Pumpkin Spice Season is Here: What Restaurants Need to Know
Take advantage of these early fall menu trends that will attract customers and boost sales with creative pumpkin offerings.
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What Is Vishing, Phishing, and Smishing? How Businesses Can Avoid Being Scammed
Protect your business with tips on how to identify and report phone, email, and texting scams.
Turning the Corner: How to Manage a Restaurant (As a Restaurant Owner)
Former Restaurant Owner and Chef Scott Youkilis shares his secrets on how to successfully manage a restaurant.
The Server’s Guide to the Handheld POS
Handhelds can make your work easier and more profitable. Here's how.
How Much Does It Cost to Open a Restaurant?
Get a breakdown of how much money you'll need to get your restaurant from concept to profitability.
7 Tips For Stellar Restaurant Ads
Director of Marketing Gigi Cohen shares tips for restaurant ads that move the needle.
How to Win Back Your Day with Tools for Restaurant Managers
Spend more time with your staff and guests by implementing restaurant management software. SpotOn's Manager Toolkit will show you how.
7 Tips for Creating a Winning Restaurant Schedule
Creating and communicating a restaurant schedule can take hours out of your day. But with the right strategies, it doesn't have to.
How to Calculate the Break-Even Point for Your Restaurant
Learn about restaurant break-even analysis and get our calculator to find your break-even point.
7 Signs It’s Time to Reassess Your Tech Stack
Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging. Here’s how you know it’s time.
Menu Engineering: 5 Steps to a Menu That Can Beat Inflation
Create your most profitable menu yet. Learn how to analyze the popularity and profitability of your menu with restaurant menu engineering.
How to Remove Your Restaurant From Food Delivery Apps
Get step-by-step instructions for getting your restaurant off food delivery apps and replace them with an online ordering system.
The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide
The right restaurant marketing campaign can drive business and sustain a loyal following. Here's how to craft it.
How to Set Up an Online Ordering System for Restaurants
Make money on online orders. Learn how to keep your profits, control order flow, and capture guest data—without per-order commissions.
The Ultimate Small Business Guide: How to Increase Profits
Learn how to increase sales, boost productivity, and keep customers coming back with intuitive technology for small businesses.
Tuning Up Your Customer Invoice Experience
Between supply chain disruptions, parts shortages, advanced point-of-sale technology, and customer invoice trends, there's no doubt that changes in the economy and consumer needs have been keeping the auto industry busy. However, the industry has not weathered the storm undamaged. In fact, a recent survey by the American...
Improving Outdoor Dining with Modern Restaurant Technology
COVID has changed the way we dine, and outdoor dining, parklets, and patios are here to stay. With winter fast approaching, many restaurants are rethinking the outdoor dining experience for their guests. As a recent article in PYMNTS.com [https://www.pymnts.com/restaurant-innovation/2021/as-covid-persists-restaurants-reinvest-in-outdoor-dining/] explains, this includes improving...
From DNA to POS with a Little D&D
SpotOn Senior Software Engineer Ian Murray was studying skeletal patterning in sea urchins when he made an unexpected discovery that completely changed the trajectory of his career.
50 Questions with SpotOn Restaurant Advisory Council Member, Ray Villaman
Ray Villaman is currently the President and owner of Tahoe Restaurant Group, including Base Camp Pizza, which was recently named one of the top 25 pizzerias in the country by USA Today. Ray is a veteran restaurant executive with over 200 restaurant openings with multiple brands, and is a sought...
How Omnichannel Solutions Help Retailers Thrive In-Store and Online
As consumers re-enter their old routines, they're looking forward to shopping in person. In fact, according to international research data and analytics group YouGov [https://business.yougov.com/sectors/retail/international-omni-channel-retail-report-2021] , 57% of American adults say they're excited to get back into brick-and-mortar stores. But as...
With The Hamlett, Recent High School Grad and Sister Heal Family & Community
Brother and sister launch The Hamlett café, apothecary, and business incubator in answer to the grief of losing their sister.
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