Innovation-led dining experience

The word “innovation” has become a buzzword for a number of industries and sectors. With most businesses now integrating state-of-the-art practices to achieve optimum results, innovation has developed into a key factor for ensuring success.

The question now is which innovation carries the most value for restaurants operating in Dubai?

If you’re a restaurant seeking out food industry technology innovations then this post is completely going to change the way how you perceive the hospitality industry.

1- IoT Enabled Temperature Sensors

 

Let sensors do the work!

With food safety standards rising, checklists can be a pain. To counter this problem, utilizing IoT enabled temperature monitoring systems can be a good investment to ensure that food and equipment are up to par. When deployed, these innovative devices can automatically measure the temperatures of their key assets thus guaranteeing compliance with safety standards. Managers of the restaurants can program customized limits for each food and equipment so that whenever their acceptable threshold is passed, an alert can be sent to key stakeholders of the company. This would prevent staff from falsifying daily reports, avoid product loss, protect customer safety and also diminish the paper logs altogether.

2- Optimized Schedule Makers/Scheduling Software

 

Scheduling made easy

Restaurant owners in Dubai know all too well how difficult task scheduling can be. Luckily, now there are solutions to help get the job done. In mere seconds, managers can create and distribute a digital weekly employees schedule with relevant shift times. Moreover, it can enable optimization according to historical staffing patterns and forecast human resource requirements to avoid over or under-staffing. Apart from this, this software is capable of keeping records of schedules, employee availability, time off requests, shift swaps, sales monitoring, and staffing budgets. The best part about this scheduling software is that they cost way less than common ERPs.

3- Virtual Reality Onboarding

 

HR meets VR

In the restaurant industry, VR and HR can be unified to create a better employee management system. Using customized software, new hires can engage in a truly different way, without the cost & time required for a normal training session. It allows the HR personnel to give new recruits a 360-degree tour of the facility, enable them to watch employees in action and test their technical proficiency in simulation games. With VR onboarding, the risk of trainees spoiling dishes can also be avoided. In a nutshell, there will be less pressure on them and managers will have more time doing things that carry more importance.

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4- Digital Inventory Tracking

 

No more manual inventory tracking

Long gone is the pen-and-paper method, the tracking of most restaurants are now going digital. Switching over to a custom-made electronic inventory system will provide UAE’s restaurant businesses better visibility of their main assets. Through mobile devices, restaurant employees will be able to directly submit and observe inventory counts for greater efficiency and precision. Using recipe and POS data, the software will calculate how much inventory a restaurant should have on-hand. The analysis of two of these readings will alert managers in terms of over-portioning, waste, and theft.

5- Automated Purchasing Tool

 

Purchase Automation

One of the biggest sins a restaurant can do is not having enough food to serve to its customers. In order to save the day, investments should be made in an automated purchasing system. Integrated with the inventory system, this digital tool enables intelligent purchasing. It can also be programmed to automatically place orders whenever the inventory reaches a certain threshold. The complete purchasing process can be managed through the app thus making it more convenient in real time use.

6- Kiosks/Tabletop Tablets-POS Tech

 

Out with the old, in with the new

The newest in point-of-sale technology, Kiosks, and Tabletop Tablets kill the use of cash registers & boring ordering. Those free-standing screens you see at well-known restaurant chains are definitely something worth investing owing to their interactive effect. At these kiosks, consumers are able to seamlessly browse the menu, create customized orders and pay for their orders entirely on their own. Offering customers with upselling and cross-selling suggestions, they tend to increase the average sale value while making new offerings worth remembering. kiosks are destined to continue and increase a restaurant’s efficiency and profitability.

7. Digital Table/Reservation Manager

 

Reservation just got online

With a digital table manager, your restaurant customers can do everything from directly booking reservations to suggesting ideal seating arrangements based on time and party size. It allows restaurants to give customers accurate wait time estimates and notifies them when a table is ready. A digital reservation manager is a good investment for delivering unparalleled customer experience.

Final Thoughts

Restaurant operators are looking for innovative restaurant technologies& ways of doing things as it allows them to have better control over their business operations. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that innovation has turned out to be the key ingredient for success in the modern food service industry.

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