Guest blog: Merging people and tech in 2022

Mum having food with her children in a restaurant

Katy Moses, MD of KAM Media brings us a guest blog in which she discusses the expectation of the customer and their views about technology’s use in hospitality based on consumer research KAM recently conducted in partnership with pointOne. What can operators learn about their customers and staff to take into 2022?

5 tips on how to improve and grow your takeaway business

Takeaway staff preparing a takeaway order in the kitchen

Pre-pandemic, a seasonal uplift in takeaway sales was always the norm but when the working-from-home directive and Covid-related isolation requirements kicked in, we suddenly saw a year-round hike in the popularity of takeaway. In fact, takeaway and delivery sales quadrupled last year according to CGA’s latest hospitality home tracker surveys. Fast forward to today as we are learning to live with Covid and returning to eating out, the slow down in delivery is only just starting to show and still accounts for 30p in every pound spent at restaurants and pubs in January 2022.