Menu Engineering: Free Worksheet + Tips for a More Profitable Menu
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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable
Running a more efficient restaurant is the key to higher margins. Learn how to lower costs and increase revenue with solutions for your hospitality business.
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.
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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
SpotOn Adds Trombley and Chang to Further Expand SMB Payments Leadership and Innovation
Payment veterans to bring competitive payment solutions, including blockchain and peer-to-peer transactions, to small business owners San Francisco –SpotOn [https://www.spoton.com/], a leader in software and payments solutions for small and midsize businesses, today announced the hiring of two leaders in payment technology [https://www.spoton.com/products/...
Cash In on Rewards from Your Favorite Local Businesses with the SpotOn Consumer App
The SpotOn app makes it easier than ever to get discounts and deals from local businesses, whether you’re grabbing coffee, buying new kicks, or getting your hair done. No more digging through your wallet to find the correct rewards card. No more printing coupons from your email. Just one...
Resilience Is the Future of the Restaurant Industry
2020 changed the future of the restaurant industry. The COVID-19 pandemic closed dining rooms and created deep fear about dining out. Restaurant sales fell $240 billion short of expectations, Fortune [https://fortune.com/2021/01/26/restaurants-bars-closed-2020-jobs-lost-how-many-have-closed-us-covid-pandemic-stimulus-unemployment/] reports, and more than 110,000 restaurants in the United States closed in...
Small Businesses Are at the Center of Our New SpotOn Brand
The heart and hustle that small business owners show every day—and especially over the last year—has shown us exactly what’s important at SpotOn. It’s reaffirmed why we do what we do: provide you with innovative tools to grow your business, backed by the personalized service and...
5 Mistakes to Avoid With Your Loyalty Program
Studies have shown that if you increase your customer retention rate by just 5 percent, your profits will grow by 25 to 95 percent. Offering a loyalty rewards [https://www.spoton.com/software/loyalty] program is a great way to do just that, and at SpotOn, we’ve seen this...
5 Benefits of Running Your Business with SpotOn Terminal
We are thrilled to announce SpotOn Terminal, an all-in-one smart-device made for payments, loyalty, and data tools to run businesses. Simplifying things and saving costs is important while running a business, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic still surging. Thanks to SpotOn’s innovative software, you can grow revenue and increase...
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