Menu Engineering: Free Worksheet + Tips for a More Profitable Menu
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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.
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Whether it’s time to say farewell to outdated systems or hello to a new time-saving scheduling tool, change can be challenging.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.
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...
Why Your Restaurant Might Need a Kitchen Display System
Speed is essential when running a restaurant. Investing in the right technology can help automate time-consuming tasks and reduce labor costs.
New SpotOn Contact Tracing Software Helps Restaurants and Small Businesses Operate Safely Amid COVID-19 Precautions
Affordable, easy-to-use software helps restaurants, gyms, retail stores and other businesses collect contact tracing data, enabling them to stay open and compliant SAN FRANCISCO—SpotOn Transact, Inc (“SpotOn”), a leading supplier of operating software and merchant services for small- and medium-sized businesses and restaurants, is expanding its solutions for those...
Kevin Bryla Joins SpotOn as Part of Growing Marketing Team
Veteran Marketing & Communications Executive Hired to Accelerate Market Momentum Amid Explosive Demand for Digital Solutions to Support Small Businesses SAN FRANCISCO–SpotOn Transact, Inc (“SpotOn”), an innovative software and payments company, announced today that it has hired Kevin Bryla as its Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Customer Experience....
SpotOn Raises $60 Million in Series C Funding Led by DST Global
Software and payments company to further their investment in digital-first solutions, providing SMBs with products they need to thrive in today’s challenging business climate SAN FRANCISCO—September 23, 2020—SpotOn Transact, Inc (“SpotOn”), an innovative software and payments company, today announced $60 million in Series C funding. The round...
SpotOn Acquires Seatninja to Help Restaurants Adapt and Thrive in Today’s New Paradigm
The Seatninja acquisition will allow SpotOn clients to enable reservations directly through their platform SAN FRANCISCO--SpotOn Transact, Inc (“SpotOn”), a leading software and payments company, announced today it has acquired Seatninja, a reservation management company whose technology stack helps restaurants connect with their customers and grow revenue. This acquisition represents...
