5 Ways Your Restaurant Branding Can Stand Out in a Saturated Market
A lot goes into a great first impression. Here’s how you can create a restaurant brand that new and loyal guests identify with.
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6 Holiday Ideas For Restaurants
Grow profits and happiness this holiday season with six simple tips. Create a warm, efficient space for guests and staff, and keep customers coming back.
Maximize Guest Loyalty: Build Repeat Business with Digital Programs
How your restaurant can use data-driven loyalty programs to increase revenue.
6 Ways to Increase Restaurant Revenue
Making money in restaurants is hard. Here are some ways to reach profitability.
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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
Building a Business, and a Bountiful Life
Recuperating from a breakup that very nearly upended his life, Tom Hung Wei Li threw himself into his work. It paid off, big time—professionally and personally.
How to Manage and Budget Overhead Costs
From the costs of materials to staffing and leases, every small-business owner has to deal with overhead costs. That said, streamlining tasks and finding cost efficiencies can give you more breathing room to focus on other parts of your business. You can take several steps to improve how you manage...
Speaking Their Language
Although SpotOn Account Executive Laduma Nguyuza can read in four different languages, it’s his ability to read people that helps him connect with customers.
SpotOn Introduces First Reservation Feature Enabling Restaurants to Maintain Compliance by Allowing Guests to Confirm Vaccination Status
Fully integrated restaurant technology helps restaurants maintain operations amidst continued labor shortages, new variants, and evolving safety regulations
Using an E-Commerce Platform for Your Auto Body Shop
Running a profitable auto body shop involves more than having the right mechanics. You need customers to think of your shop first when their car needs servicing. And what makes your auto shop services appealing might be the very thing that turns new customers into regulars. With the right e-commerce...
4 Back-to-Work and Back-to-School Marketing Ideas for Retailers
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children participated in remote learning and millions of people worked from home for more than a year. While this changed many families' education and working environments, it also changed how they prepared for the workweek—and how retailers marketed to them. As...
