If you’re overlooking breakfast, the yolks on you. Beyond the standard avocado toast trend, consumers are looking for healthy, convenient and innovative breakfast items. Given its growing popularity and lower cost of goods, breakfast is easily the most profitable meal of the day. Breakfast Is On The Rise And Shining According to The NPD Group, […]
5 Questions to Ask When Switching to EMV Payments
Welcome to the last part of our series on EMV payments. If your restaurant hasn’t made the switch to more secure payments for your customers, then here are five questions to consider in the process of planning this improvement to your restaurant. Is it cost-effective? Making upgrades to your restaurant’s technology can be expensive, but so […]
How the EMV Liability Shift Affects Your Restaurant
If you’ve been losing more money to chargebacks in the last few years, here’s why: Card issuers have been switching customers to EMV cards to combat credit card fraud. EMV cards are also known as “chip cards” or “chip and pin”. They are harder to counterfeit, but their security only works when used with an […]
The Basics: 6 Quick Things Restaurateurs Need to Know About EMV Payments
Is your payment system leaving your customers susceptible to fraud or costing you a fortune in chargebacks? Switching to EMV payments could potentially better protect you and your customers from unwanted losses. Whether or not you have made the switch, chances are good that you have heard of EMV payments, oftentimes referred to simply as […]
6 Reasons POS Integration is the Only Choice for Online Ordering, Delivery, Loyalty and More
Ever been up late because someone, somewhere on the internet is WRONG?? Happens to the best of us. We couldn’t help but notice someone saying that using online ordering with your POS was a bad thing. To which we say, “LOL.” But really, we believe POS integration works and we’ll tell anyone who’ll listen. In […]
How to Keep a Social Media Crisis From Tanking Your Brand
Is your restaurant prepared for a category 5 social media storm? Thanks to the speed of social media, going viral for a funny ad campaign is just as likely as going viral for poor customer service. The spread of information is swift, unrelenting, and can have a direct impact on your reputation and your bottom […]
The Top 5 Questions to Ask When Considering Online Ordering and Delivery for Your Restaurant
You can’t avoid it. Your competitors are doing it. Your customers expect it. Online ordering and delivery have been consistently named as the biggest potential for growth a restaurant has today. Recently, a Cowen analyst predicted delivery will grow to $76 billion by 2022, up from $43 billion in 2017. Online ordering has been shown […]
TWID #006: Concepts you can implement in 2018
TWID #005: There are tech trends, and then there’s the future
TWID #004: Could real-time data be your competitive advantage?
In This Week in Delivery, restaurant growth and revenue headlines continue to be depressing, but the bright spot stays the same – restaurants are looking to mobile ordering and delivery as their biggest opportunity for growth. As delivery grows, casual dining tries takeout-only restaurants In the same vein, Bloomin’ Brands is testing a takeout-only location, […]