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The Best Football Season Playbook Every Restaurant Needs
How to prep your restaurant for football season. Menu planning, staffing, and marketing to turn game-day demand into profit.
How to Hire an Executive Chef
Finding a great executive chef has never been harder. Stephanie Yee, Managing Director of Willow Tree Recruiting, shares how restaurant operators can source, vet, and hire the right chef for their kitchen.
SpotOn Introduces Profit AI, Delivering Proactive Profit Recommendations to Independent Restaurants
New restaurant AI capability surfaces recommendations inside the SpotOn dashboard while keeping each decision with the operator.
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).
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 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 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.
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.
50 Questions with SpotOn Restaurant Advisory Council Member, Ray Villaman
Ray Villaman is currently the President and owner of Tahoe Restaurant Group, including Base Camp Pizza, which was recently named one of the top 25 pizzerias in the country by USA Today. Ray is a veteran restaurant executive with over 200 restaurant openings with multiple brands, and is a sought...
How Omnichannel Solutions Help Retailers Thrive In-Store and Online
As consumers re-enter their old routines, they're looking forward to shopping in person. In fact, according to international research data and analytics group YouGov [https://business.yougov.com/sectors/retail/international-omni-channel-retail-report-2021] , 57% of American adults say they're excited to get...
With The Hamlett, Recent High School Grad and Sister Heal Family & Community
Brother and sister launch The Hamlett café, apothecary, and business incubator in answer to the grief of losing their sister.
Sharing Purpose, Profits, and Balance by Ray Villaman
By identifying, nurturing, and incentivizing talent, Ray Villaman discovered a better work/life balance for himself, and his team. Back in 2014, I did something most restaurateurs would find unthinkable. I took my wife and two boys to Barcelona for a year. We just up and moved (after preparing and...
The Real Ramona’s
In 1947, Romana Acosta Bañuelos [https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-romana-acosta-banuelos-20180119-story.html] and her husband Alejandro Bañuelos decided to start a business selling authentic Sonoran tortillas made from scratch. They had the family recipe. They had fresh ingredients. They had a desire to...
How to Streamline Ordering Processes for Your Retail Business
Imagine a scenario where you never run out of merchandise customers want, where stock availability can be updated easily or even automatically, and you can predict the number of employees you'll need at any given time and profile ideal customers. It might sound too good to be true,...
