How Digital Is Shaping The Hospitality Industry
The world has gone digital, and the hospitality sector has been forced to keep up.
What Are Ghost Kitchens?
A ghost kitchen, otherwise known as a delivery-only restaurant or dark kitchen, is a recent phenomenon in the hospitality industry. Emerging in response to the rapid growth in consumer demand for takeaway and restaurant-quality delivered meals, they do not include a storefront or any seating for customers, and are often cooking for more than one restaurant brand.
Is Takeaway The Future For The Hospitality Industry?
The last two years have been an unrelenting time for all in the UK hospitality industry. With government-enforced lockdowns closing on-site dining venues, reduced revenue streams, and staff shortages HORECA businesses have been forced to adapt at an unprecedented rate to survive in unchartered waters.
Introducing Laponian
Meet Laponian – Duni’s first design collection from Karolin Larsson. An assortment of multifunctional table accessories in a timeless design that can transform depending on your need or environment, making them an easy and perfect fit for your concept and audience.
How To Market Your Restaurant To Gen Z
Gen Z (born between 1995 and 2015) are expected to make up 40% of consumers within the next decade. Recent research shows that 49% of this generation spends over £250 per month on dining experiences whilst 82% spends at least £100 per month. This growing market is also 99% more likely to use social media to choose their dining venue and are the most likely out of all generations to enjoy food outside the home, making them a lucrative opportunity for all restaurants but, how can you market your restaurant to this age group?
The Botanist Teams Up With Duni For Christmas eCrackers!
It wouldn’t be a Christmas celebration without pulling a Christmas cracker but the waste they produce casts a not-so-festive shadow on the 150-age-old UK tradition. Every year, an average of 40 million Christmas crackers are discarded; lined up end-to-end this equates to 1,220 Mount Everests stacked on top of each other, and that’s not taking into account the plastic prizes inside.
Meet Johan Mårtensson, Duni Group’s Business Development & Innovation Manager
Today we pay attention to World Creativity and Innovation Day, WCID. This is UN’s day to empower people to use new ideas, make new decisions, and make the world a better place.
Meet Johan Mårtensson, Duni Group’s Business Development & Innovation Manager.
Top 5 Tips To Speed Up Restaurant Service
One of the biggest challenges facing restauranteurs today is providing customers with a quality dining experience that doesn’t include rushing customers out of their seats. The reasoning behind it is simple; the faster the table turnover, the more customers you serve, and the higher the revenue for your business thus the more successful your venture.
Would You Like Ice With That?
Beverages play an essential role in any restaurant venue, complementing meals, quenching thirst, and ultimately encouraging customers to remain on your premises.
The True Cost Of No-Shows To Your Business
If you’re managing a restaurant, pub, hotel, or even café, you’re no stranger to a booking system and have likely seen the system from both sides – as a customer, and as a hospitality professional.
Paper Art With Stephanie Smart
Stephanie Smart is the artist behind the beautiful ‘Regency Wardrobe’ collection which has just concluded its residency at Firle Place, East Sussex. The exquisite collection utilises Duni paper tablecloths and thread to create garments inspired by Autumn de Wilde’s recent feature film of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’.
How Important Are Christmas Decorations For Restaurants?
With 72% of the 25 highest revenue days for restaurants sitting in November and December, accounting for over 25% of an average restaurant’s annual revenue; it’s never been more crucial to ensure you’re offering your customers an unrivalled festive dining experience, particularly given the wide array of options now available to your typical consumer.
What Is The Best Colour For Your Restaurant?
Colours have an interesting impact on how we perceive our dining experiences. The right colours can psychologically improve customer happiness, boost their appetite, increase table turnover, and make dining spaces appear far more spacious than they actually are.
The Importance Of Social Media For Restaurants
With what can only be described as a food photo frenzy taking over our social feeds, and birthing the newly coined term #foodporn, it’s no secret that social media is incredibly influential in the world of restaurant marketing. In fact, with the arrival of channels like Instagram, which glorifies the beauty, presentation, and quirkiness of venues as well as the food itself, social media can make or break restaurants today.
Are Paper Napkins Bad For The Environment?
With a prominent focus on the environment in recent years, a trend that only seems likely to continue as awareness increases, a common debate in the hospitality industry is whether linen or disposable tableware is more environmentally friendly over its average lifespan.
