How Restaurants Can Handle the Spotlight Surge
Win a culinary award? Land on that coveted best-of list? Here’s how to translate excitement into profit margins and keep standards high, with expert advice from R Town Pizza in Reno, Nevada.
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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).
Hospitality Without the Chaos: The Labor Levers That Protect Margin and Your Guest Experience
Last-minute schedule changes, overtime creep, punch errors, and payroll rework all quietly eat into your margins. Don’t treat them as separate fires. Here's how to treat them as a system that needs guardrails.
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 Increase Restaurant Sales: 15 Strategies Built For Long-Term Growth
Learn how to increase restaurant sales with 15 actionable strategies that help operators grow revenue sustainably and keep guests coming back.
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 Schedule Restaurant Staff: 8 Tips for Restaurant Managers
Creating and communicating a restaurant schedule can take hours out of your day. But with the right strategies, it doesn't have to.
How Restaurant Loans Work—And How to Find the Right One for Your Business
Learn how restaurant loans work and discover easier funding options to grow your business.
SpotOn Ranked #1 Restaurant POS by G2 for Fall 2025, Outperforming Toast Where It Matters Most
Restaurants rated SpotOn higher than Toast in major categories, cementing SpotOn as the go-to tech partner for independent operators
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.
SpotOn Capital Offers Restaurants Supplemental Funding Option to SBA Revitalization Fund
* The SBA announced that there are not enough funds to help all the restaurants expected to apply for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. * SpotOn is offering an alternative for restaurant operators: SpotOn Capital [https://www.spoton.com/products/capital], a small business loan service for restaurants and small businesses partnered with...
Using Employee Payroll Software to Save Time and Energy
How would your employees feel if their paychecks were delayed a week? According to the American Payroll Association [https://www.nationalpayrollweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020GettingPaidInAmericaSurveyResults.pdf] , nearly 70% of employees would find it "very difficult" or "somewhat difficult" to make ends meet if they...
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/...
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...
5 Benefits of Running Your Business with SpotOn Terminal
We are thrilled to announce SpotOn Terminal, an all-in-one smart-device made for payments, loyalty, and data tools to run businesses. Simplifying things and saving costs is important while running a business, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic still surging. Thanks to SpotOn’s innovative software, you can grow revenue and increase...
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