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Smart, affordable, and easy-to-use solutions by Let us Nudge – an emergent restaurant technology – helps restaurants with seating efficiency and maximization. With lockdown restrictions easing out, the restaurant industry is slowly getting back on its feet, welcoming diners with open arms and COVID protocols. The pandemic brought an abrupt end to life's simplest pleasure. When restaurants opened their doors again to their customers with limited capacity, there was a challenge of saying no to regular customers and accepting new ones. But the industry continues to face other numerous challenges, such as profitability, labor, and supply chain issues. As a result, industry executives are looking for technological solutions that are agile and affordable. Enter Let us Nudge with its smart, affordable, and easy to use solutions with Table Turnover and Nudge@Home. "We provide affordable, easy to use solutions to help with seating efficiency and seating maximization, which helps to build top-line sales, profitability, while contemplating available staffing." Rehan Khanzada, Founder, Let us Nudge With their unique solution, Let us Nudge helps restaurants offer incentives via secure, seamless, and subtle nudges. It helps seating maximization and efficiency during both busy and slower times. Let us Nudge also helps restaurants with predictive planning – offering direct assistance to the restaurant operators to tackle the challenges presented by the issues in today's supply chain. There are numerous tech options available for leading restaurant decision-makers, including plenty of POS systems, table management systems, delivery options, as well as hands-free ordering and mobile ordering. But Let us Nudge is different. Speaking about the Seating Maximization Technology for busy and slow times, Rehan Khanzada said, "Our cloud-based, SaaS application solution maximizes table seating efficiencies, allowing restaurants to proactively automate incentives via secure, seamless, and subtle 'nudges.' Restaurant incentives during busy times can include any dollar or percentage or coupon-off of a bill, and incentives during slow times can include building loyalty with discounts, free food, or menu specials." Let Us Nudge is compatible with all web-based and mobile devices, as there are no investment costs, with nothing to purchase, no hardware, no setup fees, etc. Any restaurant operator can use the technology, as the technology is functional at all FSRs (full-service restaurants), QSRs (quick-service restaurants), family-owned, casual-chain, fine-dining, restaurants with both indoor and outdoor seating. With their mission statement – "the wait is over, both restaurants and customers win," Let us Nudge has helped various restaurant partners fulfill business both during busy and slow times. Let us Nudge has shared data collected through surveys and feedback so far: 51% of customers are done with their meal during the busiest times at restaurants, creating the opportunity for Table Turnover and reducing wait time for bottlenecked customers. 80% of customers do not want to 'download another app,' therefore; the cloud-based web features are pushed automatically. 91% of customers approve of their experience, user interaction, and satisfaction with their restaurant incentive. 48% of restaurants approve of using the Let us Nudge QR code on the table, with 52% using the Let Us Nudge device-to-device QR code instead. 20% increase in revenue at the early adopter restaurants and improved customer satisfaction. 70% of restaurants agree to try Nudge@Home during slow times. Let us Nudge is a pioneer in Table Turnover and Nudge@Home solutions. "We are a one-of-a-kind, innovative technology that has no similar market competitors in this space. We are offering a solution that helps restaurants with never-ending documented issues of 'loitering', 'camping out', 'customers that don't leave,' and now 'time limits' being seen across the industry due to COVID." Rehan Khanzada, Founder, Let us Nudge The competitive edge of Let us Nudge is the cloud-based platform that offers both Table Turnover and Nudge@Home solutions for the times when the restaurant is in full swing and the times when there is a lull in activity. Their free 90-day trial has allowed Let us Nudge see a surge in their platform solutions. The founder’s plan is to partner with other tech providers to offer more viable solutions to restaurant owners and operators.The company is also working on an upgraded Nudge@Home platform for one of their largest restaurant partners with new and smart intelligent tech features. Rehan Khanzada added, "We have captured a significant amount of feedback from both restaurants and customers for us to improve and expand our features and processes, which will allow us to stay a few steps ahead of future competitors. We are working with restaurant industry leaders, looking into other restaurant APIs and technology, and continue our core strengths in technology and marketing." On a signing off note, Rehan Khanzada emphasized that Let us Nudge offers a unique, affordable solution to help one of the biggest challenges facing the restaurant industry, without burdening the operations team.