Restaurants today operate in entirely different ways than they did 30 years ago. Even as long-standing practices and customs are retained, the way the food industry works is changed because of constant innovations that adapt to newer standards. While operations shift with the times, one of the most crucial changes you can see in a restaurant is the technology. Complicated work is now done in minutes or even seconds, and the issues that plagued the industry before are no longer relevant today.
Whether you are interested in opening a restaurant, improving an existent one you own, or you just have an interest in the food places, here are a few advancements in tech that are changing how restaurants work in the modern age of dining.
Piston fillers
One of the innovations introduced in recent decades and further improved today are the small food filling machines that have become staples in many a franchise. These days, these heavy-duty machines come relatively lightweight and can dispense both low and high-viscosity liquids accurately and efficiently. If you’ve ever had a craving cream-filled and fruit-filled desserts or wanted to have a large order of hummus with pita to go, these are the kinds of machines that make it happen for thousands of orders coming in at a high rate.
The speed with which these volumetric piston fillers operate is the real marvel that restaurants use to their advantage, automating a repetitive process that stands as a necessity in many cuisines and fast food joints. That is another product of modern times as people are becoming less patient to wait for various things, with recent studies showing that people will even get impatient having to wait more than just 30 seconds for a kettle to boil.
Tabletop tablets
In a time where convenience and efficiency are critical, casual dining simply begs for tabletop tablets. Having these makes it easier for customers to be able to peruse through the menu on their own and even be able to pay through one handily available device. Though the basic usage is already a leap in customer service through technology, more intricate usage of these tablets even allows customers to call a waiter, surf the web, and check out more in-depth information on menu items such as nutritional information and ingredients.
Inventory software
Inventory problems can be a bane to restaurants, but a simple tech advancement has become a solution for many of the most common issues that happen. As different types of inventory software populate the market, restaurants can automate the whole system and essentially minimize human error and oversights that cause problems with supply, stock management, and cost. Nowadays, you can even find software systems that not only mesh well with existent POS systems but were explicitly built with them or to work with them.
As exponential advancement dictates that technology continues to progress in continuously faster rates than we can even fathom, it’s quite a feat to see where restaurant-centric tech is today. It only begs one to wonder what machines and devices will populate our favorite stomping grounds in ten years.
