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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
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...
What You Need to Know About the Restaurant Revitalization Fund
The $1.9 trillion-dollar American Relief Act was signed into law on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Among the various aid packages, the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization fund is the first relief directed to the restaurant industry. We’re breaking down everything you need to know about the fund and...
Why an Online Ordering System Is Critical to Restaurant Success
Today, consumers are doing nearly everything online — from shopping for clothing and personal care items to visiting their doctor, and even catching a ride from place to place. They're also ordering breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the press of a few buttons. But the rise in online ordering...
3 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity and the Customer Experience
Many auto businesses have kept the same processes in place for decades. But times have changed — and so have customer expectations when it comes to their auto shop experience. In order to be found, trusted, and chosen by today's consumers, automotive businesses must provide customers with a fast,...
Online Review Management: The Key to Building Customer Trust for Your Auto Shop
The auto industry moves fast. Drivers want to get their car and get back on the road as quickly as possible. So, when customers turn over this fast, why would any auto business concern itself with online review management? The answer is simple: Online reviews matter — especially to an industry...
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