During the high drive-thru car counts of summer, the best way to keep your lanes moving is to maintain your headsets, timers, and accessories for those tools in good condition. To support drive-thru audio quality, CE offers different headset brands and accessory types in a variety of conditions:
Are you using artificial intelligence (AI) to handle customer orders in your drive thru? AI can process customer orders when the regular order taker is called away to another task. But that’s not all AI can do, especially when it comes to marketing your business. AI technology can:
All drive-thru restaurants focus their attention on resolving traffic jams in the lane and throughout their lot. The techniques used include line busting teams, adopting multiple lane configurations lanes, and posting signage to guide customers throughout the lot.
Looking for a way to serve more cars in your drive-thru lane? Try using the ZOOM Nitro Timer system from HME to measure your drive-thru capacity in real time. This advanced timer system:
Few things are more upsetting than having downtime of a vital drive-thru part, such as a headset or timer system, because it stops working. The time it takes to ship it, have it repaired and returned to your drive-thru can reduce operational efficiency and drive up service times.
CE knows how important it is to minimize drive-thru part downtime, so we offer an Advance Exchange Program that...
There are times in the drive-thru when you have minor problems that don’t require sending a broken drive-thru part in for repair. You may have trouble registering a base station or belt-pac or you may need to train new employees on operating a message repeater timer. If your drive-thru operates with HME drive-thru parts and equipment, CE Repairs has got your back.
Our Drive-Thru Repair...
Having drive-thru parts and equipment repaired can put a big dent in your operations budget, especially if you own or operate multiple restaurants. Enrolling in a drive-thru equipment maintenance agreement – at CE we call it our Drive-Thru Protection Plan – can save you money and avoid putting off needed repairs due to budget constraints.
Our Protection Plan provides fixed, low, monthly...
Everyone appreciates fast service, regardless of the product or industry. Congratulations to Taco Bell for providing the fastest quick-service times in the U.S. for the third year in a row. How do they do it? By constantly developing new approaches to serving their customers. These include:
Innovative restaurant designs that cater to different customer preferences
Seamless mobile...
Looking for a way to serve more cars in your drive-thru lane? Try using the ZOOM Nitro® timer system from HME to measure your drive-thru capacity in real time. This advanced timer system:
Measures capacity by calculating your speed, past performance, and current bottlenecks
Resets and reacts to any present bottlenecks on an hourly basis
Provides the most up-to-date estimates at all times...
The secret to attracting more customers to your drive-thru brand is simple – give them a great drive-thru experience. This can be accomplished by regularly asking, “What have we always done that is still working?” and “What is no longer working that we should do differently?”
From there, get rid of what isn’t working and introduce new strategies that:
Create an improvement plan for...