Restaurant owners are faced with challenges on all fronts. Keeping your pulse on customer desires while ensuring that the quality of the food coming out of the kitchen are time consuming. After this, you burn the midnight oil to managing the books and ensure inventory accuracy. Staff scheduling can often become an afterthought in the…
You have spent the past hour assisting a customer with putting together the perfect suit for an important interview. Everything on the suit matches perfectly, from the tie and handkerchief down the socks and cufflinks. Now, finally, the moment of truth has arrived. You ring everything up, and then it happens. “Excuse me, but can…
The café and coffee shop wave has arrived. According to Allegra World Coffee Portal’s 2019 Project Café USA report, the café and coffee shop industry has ballooned to an over $45 billion dollar industry and shows a volume growth rate of almost 4%. It is no secret that café owners are looking to ride the…
Lately, your point of sale marketing strategy isn’t benefitting your restaurant the way it should. Special menus come and go unnoticed. Holiday buffets are not putting more people in your seats, and your staff is complaining of low wages due to a lack of tip revenue. Inventory is starting to stack up, costing you money…
Highly capable new technology and functionalizes are constantly teasing small business owners with new and improved ways to run a business. POS software solutions are evolving at a frenzied pace, as are a variety of accounting, omni-channel, and workspace software solutions. Adding cloud-based applications and storage, along with smartphone and tablet apps, all work to…
The idea seems simple at first. You place a number of smaller items on the counter next to your till that you hope customers will pick up as your cashier rings them up. Low in cost, but high in appeal, these items should be a sure-fire marketing tool. Instead, you discover that many of these…
