The food industry has always been hard. Stiff competition, tight margins and rising costs makes breakout success harder than failure. Add in a pandemic, and it's like working against all odds. In the past eight months most restaurants have had to shut down for at least a period of time, and
Yelp estimates that 60% of those that have shut down during the pandemic are now closed permanently.
The Restaurant Business is Tough. Here are a Few Tips to Simplify Things
At Byte Technology we think a lot about the evolution of retail when it comes to fresh food. Historically, consumers were limited to physically shopping at traditional brick and mortar stores - whether for groceries or grabbing a meal to-go from a restaurant. Drive thru’s were the next wave of innovation when it comes to delivering a more convenient experience for customers on-the-go.
Unattended retail within the food space typically elicits visions of vending machines and coils that drop a sad, crinkled bag of chips to an underwhelmed consumer on the other side of the glass.
