduce Paper Receipts

Applying Daniel Kahneman's Prospect Theory to the Hospitality Sector

Strategies To Generate Off-Premise Demand: A Guide for Restaurants

What You Need to Know About Starbucks Odyssey and Its Use of NFTs

Best Practices for Merchandising Gift Cards This Holiday Season

Relay Is Quietly Becoming A Force In New York City's Delivery Scene

Keep Customers Coming Back: Process Returns & Give Store Credit With Electronic Gift Cards

How Noah's Bagels Mobile-First Strategy Proved Successful

How to Prepare Your Restaurant for Take Out and Delivery - A Step-by-Step Guide

Navigating Labor Shortage & Inflation: How a Mobile App Can Help Your Restaurant

Winter Is Coming: Coffee Shop Strategies to Weather the Storm When Temperatures Drop

The Automat: A Must-See Documentary on the Origins of Fast Food

Why Coffee Shops Can’t Live Without Square POS in 2023

How Apple Pay Improves Conversion Rates and the Customer Experience

What the Hospitality Industry Can Learn From Airbnb About "Doing Things That Don't Scale"

The Benefits of Adding Push Notifications to Your Restaurant Marketing Mix

Chipotle and Sweetgreen Are Changing the Drive-Thru Rules

The Pros and Mostly Cons of Eliminating Tipped Minimum Wage in Restaurants

Laptop-Free Zones: Why More and More Coffee Shops Are Banning Laptops

How QR Code Ordering Can Increase in-Store Sales

Sweetgreen's Mobile-First Digital Sales Strategy

How Cannabis Could Change the Delivery Industry

How Visualizing Data Can Help Boost E-Commerce Revenue

Bentobox Breakdown: Is it the Ideal Solution for a Restaurant Website?

The Benefits of Toast POS for Restaurants

Tips for Weathering a Recession in the Restaurant Industry

How to Choose the Right Online Reservation Platform for Your Restaurant

Tips for Getting More Views on Your Instagram Reels

Bucks, Bites and Bake Club: How Milk Bar Builds Brand Loyalty

3 Benefits of Pay at the Table for Restaurants

Why GraphQL Matters for Restaurant Marketers

How to Use DoorDash: A Restaurant Owner's Guide

Why Every Coffee Shop Should Have Their Own Starbucks App

How Subscriptions Help Coffee Roasters Grow Their Business

Get More & Better Reviews on Google Maps

Increase Customer Loyalty With an iPhone App

How to Convert Third-Party Orders to Regular Customers and Increase First-Party Sales

The Punch Card Loyalty Program: How to Use It and Why You Should

Build the Starbucks App in React Native: An iOS Developer Guide

Why TikTok Ads Should Be Part of Your Customer Acquisition Strategy

How to Get New Customers Through Word of Mouth

Drinks on Repeat: How Local Beverage Brands Do Loyalty

House Accounts, Then and Now

Afugã Coffee Is Reinventing the Office Coffee Bar

How Shaker & Spoon Built a 360-Degree Entertaining Experience

These Subscriptions Are the Gold Standard of Customer Relationships

Unboxing: The Pastry Edition

Our Top Food & Drink Subscriptions for Spring Gifts

How to Prepare for a New Era of Office Catering

Reimagining Frozen Foods with Aunt Ethel’s Pot Pies

Join the Club: 5 Shops Making Membership Sweet

Inside New York’s Small-Batch Spirits Scene with Stephanie Goebel

What Customers Can Expect From This New Era of Restaurants

What you need to know about building an app for your business

How to reboot your bar business

Local Spotlight: CHOC·O·PAIN Bakery

From local to national: how to expand your restaurant brand

The last straw: from plastic to paper and beyond

How no-store businesses are reshaping the hospitality experience

How to stay top of mind with guests

One Acre Farm on CSAs, education, and feeding a community

Local Spotlight: IXV Coffee

Local Spotlight: Mural City Coffee Company

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