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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
How Your Restaurant Can Get the Most Out of Online Review Management
If you're trying to tap into your diners' thoughts, asking "How was everything?" at the end of a meal isn't enough. Guests now head to straight to social media and review sites to share their thoughts — good and bad. Reviews provide a critical...
Contactless Payment and Point-of-Sale: Reaping the Benefits of a Modernized System
Look around your auto business. What do you see? You probably see all the latest tools, along with the computerized vehicles of the modern automotive world. But what about your customer payment infrastructure? Is it built to handle modern needs? Ditching the clunky, old cash register and adopting a contactless...
5 Reasons to Use Online Ordering with SpotOn Delivery for Your Restaurant
Over the past few months, there has been a surge in demand for online food delivery. With current safety concerns and the winter weather upon us, online ordering is becoming increasingly popular for guests who want to enjoy meals from their favorite restaurants in a safe, contactless way from their...
Why Your Restaurant Data Might Be the Secret Ingredient to Success
Between tracking inventory, serving customers, and managing your staff, you might not have much time at the end of the workday to sift through data to spot and analyze trends. But every data point that your business generates is an all-you-can-eat buffet of useful information. Here's how you...
The 3 Ways OpenTable Competes With Your Restaurant (and Charges You for It)
Feb 15, 2021 Many full-service restaurants use OpenTable for table reservations, but did you know that part of OpenTable’s foundational business practices include competing with your business? Using these three methods, OpenTable can make it appear like they’re capturing tons of business for you, when in reality, they’...
The SpotOn Business Dashboard App
You can’t be at your business 24/7, but now your business can always be with you thanks to the SpotOn Business Dashboard app for iOS and Android. The Business Dashboard connects you to live sales data from your business and also gives you remote access to SpotOn Core,...
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