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How much change has the pandemic brought to consumer habits? In writing up the results of a recent consumer survey, the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. concluded that the pandemic condensed 10 years' worth of ecommerce adoption into a mere three months. Indeed, it...
Getting More Influential Reviews: The Research
Quick question: is it better to have several, short five-star reviews or one long, detailed four-star review? If you guessed that five star reviews are always better, you can be forgiven for thinking that way. After all, it seems logical. But, recent research into...
What does a typical point of sale system include?
Does a pandemic sounds like a good time to start a business? A crazy as it may seem, there are millions of Americans who are venturing out on their own in 2020. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that applications for new businesses are rising at their...
Pandemic-Inspired Marketing Ideas For Your Restaurant
When the pandemic arrived, restaurant owners had to swing into action in order to keep cash coming in. It wasn’t easy given the burden of lockdowns in several states that prevented in-person dining. Nevertheless, many restaurants found clever ways to continue making...
Should You Stop Accepting Cash? Some Considerations
Fears over the coronavirus have changed how people think about cash. On one hand, consumers are less inclined to shop and pay with cash due to fears of virus transmission. On the flip side, restaurants and retail shops have discouraged the use of cash to reduce...
Tips To Improve Your Restaurant’s Website
Think of your website as the front door of your restaurant. It’s the place where prospective customers will look for information about your establishment and then decide if they want to come inside. For that reason, you’ll want to put your best digital foot forward....
5 POS Reports To Unlock Cash Flow
As a small business owner, it can be difficult to keep track of all the moving parts in your enterprise. To that end, it’s helpful to be able to grab a quick snapshot of how the different parts are performing. That’s where POS reports come in handy. They can provide...
Evaluating A Grocery POS System
The pandemic has underlined the public’s reliance on grocery stores. There’s probably no part of the industry that has not felt the stress of this increased demand. Technology, however, can help alleviate some of this stress and many grocery businesses are looking for...
Making Guests Feel Comfortable During Your Restaurant Reopening
The restaurant business may have changed forever thanks to COVID-19. It will be several years before we know for sure what the ‘new normal’ consists of but, odds are that things will be changed at least for some extended period of time. What we do know for certain...
Negotiating 101 for Small Business Owners
How did your last negotiation go? Did the landlord ask for an increase in rent that felt unjust? Did a vendor raise prices at a bad time? How about an employee who said they needed two weeks of vacation in the middle of busy season? As a small business owner, you...
What To Look For In A Modern Restaurant POS
Nothing has boosted restaurant technology updates faster than 2020. Wait. Are you still getting by with an outdated point of sale system? Here are just a few features of modern POS solutions that have pretty much become requirements for today’s restaurants. Indeed,...
Ready To Reopen? Here Are Four Things To Keep In Mind
Many states have begun relaxing restrictions on social gatherings and person-to-person distancing, opening the way for restaurants to restart dine-in service. But, as many have noted: closing was easy — reopening will be a little trickier. Business owners need to be...
How To Keep Online Complaints From Spreading
In September of 2015, a Philadelphia police officer said he was denied access to the restroom facilities at a well-known coffeehouse chain. He decided to post what researchers described as a ‘high-arousal negative complaint’ on the coffeehouse chain’s Facebook page:...
Tips For Restaurants Shifting to Delivery
Even when the coronavirus pandemic ends and stay-at-home orders are lifted, usage of delivery for restaurants is expected to remain higher than it had been before the pandemic. Indeed, many experts have been predicting that the coronavirus episode will produce...
What the CARES Act Means for Restaurants, Hotels and Other Small Businesses
Following a final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, into law on Friday. The law provides some relief to restaurants, hotels and other small businesses...
Six Key Actions Small Businesses Can Take To Mitigate the Risks of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 virus spreads, restaurants are reporting 50 percent drops in business. It’s bad enough that customers are not dining in the numbers they had been a few weeks ago. But making things more difficult is that food service businesses need to remain extra...
Study: Last Minute Scheduling Hurts Restaurant Profits
Researchers have now confirmed what restaurant servers have known for years: last-minute scheduling takes a toll on worker productivity. Labor and inventory are the two largest variable costs that a restaurant faces and many leaders in the food service industry have...
3 Inspiring Autobiographies for Small Business Owners
It’s always good to remember that, if you go back far enough, every big business started small. Phil Knight sold shoes out of the back of his car when he started what would become Nike. Sam Walton worked behind the counter as a management trainee at someone else’s...
Consumer Trends Shifted During The Pandemic. Your POS Needs To Keep Up.
How much change has the pandemic brought to consumer habits? In writing up the results of a recent consumer survey, the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. concluded that the pandemic condensed 10 years' worth of ecommerce adoption into a mere three months. Indeed, it...
Getting More Influential Reviews: The Research
Quick question: is it better to have several, short five-star reviews or one long, detailed four-star review? If you guessed that five star reviews are always better, you can be forgiven for thinking that way. After all, it seems logical. But, recent research into...
What does a typical point of sale system include?
Does a pandemic sounds like a good time to start a business? A crazy as it may seem, there are millions of Americans who are venturing out on their own in 2020. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that applications for new businesses are rising at their...
Pandemic-Inspired Marketing Ideas For Your Restaurant
When the pandemic arrived, restaurant owners had to swing into action in order to keep cash coming in. It wasn’t easy given the burden of lockdowns in several states that prevented in-person dining. Nevertheless, many restaurants found clever ways to continue making...
Should You Stop Accepting Cash? Some Considerations
Fears over the coronavirus have changed how people think about cash. On one hand, consumers are less inclined to shop and pay with cash due to fears of virus transmission. On the flip side, restaurants and retail shops have discouraged the use of cash to reduce...
Tips To Improve Your Restaurant’s Website
Think of your website as the front door of your restaurant. It’s the place where prospective customers will look for information about your establishment and then decide if they want to come inside. For that reason, you’ll want to put your best digital foot forward....
5 POS Reports To Unlock Cash Flow
As a small business owner, it can be difficult to keep track of all the moving parts in your enterprise. To that end, it’s helpful to be able to grab a quick snapshot of how the different parts are performing. That’s where POS reports come in handy. They can provide...
Evaluating A Grocery POS System
The pandemic has underlined the public’s reliance on grocery stores. There’s probably no part of the industry that has not felt the stress of this increased demand. Technology, however, can help alleviate some of this stress and many grocery businesses are looking for...
Making Guests Feel Comfortable During Your Restaurant Reopening
The restaurant business may have changed forever thanks to COVID-19. It will be several years before we know for sure what the ‘new normal’ consists of but, odds are that things will be changed at least for some extended period of time. What we do know for certain...
Negotiating 101 for Small Business Owners
How did your last negotiation go? Did the landlord ask for an increase in rent that felt unjust? Did a vendor raise prices at a bad time? How about an employee who said they needed two weeks of vacation in the middle of busy season? As a small business owner, you...
