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Below is our recent interview with Erle Dardick, the Founder & CEO at Monkey Group:
Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to Monkey Group?
A: The mission of Monkey Group is to help restaurant operators grow sales and increase profits by educating them to become experts at feeding their customers where they live, work and play. The company stewards MonkeyMedia Software – the guardians of MONKEY™, the #1 cloud platform for takeout, delivery and catering, The Off Premise Academy and The Catering Institute, which provide resources, training, advisory services and certification for off-premise operations, and Off Premise Insights, which provides data, insights and conferences for the foodservice industry around the operating model of off-premise.
Q: You’ve recently announced a strategic partnership with Kitchen Podular; could you tell us something more?
A: As part of our supply chain partnership program, our goal is to seek out products and services that make it easier for foodservice operators to take control of their off-premise operations to serve the channels of takeout, delivery & catering. We utilize our certification framework of the five pillars of successful takeout, delivery and catering – leadership, centralized services, sales and marketing, operations and delivery – to help provide a benchmark for operational excellence. Because of Kitchen Podular’s innovative approach to isolating the production lines of takeout versus catering, they help operators optimize their production lines, designed around the manufacturing workflow of the various off premise channels. This is consistent with Pillar #4 of our business framework. We’re very pleased to welcome Kitchen Podular as another certified supply chain partner of our Off-Premise Academy and Catering Institute.
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A: MONKEY™ is the #1 cloud platform for takeout, delivery and catering. With MONKEY, operators have access to a full suite of off-premise functionality, including unified multi-channel ordering (online, mobile and call center), CRM, case management, catering sales team and lead management, integrated accounting functionality to manage business-to-business accounts, catering order production management, and delivery dispatch management. This creates an experience in real time where customers, service centers and foodservice operations can communicate and transact together.
Q: Tell us more about The 2018 Takeout, Delivery and Catering Study. How does it help foodservice operators drive growth?
A: The 2018 Takeout, Delivery and Catering Study, commissioned by Off Premise Insights, a division of Monkey Group, examines the off-premise landscape in the foodservice industry, including a five-year market outlook, consumer insights on usage, decision drivers and order placement dynamics and expectations. It also includes perspectives from restaurant operators on their off-premise programs and catering best practices. The study provides robust insights and perspectives that make it a tremendous resource to restaurant operators and supply chain partners that are seeking to better understand, and capitalize on, the off-premise business opportunity.
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Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: Off-Premise sales in the restaurant industry are projected to account for 37 percent of total restaurant sales, or $209 billion, in 2018 and we project continued growth in this quickly evolving segment for the next five years. The unprecedented growth in takeout, delivery and catering is being driven by increasing consumer demand for convenience and a rapid advancement in the development of cloud-based ordering technologies and marketplaces. We believe that Monkey Group is well positioned to continue to be a resource and partner to restaurant operators in North America, providing them the insights, training and software solutions to take control of their off-premise operations.
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