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.
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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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
The Ultimate Restaurant Marketing Guide
The right restaurant marketing campaign can drive business and sustain a loyal following. Here's how to craft it.
How to Set Up an Online Ordering System for Restaurants
Make money on online orders. Learn how to keep your profits, control order flow, and capture guest data—without per-order commissions.
The Ultimate Small Business Guide: How to Increase Profits
Learn how to increase sales, boost productivity, and keep customers coming back with intuitive technology for small businesses.
How to Open a Restaurant: The Ultimate Guide for New Restaurant Owners
See what it takes to get your concept up and running successfully with this comprehensive 12-step playbook for opening a restaurant.
Why You Need A POS System for Your Restaurant
Learn the importance of a restaurant point-of-sale system and how it can help you manage table turnaround time, sales, and more.
How to Build a Loyalty Program That Keeps Customers Coming Back
A good loyalty program can bring significant benefits to a small business. Here's how to build one to nurture customer loyalty.
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...
How the Right Restaurant Technologies Can Help Your Business Thrive Post-Pandemic
Restaurants had to overhaul nearly every aspect of their operations in 2020. Between online ordering surges and the shift to outdoor dining to meet new health and capacity regulations, the industry has had to adapt like never before. But crisis often leads to innovation, and some of the changes that...
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