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25 Restaurant Industry Customer Statistics You Must Know for 2025

Plan now for an excellent customer experience in 2025. Use these customer-focused stats to adapt your restaurant, by applying past years’ learnings for the year ahead.Focus on off-premise dining, online orders, reviews, and social media....

Why Small Restaurants Are Going Cashless

Remember a time when you’d see “Cash Only” signs on restaurant windows? Well, they times they are a-changin’. And by changing, I mean you will no longer need to handle change (dadjoke, okbye). Now it’s “Cashless” or “Cash-free”.But why a...

How to Win the War for Restaurant Talent

To attract top talent, restaurants must change. Worker needs are shifting. The workplace must match these changes.Are you feeling the heat when it comes to hiring and retaining skilled workers? Worker shortage is a perpetual challenge in...

Improve Your Restaurant SEO in 8 Easy Steps

Boost your local search rankings and get more IRL visitors with these best practices. A well-crafted website is the key to a successful online presence for your restaurant.Next, you need diners to find your site. That's where SEO comes i...

Influencer Marketing: Your Restaurant's Secret Weapon

We've all seen some crazy viral food sensations out there. Cronuts, tomato ice toast, tanghulu. The one thing that ties them all together? You guessed it – influencer marketing. To illustrate the power of influencer marketing, here’s wha...

How to Calculate and Increase Restaurant Profit Margins

Opening a restaurant is a dream for many food lovers and entrepreneurs. But, this goal can be tough to achieve. Running a restaurant is hard work and takes dedication.The key to success is the profit margin. It's one of the most importan...

Digital Transformation Technologies for Modern Restaurants

Discover how digital technologies can boost restaurant efficiency, customer satisfaction, and profits.In 2022, global spending on digital transformation hit 1.85 trillion U.S. dollars. This highlights its vital role in business. For rest...

Effective Restaurant Social Media Advertising Strategies

Discover effective social media advertising strategies for restaurants to boost engagement and drive more customers.Did you know that 50% of diners claim social media can influence their restaurant choices? Social media advertising is mo...

How to Accept Online Payments in Your Restaurant

Learn how to accept online payments in your restaurant with our comprehensive guide. Boost sales, improve customer experience, and streamline operations.Retail ecommerce sales reached a staggering $5.2 trillion globally in 2021. You can ...

Maximising Profit Margins in F&B - Strategies for Success

Actionable strategies to maximise profit margins for small restaurants. Learn how to optimise operations, reduce costs, and boost revenue.Prices in the non-financial corporate sector have risen at an annualised rate of 6.1% since Q2 of 2...

Benefits of Contactless Payments for Small Restaurants

Discover the benefits of contactless payments for small restaurants. Enhance customer experience, streamline operations, and boost profits.Small restaurants are always finding ways to improve customer experience and streamline operations...

Effective Brand Promotion Tactics for Small Restaurants

Discover effective brand promotion tactics for restaurants to boost visibility and attract more customers. Learn actionable strategies and tips.Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers need to trust a brand to consider buying from it? This...

Proven Restaurant Customer Retention Strategies That Work

Discover proven strategies to boost customer retention in your restaurant. Learn actionable tips to keep your customers coming back.It’s much harder to get a new customer than it is to get more business from an existing customer.In the c...

Top Online Ordering Systems for Restaurants in Singapore: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover the best online ordering system for restaurants in Singapore in 2024. Boost your sales and customer retention with our comprehensive guide.Online food ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in since 2014. It now accounts for r...

Top Online Ordering Systems for Restaurants in Malaysia: A Comprehensive Guide

Discover the best online ordering system for restaurants in Malaysia in 2024. Boost your sales and customer retention with our comprehensive guide.Online food ordering has grown 300% faster than dine-in since 2014. It now accounts for ro...

Digital Transformation: The Key to Restaurant Success in 2024

Learn how digital transformation can help your restaurant thrive in 2024. Get tips on implementing digital solutions to streamline operations and boost profits.If you fail to embrace digital transformation, you risk falling behind the co...

The Restaurant's Guide to Generative A.I. in 2024

How small restaurants can start using Gemini and Mage to save marketing costs today.One chilly morning in 2022, our small planet woke up to a future it wasn't prepared for. A mother asked a robot to write a letter to her son, explaining ...

The Best DIY Image Editors for Small Restaurants

As a small restaurant owner, you ever feel like you're a circus performer spinning plates? Especially if you're the DIY kind. Always having to churn out content lah, this promo lah, that flyer lah etc. etc. One can't help but feel stretc...

Top 3 Challenges Restaurants Face Online

And how Maynuu can help.These days online solutions seem to pop up faster than toadstools after rain. Picking the right one can turn into a right old headache. But hold that Panadol, we're here to help.In this guide, we'll examine three ...

4 Benefits of QR Codes and How Small Restaurants Can Use Them

Want to optimise dine-in experiences and build lasting customer relationships? All while going green and saving on labour costs? QR codes could be the tool you need.In the wake of a tumultuous period that altered the way we live, restaur...

Increase your restaurant's visibility with a mobile-responsive website

Why mobile optimisation is a game-changer for your restaurant's online presence.Did you know that more than half of all website traffic comes from mobile devices? Did you also know that 88% of consumers who search for a type of local bus...

How to get more restaurant customers with Google Business Profile

How to manage your restaurant's presence on Google Search, Google Maps, and Google Reviews 🙋🏻‍‍‍‍‍Hands up, how many of you have uttered the immortal words, "Ask Google lah"? It's our go-to response when we have a burning question. Or mo...

How to Create a Winning Ghost Kitchen Menu: 6 Tips and Tricks

Ghost kitchens have gone from a whisper to a scream in the restaurant industry.Before the pandemic, only 15% of restaurants set up ghost kitchens. By May 2020, that number grew to 51%, and it's still climbing. As of August 2022, one of t...

Boost Your Restaurant Business by Offering Catering Services

Three big answers to why your restaurant needs to start catering today, and how to push it onlinePeople love to throw parties, but they don't want to do the cooking. They rather pay someone else to cook, while they glam up and play host....

The Rise of Contactless Dining: A New Era for Restaurants

The COVID-19 lockdowns were our wake-up call. Customer expectations have also changed since.The COVID-19 pandemic caused devastating changes to the restaurant industry. It forced many establishments to shut their doors for good. If you'r...

How to Launch Your Own Multi-Restaurant Delivery Service: A Complete Guide

In 2013, Pizza Hut was America's largest pizza chain.In 2018, a mere five years later, Domino's swooped in and snatched the top spot.What was Domino's secret to beating Pizza Hut?Actually they had two secrets:Domino's understood that the...

Declutter Your Restaurant Website the KonMari Way

In the digital age, your website plays a crucial role in your restaurant’s marketing.It’s the first place your guests go to for important information. Like your location, phone number, menu, reservations, and online ordering.As a former ...

Pandago is now supported!

Merchants in Singapore, We have added Pandago* for your delivery orders.Your customers now have 3 courier services to choose from:Your ordering site has been automatically upgraded. No action is required.*Please note that Pandago only of...

Guide to Instagram Marketing for Small Restaurants

Have you been wondering how to take advantage of Instagram? There are a few simple ways you can use this app to reach out to potential customers and promote your business.With over 2 billion active users, Instagram is a great way to conn...

Credit Cards and eWallets now available by 2C2P

Good day, and good news Merchants in Malaysia! We have finally integrated with 2C2P for our credit cards and ewallets payment channel. We have been working with 2C2P to give better rates, and ewallet availability into your payment option...

PayNow is now supported!

Merchants in Singapore, Good news - Maynuu ordering system now supports PayNow!Your ordering site has been automatically upgraded. No action is required.

Delivery Availabilities during Fasting Month

Salam Ramadhan, During fasting month, delivery availabilities will be severely affected between 4pm to 8pm, due to amount of delivery requests our service partners will be receiving in that time frame. In order to ensure no disruption to...

Update on Charges Calculations

Previously, additional charges calculation will include shipping price. For example, for items worth RM10, and shipping price at RM10, additional charges will use items and shipping as base of calculation.Old calculation:(Subtotal + Ship...

Settlement Separation by Order Type

With our recent announcement of dine-in online payment feature, we are separating the settlement into two order groups:The reason for this separation is, as both order groups have different price structure, we think it is better to let y...

Download Maynuu Merchant Hub on Google Play Store

Dear business owners, We heard your plentiful reoccuring request. We have been developing our Android app for quite some time now, and now we're glad to let you try it out today!With the app, you now will be notified of order updates lik...

Try Dine-in & Reservation with Online Payment now

 Greetings business owners, Good news! We have finally implemented Table QR Ordering, as well as Table Reservation with Online Payment. With these feature, your customers ordering experience will be smoother than ever. What's even better...

Update on Available Delivery Services

Effective from 1st of January 2022, GrabExpress no longer allows Food & Grocery items to be delivered. Read about this on Delyva blog post.Meanwhile, there are 4 new services that are available to be used:MatDespatchMatDespatch is availa...