Pumpkin Spice Season is Here: What Restaurants Need to Know
Take advantage of these early fall menu trends that will attract customers and boost sales with creative pumpkin offerings.
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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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
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.
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,...
Build Customer Loyalty to Your Auto Shop With These Tools
Getting a handshake and a smile from a satisfied customer is a win for any auto business. Getting that customer to return time and again? That's the real victory. Customer loyalty is the bedrock of any successful business. But it's especially important in the auto industry,...
Why You Should Be Reading Your Competitors' Negative Reviews
It’s important to make a habit of monitoring reviews of your own business for a couple of reasons: 1) bad reviews on sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp can scare off prospective customers unless you respond to those negative reviews appropriately [https://www.spoton.com/blog/how-to-address-negative-reviews]; and 2) critical...
SpotOn Joins Forces with jaris to Support SMBs with Paycheck Protection Program, SpotOn Capital
Partnership enables quick, seamless access to much needed funds for SpotOn customers * Streamlined application and faster processing for first- and second-time PPP borrowers * SpotOn clients have access to $15 billion earmarked for new and smaller borrowers * New offer, SpotOn Capital, gives clients ongoing access to quick capital loans repaid automatically...
How to Flag Inappropriate Reviews on Google, Yelp, and Facebook
When someone posts something inappropriate or hateful, instead of replying, you should immediately flag and report the comment.
Avoid These 5 Pitfalls of Social Media for Business
Social media is a powerful marketing tool that gives small and medium businesses an affordable way to directly engage customers and grow revenue—when done the right way. Unfortunately, there’s also a wrong way, and the outcome can be a tarnished reputation, lost customers, and lost revenue. To make...
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