Squirrel Systems

JUNE 2, 2025

In the ever-evolving hospitality landscape, technology has moved from the back office to center stage. Today, the point-of-sale (POS) system isnt just a tool for transactionsit’s a core driver of operational efficiency, guest satisfaction, and business growth. Gone are the days of being tethered to a terminal.

POS

Lavu

JULY 3, 2025

The restaurant industry is evolving rapidly, and outdated point-of-sale systems are no longer enough to stay competitive. How SaaS POS Systems Help Reduce Initial and Maintenance Costs If you had a cash register or a traditional point of sale equipment, you probably spent a significant amount of money on repairs when it broke down.

POS

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

From wait times and staff efficiency to sales trends and customer satisfaction, POS system performance offers critical insights into daily operations. The technological heart of your business, Point of Sale systems are essential. Be sure the orders are easy to read and understand.

POS

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

In today’s fast-paced restaurant industry, speed and simplicity are everything—especially at the point of sale. This collaboration introduces a restaurant POS system with integrated payments , combining advanced point-of-sale technology with secure, unified payment processing. The result? Khatri, CEO of Lavu.

POS

SpotOn

JANUARY 29, 2025

G2's Report names SpotOn Restaurant point-of-sale #1 over top competitors in ease of use, quality of support, and more. Island Entertainment (Gulf Coast) : A hospitality management company overseeing restaurants, bars, amphitheaters, and live music venues with capacities ranging from hundreds to thousands.

POS

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

Managing orders from multiple delivery apps can quickly overwhelm restaurant staff and disrupt service flow. With Lavu POS, restaurants can seamlessly connect platforms like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub directly into their point-of-sale system—eliminating manual entry, reducing errors, and saving valuable time.

POS

Lavu

MAY 9, 2025

From real-time inventory tracking to mobile ordering and multi-location management, the right POS helps restaurants grow faster and operate more efficiently. In the competitive restaurant industry, choosing the right Point of Sale (POS) system is crucial. Thats where Lavu leads the way.

POS

Squirrel Systems

JUNE 16, 2025

Choosing the right point-of-sale (POS) system is a high-impact decision for any hospitality business. To ensure your investment delivers real ROI, here are the top 7 features to look for in a cloud POS system built for hospitality. Mobile Ordering and Tableside Service Guests today expect fast, flexible service.

Download

Open for Business

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When guests spend too much time deciding what to order, or when the kitchen gets bogged down with complicated dishes, it slows down the entire dining process. Research shows that 75% of top quick-service restaurant chains that simplified their menus earned a higher sales bump compared to their peers.

Seating

Lavu

JUNE 13, 2025

Some restaurant chain owners see the transition as a step toward going cashless in the future because restaurant point-of-sale systems make it so easy. With cashless options such as credit cards, mobile payment apps, and contactless payments, customers can make quick and hassle-free payments, reducing wait times at the point of sale.

2025

MBB Hospitality

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Restaurant online ordering has emerged as a crucial aspect of the food service industry, reshaping restaurant operation strategies and fostering growth in restaurant delivery services. This article explores how online ordering is advancing and highlights the key concerns for businesses aiming to stay competitive.

Online Ordering

SpotOn

JUNE 27, 2025

Over the last several years, QR order and pay has gone from being a fringe technology to a widely used solution for restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries. What started as a simple way to swap paper menus with contactless ordering during COVID quickly evolved into an operational solution to battle staff shortages and improve efficiency.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

This shift ensures that operations run smoothly, and sales revenue is optimized. While the ways we order and dine may have changed, the reasons people choose a restaurant haven’t. Whether it’s speeding up order times, improving inventory management, or boosting loyalty programs, every tool should serve a purpose.

Loyalty Program

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

Why Restaurants Prefer POS Systems with Reliable Payment Processors and Gateways Point of sale, or POS, will always be an important part of any business, especially when it comes to businesses in the hospitality industry. Whether you’re a business owner or just curious, this guide will simplify the process for you.

POS

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 11, 2025

"As awful as it was, the pandemic pushed restaurants to completely rethink their operations in order to survive, and some of the changes they made during the pandemic have continued to be beneficial to those restaurants and industry at large." Landlord/Tenant Disputes : in my practice, I have seen a huge increase in lease disputes.

Mobile Ordering

Apicbase

JULY 11, 2025

The consequence is that hospitality businesses get locked into outdated systems. In hospitality tech architecture, clarity of responsibility is everything. They’re also the pressure points. Tools get added when something breaks, or keeps breaking, and people need a quick fix. It’s a reactive process.

Allergens

Lavu

JULY 25, 2025

Accurate sales reports are essential for making informed decisions in any restaurant or retail business. By automating real-time reporting, syncing data across devices, and flagging inconsistencies instantly, modern POS solutions ensure your sales reports are always reliable. That’s where smart POS software comes in.

POS

SpotOn

JULY 29, 2025

GoTo Place Consumer App : SpotOn’s new custom-branded mobile app empowers restaurants to offer online ordering, loyalty rewards, waitlists, reservations, and push notifications—under their own brand. SpotOn helps operations run smoothly without missing a beat.

Innovation

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

Off-Premises Dining Is Essential Nearly 75 percent of all restaurant traffic now happens off-premises—meaning that almost three out of four restaurant orders are taken to go. More than 60 percent say they’re ordering off-premises more often than a year ago. Older adults still prefer in-person ordering.

Reservations

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 4, 2025

The Chinese chain opened two stores in Greenwich Village and Chelsea, offering mobile app ordering and competitive pricing. With the new equipment, MTPak Coffee now offers a minimum order quantity of 200 pieces and a one-week turnaround time after design approval. Changes aim to simplify orders and boost barista efficiency.

Pricing

Perfect Daily Grind

JULY 11, 2025

Prototype locations feature flexible bar layouts, zoned seating areas, integrated digital order screens, and dedicated mobile pick-up drawers to streamline service flow and enhance the customer experience as part of the Back to Starbucks efficiency drive. High-risk origins, meanwhile, could face more hurdles.

2025

Lavu

AUGUST 1, 2025

In today’s competitive hospitality landscape, finding smart ways to increase bar sales is more important than ever. In this post, we’ll explore actionable strategies that can help you attract more customers, maximize average order value, and streamline service. Below, we reveal four effective ways of growing your bar sales.

2025

Go Hire- Restaurants

AUGUST 1, 2025

After 20+ years across hospitality, healthcare, and financial services, and hiring over 70,000 people per year, Paul has developed a mindset and process that transforms TA from reactive order-taker to proactive strategic partner. That’s why he pushed early on for text-based communication and text-apply mobile-first applications.

Recruiting

Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 8, 2020

We were greeted by the manager of the restaurant and shared with him the concept of contactless dining, an experience where dine-in guests can view menus, order, and pay directly from their mobile phones. One would think mixing technology and hospitality is like mixing oil and water… it doesn’t work.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

” The space earned that moniker because staff used it to handle delivery orders from a multitude of online platforms. He also added a POS system and created a mobile-friendly website. For Alex Canter, it was at a spot in his family-run restaurant nicknamed “The War Zone.” For Canter, it was a problem to be solved.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A good mobile experience. Creating a contactless ordering experience for guests at your restaurant is important in order for your business to stay competitive and profitable. Restaurants have endless third-party ordering app options, but those do come with a price, approximately five-twenty percent of each sale.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While sales are trending higher, the National Restaurant Association reports three in four operators say recruitment and retention is their toughest challenge. Chick-fil-A even reported disabling curbside ordering in some locations to reduce strain on their workers. In August, the restaurant industry lost more than 40,000 jobs.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Support a range of ordering scenarios and preferences. Now, customers can even order remotely from their own devices. As these values shift, an advanced restaurant point of sale should support multiple methods for guests to place orders. According to the U.S. Ensure the integrity of every transaction.

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2020

To say that the current COVID-19 crisis represents a major change to the way we live our lives is, at this point, probably a bit of an understatement. A lot of restaurants have seen sales decrease by as much as 70 percent in a lot of cases, with no end to the current situation in sight. The Power of Mobile-First Design.

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 11, 2021

They can order and pay through a server (old school), or directly from their mobile phones (contactless ordering and payment – new school), or blend the two experiences all on one tab, through its easy-to-use mobile point-of-sale (POS), contactless ordering and payment features, and kitchen management systems (KMS).

Mobile Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2022

Early in the pandemic, 72 percent of operators invested in delivery and mobile/online ordering to boost revenue during mandated stay-at-home orders according to TD's 2020 survey, and it appears the popularity of these offerings is here to stay. Investment in delivery and mobile ordering pays off.

2022

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2022

That’s how the McMenamins restaurant and hospitality chain closed out 2021, a banner year for ransomware attacks. While customer data was not exposed, the company’s operations, including corporate email and point of sale systems, were affected. It’s a restaurant operator’s worst nightmare.

Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 5, 2023

By implementing a QR Code at-table, two-way ordering system, servers can wait on more tables, increase their tips, and spend more one-on-one time with guests. PYMNTS reports that about 55 percent of restaurants have adopted curbside pickup, and 50 percent provide mobile order-ahead options. There are 6.92

Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 5, 2020

and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform. and will enable TouchBistro to fully integrate customer loyalty and guest marketing into its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform.

Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2020

Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website. Square is launching On-Demand Delivery for Square Online Store where sellers can dispatch a courier through delivery partners for orders placed directly on their website.

Guest Recovery

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 15, 2024

Self-service kiosks can maximize the number of on-premise orders while mobile apps or websites allow customers to place orders directly without staff intervention. These options also offer contactless payment solutions and integrated point-of-sale systems which can track sales and eliminate the need for manual cashiering.

Loyalty Program

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 26, 2024

The popularity of drive-thru continues as sales are up 30 percent since 2019. Customers want seamless interactions where their orders are taken correctly the first time. Guests also want to be engaged and well-informed throughout the ordering process. How will the drive-thru change in the coming years? What does that mean?

Seating