Recent Articles from Industry insights

3 Ways to Maximize Your Cafe’s Self Serve Kiosk

Self serve kiosks are rapidly popping up in brick and mortar shops and can be a great asset in your cafe. A kiosk provides customer engagement and autonomy in making purchasing decisions. Since kiosks can be leveraged for a variety of purposes, having clear goals in mind is necessary to deliver the...

3 Unexpected Ways Your Restaurant's Margins & Bottom Line Can Be Impacted

Running a successful restaurant isn’t just providing excellent food and pairing it with stellar service. Restaurant owners have to do so while managing a number of variables that can have a significant impact on their bottom line. While owners are doing their best to control costs, consumers are...

Stay Smart about Your Business with Intelligent Reporting

Every hour you’re open for business, your Point of Sale is busy accepting payments, calculating change, estimating tips, and a range of other transactions. That’s a lot of number crunching, and fortunately for you, the numbers don’t have to disappear unaccounted for. Revel’s POS with the...

Retention or Attrition? Building Business with CRM

Remember when your favorite shopping experience was limited to a single touch? If you weren’t in the store at the right time, you were sure to miss out on the announcements of an upcoming sale, not to mention the sale itself. Few things are as aggravating to the loyal shopper as keeping tabs on...

Industry Trade Associations Can Guide Restaurateurs to Success

Whether you’re an aspiring, new, or experienced restaurateur, trade associations exist for one primary purpose—to help you succeed. More often than not, they are formed by industry members with the expertise to support, educate, and inform others within the same field. In fact, there are so many...

Top 4 Hardware Additions for Your Quick Service Restaurant

In 2014, McDonald’s was the highest grossing quick service restaurant (QSR) in the US according to QSR Magazine. The fast food giant brought in $35 billion in revenue besting runner up Starbucks by more than twenty billion dollars. Rounding out the top three QSRs by revenue was Subway, who lost the...

Shrink Your Shrink with Better Inventory Control

Taking Back Control of Your Inventory

How Loyalty Programs Engage Your Most Valuable Customers

Even the most successful business will reach a point where revenue begins to level off or plateau if the product or service remains static. In order to keep it from entering a stage of diminishing returns, it’s important for business owners to identify what options are available to ensure a...

Appointment Scheduling Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

In an effort to become more accessible and meet the demands of their customers, many businesses are allowing customers to make appointments to come in for goods and services. While this model is familiar to spas, salons, and restaurants in the form of reservations, retailers and other businesses...

Do You Need a Crystal Ball for Labor Forecasting?

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all put on that big funny hat and stare into a crystal ball to see the future of our business? Well, we all know that isn’t possible (with the exception of putting on the hat of course) and our business decisions need to be based on facts, not a lot of smoke and...

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