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Keep Your Restaurant Relevant With These Hybrid Design Tips

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Categories in today’s market are becoming less defined, as foodservice blends with grocery and retail and cafes offer added value within banks, bookstores, and gyms. Customers are looking for choice, custom experiences, convenience, multi-functionality, and less cultural rigidity. All-day breakfast is becoming a popular restaurant offering, the demand for gender-neutral clothing is increasing, and hybrid […]

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Five Steps to Refresh Your Restaurant Experience

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The food service category is in transition and many new restaurant concepts are emerging. Many established restaurants are struggling in this evolving market. Refreshing your restaurant’s brand ensures future relevance. Now is the ideal time to start the process. Business may be decreasing because of more competition or not meeting customers’ changing needs as effectively

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Build Stronger Relationships with These Three Customer Types

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Building a stronger connection with banking customers is crucial to maintaining their loyalty, and yet, this is often a difficult task since each customer has unique attitudes and needs. In SLD’s research on stealth attrition, we identified three levels of engagement among customers, based on their connection and involvement with their primary bank, ranging from low to

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Creating Brand Cohesion When Exploring Restaurant Partnerships

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As food operators explore growth strategies an option being considered by many is a partnership with another complementary brand. We have seen in many other industries, such as banking, the benefits and liabilities of partnering with a coffee chain to provide a differentiated customer experience. The opportunity to leverage the power of two offerings to

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Unique Restaurants in Vancouver: Inspiration for Foodservice Brands

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Vancouver is well-known for its West Coast beaches, surrounding mountains, tall trees, and hiking trails, but it also has an interesting restaurant scene influenced by its international population and active culture. Fusion-style dishes provide unique options, farm-to-table, local, and better-for-you movements have spread throughout the city, and themed pubs add personality to dining experiences. Below

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How to Rebrand Without Alienating Your Franchisees

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Rebranding is often a messy process, but when it comes to rebranding an entire franchise, it can get downright adversarial. The relationship between franchisees and franchisors can often become strained as franchisors want to update their brands quickly and broadly, while franchisees can feel frustrated and resentful when they don’t understand the reasoning behind high-level

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The Importance Of SWOT Analysis for Financial Services Brands (Free Guide)

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When you are embarking on any kind of change for your financial brand, regardless of the degree it is critical to get a good understanding of where your brand fits into the industry landscape. One of the most recognized tools to create this view is the SWOT analysis. We often get asked questions about how

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Maximize Your Restaurant’s Efficiency: 6 Proven Strategies to Reduce Wait Time

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Many things seem to get in the way of you and your food when you are hungry and short on time. Wait times exist throughout the experience, whether you are grabbing a snack at a limited-service fast food restaurant or dining at a full-service sit-down establishment. For example, there is a delay between walking in

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Three Visual Strategies to Connect with Banking Customers

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In a competitive banking landscape, it is often difficult to stand out and truly connect with customers. Financial services are challenging to promote. They are complex and mostly conceptual, and can lead to financial institutions all seeming the same. Branding can help solve these issues. It can differentiate a financial institution by expressing an identity

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Three BIG Benefits of Gamification in Restaurants

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The average consumer spends more than two hours per day on their smartphones and 50 minutes of that time is spent playing games (QSR Insights) such as Betwiz. Businesses have identified that trend and turned it into an opportunity, coining the phrase “gamification.” Gamification can be defined as the application of gaming mechanics (such as points,

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Finding the Right Fit – A Hidden Opportunity for Banks

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The financial industry is very focused on leveraging the right efficiency tools such as VideoATMs, back-of-house system automation, universal bankers, AI, and big data management. These come with big capital expense budgets and attention from senior management but have yet to prove their effectiveness at growing market share. Having a clear focus on finding efficiencies

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What Agile Banking Means to Today’s Customer

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In the world of banking, customers’ priorities are shifting. Omni-channel banking services, though still desirable, are giving way to highly curated and differentiated experiences that create deeper emotional connections. Recent research conducted by our firm for the banking industry clearly identified the branch continues to play a pivotal role in building relationships, with branch staff

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How Franchisors Can Leverage Technology to Empower Franchisees

Food Service /

Looking for marketing and branding efficiencies in a franchisor/franchisee business model is extremely difficult because of the level of autonomy franchisees have over their operations and how this limits the control franchisors have over the execution of marketing programs. Difficult more so is how you as a franchisor can support a franchisee’s desire to conduct

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Get Investors Excited About Your Corporate Rebranding

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Once you’ve gotten the board of directors, C-Suite and everyone on the management team on board with the decision to rebrand, there’s one more hurdle that publicly traded companies need to clear: their investors. Ensuring that investors don’t lose faith in management requires that you justify every major decision your company makes and a rebrand can

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