8 Steps to a Profitable Beverage Program
High-margin alcohol sales are shrinking. Here's how to maintain profits when guests buy less alcohol (and they are).
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Hospitality Without the Chaos: The Labor Levers That Protect Margin and Your Guest Experience
Last-minute schedule changes, overtime creep, punch errors, and payroll rework all quietly eat into your margins. Don’t treat them as separate fires. Here's how to treat them as a system that needs guardrails.
AI for Restaurants: An Operator-First Vision That Quietly Lifts Profit
Restaurant AI should be intuitive for teams, complementary to the guest experience and impactful on your bottom line. That’s the bar.
Restaurant Marketing: A Practical Guide To Attract, Convert, and Retain More Customers
A deep dive into restaurant marketing, covering the strategies, tools, and decisions operators need to drive real results.
How To Increase Restaurant Sales: 15 Strategies Built For Long-Term Growth
Learn how to increase restaurant sales with 15 actionable strategies that help operators grow revenue sustainably and keep guests coming back.
How to Make a Menu for Your Restaurant (and make it profitable)
Learn the art and science of restaurant menu creation, from concept to setting profitable prices and expert design tips.
How to Schedule Restaurant Staff: 8 Tips for Restaurant Managers
Creating and communicating a restaurant schedule can take hours out of your day. But with the right strategies, it doesn't have to.
How Restaurant Loans Work—And How to Find the Right One for Your Business
Learn how restaurant loans work and discover easier funding options to grow your business.
SpotOn Ranked #1 Restaurant POS by G2 for Fall 2025, Outperforming Toast Where It Matters Most
Restaurants rated SpotOn higher than Toast in major categories, cementing SpotOn as the go-to tech partner for independent operators
How to Create Online Ordering for Your Restaurant
Make money on online orders. Learn how to keep your profits, increase online orders, control order flow, and capture guest data—without per-order commissions.
How to Build a Restaurant Tech Stack Every Operator Needs to Thrive
Learn how to build a restaurant tech stack that works together to streamline operations and grow your business.
Restaurant SEO: A Beginner-Friendly Guide To Getting Found Online and Growing Your Customer Base
Learn how to use restaurant SEO to attract more local customers, boost online visibility, and grow your business—without paying for ads.
How to Read a Restaurant P&L (Profit and Loss) Statement + Free Template
Assess the financial health of your restaurant. Our P&L template brings together your sales and costs to calculate your profit.
Menu Engineering: Free Worksheet + Tips for a More Profitable Menu
Find out how popular and profitable your menu items are with our menu engineering matrix. Then learn how to modify your menu for more sales.
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.
Celebrating Pride Month
Happy Pride Month! At SpotOn, we celebrate all orientations, identities, and families—in June and all year long. The theme for World Pride 2021 is #YouAreIncluded. After a year of physical distancing and separation, this is an opportunity for us to celebrate the awesome power of togetherness and inclusion. According...
Why Mobile POS Systems Are More Valuable Than Ever
After restaurant dining rooms closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, guests grew accustomed to using mobile point-of-sale (POS) systems to pay for their delivery, carryout, and curbside pickup orders. The seamless, contactless digital transactions were convenient and fast, sure, but they were also safe. That eased some anxiety...
Teaming up with Guy's Restaurant Reboot to Help Local Restaurants
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SpotOn Partners with Guy’s Restaurant Reboot to Support Restaurants
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SpotOn’s Series D Funding Will Enable Continued Growth & Innovation in Service of Local Businesses
A little over a year ago, SpotOn sent our employees home to work remotely as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country. We had just announced our $50 million Series B funding [https://spoton.com/blog/spoton-raises-50-million-in-series-b-funding-from-former-twitter-executives/] from former Twitter executives, but the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic quickly overshadowed our...
SpotOn Raises $125 Million in Series D Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz
Investment values the company at $1.875 billion and cements SpotOn as a leading software and payments provider for restaurants and SMBs SAN FRANCISCO—May 25, 2021—SpotOn (www.spoton.com [http://www.spoton.com]), one of the fastest-growing software and payments companies with comprehensive solutions for restaurants and retail...
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