Thanks to a restaurant tech boom, the way consumers interact with restaurants is lightyears away from the SOP of 10-years ago. But full-service restaurants are still far behind their quick-service and fast-casual counterparts when it comes to adopting technology. New ways of operating like mobile ordering and payment, SMS and beacon marketing, crowd-sourcing and data, have been embraced the tightest by fast-food and quick-service chains that promote speed and convenience as a priority over a high-end service experience. But full-service restaurants are wrong to shun the tech boom. Restaurant operators maintaining outdated practices in the name of the tradition is putting their business at a disadvantage. It’s time full-service operators saw the benefits that come along with investing in technology for their restaurants. Here are 5 tools restaurants can use to better track and decipher their own data. Read more