The technological tools that retailers rely on have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. The introduction of consumer technology into the business world has given small retailers an improved ability to transform the way they do business. Next-gen software functionalities seamlessly blend into advanced data management and analytics to provide insights that were…
Americans love to give the gift of shopping. More than half the adult population currently has an unredeemed gift card to one boutique, store, or service. The flexibility that gift cards afford make them appealing to almost anyone, and every day, more and more money gets added to these billions of dollars’ worth of potential…
As the COVID-19 crisis threatens the health of your community, it has become imperative for restaurant owners such as yourself to make critical decisions. While you need to stay operating in some capacity throughout this crisis to keep the bills paid and the payroll going, you must also ensure the safety of you, your family,…
Investing the time into a thorough examination of restaurant delivery apps will help you beyond the current tough times for restaurants. You will touch on all of your processes and will locate areas in which the way you presently do things must be changed to become compatible with delivery operations. This leads your restaurant on…
The cost of opening a restaurant varies wildly, from $1,800 to almost $7,000 per seat. But within that range there is plenty of room for savings. The key to staying at the shallow end of that per-seat range is to wring every possible efficiency out of the workflows, purchasing, menu planning, staff communication, and online…
One activity all businesses share is time tracking. However, while some companies need a full-fledged time-tracking system that keeps an accurate account of how all employees are spending their work time, other businesses, such as restaurants, salons, and other retailers and professional services, require only a way to track appointment booking, clock workers in and…
Large companies wouldn’t be able to function without enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to automate the thousands of routine business tasks that arise in a given workday. However, the features, complexity, and cost of ERP systems make them unsuitable for most professional services and other smaller firms. That doesn’t mean service-oriented businesses are stuck using…
The cost of running a retail business goes in only one direction: up. Retailers factor in sales increases every year to cover the ever-rising cost of merchandise, employee wages and benefits, rent, utilities, insurance premiums, and other business expenses. One way to counter the inexorable increase in a retailer’s cost of doing business is by…