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Mobile Food Delivery in 2020--and Beyond! [Tips]

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Mobile Food Delivery Won't Just Stay; It Will Grow Lately, Restaurant Dive shared persuasive Information Regarding mobile food deliveries: By 2020, 44 million Americans will use third party delivery apps, representing an increase of 6 million in 2019. By 2021, almost 50 million U.S. consumers will use a food delivery app, bumping around 60 million individuals in 2023, making up 23 percent of smartphone users. As of February 2019, DoorDash (27.6percent ), Grubhub (26.7percent ) and Uber Eats (25.2percent ) maintained the most food delivery market share. 83 percent of mobile app orderers are prepared to pay a $5 shipping fee. Mobile food delivery isn't a passing phase. It's a requirement for restaurants interested in supplying a valuable customer experience. However, the third-party shipping kingdom certainly comes with its own challenges. Customer behaviour with mobile ordering apps can be unpredictable. Delivery orders may hurt your bottom line when you are investin...

Change Management and Your Point of Sale

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Changes: Turn and Face the Strange To borrow from David Bowie's iconic tune, Changes , times of transition can feel uncomfortable and strange. Change can even be downright frightening, especially when it comes to your point of sale (POS). But if you would like to keep on top of business trends -- ghost kitchens, anybody? -- provide the best customer experience, and make sure that your POS is as cost and resource-effective as possible, it might be time to adopt some change. I sat down with Antonia Guerrero, one of Revel's experienced venture project managers, to learn why so many companies are making the switch from legacy systems to cloud-based ones, and how they could do so successfully. See our Products: Shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale MSI multi source inventory management system magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale bigcommerce automation backorder management shopify automation app Here's a look at our Entire conve...

Staying on Target with Revel CIO & SVP Art Beckman

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The next Q&A provides executive insights from Revel Systems' Chief Information Officer & SVP on how to stay on target from the continuously evolving point of sale (POS) industry. Building Momentum into 2020 Art Beckman, Revel's chief information officer & SVP, has been constructing applications development, product management, and IT teams, together with corporate applications, for the majority of his career. Since joining the group 18 months ago, Art has directed Revel's engineering vertical to experience exciting growth, due mostly in part to his leadership and tactical initiatives. See our Products: Shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale MSI multi source inventory management system magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale bigcommerce automation backorder management shopify automation app Art attributes his team's recent wins to great gift, and"staying on target," a term that has become a guiding force...

Insights for Surviving (and Maximizing) the Holiday Shopping Season

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'Tis the Season for Earnings For the first time ever, 2019's holiday buying season is predicted to exceed $1 trillion in revenue . If you have ever managed during Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, or Christmas, you very well understand the chaos and challenges which begin to surface this time of year. Luckily, there are a few useful tools available to business operators and their employees to help them navigate a hectic -- yet rewarding -- holiday shopping season. In the next article, a Revel Systems worker with longstanding ties to hospitality management shares some insights from his time at the vacation grind, together with learnings from the product side of this equation. See our Products: Shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale MSI multi source inventory management system magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale bigcommerce automation backorder management shopify automation app Jay Gillespie, Revel's senior product ma...

Financial Advisors Share Their Predictions for 2021

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The development of COVID-19 turned 2020 to an unprecedented year, resulting in significant changes in how we work and live. Since 2021 gets underway, a few of those trends will probably continue, reshaping everything from how we do business to the fiscal landscape. To put some of those trends in view, we asked a number of our Top 100 Advisors to discuss their forecasts for the year ahead. Our products: Shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale /commercetools-pos MSI multi-source-inventory-management-system/ magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale /atom8/ /backorder management ergo shopify automation app "My predictions for the business in 2021 are that we'll continue to see a whole lot of consultants and RIA's convert to virtual-based companies and increase their use of email marketing and social media to participate with perfect prospects and customers. I also think that there'll be a good deal of movement of customers firing old advisors that are not ...

The Special Economic Effect of Pandemics

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To bring the coronavirus outbreak in check, public health officials have advised Americans to avoid face-to-face contact, such as when functioning in your job location. As necessary as these measures have been from a health standpoint, there has been a flipside to preventing contact with the external world: large swaths of the market have ground to a halt. And since this pandemic is global, the consequences are felt globally also. Really, the more the virus spreads across the planet, the greater the concern over not only our health, but our livelihoods. As of February 2021, there were over 27.8 million reported cases and 494,000 deaths in the United States.1 The World Health Organization reported roughly 110.4 million cases and 2.44 million deaths globally.2 Our products: Shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale /commercetools-pos MSI multi-source-inventory-management-system/ magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale /atom8/ /backorder management ergo shopify au...

Restaurant Data Breaches: Everything You Will Need To Know To Secure Your Organization

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If there's 1 thing payment industry experts and restaurateurs agree on it is the demand for increased credit card safety. According to some reports the restaurant industry accounts for almost 50 percent of fraudulent cases (!) . The unfortunate fact is that data breaches are all too common today. Input EMV chip and pin credit cards, mobile payment systems, and cloud based POS systems for restaurants, all promising merchants more secure ways to accept credit card payments. Add to that impending deadlines for accountability changes that will leave merchants more vulnearble to actual financial consequences for lack-luster security. What does it mean and what are restaurateurs supposed to do with all this information? See our solutions: shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale multi-source-inventory-management magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale atom8 backorder ergo Combine Upserve and our panel of business experts and get the answers ...

4 Advantages of Using a Restaurant POS with Online Ordering

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Nowadays, a night in is becoming as popular as a day out. Based on SFGate.com ,"Well over half of individuals under the age of 44 already use the web for takeout or delivery, and three-quarters of individuals between 18 and 34 said they're most likely to use a smartphone to order food." Whereas people used to observe restaurants as a destination for the day, a night of Netflix binge-watching plus some fantastic take-out is now equally as attractive. Luckily, these diners are not limited to pizza and Chinese food . Due to online ordering solutions, all restaurants have the ability to expand their client base through takeout and delivery orders. See our products shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale multi-source-inventory-management-system magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale atom8 backorder ergo How Can Online Ordering Work on a Restaurant POS? There are two ways to provide online ordering on your restaurant -- through th...

How to Turn Your Restaurant Data Into More Reservations and Higher Revenue

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Running a restaurant that's fully booked every night with high-spending diners is the aim of any restaurant owner or manager. Being so in-demand that clients wish to hold their location with a reservation means you are offering a remarkable dining experience. But beyond simply holding a desk, there is much more you can do if you leverage the information out of your reservation management system and POS. See our products: shopify point of sale woocommerce point of sale commercetools point of sale pos multi-source-inventory-management-system magento point of sale bigcommerce point of sale atom8 backorder ergo Reservations Drive Greater Revenue and More Return Customers Our information science group compared customers who leverage data from their Upserve and OpenTable integration against the rest of the business. These insights pay off for servers, for your reputation, and for your business' bottom line. Restaurants using the Upserve + OpenTable integration see: A 1/4 higher s...