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Guide To A/B Testing With Digital Displays

February 1, 2023 / by Brian Ward posted in Digital, Drive-Thru, Convenience Stores, Restaurants, Menu Boards

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Do you have multiple drive-thru lanes? Does each lane have at least one digital screen?

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Non-Traditional Drive-Thrus Popping Up Everywhere

November 3, 2021 / by Jean Jones posted in Drive-Thru, Convenience Stores, Restaurants, Expert Insights, Jean Jones

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Imagine the typical drive-thru restaurant layout - a box on a busy street, perhaps on a corner, an entry and exit driveway, a marked out drive-thru lane wrapping around the building, with the menu board towards the back and the payment and pick-up windows on the side. Next, imagine the typical drive-thru restaurant type - a QSR or a coffee shop. Now imagine that these descriptions do not fit your business. Drive-thrus are popping up in more and more places, in what a few years ago would have been considered very unconventional. Here are some examples:

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Gary Kurtz: Drive-Thru and Branding Solutions For Convenience Stores

April 7, 2020 / by Gary Kurtz posted in Drive-Thru, Convenience Stores, Gary Kurtz, Drive-Thru Accessories, Curbside Pickup

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Gary Kurtz, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, talks about drive-thru and branding solutions available to convenience stores and ways to keep customers engaged.
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What Convenience Stores Should Know When Looking to Add a Drive-Thru

September 4, 2018 / by Jean Jones posted in Drive-Thru, Convenience Stores

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Convenience is in your name, so it is not surprising that you would be thinking about adding the convenience of a drive-thru.

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Versatile Digital Menu Boards Give C-Stores Great Display Options

August 23, 2017 / by Jean Jones posted in Digital, Convenience Stores

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With digital menu board displays expanding to both indoor and drive-thru applications, convenience stores now have great flexibility to promote their expanding food service options in their C-stores. The ability to schedule a changing menu display that features breakfast, lunch and food-to-go dinner meals throughout the day is a solution sure to make store managers smile.

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